Standout Podcasts for a Complicated World

In these last weeks of August, many are on holiday and finding themselves with time to fit in a good listen or two. BCG creates a number of podcasts that cover a wide range of interests, offering valuable insights and reflections about ourselves, our work, and our planet.??

Here are our six podcast series, with a recommended episode for each one.??

The So What from BCG?

Award-winning journalist Georgie Frost interviews leading thinkers and doers at BCG, diving into many of today’s trending topics—from global warming, business resilience, and social inequity to the influence of digital technology on everything.?

Recommended Episode: How to Run Your Company to Thrive in 2050?

How do the top 5% of companies get—and stay—in the lead? Romain de Laubier talks about helping executives take an honest look at what their companies do well—and what needs work.??

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify ??

Me, Myself, and AI?

In this series, created in partnership with MIT Sloan Management Review, cohosts Shervin Khodabandeh and Sam Ransbotham chat with business leaders who have achieved big wins with their AI initiatives. ?

Recommended Episode: Learning from and with AI—Duolingo’s Zan Gilani?

Gilani, Duolingo’s principal product manager, explains how the organization relies on large language models to offer customers a product that is predictive, motivating, and personalized.?

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify ?

Thinkers and Ideas?

This podcast, hosted by Martin Reeves, chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, and Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, BCG’s global chief economist, offers inspiring and thought-provoking insights from leading thinkers in the worlds of business, technology, economics, and science. ?

Recommended Episode: Look, with Christian Madsbjerg?

Madsbjerg discusses his new book, Look: How to Pay Attention in a Distracted World, which draws on science, philosophy, the arts, and his personal experiences to help us learn to focus.?

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify?

Climate Vision 2050?

This podcast series is set in the year 2050, in a world that has radically reduced carbon emissions and averted climate change catastrophe. It might sound like a fantasy, but Climate Vision 2050 offers plausible paths toward a net zero future.?

Recommended Episode: The Mangrove Manifesto?

It’s 2050, and mangrove forests are thriving across Southeast Asia’s shorelines, protecting coastal communities from flooding and erosion. We follow environmental scientist Danilo Manolo, who travels through a protected mangrove forest in Malaysia to halt an illegal logging operation.?

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify?

American Metamorphosis?

In this podcast series from BCG and Atlantic Re:Think, Emmy-nominated journalist Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani digs into some of the most complex challenges facing the US today.?

Recommended Episode: The Way Forward?

BCG’s CEO Christoph Schweizer, “Iron Chef” cohost Kristen Kish, and Seth Dobrin, president of the Responsible AI Institute, discuss how to build a future steeped in empathy.?

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify?

In Her Ellement?

Digital expert Suchi Srinivasan and product designer Corin Lines, both from BCG, talk to women at the forefront of technology in business, art, education, and more. How did these leaders know that they had arrived—that they were in their element??

Recommended Episode: Understanding Your Key Skills, with FYLD’s Shelley Copsey?

The digital platform’s CEO has some great advice for those who are hard on themselves about their perceived shortcomings, including how to understand—and learn from—actual weaknesses while harnessing important strengths.?

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify?

If you’re more in the mood for a good read, check out these recommendations:?

• BCG Reading List 2023?
• Featured Insights and Perspectives from BCG?
• Summer Reading from the BCG Henderson Institute?

Or, here are some great playlists if you feel like watching:?

• TED@BCG Video Collection?
• Impact in 60 Video Collection
• What Does AI Mean for All of Us? Video Collection

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