Best Safarova Podcasts (2024)

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477: Why Everything You Know About Public Speaking Is Wrong—And What You Should Be Doing Instead 53:14

35m ago53:14

53:14

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 477, an interview with Hollywood insiders and the authors of Briefly Speaking, Deborah Shames and David Booth. In this episode, we discuss effective communication and presentation strategies for individuals and business professionals. With their extensive experience coaching executives, celebrities, and leaders, D…

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476: Handling client's difficult questions (Strategy Skills classics) 15:10

11m ago15:10

15:10

For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic where we address how to answer difficult questions raised by the client during an executive workshop or another type of client's executive group meeting. We start with discussing the right mindset any consultant requires to be able to effectively handle difficult questions from a client. We …

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475: 3.4 million followers minister on building a business and professional brand from the ground up 54:59

1h ago54:59

54:59

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 475, an interview with Dr. Sam Adeyemi (Ah Day yeh me), a global speaker, strategic leadership expert, minister, and author who has influenced millions of people on success and leadership through radio, television, conferences, and information products for more than 25 years. Atlanta-based Dr. Sam Adeyemi leads le…

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474: How accurate was our financial model for the market entry strategy study? (Strategy Skills Classics) 13:03

2h ago13:03

13:03

For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic where we discuss how accurate our financial model for the market entry strategy study is. Watch the video version here: How accurate was our financial model for the market entry strategy study? Here are some free gifts for you: Overall Approach Used in Well-Managed Strategy Studies free down…

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473: MIT Professor Deborah Ancona on How Family Ghosts End Up in the Executive Suite 50:05

8d ago50:05

50:05

Welcome to Strategy Skills, episode 473—an interview with Deborah Ancona, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. In this episode, we explore "family ghosts," a rarely discussed topic that significantly impacts professional growth, behavior, and attitudes toward work. We discuss how to achieve your gre…

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472: Top-down view of energy (Strategy Skills classics) 9:28

18d ago9:28

9:28

For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic about the top-down view of energy. It is crucial to provide boundaries when discussing sector-wide issues or the executives may get lost in the details and miss the key levers. Watch the video version here: Top-Down View of Energy Click here to see the full study and here to see the merger s…

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471: Management consulting storyboards (Strategy Skills classics) 20:40

8d ago20:40

20:40

For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic where we share one of our more in-depth episodes taken as a sample video from one of our strategy studies. This episode is complimentary and available on iTunes, Youtube, Spotify, and many other podcast players. Watch the video version here: How do I build the storyboard and why is it done s…

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470: Audemars Piguet & leadership (Strategy Skills classics) 15:40

13d ago15:40

15:40

For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic where we explain how leadership is defined at great firms like McKinsey and BCG, and how we also manage leadership transition at FC. It will surprise you to see how different the mindset can be and that we think about these issues all the time. The most important role of a partner is to leav…

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469: Market trends analysis (Strategy Skills classics) 13:07

15d ago13:07

13:07

Let’s be honest. Most consultants simply go into Google and search for any reports / analyses to compile market trends/an industry analysis fact pack. In other words, they do not put much thought into it beyond ensuring they are not caught for plagiarism. This is because many consultants think of the market trends or industry analysis as an output …

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468: How to overcome career frustrations with New York University’s Dr. Tessa West 1:04:15

20d ago1:04:15

1:04:15

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 468, an interview with the author of Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You, Dr. Tessa West. In her book, Dr. Tessa West helps you figure out the real reason you’re unhappy and shows you how to find a new position in which you’ll thrive, whether in a different role, company, or new industry altogether. Dr. T…

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467: How to convert insights into strategy maps (Strategy Skills classics) 24:01

1M ago24:01

24:01

For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic where we discuss how to convert insights into Strategy Maps. It is a powerful tool to create prescriptive / forecasting models to explain and predict strategy options. This is how to move from being a consultant to thinking and presenting like a partner. It is complimentary and available on …

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466: Former McKinsey partner on How to Turn a Profit and Improve Lives in the World's Toughest Places 50:16

27d ago50:16

50:16

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 466, featuring an interview with the coauthor of Business on the Edge: How to Turn a Profit and Improve Lives in the World’s Toughest Places, Viva Ona Bartkus. In this book, they argue that by entering markets in the world’s frontline regions—areas stuck in cycles of violence and extreme poverty—businesses can act…

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465: The Triggers Behind Customer Purchases with Founder and CEO of Triggers, Leslie Zane. 43:53

1M ago43:53

43:53

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 465, an interview with an award-winning marketer, TEDx speaker and authority in harnessing the instinctive mind to accelerate brand and business growth, founder and CEO of Triggers, Leslie Zane. In this episode, continuing the discussion from her first interview, we delved deeper into the conventional marketing wi…

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464: Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future with co-founder of FLOODGATE, Mike Maples, Jr 51:59

1M ago51:59

51:59

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 464, featuring an interview with the author of Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future, Mike Maples, Jr. In this book, Maples and coauthor Peter Ziebelman set out to discover the hidden forces that drive extraordinary start-up success. Pattern-breaking success, they reveal, demands a different minds…

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463: How to Quickly Build a 500k+ Social Media Following with Eric Cogorno 53:30

2M ago53:30

53:30

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 463, featuring an interview with golf coach, entrepreneur, and personal development enthusiast Eric Cogorno. In this episode, Eric shares the most effective tips and techniques that he uses to grow his business and followers. Eric took his business from $80K to $1.5 million revenue a year -- in less than five year…

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462: Intentionality: A Groundbreaking Guide to Breath, Consciousness, and Radical Self-Transformation by Finnian Kelly 54:23

2M ago54:23

54:23

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 462, featuring an interview with the author of Intentionality: A Groundbreaking Guide to Breath, Consciousness, and Radical Self-Transformation, Finnian Kelly. In this book, Finnian Kelly shares his step-by-step process for manifesting Intentionality into success. Through combining both scientific and spiritual pr…

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461: Survive, Reset, Thrive: Leading Breakthrough Growth Strategy in Volatile Times (with Ex McKinsey and LBS lecturer, Dr. Rebecca Homkes) 49:41

2M ago49:41

49:41

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 461, a follow-up interview with the author of Survive, Reset, Thrive: Leading Breakthrough Growth Strategy in Volatile Times, Dr. Rebecca Homkes. How would you stabilize your business to withstand and grow through market shocks, reset your strategy to take account of new realities and thrive through uncertainty? S…

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460: How to Build a "People-First" Culture with Unicorn Founder and CEO of One Planet Group, Payam Zamani 49:18

2M ago49:18

49:18

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 460, featuring an interview with the author of Crossing the Desert: The Power of Embracing Life's Difficult Journeys, Payam Zamani. In this episode, Payam shares the most important lessons he learned from building a record-breaking billion-dollar IPO called AutoWeb, and how it fell apart. He took those early lesso…

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459: Professor of Finance at London Business School, Alex Edmans, on Facts, Data, and Evidence: Knowing What to Trust or Can We Really Trust Evidence? 52:19

2M ago52:19

52:19

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 459, featuring an interview with the author of May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases―And What We Can Do about It, Alex Edmans. In this book, renowned economist Alex Edmans teaches us how to separate fact from fiction. Using colorful examples, he highlights the biases that cause …

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458: Building an AI Meeting Assistant in Silicon Valley, with Krish Ramineni, Co-Founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai 41:50

2M ago41:50

41:50

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 458, featuring an interview with the CEO of Fireflies.ai, Krish Rameni. In this episode, Krish took us back to the early days of starting their company, Fireflies.ai, and how they stayed motivated despite the challenges. He shared valuable advice from the lessons he learned throughout his career that will be usefu…

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457: Solving for Why: Strategies for creating a career of purpose and meaning with Dr. Mark G. Shrime 53:00

2M ago53:00

53:00

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 457, featuring an interview with the author of Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose, Dr. Mark G. Shrime. Solving for Why is an inspiring memoir about finding the answer to life's biggest question—"Why?"—and about following that answer through remarkable, unlikely pla…

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456: Winning Mondays: Empowering Leaders and Teams with Paul Epstein 54:57

3M ago54:57

54:57

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 456, featuring an interview with the author of Better Decisions Faster: Unshakable Confidence When You Need It Most, Paul Epstein. In Better Decisions Faster, Paul draws from the green-light wisdom of Fortune 500 CEOs, Olympians, Shark Tank entrepreneurs, world-record holders, Ivy League professors, and Navy SEALs…

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455: US Open Medalist on Principles to Succeed at Any Table in Business, Sports, and Life 46:34

2M ago46:34

46:34

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 455, featuring an interview with the author of Ping Pong Leadership: 18 Principles to Succeed at Any Table in Business, Sports, and Life, Justin Bookey. In this book, Justin distills lessons from a beloved global sport into 18 actionable and unforgettable “Pong Principles.” Justin has spent decades as a competitiv…

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454: How VC Shapes Startups with Benjamin Shestakofsky 50:48

3M ago50:48

50:48

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 454, featuring an interview with the author of Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality, Benjamin Shestakofsky. This book draws on nineteen months of participant-observation research inside a successful Silicon Valley startup, and examines how the company was organized to mee…

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453: Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy 52:59

3M ago52:59

52:59

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 453, featuring an interview with the authors of Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy, Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit. This book explains that the system that governs our economy—a winner-take-all economy—is the root cause of these myriad problems. The WTA economy self-selects for aggr…

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477: Why Everything You Know About Public Speaking Is Wrong—And What You Should Be Doing Instead 53:14

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476: Handling client's difficult questions (Strategy Skills classics) 15:10

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475: 3.4 million followers minister on building a business and professional brand from the ground up 54:59

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474: How accurate was our financial model for the market entry strategy study? (Strategy Skills Classics) 13:03

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473: MIT Professor Deborah Ancona on How Family Ghosts End Up in the Executive Suite 50:05

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472: Top-down view of energy (Strategy Skills classics) 9:28

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471: Management consulting storyboards (Strategy Skills classics) 20:40

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470: Audemars Piguet & leadership (Strategy Skills classics) 15:40

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469: Market trends analysis (Strategy Skills classics) 13:07

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468: How to overcome career frustrations with New York University’s Dr. Tessa West 1:04:15

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467: How to convert insights into strategy maps (Strategy Skills classics) 24:01

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466: Former McKinsey partner on How to Turn a Profit and Improve Lives in the World's Toughest Places 50:16

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465: The Triggers Behind Customer Purchases with Founder and CEO of Triggers, Leslie Zane. 43:53

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464: Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future with co-founder of FLOODGATE, Mike Maples, Jr 51:59

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463: How to Quickly Build a 500k+ Social Media Following with Eric Cogorno 53:30

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462: Intentionality: A Groundbreaking Guide to Breath, Consciousness, and Radical Self-Transformation by Finnian Kelly 54:23

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461: Survive, Reset, Thrive: Leading Breakthrough Growth Strategy in Volatile Times (with Ex McKinsey and LBS lecturer, Dr. Rebecca Homkes) 49:41

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460: How to Build a "People-First" Culture with Unicorn Founder and CEO of One Planet Group, Payam Zamani 49:18

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459: Professor of Finance at London Business School, Alex Edmans, on Facts, Data, and Evidence: Knowing What to Trust or Can We Really Trust Evidence? 52:19

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458: Building an AI Meeting Assistant in Silicon Valley, with Krish Ramineni, Co-Founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai 41:50

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457: Solving for Why: Strategies for creating a career of purpose and meaning with Dr. Mark G. Shrime 53:00

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456: Winning Mondays: Empowering Leaders and Teams with Paul Epstein 54:57

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455: US Open Medalist on Principles to Succeed at Any Table in Business, Sports, and Life 46:34

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454: How VC Shapes Startups with Benjamin Shestakofsky 50:48

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453: Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy 52:59

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