Does Purpose Actually Matter? (ft. Ranjay Gulati, professor & podcast host)

12/09/22 • 38 min

It’s always nice when an old friend gets into podcasting. We recently had Eli Lake on, he’s now the host of the fantastic The Re-Education with Eli Lake, and now I get to have on an old FUTUREPROOF favorite who’s now hosting a brand new podcast by the Harvard Business School. The debut season of Deep Purpose features captivating conversations between host Ranjay Gulati and top global CEOs, such as Unilever CEO Alan Jope and Walgreen-Boots Alliance CEO Rosalind Brewer, about their personal paths to finding purpose and how those journeys benefited their businesses and beyond.

We talk to Ranjay about what purpose actually means, whether or not the successful companies of tomorrow truly will be driven by purpose, and whether or not being purpose driven can make a leader better able to stick to their "north star."

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Geopolitical Threats, Politics, Elon Musk/Twitter, and Antisemitism (ft. journalist Eli Lake)

It’s critical to get out of our echo chambers, but if you look at the state of the US these days, sometimes I feel like I’m alone in that opinion. One of the things Jeremy's long believed is that to be better a forecaster of what’s to come, you need to seek out divergent perspectives.

One of those perspectives Jeremy often disagrees with and yet still respects is Eli Lake. He’s a noted former senior national security correspondent for The Daily Beast and Newsweek, former columnist for the Bloomberg View, and now the host of The Re-Education with Eli Lake.

We wanted to speak to Eli given the US midterm elections, again, given that I know he feels pretty differently than me when it comes to politics, to hear a different take on where we’re heading. We also discuss Kanye, antisemitism, Israel, Elon Musk and the future of Twitter, and what geopolitical threats loom large over our future. It’s rare to find someone who can speak in an informed manner on such a wide array of topics.
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The Future of Generative AI (ft. May Habib, Writer)

We’re hearing a lot about generative AI these days—seemingly out of the blue. And AI is a scary subject to a lot of people; let’s face it. That’s why I wanted to speak to one of the people behind one such company, May Habib.

May is the founder and CEO of Writer, an AI writing platform for teams.

They believe themselves to be the only company truly doing generative AI in a meaningful way in the enterprise, so I wanted to talk to her to learn more about the technology, talk about its pros and cons, and try to imagine how generative AI might impact the world.
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