WiseTalk

Sue Bethanis hosts Joshua Gans, Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and the author of The Disruption Dilemma. While Joshua’s research interests are varied, he has developed specialties in the nature of technological competition and innovation and economic growth, industrial organization and regulatory economics.

Joshua and Sue discuss:

+ The features of disruptive technologies
+ Why companies need to have an internal disruptive strategic framework
+ The difference between demand-side and supply-side disruption
+ Why supply-side disruption is so dangerous
+ Three prescriptions for long-term survival

Sue Bethanis hosts Cat Lee, Head of Partner Marketing at Pinterest. Known as one of the most innovative platforms in the world, Pinterest has revolutionized how people discover products and content, and how customers engage with businesses. Cat provides an insider’s view on how Pinterest has become an extremely disruptive social media powerhouse while building 100 million users.

Cat and Sue discuss:

+ Pinterest’s innovative vision for future growth through visual search
+ Strategies and processes to understand, anticipate, and lead market disruption
+ How Pinterest is eliminating traditional barriers for business participation
+ How Pinterest partners with retail companies

Sue Bethanis hosts Terence Mauri, a top leadership expert and author of The Leader’s Mindset: How to Win in the Age of Disruption. Terence inspires new leadership thinking and powerful shortcuts to help you disrupt your industry, your organization and, ultimately, yourself.

Sue and Terence discuss:

+ Pathways to discover your leadership purpose
+ How to act brave and decisively in the face of adversity
+ How to use failure for rapid learning
+ Incorporating 10X thinking into your leadership

Sue hosts Julie Williamson, Chief Growth Enabler for Karrikins Group. Julie and Sue discuss her newest book co-authored with Peter Sheahan, Matter: Move Beyond the Competition, Create More Value, and Become the Obvious Choice, and how to:

+ Identify your most valuable edge of disruption
+ Become the disruptor not the disrupted
+ Initiate change within an organization
+ Become a thought leader in your marketplace and influence more senior buyers

Sue hosts Janet Crawford, CEO of Cascadance, Inc. and co-author of Leadership Embodiment. As a scientist and pioneer in the application of social neuroscience to corporate culture, Janet has two decades of experience working Fortune 500 companies with her client organizations spanning the who’s who of Silicon Valley.

Janet and Sue discuss:

+ The Biological Basis for Fear – What is our brain doing when we are in fear and what do we do about it?
+ How Do Leaders Respond Mindfully? – How do we listen openly?
+ How do we protest/resist in a mindful way so we can collaborate?
+ Our Brain’s Reaction to Uncertainty – How do we keep our brain healthy in stressful and uncertain times?

Sue hosts clinical psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist Professor Ian Robertson. Professor Robertson discusses his new book, The Stress Test: How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper, a revelatory study of how and why we react to pressure in the way we do, with real practical benefits to how we live.