Best Kris Safarova for Firmsconsulting.com Podcasts (2024)

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

1h 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

27m 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

1h 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

3d 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

5d 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

14d 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

12d 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

17d ago49:18

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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

19d 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

24d 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

26d 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

1M 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

1M 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

1M ago50:48

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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

2M 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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452: Former Deloitte's Chief Learning Officer on Reevaluating Our Relationship with Change, Ashley Goodall 52:57

2M ago52:57

52:57

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 452, featuring an interview with the author of The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature of Human Performance, Ashley Goodall. Drawing on two decades spent leading HR organizations at Deloitte and Cisco, Ashley Goodall reveals in his book why change is not the same as improvement, and how, by prioritizing …

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451: Founder and CEO of Triggers, Leslie Zane. The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion 48:23

2M ago48:23

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Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 451, featuring 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. Leslie is the author of The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion in Business and Life. In her book, …

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450: Stanford Professor and Venture Capital Expert, Ilya Strebulaev. The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth 56:24

2M ago56:24

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Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 450, featuring an interview with the coauthor of The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth, Ilya Strebulaev. This book offers a transformative playbook for delivering results in a rapidly changing world from a top Stanford professor and a technology executive. Packed with enter…

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449: Navigating the New Data Rules, with Cristina Alaimo 58:58

2M ago58:58

58:58

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 449, featuring an interview with the coauthor of Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy (Acting with Technology), Cristina Alaimo. In Data Rules, Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos establish a social science framework for analyzing the unprecedented social and economic restructuring brought about by data. W…

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448: Google’s Martin Gonzalez and Josh Yellin on Why Startups Fail 56:10

2M ago56:10

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Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 448 with Martin Gonzalez and Josh Yellin. Martin is the creator of Google’s Effective Founders Project and a frequent lecturer at Stanford, Wharton and INSEAD. Josh co-founded Google's first Startup Accelerator and is presently an organizational leader at Google DeepMind. Josh and Martin are the authors of The Bon…

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447: AJ Jacobs on Leadership Lessons from His Year of Living Constitutionally 50:59

2M ago50:59

50:59

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 447, featuring an interview with the author of The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning, AJ Jacobs. In The Year of Living Constitutionally, A.J. Jacobs tries to get inside the minds of the Founding Fathers by living as closely as possible to the orig…

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446: How to Tap the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Breakthroughs in Leadership and Life. Former Monitor Associate partner and Chief Learning Officer of Teach For America. Co-CEO of Transcend, Jeff ... 51:02

3M ago51:02

51:02

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 446, featuring an interview with the author of Ask: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs In Leadership and Life, Jeff Wetzler. In this book, Jeff offers a hands-on, surprisingly effective way to find out what others really think, know, and feel. Jeff brings you a powerful me…

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445: Navigating Career Transitions in a Complex World with Former Olympic Coach & Innovation Expert, Pete Steinberg 52:36

3M ago52:36

52:36

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 445, featuring an interview with the author of Leadership Shock: Using Authenticity to Navigate the Hidden Dangers of Career Success, Pete Steinberg. Leadership Shock teaches readers to view leadership as an adaptive, continuous process rather than a fixed set of behaviors. By regularly re-evaluating their leaders…

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444: Can you become immune to burnout? UPenn Burnout Expert Reveals What Stress-Resilient People Have in Common 49:45

3M ago49:45

49:45

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 444, featuring an interview with the author of Burnout Immunity: How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You Build Resilience and Heal Your Relationship with Work, Kandi Wiens. In her book, Kandi shares her research and discoveries about burnout immunity. After extreme stress caused a life-threatening health crisis i…

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443: Negotiations in B2B sales and day to day leadership situations with Andres Lares 52:15

3M ago52:15

52:15

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 443, featuring an interview with the co-author of Persuade: The 4-Step Process to Influence People and Decisions, Andres Lares. This book deliver a concise and insightful take on how to transform your ability to persuade others regardless of the setting. Persuade is perfect for executives, managers, entrepreneurs,…

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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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452: Former Deloitte's Chief Learning Officer on Reevaluating Our Relationship with Change, Ashley Goodall 52:57

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451: Founder and CEO of Triggers, Leslie Zane. The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion 48:23

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450: Stanford Professor and Venture Capital Expert, Ilya Strebulaev. The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth 56:24

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449: Navigating the New Data Rules, with Cristina Alaimo 58:58

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448: Google’s Martin Gonzalez and Josh Yellin on Why Startups Fail 56:10

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447: AJ Jacobs on Leadership Lessons from His Year of Living Constitutionally 50:59

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446: How to Tap the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Breakthroughs in Leadership and Life. Former Monitor Associate partner and Chief Learning Officer of Teach For America. Co-CEO of Transcend, Jeff ... 51:02

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445: Navigating Career Transitions in a Complex World with Former Olympic Coach & Innovation Expert, Pete Steinberg 52:36

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444: Can you become immune to burnout? UPenn Burnout Expert Reveals What Stress-Resilient People Have in Common 49:45

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443: Negotiations in B2B sales and day to day leadership situations with Andres Lares 52:15

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