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The Thinking Leader

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  • Bestselling business author and unconsultant Bryce Hoffman talks about decision making, strategy, resilience and leadership with some of the world’s best CEOs, writers and thinkers in this twice-monthly podcast. Each episode offers new ideas and insights you can use to become a better leader and a better thinker – because bad leaders react, good leaders plan, and great leaders think.
    © 2021 Bryce G. Hoffman
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  • Episode 011: Bryce Hoffman on Red Team Thinking 

    Episode 011: Bryce Hoffman on Red Team Thinking 
    Dec 20 2021
    Welcome to another episode of The Thinking Leader podcast, brought to you by Red Team Thinking. In this episode, Red Team Thinking Vice President Marcus Dimbleby turns the table on Bryce and interviews him, discussing the origins of red teaming, why we need more critical thinking, how to enable distributed decision making and create psychological safety in your organization, why leaders need to listen, and why new ways of working can’t work without new ways of thinking.  Bryce Hoffman is a bestselling author and speaker, as well as the president of Red Team Thinking. Bryce calls himself an “unconsultant” and teaches organizations and individuals around the world how to engage critical thinking, enable distributed decision making, and encourage diversity of thought. Prior to founding Red Team Thinking, Bryce spent 22 years working as a financial journalist. In 2015, he became the first and only civilian from outside government to graduate from the U.S. Army’s elite red team leader training program, then worked with renowned business leaders from around the world to develop a model for business red teaming that evolved to become Red Team Thinking.  In addition to his work with Red Team Thinking, Bryce lectures on red teaming worldwide, including at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Warwick Business School, and the National University of Singapore.      Top 10 Takeaways:  01:58 What is Red Team Thinking?  11:05 How Bryce learned about Red Team Thinking.  16:46 What is the difference between red teaming and Red Team Thinking?  20:59 Decision making should be a practice, not a process.  23:53 How to foster real diversity and inclusion – not just tokenism.  26:13 New ways of working require new ways of thinking.  27:24 Don't outsource thinking!  41:24 Daniel Kahneman and Red Team Thinking.    48:10 Leaders have to have the courage to ask the tough questions – and listen to the answers.  53:13 How to become a "thinking leader."         Mentioned in this episode:  Red Teaming: How Your Business Can Conquer the Competition by Challenging Everything, by Bryce G. Hoffman  American Icon: Alan Mulally and the fight to Save Ford Motor Company, by Bryce G. Hoffman  9/11 Commission Report  CIA Director George Tenet  Red Cell  General Peter Schoomaker  University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies  Alan Mulally, Ford Motor Company  Detroit News  Dr. Daniel Kahneman  Dr. Gary Klein  Dave Snowden  Barry O’Reilly      Find Out More  Sign up for Bryce’s newsletter  Connect with Bryce on LinkedIn  Connect with Marcus on LinkedIn  Follow Bryce on Twitter  Follow Marcus on Twitter 
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    59 mins
  • Episode 010: Zia Zaman: Pulling the Goalie in High-Risk Decisions

    Episode 010: Zia Zaman: Pulling the Goalie in High-Risk Decisions
    Dec 6 2021

    Welcome to another episode of The Thinking Leader podcast, brought to you by Red Team Thinking. In this episode, Bryce Hoffman talks with Zia Zaman, CEO and innovator, about the use of mathematics to make better decisions in times of high risk in an increasingly uncertain world – where everyone's affected.

     

    Zia Zaman is the CEO of Soteria, previously served as the CIO for MetLife, the CEO of LumenLab, and led the marketing strategy for FAST which culminated in a $1.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft. Zia has spoken at WEF Davos, IIF, Global Summit for Women, Milken, InsurTech Connect, and UN Women. He currently sits on the Board of the Energy Market Authority of Singapore.

     

    Top 10 Takeaways:

     

    01:37 The amount of uncertainty leaders are facing today is only increasing

     

    02:11 Every job function has become a more data-driven function

     

    05:06 A metaphor from ice hockey – “Pulling the goalie”

     

    07:13 The Poisson model vs. the Markov model

     

    14:35 Patrick Roy vs. Viktor Tikhonov

     

    17:00 Malcolm Gladwell and the “Pull the goalie” concept

     

    22:00 The Asness-Brown Model

     

    24:53 Applying this approach to investment strategy

     

    25:39 “Pulling the goalie” in business

     

    32:52 “Pulling the goalie” in public health

     

     

     

    Mentioned in this episode:

    “Coach Markov Pulls Goalie Poisson,” by Zia Zaman

    Poisson Model

    Markov Model

    Asness-Brown Model, “Pulling the Goalie: Hockey and Investment Implications”

    Revisionist History, a Podcast by Malcolm Gladwell

    Patrick Roy

    Viktor Tikhonov

     

     

     

    Find Out More

    Connect with Zia Zaman on Linkedin

    Sign up for Bryce’s newsletter

    Connect with Bryce on LinkedIn

    Follow Bryce on Twitter

     
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    57 mins
  • Episode 009: Rethinking Venture Capital

    Episode 009: Rethinking Venture Capital
    Nov 1 2021

    Welcome to another episode of The Thinking Leader podcast, brought to you by Red Team Thinking. In this episode, Bryce Hoffman talks with Mark McNally, founder of Nobody Studios, about his new vision for venture capital and his goal to launch 100 companies in five years. 

    Mark is a serial entrepreneur with a broad base of experience scaling companies from startup through multinational establishment. Mark’s first startup went public on the Nasdaq at the age of 24. He’s “challenging the status quo daily and creating rapid but healthy disruption.” Nobody Studios is unified by its principles of rapid and frugal innovation, a “people first” mentality, crowd first execution in everything, and transparency to its core.

    Top 10 Takeaways:

     

    09:09 The strength of peer-led teams

     

    11:37 What’s wrong the way we create companies today?

     

    13:00 What is Nobody Studios?

     

    13:42 A new model for venture capital

     

    16:34 Empowering teams allows them to think differently 

     

    18:23 The power of checking your ego at the door

     

    20:45 The most important thing entrepreneurs need to learn do well is tell their story

     

    30:08 Should you go public?

     

    31:15 Red teaming venture capital

     

    33:45 How Wall Street screwed up venture capital

     

      Mentioned in this Episode:

     

    Brought to you by Red Team Thinking 

    Nobody Studios

    U.S. Army PSYOPS

    Intervention in Haiti (1995)

     

     

    Find Out More

     

    Connect with Mark McNally on LinkedIn 

    Sign up for Bryce’s newsletter 

    Connect with Bryce on Linkedin 

    Follow Bryce on Twitter 
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    43 mins
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