Thinking Differently with Rod Collins

Rod Collins is a leading expert and an award-winning author on digital transformation and the future of business. On the show, Rod challenges business leaders to rethink how they remain competitive in a digitally transformed marketplace. Through engaging stories and practical insights, you will discover how a new breed of leaders are using cutting-edge ways of thinking and acting to develop the capacity for delivering breakthrough innovation. 

Business
Management
Technology
1
S3E10 Choosing the Road Less Traveled
What it takes to create healthy societies.
28 min
2
S3E09 The Digital Fork in the Road
In the next decade, we will be faced with an existential choice about how we organize our societies.
29 min
3
S3E08 What Big Tech Could Learn from the NTSB
We could greatly improve our social discourse if Big Tech could learn to adopt the mindset of the NTSB.
15 min
4
S3E07 New Ways of Thinking and Acting
To thrive in a fast forward world, business leaders will need the courage to adopt new ways of thinking and acting.
17 min
5
S3E06 Knowing When to Break the Rules
There are times where the rules should be superseded by a higher principle.
13 min
6
S3E05 Redesigning Algorithms to Aggregate Colle...
Social media companies have the opportunity, through their digital social platforms, to curate our collective intelligence to produce higher order solutions that no one perspective could ever craft.
18 min
7
S3E04 Reviving the Hacker Ethos
Building a better and more collaborative world
20 min
8
S3E03 The Antidote to Tribalism
What can we do to restore civility to social media platforms?
16 min
9
S3E02 Whatever Happened to “Don’t Be Evil”?
Google appears to be regressing into one of the most authoritarian companies the world has ever seen by succumbing to the temptation of centralized power.
18 min
10
S3E01 The Vanishing of Mass Collaboration
Over the next ten episodes, we will explore what went wrong with the Digital Revolution and what we can do to restore its promise.
18 min
11
S2E10 Collective Intelligence Workshops
Explore a way that business leaders can access the richest and most untapped resource in their organizations: the collective intelligence of their own people.
26 min
12
S2E09 Collective Intelligence Is a Faster Path ...
What’s most fascinating about collective intelligence is that it inherently corrects for the human biases that plague individual thinking.
16 min
13
S2E08 The Difference Between a Mob and a Crowd
Whether a group is extraordinarily intelligent often depends upon whether or not four conditions are present.
15 min
14
Bonus Episode: Interview with John Hagel
Transformation is about moving from a caterpillar to a butterfly.
39 min
15
S2E07 The Transformational Leap in Healthcare
The proliferation of human collective intelligence via sophisticated artificial intelligence systems will revolutionize how intelligence works in the healthcare system.
27 min
16
S2E06 From Chess Masters to Gardeners
Leaders need to become more agile if they are to respond to the challenges of a rapidly changing world.
17 min
17
S2E05 The Hazards of Experts
Complex problems are best solved by aggregating the collective intelligence of multiple perspectives and avoiding the hazards of experts.
21 min
18
S2E04 Decision Makers Are Not As Rational As Th...
People are nowhere near as rational as they think and are incredibly susceptible to unconscious biases that influence human decision-making.
19 min
19
S2E03 Preventing Catastrophic Business Meltdowns
Collective intelligence is a powerful tool because it moves a group to a higher level of intelligence.
14 min
20
S2E02 Moving Beyond Endless Debate
It’s not easy to detach from outcome, especially if you are absolutely convinced that you know the answer.
16 min
21
S2E01 The Genius of the People
Business leaders are using the incredible power of collective intelligence to master the challenge of winning in increasingly more complex markets.
18 min
22
S1E10 The Dawn of the Second Human Epoch
We are at the beginning of an unprecedented inflection point in the development of human civilization.
17 min
23
S1E09 Moving Beyond the Hazards of Human Bias
The extraordinary power of networks and the incredible speed of collective intelligence will move us beyond the hazards of human bias.
22 min
24
S1E08 The Shift from Workers to Gamers
The role of the gamer may become a very lucrative pathway to middle class wealth in the very near future.
16 min
25
S1E07 The Human-Machine Symbiosis
A symbiotic relationship that combines the strengths of both humans and machines could usher in a new era of enhanced human intelligence.
18 min