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Geek Out!
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Dec 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The rules of business are changing. And those rules are being written by some … unlikely characters.
Andrew McAfee is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of a number of books, including The Geek Way. Mary Long caught up with McAfee to discuss how culture shapes companies – and brings about impressive returns along the way. They discuss:
The power of “geekiness”
How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around
And why Amazon *wants* to see billion-dollar failures.
Tickers discussed: AMZN, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, META
Host: Mary Long
Guest: Andrew McAfee
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl
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Andrew McAfee is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of a number of books, including The Geek Way. Mary Long caught up with McAfee to discuss how culture shapes companies – and brings about impressive returns along the way. They discuss:
The power of “geekiness”
How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around
And why Amazon *wants* to see billion-dollar failures.
Tickers discussed: AMZN, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, META
Host: Mary Long
Guest: Andrew McAfee
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Dec 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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