What's Next! with Tiffani Bova

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.  This week I am thrilled to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast with Ben Bensaou. Ben is a Professor of Technology Management and Professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. He served as the former Dean of Executive Education at INSEAD, was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School, a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School of Management, and a Visiting Scholar at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He received his PhD in Management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and his MA in Management Science from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan. He also holds his Diplôme d’Ingénieur (MSc) in Civil Engineering and DEA in Mechanical Engineering from the Ecole Nationale des TPE, Lyon and the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grandes Ecoles in France. His new book, Built to Innovate is a must read and I am excited to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast with Ben M. Bensaou!     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… those looking to create more value for both the customer and the business.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… You need to be an active participant in your company’s innovation efforts. Moreover, anyone can innovate, at any and every level of an organization, and that is why culture is so important. So where do you begin to build this culture? Ben has some thoughts for you.     WHAT  I  LOVE  MOST… everyone plays a part. Innovating is collaborative and active and everyone has a part to play if they are willing.    Running time: 26:32     Subscribe on iTunes     Find Tiffani on social:  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn     Find Ben online:  LinkedIn  Twitter  Built to Innovate Book 

Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova for this What’s Next! Reload.  This week I am bringing back a classic episode of the What’s Next! Podcast with the awesome Dan Pink. Dan is the author of six books, including When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. Thinkers50 named Dan one of the Top 15 Business Thinkers in the World, and his TED talk The Puzzle of Motivation is one of the 10 most-watched TED talks of all time.      THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… anyone looking to improve their likelihood of success in both their personal and professional lives.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… Did you know that a book about timing decisions didn’t exist until Dan Pink wrote it in early 2018? When you think about it, we make multiple “when” decisions in our life: When should I exercise during the day? When should I start a product? When should I quit a project? When should I quit my job?      Dan’s diligent research into the foundation behind our “when” decisions led him to discover that people mostly disregard the question of when and instead focus on what and who and how.        WHAT I LOVE MOST… Breaks are more important than you think. We need to start thinking about breaks as part of our performance not a deviation from performance.    Running time: 37:57     Subscribe on iTunes    Find Tiffani on social:  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn    Find Dan on social:  Twitter  Facebook 

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova. This week I am thrilled to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast with Simon Mainwaring. Simon is the founder and CEO of We First, a strategic consultancy accelerating growth and impact for purpose-driven brands. He’s a member of the Steering Committee of Sustainable Brands, the Forbes Business Council, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was a Featured Expert and Jury Member at the Cannes Lions Festival for the Sustainable Development Goals in 2021, host of the ‘Brands With Purpose’ series with Harvard Business School Association of Boston, and his company, We First, is included in Real Leaders list for the Top 100 Impact Companies in the US for 2021 and 2019, as well as a B Corps ‘Best for The World’ Honoree. He was a Real Leaders Top 100 Visionary Leader in 2018, a finalist for the Conscious Company Leadership Awards in 2017, received the MAKE CHANGE, ‘Conscious Leadership’ Award for 2016, and was a finalist for Global Australian of the Year in 2015. Simon’s first book, We First was a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon bestseller and named Best Marketing Book of the Year by strategy+business. It was named an Amazon Top Ten Business Book, 800CEORead Top Five Marketing Book, and Sustainable Brands listed We First as one of their Top Sustainability Books of the decade. I am very excited to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast with Simon Mainwaring!     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… leaders, innovators, and those looking to do good for the world.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… If you want to make an impact and be successful in a big way, you will need to be putting your time and dollars to work effectively and sincerely.     WHAT  I  LOVE  MOST… He wholeheartedly believes that the future of profit is purpose.     Running time: 26:32    Subscribe on iTunes     Find Tiffani on social:  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn     Find Simon online:  LinkedIn  Facebook  Twitter  Instagram  YouTube  Simon on Medium 

Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova for this What’s Next! Reload.  This week I am bringing back an episode with my wonderful friend Seth Godin on the human side of business. Seth is the author of over 18 books that have been bestsellers around the world and been translated into more than 35 languages. He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership, and–most of all–changing everything. You might be familiar with his books Linchpin, Tribes, The Dip, and, my favorite, Purple Cow. In addition to his writing and speaking Seth founded both Yoyodyne and Squidoo. His blog, which you can find him by typing Seth into Google, is one of the most popular in the world and he was recently inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame–one of three chosen for this honor in 2013.    THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… humans is sales and marketing.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… Seth loves to talk about making something happen. He is a huge fan of doing the right thing in business. The “right thing” means not caring about stock options or your career and still caring about what you’re making.  He promotes focusing on service to deliver consistently and maintains that great marketers should spread ideas, not make sales.  Your job as the marketer is not to sell what the factory makes, but to serve the people the company seeks to serve. This is the human side of business.       WHAT  I  LOVE  MOST… Seth’s advice for the new marketer and what to do if you feel trapped and/or like you aren’t doing good work.    Running time: 34:48     Subscribe on iTunes     Find Tiffani on social:  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn     Find Seth on social:  Twitter  Instagram  LinkedIn 

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.     This week I am thrilled to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast with Mike Zani. Mike is the CEO of The Predictive Index, a talent optimization platform that uses over 60 years of proven science and software to help businesses, design high-performing teams and cultures, make objective hiring decisions, and inspire greatness in people. Its 8,000+ clients include Bain Capital, Blue Cross Blue Shield, DoorDash, LVMH, Nissan, Omni Hotels, and VMware. Mike is also the co-founder and partner at Phoenix Strategy Investments, a private investment fund and an avid sailor–he was the coach of the 1996 US Olympic Team. He holds a BS from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. I am so excited to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast with Mike Zani!     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… for leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, remote teams, and culture builders.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… We’ve asked more of our workforce than ever during a period of great stress and great change. Those who have embraced change and done their part to listen and iterate along with their teams and their employees have found great success. Those who have forged ahead with blinders towards business as usual are losing out on true talent optimization.     WHAT  I  LOVE  MOST… Focusing on how we can make our workforce happier and more engaged, because that is the source of real long-term success.    Running time: 29:15     Subscribe on iTunes     Find Tiffani on social:  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn     Find Mike online:  LinkedIn  The Science of Dream Teams Book 

Welcome to the What's Next! Podcast with Tiffani Bova for this What’s Next! Reload.  This week I am bringing back an episode with the wonderful Ginger Hardage on Servant Leadership. Ginger recently retired as Senior Vice President of Culture and Communications at Southwest Airlines after an illustrious 25 years. She is recognized by many as a foremost authority on building and sustaining organizational culture, and during her time at Southwest, the airline experienced 22 consecutive years on FORTUNE’s “Top 10 Most Admired Companies in the World” list. Throughout her career, Ginger has received countless awards and honors like the PRWeek Top 50 Power list, PRWeek 50 Most Powerful Women in Public Relations, Texas’ Most Powerful and Influential Women, and “Legendary Communicator” by Southern Methodist University in 2007. Ginger was also inducted into the Public Relations Hall of Fame in 2015 and received the prestigous Legacy Award from the Plank Center for Leadership in 2016. Ginger currently serves as a Trustee on two global boards—Ronald McDonald House Charities and the Arthur Page Society. I am absolutely thrilled to have Ginger Hardage on the What’s Next! Podcast!     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… leaders, aspiring leaders, managers, and anyone interested in leading effectively and building a successful and organizational culture.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… Happy employees make customers happy. When customers are happy they return. This is what helps you successfully take care of your shareholders. Too often organizations start backward, focus too much on pleasing shareholders at the expense of everything else. In order to build a successful organization that takes care of its employees and by extension its customers, it is important to address three main points. First, it behooves you to define your company culture and the values that matter to your organization and how you will live those out. Second, it is important to analyze and establish what makes your distinct purpose and value set unique. Third, you must focus on leadership alignment with your values–how are you as a leader, or your organization’s leaders living out the values of the company. Successful, servant leadership starts from the top down, and how we act backs-up what we say.    WHAT  I  LOVE  MOST… Speaking to Ginger, who has successfully driven this type of culture at an iconic organization like Southwest, about the power of focusing on your employees. Great advice on how to navigate the soft side     Running time: 35:59     Subscribe on iTunes     Find Tiffani on social:  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn     Find Ginger on social:  Twitter  Instagram  LinkedIn    Ginger’s Website: Unstoppable Cultures 

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.  This week I am thrilled to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast, an encore of my LinkedIn Live chat with my friend Rita McGrath. Rita is a bestselling author, sought-after speaker, and longtime professor at Columbia Business School. She is also one of the world's top experts on innovation and growth and is regularly published in the Harvard Business Review. She's consistently ranked among the top ten management thinkers in the world and was ranked number one for strategy by Thinkers50. She is the author of the best-selling book, The End of Competitive Advantage, and her most recent book, Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen. I am beyond excited to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast with Rita McGrath!     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… anyone in business who experienced our most recent, shared inflection point, COVID-19.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… Building a culture that nourishes permissionless excellence and doesn’t worry constantly about control can not only facilitate this kind of business, and subsequent customer satisfaction, but can also prepare you to spot strategic inflection points. If you can pick up on key signals when these events are still in their gradual phases, it is your opportunity to take your business to new heights. But, just important to know? Staying flat is not an option.    WHAT  I  LOVE  MOST… Rita’s Monday Morning Huddle: How might you spend or use just one hour a week differently thinking about your future?    Running time: 28:59     Subscribe on iTunes     Find Tiffani on social:  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn     Find Rita online:  LinkedIn  Facebook  Twitter  Instagram  YouTube  Rita’s Website 

Stephanie Tilenius, founder and CEO of Vida Health, discusses the importance of building a strong company culture, the intersection of personal experience and business opportunity in healthcare, strategies for remote work success, and the blend of human connection and technology. She also explores the fluctuation between connection and isolation in the workplace and provides advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.    This week I am thrilled to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast, an encore of my LinkedIn Live chat with my friend Ray Wang. Ray is the Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc., a research and advisory firm which studies disruptive business and exponential technology trends. His new book about digital giants and the future of business titled, Everybody Wants to Rule The World was released July 2021 and is the next big idea that expands on his 2015 ground-breaking, best-selling book on digital transformation, Disrupting Digital Business. I am so happy to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast! with Ray Wang.     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… entrepreneurs and business owners who are trying to learn from the digital giants.    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… After analyzing and watching thousands of businesses – Ray realized the fact that digital transformation appeared not to be doing much in terms of building a more resilient company. It wasn't enough. Yet, the digital giants were succeeding. So what are they doing differently? Ray has some ideas.     WHAT  I  LOVE  MOST… Ray’s Silicon Valley enthusiasm for analog without deriding digital or turning a blind eye to innovation, tech, and advancement.    Running time: 35:01     Subscribe on iTunes     Find Tiffani on social:  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn     Find Ray online:  Twitter  LinkedIn  Ray's Website    Everybody Wants to Rule the World Book 

Welcome to the What's Next! podcast with Tiffani Bova.     This week I am thrilled to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast, an encore of my LinkedIn Live chat with the wonderful Katy Milkman. Katy is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a secondary appointment at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. Her research explores ways that insights from economics and psychology can be harnessed to change consequential behaviors for good. She has received numerous awards for her research including an early career award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences. Katy was also named one of the world’s top 40 business school professors under 40 by Poets and Quants and she was a finalist for the Thinkers 50 2017 Radar Thinker Award. She also frequently writes about topics related to behavioral science for The Washington Post and Scientific American. In 2018, she began hosting Charles Schwab’s popular podcast “Choiceology with Katy Milkman”, which explores key lessons from behavioral economics about decision making. I am so happy to bring you this episode of the What’s Next! Podcast! with Katy Milkman!     THIS EPISODE IS PERFECT FOR… anyone wanting to make a change!    TODAY’S MAIN MESSAGE… Do you need a fresh start? Do you need to make a change? Well, change is a big word…or it can be. So where do you start? What do you focus on? Katy Milkman is here to demystify change and make it a little less scary and a little more doable. Step one, according to Katy? Decide that you want to make a change. Simple enough, right? Once you’ve made the decision, you can get started. Get reflecting, listening, trying different things. You’ve probably learned a great deal about yourself during the last year and a half. What has it shown you? Which changes didn’t serve you and which changes have surprised you? Listen in on my discussion with Katy on change, habits, progress, and long-term goals.    WHAT  I  LOVE  MOST… Katy’s optimistic outlook on the change we are seeing and the changes we hope to make.    Running time: 30:07     Subscribe on iTunes     Find Tiffani on social:  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn     Find Katy online:  Twitter  LinkedIn  Katy’s Website    How to Change Book