Episodes

  • The Andon Cord: Real-Time Knowledge in Business
    Oct 24 2025

    Three Weeks Too Late: Discover how Amazon’s ‘big red button’ transformed customer service by empowering frontline workers with real-time insights, outpacing slow metrics, in this captivating podcast.

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    16 mins
  • The Press Release as Product Blueprint
    Oct 18 2025

    Should you write the press release before building your product? We explore Amazon's controversial "working backwards" method, why it prevents expensive failures, when it brilliantly works, and when it dangerously constrains innovation. The surprising truth about starting at the end.

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    16 mins
  • The Forgotten Power of User Rituals in Product Adoption
    Oct 17 2025

    Why the most addictive products don't eliminate friction—they create it. Discover how companies like Apple, Peloton, and Spotify build unbreakable customer loyalty by designing rituals, not habits. A counterintuitive strategy that turns everyday products into meaningful experiences.

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    17 mins
  • The Beautiful Lie of Willpower
    Oct 12 2025

    Motivation isn’t a choice—it’s biology. Uncover how your brain’s chemistry drives ambition in the workplace

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    17 mins
  • Owning the Moment: Situational Marketing Triggers
    Oct 12 2025

    Why does Maggi come to mind at 4 PM? Why do you think of Cadbury after dinner? It's not better advertising—it's smarter strategy. This episode reveals how winning brands don't compete on product quality. They compete for moments in your daily life, embedding themselves so deeply into specific situations that when the trigger fires, they're the only answer.


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    15 mins
  • Your Cross-Team Communication Problem Is Really a Design Problem
    Oct 10 2025

    Why do growing companies slow down? Because they're solving the wrong problem. Instead of making cross-team communication better, the best organizations eliminate the need for it entirely. This episode challenges everything you think you know about collaboration, silos, and how to build teams that actually scale.


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    20 mins
  • The Judgment of Business Decision-Making
    Oct 9 2025

    Why do smart leaders keep falling for decision-making formulas that don't work? This episode challenges the popular frameworks everyone quotes and reveals what actually separates good decisions from paralysis disguised as diligence. No neat percentages. No easy answers. Just the uncomfortable truth about judgment, fear, and learning when to move fast versus when to slow down.


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    14 mins
  • Single-Threaded Leadership: Amazon's Innovation Engine
    Oct 4 2025

    How Amazon escaped bureaucracy and kept startup speed at scale. The single-threaded leadership principle that powered AWS, Prime, and Alexa—and why your innovation is dying as someone's side project.


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    14 mins