The New Way We Work

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Oct 27, 2022 • 26min

FROM AWS AND FAST CO. WORKS: At the Edge of Innovation: A Conversation with AWS’s Jan Hofmeyr

In this special podcast episode, hear the latest on what’s taking place in edge computing and hybrid cloud from a top industry executive at AWS. Also learn how these innovations can ultimately help you transform your business.
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Oct 24, 2022 • 27min

Ambition Diaries: Does ambition even matter anymore?

On this fourth and final episode of Ambition Diaries, Kate examines is ambition really matters anymore after the pandemic and how we are recalibrating in the new world of work.
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Oct 17, 2022 • 25min

Ambition Diaries: The Most Important Decision

In this episode we’ll hear from several of the mothers and daughters in the series about how decisions around marriage and children played out in their homes and careers. From the cost of childcare limiting career options, to delegating responsibilities to a babysitter. From grappling with questions of fulfillment in motherhood to approaching child rearing in more creative ways. And finally how mothers navigate model for their daughters what it’s like to love their jobs, even when it means less time at home.
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Oct 10, 2022 • 21min

Ambition Diaries: Still Not Equal

On the second episode in Ambition Diaries, we hear stories of workplace discrimination. ” it calls to mind a bygone era of Mad Men style overt sexism and racism. And while that kind of egregious behavior does still happen, the discrimination most prevalent in workplaces of all types can fly under the radar of those note experiencing it. It’s in many of the issues that we try to root out regularly on The New Way We Work
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Oct 3, 2022 • 21min

Ambition Diaries: The Broken Promise of the American Dream

Over the course of several months, seven reporters from across the country recorded intimate conversations between mothers and daughters about issues like unpaid labor, discrimination, pay gap, career advancement, work life balance, and how the pandemic has changed our relationship to work. The result is a 4-part mini series called Ambition Diaries. In this first episode of the series we explore economic mobility.
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Sep 26, 2022 • 47min

LIVE! from Fast Company Innovation Festival: Beyond Burnout

Kate Davis hosts a live episode of The New Way We Work at Fast Company Innovation Festival. She talks about burnout and why so many employees are unhappy at work with Ludmila Praslova and Phoebe Gavin.Ludmila is a professor of Organizational psychology at Vanguard University of Southern California with extensive experience in talent systems, inclusion and wellbeing. She is a frequent contributor to Fast Company and Harvard Business Review. Phoebe is a career and leadership coach specializing in career strategy, negotiation, and self-advocacy. She’s also the Executive Director of Talent and Development at Vox.com where she oversees the employee life-cycle from candidate to employee to alumni.A new season of The New Way We Work starts October 3rd with a special four-part mini series called Ambition Diaries.
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Sep 20, 2022 • 36min

MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES: How this company hopes NFTs will transform fantasy sports

On this week's Most Innovative Companies Podcast, Nicolas Julia, CEO and cofounder of Sorare talks about his vision for democratizing NFTs through the world’s biggest sports.
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Sep 13, 2022 • 45min

MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES PODCAST: This CEO is betting on AI to solve the world’s biggest problems

On this week’s Most Innovative Companies Podcast, Alexandr Wang, CEO and founder of Scale AI, explains how his company is using data to tackle problems from access to healthcare to supplies for the war in Ukraine.
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Aug 30, 2022 • 44min

MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES PODCAST: These smart farms are 100 times more productive than traditional agriculture

On the latest episode of the Most Innovative Companies podcast, Irving Fain, founder and CEO of the vertical farming company Bowery, explains how being an outsider to agriculture has helped him come up with new ideas.
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Aug 23, 2022 • 49min

Lessons on innovation from over 100 founders

James Vincent is joined by Rebekah Jefferis, Stephen Butler and Nick Barham, his partners at FNDR, to discuss lessons they've learned from their work with 126 founders.

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