Alison Beard

Alison Beard

20 Interviews

Alison Beard's Interviews

Alison Beard & Astro Teller 28 Mar 2023 • EN

X's Astro Teller on Managing Moonshot Innovation

How do you solve the world's toughest problems? Or find the next big thing in tech? Lots organizations fail to explore and take big bets on new ideas because they can't tolerate the mess of experimentation and the fear of failure. At X, Alphabet's dedicated innovation factory, they don't have that problem, and Astro Te

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Alison Beard & Ron Howard 20 Dec 2022 • EN

Ron Howard on Collaborative Leadership and Career Longevity

For decades, actor-producer-director Ron Howard has made popular and critically acclaimed movies while also maintaining a reputation for being one of the nicest guys in Hollywood. He explains how he turned early TV gigs into long-term success and why he often involves his cast and crew members in creative decisions. Hi

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Alison Beard & Christine Porath 22 Nov 2022 • EN

Let's Protect Our Frontline Workers from Rude Customers

From videos of drunk and disorderly airline passengers to stories of hospital visitors angrily refusing to wear masks, customer-facing work seems to have gotten a lot more difficult – even dangerous -- over the past few years. It's important that organizations understand the experience of frontline workers now, and hel

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Marcus Buckingham & Alison Beard 21 Apr 2022 • EN

Find Joy in Any Job: How Do I Improve the Role I Have?

A lot of us are feeling unhappy and disengaged at work – and that started long before the pandemic. A big part of the problem, says Marcus Buckingham, is that we don’t take the initiative to do more of the tasks that we truly love. After identifying what most energizes and excites you about your current role or employe

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Technological development is happening faster than ever and changing our lives in fundamental ways. The companies behind all these new gadgets and services are no doubt the greatest corporate success stories of our age. But entrepreneur and investor Azeem Azhar worries that our public institutions haven't kept pace wit

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Alison Beard & Mehran Sahami 14 Sep 2021 • EN

Can Big Tech Reform Itself?

Mehran Sahami, a Stanford professor and former Google employee, wants to see a reset from the technology industry. For the past few decades, the world's technologists (many of whom become its corporate executives and venture capitalists) have been taught to prioritize optimization and efficiency without thinking a whol

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