Thinkers50 Management
Thinking Collection

Access a curated collection of 5 TED Talks delivered by
recognized masters of management in the coaching industry:

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Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Hult International Business School

Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup

Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School

Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School

Social Psychologist and Leading Expert on the Science Underlying Bias and Racism in Organizations

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Prof. Francesca Gino

The Power of Why:
Unlocking a Curious Mind

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Session Description
We are all born curious. Yet, as we grow older, our curiosity diminishes. We fear judgment, worry about the impression we’ll make on others if we ask questions, or decide that exploring new ideas is a waste of time. But curiosity, it turns out, is critical for thriving at work and in life—and losing it affects everything from our productivity to our happiness. The good news, says Francesca Gino, is that we can recapture that inquisitive instinct.

Speaker Biography
Francesca Gino is an award-winning researcher who focuses on why people make the decisions they do at work, and how leaders and employees have more productive, creative, and fulfilling lives. She is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School and the bestselling author, most recently, of “Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules in Work and Life.” Gino is also affiliated with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the Mind, Brain, Behavior Initiative at Harvard, and the Behavioral Insight Group at Harvard Kennedy School. She co-chairs a variety of programs in Executive Education at HBS.

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Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Why do so many incompetent men
become leaders?

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Session Description
There is a pathological mismatch between the qualities that seduce us in a leader and those that are needed to be an effective leader. Based on research on the psychology of leadership, Chamorro-Premuzic shows that if leaders were selected on competence rather than confidence, humility rather than charisma, and integrity rather than narcissism, we would not just end up with more competent leaders, but also more women leaders. In fact, he argues, the main obstacle preventing competent women from becoming leaders is the lack of career obstacles for incompetent men.

Speaker Biography
Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is an international authority in psychological profiling, talent management, leadership development, and people analytics. His commercial work focuses on the creation of science-based tools that improve organizations' ability to predict performance, and people's ability to understand themselves. He is currently the Chief Innovation Officer at Manpower Group, co-founder of Deeper Signals and Metaprofiling, and Professor of Business Psychology at University College London and Columbia University. He has previously held academic positions at New York University and the London School of Economics, and lectured at Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School, London Business School, Johns Hopkins, IMD, and INSEAD, as well as being the co-founder and CEO of BrazenX and the CEO at Hogan Assessment Systems.

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Prof. Dan Cable

Make a Life not
just a Living

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Session Description
Our brains are emotional ‘seeking systems’ that crave meaning and connection. We are wired to explore our world, experiment and learn, and understand the impact of our actions. This is what motivates us and makes us feel alive. But sadly, since the industrial revolution, most organizations were designed to shut off our seeking systems, punishing experimentation and removing our connection with customers. Now that change happens more frequently and organizations need agility with purpose, we are entering a golden age of human emotions. To survive and to thrive, organizations need to activate employees’ seeking systems rather than switch them off.

Speaker Biography
Dan Cable is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. Dan’s research and teaching focus on organizational culture, activating positive emotions, and getting employees into commitment instead of just compliance. Dan is Shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Talent Award, and The Academy of Management has twice honored Dan with “Best article” awards, and The Academy of Management Perspectives ranked Dan in the “Top 25 most influential management scholars.”

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Prof. Megan Reitz

Leading in an age of employee activism:
The do’s and don’ts

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In the world of leadership, the rise of employee activism has become a hot topic. How can leaders go about creating a safe space in which people in the organization can freely share their concerns and opinions and avoid ongoing echo chambers? With many years of research under her belt, Megan offers a unique perspective on the leader’s response to employee activism.

Speaker Biography
Megan is a Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Hult International Business School where she speaks, researches, consults and supervises on the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness. She is on the Thinkers50 ranking of global business thinkers and is ranked in HR Magazine’s Most Influential Thinkers listing. She has written Dialogue in Organizations and Mind Time and her most recent book, with Financial Times Publishing, is called Speak Up which was shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year 2020.
She is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and her research has recently featured in MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes, on the BBC, in TEDx talks and in numerous academic and practice-based journals. Her latest research on employee activism was nominated for the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award 2021.

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Dr. Robert Livingston

How to Think about Promoting
Racial Equity

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Session Description
Dr. Robert Livingston, lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, leads a discussion of how to jump-start dialogue on racism and bias and to transform well-intentioned statements on diversity into concrete actions.

Speaker Biography
Dr. Robert Livingston is a social psychologist and leading expert on the science underlying bias and racism in organizations. His research has been published in top-tier academic journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Psychological Science, and Leadership Quarterly, and featured in popular press outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, BBC, Newsweek, USA Today, Time, and MSNBC.
For over two decades, he has served as a consultant to multitude of public, private, and non-profit organizations. In recent years, his clients have included organizations such as: Microsoft, P&G, JP Morgan Chase, L’Oreal, Abbott, Kaiser Permanente, NASA, Bayer, Viacom/CBS, Cardinal Health, Deloitte, ADP, Nationwide, Takeda, NOAA, Credit Suisse, NHS, Trane, Under Armour, Airbnb, ADL, and American Express. He has also worked with multiple state judiciaries, city mayors, university presidents, NGOs, and tech start-ups.

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