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Dr. Charlie Kurth, Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University, shares insights from his widely acclaimed book, “The Anxious Mind: An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of Anxiety”, published by The MIT Press.

Anxiety emerges in this document as a nuanced, even constructive, emotion rather than a defect to be eradicated. It is described as a biocognitive state that combines hardwired biological responses with learned, culturally shaped interpretations, enabling people to respond to both immediate dangers and complex modern uncertainties. Through examples ranging from everyday social situations to moral dilemmas and high-stakes leadership decisions, the text shows how anxiety can prompt reflection, sharpen risk assessment, and guide more responsible action when it is recognized, understood, and skillfully managed.

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Dr. Hemant Kakkar, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Indian School of Business (ISB), shares key insights from his research, “To Give a Fish or to Teach How to Fish: Examining Leaders’ Autonomy and Dependency Helping Behaviors,” highlighting how leaders navigate the balance between enabling independence and offering direct support.

The main points are:

• The research distinguishes between dependency help (solving problems for employees) and autonomy help (guiding employees to solve problems themselves), showing that autonomy help builds long-term capability.

• Dominance-oriented leaders, often with a zero-sum mindset, tend to give dependency help to maintain control, whereas prestige-oriented leaders, with a non-zero-sum mindset, emphasize autonomy help and employee development.

• Status threats amplify dominant leaders’ zero-sum thinking and dependency help, while prestige leaders remain consistent in offering autonomy help.

• Autonomy help works best for learning- and development-focused tasks in psychologically safe cultures, whereas dependency help is better suited to urgent, routine, or crisis situations.

• Organizations should evaluate helping by effectiveness, reward collaboration and experimentation, and support leaders in shifting toward autonomy-oriented help, which, though slower initially, creates greater long-term organizational value.

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Dr. Christian Terwiesch, the Andrew M. Heller Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Co-Director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and faculty member at the Perelman School of Medicine, shares insights from his widely acclaimed book, Connected Strategy: Building Continuous Customer Relationships for Competitive Advantage.

Connected Strategy explores how organizations can move from one-off customer transactions to continuous, technology-enabled relationships that create value for both customers and firms. In this episode, Dr Christian Terwiesch unpacks the four connected customer experiences respond to desire, curated offering, coach behavior, and automatic execution and explains how each reshapes the way firms anticipate, guide, and even act on customer needs. He also discusses the strategic, organizational, and data challenges leaders must address to design effective connected strategies, from breaking down silos and building trust to rethinking revenue models and learning loops that sustain long-term competitive advantage.

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Dr. Barbara Larson, Executive Professor of Management at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business and a leading authority on remote and hybrid work, digital transformation, and the human side of technology, shares key insights from her acclaimed book, “Remote and Hybrid Work: What Everyone Needs to Know”.

This episode highlights Dr. Barbara Larson’s core message that effective remote and hybrid work depends on intentional work design rather than ad hoc or purely schedule-based policies. It summarizes her emphasis on moving beyond “days in office” to thoughtfully structuring which tasks happen where, debunking simplistic myths about productivity, and recognizing that personality traits like conscientiousness and proactivity help but do not determine success on their own. The conversation also covers her distinction between punitive “Big Brother” monitoring and developmental “Fitbit-style” monitoring, her observations on what enables successful fully remote organizations, her guidance for CEOs leading hybrid transitions, and her view that remote work can drive greater diversity, urban transformation, and new technology use as workplaces settle into a “new normal” equilibrium.

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Dr. Douglas Guilbeault, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Spence Faculty Scholar for the 2025–2026 academic year at Stanford Graduate School of Business, shares key insights from his research, “Blood Is Red, Math Is Blue: Does AI See Colors Like Me and You?”

Dr. Douglas Guilbeault’s study, “Blood Is Red, Math Is Blue: Does AI See Colors Like Me and You?”, investigates whether AI systems trained only on text can replicate the richly embodied color associations that shape human thought. Comparing people with normal color vision, colorblind individuals, painters, and large language models, the research shows that humans regardless of color vision differences share similar, embodied patterns of linking colors to concepts, while AI often diverges, especially for novel or nonsensical terms. The study reveals that AI develops its own internally consistent, synesthesia-like color mappings that differ from human experience, raising important questions about the limits of purely statistical learning and highlighting the central role of metaphor, perception, and qualitative experience in human cognition.

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Dr. Mitchell Orenstein, Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, shares insights from his acclaimed book The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War.

Hybrid warfare is described as a blended strategy where states mix military force with cyberattacks, disinformation, and political influence, with social media as a key battleground. The document highlights Russia’s use of these tools, their limits in Ukraine, and argues that protecting democracy now requires better regulation of digital information spaces and greater accountability for platforms to curb hostile foreign influence.

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Dr. Thomas Kolditz, a retired Army Brigadier General, founding Director of the Ann & John Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University, and former head of the Leadership Development Program at the Yale School of Management, now leads Saxon Castle LLC, a leadership coaching and development consultancy, and discusses key lessons from his acclaimed book In Extremis Leadership: Leading As If Your Life Depended On It.

Dr. Thomas Kolditz's in extremis leadership model applies crisis management principles beyond military contexts to any high-stakes environment where followers believe the leader's actions directly affect their survival or well-being. The framework rests on four pillars: inherent motivation (followers need reassurance, not external motivation), outward orientation (maintaining focus on external challenges), shared risk (demonstrating willingness to face the same dangers), and common lifestyle (building connection through equality). Research shows that competence and loyalty to followers are the primary trust-builders more critical than integrity or honesty. For business leaders, this means demonstrating transparent decision-making, balancing competence with humility, and prioritizing follower welfare over self-interest. The Hurricane Katrina case study at Tulane University Hospital illustrates this principle: CEO Jack Bovender's unwavering commitment to patient care above all else empowered staff to make extraordinary decisions during crisis. The core insight is that effective leadership isn't something leaders adopt during emergencies; it's the consistent daily behavior that demonstrates genuine care for followers.

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Dr. Michael Kirchhoff, Associate Professor in the School of Liberal Arts at the University of Wollongong, Australia, discusses his groundbreaking book, “The Idealized Mind: From Model-Based Science to Cognitive Science.” In this conversation, Dr. Kirchhoff shares key insights from his work that challenge our conventional understanding of cognitive science, exploring how idealization and modeling shape the foundations and future directions of the field.

Drawing from his groundbreaking book, "The Idealized Mind: From Model-Based Science to Cognitive Science," Dr. Kirchhoff uses the classic "spherical cow" analogy to illustrate how scientists must simplify and idealize complex systems to make them tractable for study. However, this necessity creates a critical problem in neuroscience: researchers frequently mistake mathematical constructs such as the "Laplacian of a Gaussian" function in edge detection, statistical aggregates like "spike trains," and idealized descriptions of "place cells" in navigation for actual neural mechanisms. While defending scientific realism and arguing that idealization does not undermine the pursuit of truth, Dr. Kirchhoff calls for greater transparency in cognitive science about how idealization shapes our understanding of neural representation, neural coding, and even deep learning models that are often misleadingly labeled as "biologically realistic."

Ultimately, he argues that recognizing idealization not as a weakness but as a necessary feature of scientific modeling is essential for developing a more rigorous and honest cognitive science.

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Dr. Sara Dolnicar, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) and Austrian behavioural scientist, is a Research Professor of Tourism at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. In this episode, she discusses her research “Sharing economy, collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer accommodation or trading of space?” which examines how sharing economy platforms such as peer-to-peer accommodation services unsettle traditional understandings of collaborative consumption and the trading of space in tourism and hospitality.

The episode highlights that platforms like Airbnb are better described as part of a “peer-to-peer economy” than a “sharing economy,” because they involve commercial transactions rather than genuine sharing. It then outlines how Airbnb evolved from casual room rentals to a professionalized global platform with significant housing, regulatory, and community impacts, while also highlighting Dr. Dolnicar’s current focus on sustainable tourism and her distinguished academic career.

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Dr. Denish Shah, Kenneth L. Bernhardt Distinguished Department Chair and Barbara and Elmer Sunday Professor of Marketing at the Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, discusses his groundbreaking research on a question vital to every business leader: From Data to Dollars - Linking Marketing Strategy to Financial Performance.

The episode explains that marketing often relies on vague output metrics that are poorly linked to revenue and profit, creating a disconnect with finance, and argues that marketing must be managed as a strategic investment tied directly to firm value. It presents Dr. Denish Shah’s research showing how customer lifetime value (CLV), as a forward-looking measure of customer value, can be used to predict stock price and align marketing objectives with CEOs’ focus on increasing firm value. The challenges in digital marketing measurement and attribution across online and offline channels, emphasizing the need to distinguish incremental sales from those that would have occurred anyway and to properly credit all touchpoints in the customer journey. Through case studies of two Fortune 500 firms, it demonstrates that CLV-centric strategies can drive stock price performance beyond benchmarks, while stressing that most of today’s firm value is intangible and heavily influenced by marketing-managed assets like brand and customer relationships. The podcast concludes with practical guidance for marketing leaders, recommending a data audit and careful selection of marketing technology tools so they can better capture customer data, leverage AI and personalization, and credibly show the financial impact of their programs.

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