Best OReilly Radar Podcasts (2024)

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Doug McGinnis on His Decade as a Vistage Member 21:05

3d ago21:05

21:05

Join me and Doug McGinnis, who has been a Vistage member for 10 years. He is the owner of Bunting Door & Hardware Co. one of the largest distributors of Hollow Metal Doors and Frames, Wood Doors, Architectural Hardware, Specialty Doors and Bath Accessories in the Mid-Atlantic region. Bunting acquired LOKTEK Entry and Access Solutions in 2018, and a…

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"Constructing" Your Leadership Skills 30:13

3d ago30:13

30:13

Interview with Chris Brown.By RickVanasse

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Conversation with Bradley Marks 16:33

2M ago16:33

16:33

Current member Bradley Marks serves as Chief Client Officer at Vheda Health, bringing nearly 20 years of health care experience. In this role, Bradley holds the responsibility for ensuring targeted growth for market dynamics, client needs and preferences while ultimately delivering on member satisfaction. Join us to discuss his work and what led hi…

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Member Interview: Michael Costa 14:19

2M ago14:19

14:19

Join me and founding Key Group member, Michael Costa. Mike is the Director of Operations with HBS. HBS is a Technical Service Company focused on providing facility engineering solutions to government and commercial facilities. The HBS Solutions team is comprised of skilled professional engineers, project managers, consultants and technicians who ar…

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Who is Your "Radar O'Reilly?" 11:56

3M ago11:56

11:56

Who is your "Radar O'Reilly"? All great leaders need the support of an excellent executive team. In fact, servant leadership is a leadership style that prioritizes the growth, well-being, and empowerment of employees. It aims to foster an inclusive environment that enables everyone in the organization to thrive as their authentic self. Check out th…

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Kristen Coveleski on Vistage 10:33

3M ago10:33

10:33

Join me and current member, Kristen Coveleski, to learn why she drives two hours each way every month to be at our meetings. Kristen is Regional Director with Inter-Fluve, and a senior water resources engineer with experience in all phases of river and estuary restoration including business development, project management, proposal writing, surveyi…

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What is A Key Executive Group? 23:07

4M ago23:07

23:07

Last month, I introduced a new Vistage group called the Key Executive Program. This exclusive group is designed to cultivate and empower C-level executives who play a crucial role in driving your business strategy and taking it to new heights. Whether you are succession planning, or looking to optimize your business strategy, my CEO members are exc…

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Trusted Advisor: Gary Stockman 19:44

5M ago19:44

19:44

Join this discussion with Gary Stockman, a current member of my Trusted Advisor group. Stockman is a chief marketing officer and partner at Chief Outsiders, a strategic management consulting firm that provides mid-sized companies, large enterprises and private equity firms with top-tier, proven marketing executives as fractional CMOs. He helps comp…

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Interview with Member Chris Hood 25:01

6M ago25:01

25:01

Join me with Chris Hood, the CEO of ARCA International Expat Relocation Services. Chris is an experienced executive with a demonstrated history of working in the transportation/trucking/railroad industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Import, Operations Management, Freight, and International Moves. We'll talk about what drew him to Vistage, and the cultu…

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Have You Heard of S-Curves? 7:49

6M ago7:49

7:49

This theory proposes that once you get past the initial upswing, the life cycle of a successful company takes on the form of a sigmoid, or S curve. The S shape represents growth over time—starting out slowly, picking up speed during rapid growth, then tapering off as growth slows. So how do you keep your business growing? For video with visual aide…

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What is Executive Coaching? 7:37

7M ago7:37

7:37

What is Executive Coaching? Here, my colleague Grayce Carson and I break it down. Looking for an executive coach? Message me today about joining Vistage. rick.vanasse@vistagechair.comBy RickVanasse

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How’s Your Financial Acumen? 23:33

8M ago23:33

23:33

Join me and author, developer, and instructor, Darrell Mullis to discuss managing your business capital. Darrell delivers programs that help companies who experience that the traditional command and control model is outdated and want to shift their culture and relationships to accommodate increased speed of change, a need for broad based innovation…

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The Leadership Circle 27:39

8M ago27:39

27:39

The Leadership Circle is a 360° leadership assessment tool that uncovers underlying habits to help leaders become even better at what they do. In this video, I go over the model proposed by Bob Anderson with my colleague, Grayce Carson. I use this tool with the #CEOs in my Vistage groups, and they've found it incredibly useful. I hope you do too.…

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Anton C. Bizzell, MD on Vistage 26:43

11M ago26:43

26:43

Anton Bizzell is an experienced business leader with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry. He is also a current member of one of my Chief Executive Advisory Groups. Join us for this discussion of his experience.By RickVanasse

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Where Do Members Find the Most Value in Vistage? 10:56

11M ago10:56

10:56

Could you use a little M.A.G.I.C. in your business? Vistage does a great job of surveying our members. When asked about the areas they receive the most value, they share these 5 areas: Making better decisions Accountability Growing Isolation relief Change management In this episode, my colleague and I discuss each of these areas in depth.…

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Situational Leadership 10:53

12M ago10:53

10:53

In 1969, Ken Blanchard and Paul Hershey developed Situational Leadership, believing that there is no “one size fits all” leadership style. Instead, you have to adapt your leadership style to each situation meet the needs of your team. In this episode, I explain this model and its benefits to my colleague, Grayce Carson.…

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Is a Professional Employment Organization (PEO) Right for You? 43:12

1y ago43:12

43:12

District Manager, Georgia Beglin, will discuss how Insperity works with small to mid-size growing business owners in the MD, DC, Northern VA and PA areas to help their business run better and grow faster. Could this be right for you and your business?By RickVanasse

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CEO Glynis Harvey on Vistage 21:21

1y ago21:21

21:21

Glynis Harvey is the CEO at American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), and a current member of on of my Vistage groups.By RickVanasse

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Striving for High Performance 13:38

1y ago13:38

13:38

How do you guide your team to perform to the best of their ability? George Charrier offered his model, Cog's Ladder, to better understand the phases these groups undergo, and how to work towards high performance.By RickVanasse

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Laurie Barkman on Strategic Business Transition Planning 33:48

1y ago33:48

33:48

Laurie Barkman is the founder and CEO of SmallDotBig, a strategy advisory firm for business owners to maximize the value of their company anticipating a future ownership transition. https://thebusinesstransitionsherpa.comBy RickVanasse

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Interview with Glen Schuhmacher 43:57

1y ago43:57

43:57

One of my current Vistage members, Glen Schuhmacher, sits down to talk about his business and how the group has worked for him over the past two years.By RickVanasse

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Expressing Gratitude is Good for Your Brain 10:33

1y ago10:33

10:33

What are you grateful for? Expressing gratitude daily in a journal is clinically proven to decrease stress and increase joy. We can all certainly use more of that in our lives!By RickVanasse

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A CEO Report Card 8:19

1+ y ago8:19

8:19

The "9 Levers" are tools I I use to help my CEOs reflect on their performance. I explain how it works to my colleague, Grayce Carson, in this episode. For a full video with visual accompaniments, visit https://youtu.be/GqYkQiHlMrABy RickVanasse

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My Approach to Executive Coaching 15:05

1+ y ago15:05

15:05

On this episode, I discuss my Grounded Towards Growth motto, and where it came from. I also go over the two first points I highlight with my CEOs: Getting on the Balcony and managing your "Gremlins." Featuring Grayce Carson.By RickVanasse

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What is Vistage 3:00

1+ y ago3:00

3:00

The story of how Vistage was born.By RickVanasse

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Machine Learning for Operational Analytics and Business Intelligence 51:41

4+ y ago51:41

51:41

In this episode of the Data Show, I speak with Peter Bailis, founder and CEO of Sisu, a startup that is using machine learning to improve operational analytics. Bailis is also an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he conducts research into data-intensive systems and where he is co-founder of the DAWN Lab.…

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Machine Learning and Analytics for Time Series Data 40:33

4+ y ago40:33

40:33

In this episode of the Data Show, I speak with Arun Kejariwal of Facebook and Ira Cohen of Anodot (full disclosure: I’m an advisor to Anodot). This conversation stemmed from a recent online panel discussion we did, where we discussed time series data, and, specifically, anomaly detection and forecasting. Both Kejariwal (at Machine Zone, Twitter, an…

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Understanding Deep Neural Networks 39:34

5y ago39:34

39:34

In this episode of the Data Show, I speak with Michael Mahoney, a member of RISELab, the International Computer Science Institute, and the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley. A physicist by training, Mahoney has been at the forefront of many important problems in large-scale data analysis. On the theoretical side, his works spans algorithmic a…

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Becoming a Machine Learning Practitioner 33:24

5y ago33:24

33:24

In this episode of the Data Show, I speak with Kesha Williams, technical instructor at A Cloud Guru, a training company focused on cloud computing. As a full stack web developer, Williams became intrigued by machine learning and started teaching herself the ML tools on Amazon Web Services. Fast forward to today, Williams has built some well-regarde…

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Labeling, Transforming, and Structuring Training Data Sets for Machine Learning 40:54

5y ago40:54

40:54

In this episode of the Data Show, I speak with Alex Ratner, project lead for Stanford’s Snorkel open source project; Ratner also recently garnered a faculty position at the University of Washington and is currently working on a company supporting and extending the Snorkel project. Snorkel is a framework for building and managing training data. Base…

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Taming Chaos: Preparing for Your Next Incident 29:45

5y ago29:45

29:45

In this interview, Tim Craig and fellow Googler Gustavo Franco, a site reliability engineer (SRE), discuss the wide range of events that qualify as “incidents;” the need for a conscious, robust, and well-defined process for understanding them; the role of training; and how to get buy-in from management so you can spread incident response training t…

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Taming Chaos: Preparing for Your Next Incident 29:45

5y ago29:45

29:45

In this interview, Tim Craig and fellow Googler Gustavo Franco, a site reliability engineer (SRE), discuss the wide range of events that qualify as “incidents;” the need for a conscious, robust, and well-defined process for understanding them; the role of training; and how to get buy-in from management so you can spread incident response training t…

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Make Data Science More Useful 35:06

5y ago35:06

35:06

In this episode of the Data Show, I speak with Cassie Kozyrkov, technical director and chief decision scientist at Google Cloud. She describes "decision intelligence" as an interdisciplinary field concerned with all aspects of decision-making, and which combines data science with the behavioral sciences. Most recently she has been focused on develo…

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Acquiring and Sharing High-Quality Data 39:23

5y ago39:23

39:23

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Roger Chen, co-founder and CEO of Computable Labs, a startup focused on building tools for the creation of data networks and data exchanges. Chen has also served as co-chair of O'Reilly's Artificial Intelligence Conference since its inception in 2016. This conversation took place the day after Chen and…

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Tools for Machine Learning Development 39:27

5y ago39:27

39:27

In this week's episode of the Data Show, we're featuring an interview Data Show host Ben Lorica participated in for the Software Engineering Daily Podcast, where he was interviewed by Jeff Meyerson. Their conversation mainly centered around data engineering, data architecture and infrastructure, and machine learning (ML).…

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Enabling End-to-End Machine Learning Pipelines in Real-World Applications 42:56

5y ago42:56

42:56

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Nick Pentreath, principal engineer at IBM. Pentreath was an early and avid user of Apache Spark, and he subsequently became a Spark committer and PMC member. Most recently his focus has been on machine learning, particularly deep learning, and he is part of a group within IBM focused on building open s…

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How to Get Started With Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) 38:32

5y ago38:32

38:32

At Google’s 2019 Cloud Next conference, I sat down with Stephen Thorne, site reliability engineer on Google’s customer reliability engineering team and co-author of "The Site Reliability Workbook," to talk about how organizations, both large and small, can use SRE to reduce operational costs, improve reliability, and create productive cross-functio…

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How to Get Started With Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) 38:32

5y ago38:32

38:32

At Google’s 2019 Cloud Next conference, I sat down with Stephen Thorne, site reliability engineer on Google’s customer reliability engineering team and co-author of "The Site Reliability Workbook," to talk about how organizations, both large and small, can use SRE to reduce operational costs, improve reliability, and create productive cross-functio…

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Bringing Scalable Real-time Analytics to the Enterprise 37:14

5y ago37:14

37:14

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Dhruba Borthakur (co-founder and CTO) and Shruti Bhat (SVP of Marketing) of Rockset, a startup focused on building solutions for interactive data science and live applications. Borthakur was the founding engineer of HDFS and creator of RocksDB, while Bhat is an experienced product and marketing executi…

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Applications of Data Science and Machine Learning in Financial Services 42:35

5y ago42:35

42:35

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Jike Chong, chief data scientist at Acorns, a startup focused on building tools for micro-investing. Chong has extensive experience using analytics and machine learning in financial services, and he has experience building data science teams in the U.S. and in China.We had a great conversation spanning…

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Real-Time Entity Resolution Made Accessible 27:11

5y ago27:11

27:11

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Jeff Jonas, CEO, founder and chief scientist of Senzing, a startup focused on making real-time entity resolution technologies broadly accessible. He was previously a fellow and chief scientist of context computing at IBM. Entity resolution (ER) refers to techniques and tools for identifying and linking…

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Why Companies are in Need of Data Lineage Solutions 34:31

5y ago34:31

34:31

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Neelesh Salian, software engineer at Stitch Fix, a company that combines machine learning and human expertise to personalize shopping. As companies integrate machine learning into their products and systems, there are important foundational technologies that come into play. This shouldn’t come as a sho…

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What Data Scientists and Data Engineers Can Do with Current Generation Serverless Technologies 36:34

5y ago36:34

36:34

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Avner Braverman, co-founder and CEO of Binaris, a startup that aims to bring serverless to web-scale and enterprise applications. This conversation took place shortly after the release of a seminal paper from UC Berkeley (“Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing”), and thi…

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It's Time for Data Scientists to Collaborate With Researchers in Other Disciplines 36:10

5y ago36:10

36:10

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh, a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New York City. Poursabzi works in the interdisciplinary area of interpretable and interactive machine learning. As models and algorithms become more widespread, many important considerations are becoming active research areas: f…

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Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives—Here's How We Wrest Back Control 44:18

5+ y ago44:18

44:18

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Kartik Hosanagar, professor of technology and digital business, and professor of marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Hosanagar is also the author of a newly released book, "A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence," an interesting tour through the recent evolution of AI ap…

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Why Your Attention is Like a Piece of Contested Territory 43:08

5+ y ago43:08

43:08

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with P.W. Singer, strategist and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and a contributing editor at Popular Science. He is co-author of an excellent new book, LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media, which explores how social media has changed war, politics, and business. The book is essential rea…

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The Technical, Societal, and Cultural Challenges That Come With the Rise of Fake Media 30:55

5+ y ago30:55

30:55

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Siwei Lyu, associate professor of computer science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Lyu is a leading expert in digital media forensics, a field of research into tools and techniques for analyzing the authenticity of media files. Over the past year, there have been many stories…

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Using Machine Learning and Analytics to Attract and Retain Employees 46:57

5+ y ago46:57

46:57

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Maryam Jahanshahi, research scientist at TapRecruit, a startup that uses machine learning and analytics to help companies recruit more effectively. In an upcoming survey, we found that a “skills gap” or “lack of skilled people” was one of the main bottlenecks holding back adoption of AI technologies. M…

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How Machine Learning Impacts Information Security 39:51

5+ y ago39:51

39:51

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Andrew Burt, chief privacy officer and legal engineer at Immuta, a company building data management tools tuned for data science. Burt and cybersecurity pioneer Daniel Geer recently released a must-read white paper (“Flat Light”) that provides a great framework for how to think about information securi…

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In the Age of AI, Fundamental Value Resides in Data 29:43

5+ y ago29:43

29:43

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Haoyuan Li, CEO and founder of Alluxio, a startup commercializing the open source project with the same name (full disclosure: I’m an advisor to Alluxio). Our discussion focuses on the state of Alluxio (the open source project that has roots in UC Berkeley’s AMPLab), specifically emerging use cases her…

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