Rapid Response: Stay versatile, w/Lululemon Athletica CEO Calvin McDonald
While many retail businesses have struggled to cope with a wave of disruptions — from pandemic to supply chains to inflation — Lululemon has continued to scale, even when retail sales elsewhere dipped...
26 Jan 202324min
6 leadership traps and how to avoid them
For entrepreneurs and business leaders, the path to success is littered with traps. In this special episode of Masters of Scale, we go into the trenches with leaders from Google, Uber, LinkedIn, and m...
24 Jan 202343min
Rapid Response: Finding untapped value in multicultural consumers, w/Blavity CEO and AfroTech founder Morgan DeBaun
While media companies from CNN to Buzzfeed have faced layoffs, one digital network focused on Black millennials has continued to forge ahead. Morgan DeBaun, CEO of Blavity, which reaches some 100 mill...
19 Jan 202332min
Netflix’s Reed Hastings: Why culture matters
As Reed Hastings steps down from his co-CEO role at Netflix, we return to the leadership lessons he shared in his original Masters of Scale episode. This episode is all about how you need a strong cul...
18 Jan 202336min
J.J. Abrams: Make room for magic
You can’t predict your next a-ha moment. but you can create favorable circumstances for serendipity to happen – for you, and for your team. No one knows this better than J.J. Abrams, director, produce...
17 Jan 202337min
Rapid Response: How to cultivate a new industry, w/Upside Foods CEO Uma Valeti, MD
When the FDA blessed Upside Foods’ grown-from-cells chicken as safe to eat, it was a coming-of-age moment for cultivated meat. Upside founder and CEO Uma Valeti, MD, shares his journey of convincing s...
12 Jan 202327min
Cisco's John Chambers: The essential playbooks — and when to use them
All great teams need to improvise under pressure, but underpinning this should be a set of tried-and-tested playbooks that let you orchestrate and replicate winning strategies. Cisco's John Chambers c...
10 Jan 202336min
Ray Dalio: How to embrace conflict
Want to improve any idea? Find someone who disagrees with it. This is something legendary investor Ray Dalio knows. But there’s a difference between constructive and destructive conflict — and Dalio i...
5 Jan 202343min
