Companies Going on Offense

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🗓️ 26 August 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Most companies find success in different ways, but there’s a secret sauce to ones that are leading innovators. Behnam Tabrizi is a transformation expert and a faculty member in Stanford University’s executive program. His book is “Going on Offense: A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation.” Ricky Mulvey caught up with Tabrizi to discuss: - Tech companies with a cultural advantage. - Why Alphabet might have a bureaucracy problem. - Lisa Su’s “David and Goliath” story at Advanced Micro Devices Companies discussed: AAPL, MSFT, META, TSLA, AMD, ADBE, NVDA, AMZN, WHR Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: Behnam Tabrizi Engineer: Rick Engdahl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I can tell you, Ricky, first hand, talking to a lot of very senior executives, those
0:05.7	who were, you know, they cut too much, they let a lot of people go because they thought
0:11.2	AI would replace.
0:12.6	They actually are regretting because they're realizing AI could be a way to be able
0:17.5	to increase productivity, creativity significantly, potentially even getting to new businesses.
0:24.4	I'm Ricky Mulvey and that's Benam Tabrizzi, the author of Going on Offense, a leader's
0:32.0	playbook for perpetual innovation.
0:33.9	He's a faculty member of Stanford University's executive program and an expert on transformation
0:39.9	studying high performing organizations.
0:42.8	We had a chat about Microsoft's turnaround under Satya Nadella, why established car makers
0:47.7	can't quite seem to catch up with Tesla and one company using artificial intelligence
0:52.6	to create a competitive advantage.
0:57.5	Your book is about how innovative Agile companies develop winning mindsets, it's not a
1:02.6	secret sauce but it helps you with some of the tools and formulas that those organizations
1:07.6	have developed.
1:08.6	I think there's at least a semester's worth of business school wisdom in there and
1:12.8	one of the sort of the two organizations that you're excited in our pre-conversation to
1:18.5	juxtapose and talk about right now is Google versus Amazon.
1:22.8	Why are you so excited about the comparison between these two companies?
1:27.2	What's really amazing is their starting point is very interesting because they had new
1:33.7	CEOs, fresh CEOs coming on board in case of Microsoft, it was 2014 when Satya Nadella came
1:44.1	from the cloud division and started running Microsoft and at that time Microsoft wasn't
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