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CM 020: Martin Ford on Artificial Intelligence, Automation and the Future of Work

January 25, 2016 Curious Minds podcast 00:39:07 2 Comments

Artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation technologies are fulfilling (and surpassing) predictions from the most creative science fiction. While the possibilities are exciting, these changes force us to ask what this means for the future of work. What jobs will they replace? Which industries will they decimate? What impact will they have on how we live…

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CM 019: Gillian Tett on Breaking Down Silos

January 18, 2016 Curious Minds podcast 00:33:54 Comments Off on CM 019: Gillian Tett on Breaking Down Silos

When we operate in silos, we narrow our perspective in ways that can limit, and even destroy, innovation. So where have we seen silos before and what can we learn from them? In this fascinating conversation with Gillian Tett, award-winning journalist and U.S. Managing Editor of the Financial Times, she explains how silos reversed decades…

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CM 018: Jeff Speck on Designing Cities that Fuel Innovation

January 11, 2016 Curious Minds podcast 00:45:00 Comments Off on CM 018: Jeff Speck on Designing Cities that Fuel Innovation

Why do most people want to live in walkable cities and towns? What’s the impact on innovation and well-being? Jeff Speck, city planner, urban designer, TED Talk speaker, and bestselling author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, offers fascinating and fact-filled responses to these questions. Along the way,…

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CM 017: Jonah Berger on Why Things Catch On

January 4, 2016 Curious Minds podcast 00:32:56 Comments Off on CM 017: Jonah Berger on Why Things Catch On

Why do certain products, services, or stories go viral? How can we make our own work contagious? These are questions Wharton Professor, Jonah Berger, answers in his bestselling book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On. In this fascinating interview, he explains his six-part framework and discusses the behaviors that drive us to make certain ideas, products,…

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CM 016: Michelle Segar on Rethinking Exercise and Motivation

December 28, 2015 Curious Minds podcast 00:34:12 Comments Off on CM 016: Michelle Segar on Rethinking Exercise and Motivation

If you are one of the millions of people who struggle to stick with an exercise program, Michelle Segar has a secret for you: It is not your fault; it is a faulty system. After years of studying the science of motivation, Michelle Segar, Ph.D., Director of SHARP — the Sport, Health, and Activity research…

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