Rapid Response
The pace of change in our culture is unprecedented and shows no signs of slowing. So what is most important to pay attention to when striving to innovate, create, and lead? From the team behind Masters of Scale, Rapid Response features candid conversations with today's top business leaders navigating real-time challenges. Hosted by the former editor-in-chief of Fast Company, Bob Safian.
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Episodes (446)
NFL Kickoff: the science gets more damning, but the money keeps growing
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Masters of Scale: Always be the challenger, with Savannah Bananas founder Jesse...
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When AI agents do your shopping, everything changes, with Shopify’s Jess Hertz
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Chicago Fed President on inflation, recession, and Trump’s attacks
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Ford's Jim Farley on beating China, and the storm nobody sees coming
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How Snoop Dogg, Comic-Con, and cold calls are growing USA Fencing
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What the jobs report isn't telling you about AI & the workforce, with Upwork’s H...
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Masters of Scale: Author Jim Collins on unlocking your potential
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Speed vs. accuracy, scale vs. soul: Watch Duty's toughest fire season yet
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Google’s exodus, Spider-Man’s odyssey, Taco “Hell”, and more
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The Long Game: Bob Safian on great leadership in the AI revolution
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The new rules of brand building, with Wieden+Kennedy CEO
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Byron Allen’s vision for BuzzFeed, Starz, and beyond
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Serena Williams on winning in business
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No legacy, no playbook, no problem: Inside the Toronto Tempo's wild first season
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Delta's Ed Bastian on spiking fuel, summer travel, and a blunt reality check on...
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OpenAI’s Critterz blowback: Director Nik Kleverov on year zero for Hollywood
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The quiet reinvention of a $42b business, with Canva’s Cameron Adams
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Possible: Satya Nadella on making human and token capital compound
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The race to help Venezuela: Amazon's disaster relief machine
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Relevance is a sport: Gap’s Richard Dickson on swinging, missing, and winning
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What Ken Burns’ The American Revolution warns us about today
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Cannes Lions’ battle of the brands: Starbucks’ stumble, World Cup ads, and more
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Gina Raimondo’s bipartisan fight for workers in the age of AI
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$300m in year two. The controversy came free, with David Protein’s Peter Rahal
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IBM’s $10 billion bet on what comes after AI
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The U.S. at 250: The case for reckoning and rebuild, with Ian Bremmer
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U.S. Soccer CEO: The unseen stakes of this World Cup
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World Cup kickoff: Goals, greed, and geopolitics, with ESPN’s Sam Borden
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Pioneers of AI: How fast can you upskill in AI? We did a sprint to find out.
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