The Wicked Podcast: We read the business books, you don't have the time to.

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Episodes

Tom Peters

In Search of Excellence
: The legendary book on building better organisations :

Cath Bishop,
3-times Olympian

The Long Win
: How winning is a bad concept for organisations :

David Marquet,
Ex-Nuclear Submarine Captain, US Navy

Turn the Ship Around
: Intent-based Leadership works! :

Sarabeth Berk,
Chief Creative Disruptor

More than my title
: On hybrid professionals :

Karen Cornwell,
Silicon Valley Exec Consultant

You can't fix what you can't see
: On diversity and it's opportunity for innovation :

Peter Thompson,
Speaker, writer, consultant and coach

500%
: The case study of self-managed teams :

Alison Jones,
Publisher, Head Judge - Business Book Awards

This Book means Business
: How to write a business book :

Paola Diana,
host of the gamechangers podcast

Why weren't taught that in school?
: How sosft-skills and navigating groups helps :

Jamie Barnard,
CEO Compliant

Data ethics and compliance for organisations

Karen Meager,
Co-Founder Monkeypuzzle

Psychological leadership training and coaching

Cate Murden,
Founder PUSH

Mental health in the workplace

Jacques van Niekerk,
CEO Edison

What's to know about data-driven business?

Alex Budak,
Berkeley faculty member

Becoming a Changemaker
: Create change in organisations :

Ian Windle,
Psychologist & Author

The Leadership Map
: Modern leadership, its requirements and pitfalls :

Ken Pasternak,
Leadership Advisor

Exploding turkeys and spare trousers
: Adventures in global business :

Marc A. Pitman,
Author

The Gift of Doubt
: Why don't we doubt more to learn more? :

Sam Sanders,
Author

The Next Big Idea
: How do we get to better ideas? :

Pam Hamilton,
Managing Director, Paraffin

Supercharged Teams
: What are supercharged teams? :

Steven Smith,
Psychologist & Author

Leadership, levity and the power of baked alaska
: What does baked alaska have to do with leadership? :

Didier Bonnet,
Professor @ IMD Business School

Hacking Digital
: Can you hack leadership into transformation? :

Ian Snape,
CEO of Frontline Mind

Resilience by Design
: How soldiers and athletes build resilience :

Rick Pastoor,
Co-Founder, GRIP

GRIP
: Is working smarter just fad or actually achievable? :

Milan Guenther,
Enterprise Design Patterns

You cant make this ship up!
: Have you ever been locked in the same space with your customers and staff for weeks? :

Paul Rutter,
Cruise Ship Industry Veteran

You cant make this ship up!
: Have you ever been locked in the same space with your customers and staff for weeks? :

Dr. Nate Zinsser,
Westpoint Military Academy

The Confident Mind
: How to build better confidence at work :

Alice Sheldon,
Psychologist & Author

Why weren't taught that in school?
: How soft-skills and navigating groups helps :

Brett Putter,
CEO, Culturegene

Own your culture
: How important is culture? :

Lucy McCarraher,
Mentor & Publisher

Book Builder
: How to build a business book :

Gill Hasson,
Trainer & Author

Mental Health and Wellbeing at the Workplace
: The biggest negative productivity wave :

Katy Granville-Chapman, Emmie Bidston,

Leader
: Do leaders have time for you? :

Campbell MacPherson,
Int.Business Advisor

The Power To Change
: have we really learned to change? :

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Anne Taylor,
Leadership Coach

Soft Skills, Hard Results
: Can soft skills beat hard skills in productivity? :

Juana-Catalina Rodriguez,
Serial Entrepreneur

Unsettled Disruption
: Can you disrupt? :

Max Dickins,
Improvisation Coach

Improvise!
: What improv theatre can teach us :

Jonathan Hemus,
Consultant at Insignia

Crisis Proof
: What do we do in a crisis? :

Nir Eyal,
New York Times bestselling author

Indistractable
: Mastering distraction is the skill of the future :

Tim Ringo,
Board Advisor

Solving the Productivity Puzzle
: A new definition of productivity :

Michael Brown,
CEO

I don't agree!
: How dissagreement shapes a CEO :

Cyndi Suarez,
Polymath Specialist

The Power Manual
: Why multi-skilled is more relevant than specialised :

Thales Teixera,
Harvard Associate Professor

Unlocking the Customer Value Chain
: Why creating value for people counts more than technology :

Lars Schmidt,
Future of HR, podcast host

Redefining HR
: How organisations can serve people better :

Liz Wiseman,
NYT besteslling author, executive advisor

Impact Players
: Creating impact in your organisation :

Janie van Hool,
Listening and Voice Specialist

The Listening Shift
: What it takes to listen and be listened to :

Jude Jennison,
Leadership Team Specialist

OPUS
: The non-verbal power of teams :

Michael Chavez,
CEO, Duke Corporate Education

Rehumanising Leadership
: Imagining the future of leadership :

Lisa Gill,
Self-Management Specialist

Moose Heads on the table
: How self-managing teams outperform the competition :

Bill Schmarzo,
Professor, Corporate Advisor

The Economics of Digital Transformation
: Design Thinking and IT as a powerhouse :

Michael Sherlock,
Sales Leadership Specialist

Sales Mixology
: What makes people productive? :

Jonathan McMahon,
Investor

Post-Pandemic
: Learnings from the fringes of the pandemic :

Dr. Angela Cotellessa,
Polymath Specialist

Polymaths
: Why multi-skilled is more relevant than specialised :

Mark Schwartz,
Enterprise Strategist @Amazon

The Art of Bureaucracy
: The two-sided coin of bureaucracy :

Special #3
50th episode anniversary

We look back at a year of reading a book a week.

Jon Key,
Executive Advisor and CEO

Late Night Lessons from the COVID-19 Crisis
: Conversations with CEOs during COVID :

Dr.Grace Lordan,
Associate Professor, LSE

Think Big
: Behavioural Science for your big ideas :

Simon Roberts,
Partner @ Stripe Partners

The Power of Not Thinking
: How to embrace reality :

Kathryn Simpson,
C-Level Advisor

Leading for Change
: Leadership in turbulent times :

Matt Casey,
CEO of DoThings.io

The Management Delusion
: The new role of management :

Steve McDermott,
Mastery Coach

How to be a complete and utter f**k up
: How not to be successful :

Mary Gregory,
Forbes Coaches Council

Ego
: How to deal with your own and other egos at work :

Perry Timms,
People & Transformation

The Energized Workplace
: How to energize your workforce :

Neal Usher,
Workplace Strategist

Elemental Change
: How to create new ways of working :

Nick Leach,
Author

Leading on Purpose
: Leadership lessons for the future :

Alan Moore,
FOUNDER @ Beautiful Business

Do Build
: Better organisations :

Julia Shalet,
The Product Killer

The Really Good Product Test
: How to test with reality :

Jeff Schwarz,
Principal @ Deloitte for the Future of Work

Work Disrupted
: On the future of work :

Haydn Shaughnessy,
Transformation Specialist

Transformation Sprint
: On better planning for transformation :

Chris Oestereich,
Circular Economy at The World Bank Group

Pandemic Capitalism
: On the effects of circular economy :

Ton Dobbe,
Startup and Product consultant

The Remarkable Effect
: On checking products with reality :

Jack Uldrich,
Futurist and Speaker

Business as Unusual
: On the value of the unconventional for the future :

Gemma Milne,
Leadership Speaker

Smoke and Mirrors
: On the effects of trends on facts :

Michelle Tillis Lederman,
Leadership Speaker

The Connector's Advantage
: On growing your career and network :

Minter Dial,
Keynote speaker and thought leader

You Lead
: On leadership :

Gil Friend,
CEO, Natural Logic

The Truth about Green Business
: If your sustainability efforts cost you, you are doing it wrong! :

Marti Konstant,
Workplace Futurist

Activate Your Agile Career
: On career agility and using Agile to change, shift and improve your career :

Prof. Keith Grint,
University of Warwick

Leadership - A very short introduction
: What type of problems do leadership need to distinguish between? :

Brant Cooper,
Silicon Valley startup specialist

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development
: How to test ideas with customer reality, silicon valley style :

Vaughn Tan,
Assistant Professor UCL, London

The Uncertainty Mindset
: How to build teams as creative as El Bulli and The Fat Duck :

Special #2

We give a 5-step plan for experiments and discuss the business benefits of integrating experiments in every aspect of business.

Nir Bashan

The Creator Mindset
: How creativity will save us :

Rita McGrath,
Professor Columbia Business School

Seeing Around Corners
: How to spot inflection points in business :

Dr. Bruno Cignacco

The Art of Compassionate Business
: About the value of compassion in business :

Maria Ross

The Empathy Edge
: About the business value of empathy :

Ed Gillespie

Only Planet
: About sustainable businesses and the end of the world :

Michael W. Wright

The Exponential Era
: What makes an exponential business? :

Greg Githens

How to think strategically
: About strategy skills for everyone :

Richard Chataway

The Behaviour Business
: Behavioural Science to better understand customers and how to design for them :

Eaon Pritchard

How did it all go wrong?
: How the advertising industry is struggling with the modern world :

Garth Andrus

The Technology Fallacy
: How people are the real driver of digital transformation :

Joe Pine

The Experience Economy
: The book on the business value of experiences as products :

Season 1 Wrap

Themes and Insights
: Our episode review on themes and insights so far :

Bruce Daisley

The Joy of Work
: About new ways of working at Twitter and Youtube :

Elvin Turner

Be Less Zombie
: About a guidebook for innovation :

Wouter Boon

Defining Creativity
: What does creativity really mean in organisations? :

Graham Boyd

Picasso, Einstein, the Economy, Leadership and You
: New purposes for organisations beyond short-term shareholder value creation :

Robert Rowland Smith

The Reality Test
: Strategies main purpose is to check in with reality :

Geoff Colvin

Talent is Overrated
: How learning really happens and what it takes to create a learning organisation :

Sunnie Giles

The New Science of Radical Innovation
: New innovation needs new leadership, what enabling innovation really means :

Testimonials

“You guys are very well researched.”

Tom Peters
quality-guru, author: In Search of Excellence

“Let’s just say this interview was by far the highlight of my working day!”

Richard Chataway
CEO, BVA Nudge Unit

“Being part of the podcast was like having breakfast with interesting friends.”

Garth Andrus
Principal, Deloitte Consulting

Why

Currently over 70% of digital transformations are failing(McKinsey).
Our new world is made of wicked problems, moving and evolving targets, not the tame problems of the industrial revolution. Our organisations are not build to solve those.
The Wicked Company exists to help you build resilient companies that can tackle wicked problems.

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Marcus Kirsch is the founder of The Wicked Company, an applied transformation and service design consultancy based in London, UK.

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