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Professor DeCelles studies settings that are rife with friction, frustration, and fatigue. In this episode, Stanford Engineering’s Bob Sutton interviews the University of Toronto’s Katy DeCelles about how people deal with the constraints and stresses of prison and airports.  Employees in both settings are required to enforce strict rules, which can inflame the often distressed, manipulative, and overbearing people that they care for and oversee. DeCelles explains how prison guards and airline workers do their jobs in ways that protect their own physical and mental health, and at the same time, allow them to maintain order among the people they are paid to serve, protect, and control.  The strategies these employees use include a curious blend of empathy and emotional detachment. DeCelles also discusses her research on another kind of pushy workplace character, the “organizational vigilante”– those self-appointed enforcers who take it upon themselves to chastise you for violating some obscure policy or arriving to work five minutes late. 

People Who Push Too Hard: Lessons from Airline Employees, Prison Guards, and Workplace Vigilantes - Katherine  DeCelles

Actor Harrison Ford shares his longstanding commitment to preserving nature through Conservation International, joined by the organization’s CEO, M. Sanjayan. In conversation with Stanford Professor of the Practice Tina Seelig, the environmental leaders urge entrepreneurs and engineers to build disruptive innovations, while describing how strategic thinking is at the heart of the self-sustaining solutions they launch around the world.

M. Sanjayan and Harrison Ford - Scaling Sustainability

How do you know when it’s time to start a company? Or when to begin fundraising, and how much? And, as you grow, how do you recruit the best executives and build a culture centered on employees? Venture capitalist Josh McFarland of the firm Greylock Partners answers these questions and more through his experiences as founder and CEO of tech startup TellApart, which Twitter acquired for nearly half a billion dollars.

Josh McFarland - Answering Common Startup Questions

Gabriel Parisi-Amon, co-founder, CTO and COO of environmentally conscious shower startup, Nebia, bravely challenges the myth of “the perfect startup founder.” Parisi-Amon takes us on a journey through the seven stages of burnout he experienced in the early years of his startup, sharing how he’s emerged a more conscious and balanced leader. He offers tips and exercises for identifying the symptoms of burnout, urging us to prevent the fire before we’re consumed.

Gabriel Parisi-Amon - A Burnout Manifesto

Rules get an unfairly bad rap. In this episode, Stanford Engineering Professor Kathleen Eisenhardt, author of Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World, and Stanford Professor Bob Sutton discuss the virtues of structure and guidelines. As long as your rules are clear and customized to your organization, Eisenhardt says, they won’t get in your way. In fact, the right set of rules—everything from Michael Pollan’s “eat food, not too much, mostly plants” to “no emails on the weekend”—can keep teams focused, productive, and harmonious.

Simple Rules Set You Free - Kathy Eisenhardt

Maureen Fan, co-founder and CEO at Baobab Studios, shares how she blended her creativity and technical savvy in founding her virtual reality animation company. Undeterred by naysayers and an unforged path ahead, she encourages those with big imaginations to buck traditional career paths and to be persistent in asking for what you want.

Maureen Fan: Animating Against the Grain

Great strides have been made since 2008 to prevent a recurrence of the financial crisis and recession that followed. Yet there is more debt than ever in the global financial system.

How secure is the global financial system, a decade after the crisis?

By redirecting focus, wealth managers can successfully respond to challenges brought on by digital disruption, demographic shifts, and tighter regulation.

Wealth management in an era of robots, regulation, and new money

On today’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Jason Maude of Starling Bank. Starling Bank is a relatively new startup in the United Kingdom working in the banking sector. The two discuss the architecture, technology choices, and design processes used at Starling. In addition, Maude goes into some of the realities of building in the cloud, working with regulators, and proven robustness with practices like chaos testing.

Why listen to this podcast:

 - Starling Bank was created because the government lowered the barrier to entry for banking startups in reaction to previous industry bailouts.
 - The system is composed of around 19 applications hosted on AWS and running Java and backed by a PostgreSQL database.
 - These applications are not monolithic but are focused around common functionality (such as a Card or Payment Service).
 - Java was chosen primarily because of its maturity and long term viability/reliability in the market.
 - The heart of Starling is every action the system takes happens at least once and at most once. To help with these rules, everything in their system uses as a correlation id (UUID) and are used to make sure these two rules are met.

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Jason Maude on Building a Modern Cloud-Based Banking Startup in Java

Executives and companies can enjoy the benefits of artificial intelligence while also being aware of potential drawbacks and taking careful steps to mitigate their effects.

The ethics of artificial intelligence

Balaji Srinivasan - Building the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem

In this podcast recorded at QCon London 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jason Box and Paul Johnston about the impact climate change is having, how information technology contributes to greenhouse gasses and what technologists can do to help combat it.

Why listen to this podcast:

•	Climate change is the challenge of our time 
•	Data centers are a real problem IRO global warming and greenhouse gas emissions 
•	Data centers have the same emissions impact as the aviation industry
•	There is an initiative to have all data centres using sustainable power sources by 2024
•	Data center demand is set to increase by 5 times by 2025
•	The greenlandtrees.org initiative is planting trees to capture carbon 

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Jason Box and Paul Johnston on What Technologists can do About Climate Change

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...the best skills and qualities you bring to a team! In this episode, Tina Seelig, Professor of the Practice in Stanford’s Department of Management Science & Engineering, and guests Steve Garrity of Hearsay Systems and Juliet Rothenberg of DeepMind talk superpowers. We all have them—we just have to identify them and apply them to the right problems. Your superpower may not be the same thing as your passion (hint: what’s easy to you, but hard to everyone else?), but it can be just as valuable in your career.

Finding Your Superpower (Live)

When Capella Space’s first prototype satellite launched in December 2018, it was the culmination of over three years of nonstop effort. Capella Space founder and CEO Payam Banazadeh explains how he fused experienced gained at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Stanford’s Management Science and Engineering masters program to build the satellite imaging company. As an early-stage CEO, he provides insights into the many risks and strategic decisions that precede product roll-out.

Payam Banazadeh - Prepare to Launch

In this episode, joining podcast host Michael Kitson, University Senior Lecturer in International Macroeconomics at Cambridge Judge Business School, are Shahzad Ansari, Professor of Strategy & Innovation at Cambridge Judge; Belinda Bell, Director of Cambridge Social Ventures at the business school's Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation; and Chris Coleridge, Senior Faculty in Management Practice at Cambridge Judge.

This is the 13th in a series of “Cambridge Judge Business Debate” podcasts featuring faculty and others associated with Cambridge Judge Business School and the broader Cambridge community.

This latest podcast focuses on innovation ecosystems – networks and anchor institutions that bring together people from different industries and organisations to foster the free exchange of ideas. This cross-industry collaboration means that new strategic management skills are needed that foster greater mutual support.

Innovation ecosystems

In the 1990s, Tobey Corey co-founded the world’s largest web development company. Since then, he’s started other companies; held senior management positions at SolarCity, Tesla and most recently PlanGrid; and lectured in Stanford’s Department of  Management Science & Engineering. Now, he finds himself as concerned by social and environmental problems as with building companies. In response to global crises of climate change and inequality, he advises an approach that he calls “zentrepreneurship,” and articulates principles aimed at helping entrepreneurs integrate creativity and ambition with social and environmental consciousness.

Toby Corey - The Zen of Entrepreneurship

In this Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Michael Bolton about the current and future state of testing.

Why listen to this podcast:

•	Testing is about evaluating products by learning about them through exploration and experimentation 
•	These is confusion about the difference between testing a small bit of functionality and the complexity that arises when many of these small bits of software are combined into systems
•	The common approach of using unit tests and checking the output of transactions they are not looking for trouble, they are looking to demonstrate that everything is OK, and this is a dangerous perspective
•	The need for testing of machine learning so that it reflects what we aspire to be, rather than what we are, which requires testers to become ethicists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists and artists    
•	The evolution of testing is not about changes in tools and technologies, it is about applying the tester mindset to the new types of systems being tested today

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Michael Bolton on the Testing Mindset

Globalization isn’t in retreat, but it has morphed into a very different phenomenon, increasingly powered by trade in services and by intraregional trade.

Globalization’s next chapter

In this Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Pablo Santos of Plastic SCM about what it takes to create a great engineering culture, dealing with skills shortages, engaging remote workers and getting the highest value out of DevOps.    

Why listen to this podcast:

•	Attracting the right people is a constant challenge in the technology space
•	Having interesting and challenging work is important
•	Remote workers are common today and it’s important to focus on keeping them engaged
•	DevOps is a way to create a continuous flow of stable changes and get them into production quickly
•	The art of splitting the work is key to DevOps and it is something that takes significant understanding and careful design

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Pablo Santos on Creating a Great Engineering Culture, Engaging Remote Workers and DevOps

Global energy demand is headed toward a plateau over the next ten to 20 years, as the world focuses on electrification, energy efficiency, and more service-driven economic growth.