Michele Zanini is the co-founder of the Management Lab.  Together with Gary Hamel, Zanini helps forward-thinking organizations become more resilient, innovative and engaging places to work.  Zanini was previously an Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company. Zanini’s work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal.  Zanini holds degrees from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Pardee RAND Graduate School.  He is the co-author of the upcoming book  Humanocracy.

Creating Human Centered Organizations (w/ Michele Zanini)

This management podcast tackles the big questions about leading organizations from some of the greatest thinkers of our time. Jeff Schatten PhD, a business professor at Washington and Lee University and in partnership with McGraw Hill Education, has conversations with top intellectuals, influencers and business executives about challenging topics that are essential to successful 21st century organizations-- insights you never knew you wanted to know.

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Sharon Parker is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Curtin University, Director of the Centre for Transformative Work Design, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sheffield. We discuss remote work in the covid era.   

Remote Management in the Covid Era (w/ Sharon Parker)

The faculty at Washington and Lee University recently voted to remove Lee from the name of the institution.  Ultimately, this monumental decision rests with the board of trustees.  In this episode, I speak with faculty members that represent three distinct perspectives on this issue: keep the name as is, remove Lee from the name, remove both Washington and Lee.

Should Washington and Lee Remove Lee from its Name? (w/ Lucas Morel, Jim Casey & Brandon Hasbrouck)

Geoffrey Cain is an award-winning foreign correspondent, author, commentator, anthropologist and scholar of East and Central Asia. His first book, SAMSUNG RISING, from a decade of his coverage of the world’s largest technology conglomerate, was published in March 2020 and is the topic of our conversation.  A former correspondent at The Economist, Cain is a regular commentator in The Wall Street Journal, Time, and The New Republic, and a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, BBC and Bloomberg. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  

Samsung Rising (w/ Geoffrey Cain)

  Grant Williams is a preeminent thinker on finance, markets and the economic implications of coronavirus.  Over the past 30 years he has held senior positions at a number of investment banks and brokers across the globe.  Grant is a senior advisor to Matterhorn Asset Management AG in Switzerland, a portfolio and strategy advisor to Vulpes Investment Management in Singapore and also one of the founders of Real Vision Television — an online, on-demand finance channel showcasing the brightest minds in finance. He is the founder of Things That Make You Go Hmmm..., which has grown to become one of the most popular and widely-read financial publications in the world.

Creating Human Centered Organizations (w/ Michele Zanini)

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