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The Dumbest Guy in the Room

The Podcast Where Data Meets Life

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Too Big to Succeed: How to Make Government Work | Diego Piacentini

Too Big to Succeed: How to Make Government Work | Diego Piacentini

Innovation gets harder the older, larger, and more complex an organization becomes. Government agencies that have been a... Read more

27 Apr 2023

53mins

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Welcome to the Wellness Era | Dave Kimbell, CEO of Ulta Beauty

Welcome to the Wellness Era | Dave Kimbell, CEO of Ulta Beauty

It's no surprise that CivicScience data show that Americans' levels of stress are still running high after the coronavir... Read more

16 Mar 2023

45mins

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Minding What Matters | Chris Cuomo of NewsNation

Minding What Matters | Chris Cuomo of NewsNation

How are we supposed to know what really matters anymore? That used to be what the news was for. Reporters would uncover ... Read more

8 Mar 2023

55mins

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Politics and Tech: Why Can't We All Just Get Along | Congressman Mike Doyle

Politics and Tech: Why Can't We All Just Get Along | Congressman Mike Doyle

Our elected leaders used to set the tone of political discourse. Today, politicians take cues from their tribe, gleaning... Read more

22 Sep 2022

52mins

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Leading from the Bottom: How Systems Thinking Can Revitalize Everything From the Ground Up | Jeff Wilke, co-founder and chairman of Re:Build

Leading from the Bottom: How Systems Thinking Can Revitalize Everything From the Ground Up | Jeff Wilke, co-founder and chairman of Re:Build

This week on The Dumbest Guy in the Room, host John Dick welcomes Jeff Wilke, who played a major role in building Amazon... Read more

14 Sep 2022

47mins

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Did COVID Save Retail? The Painful But Essential Lessons of the Pandemic | Shelley Bransten of Microsoft

Did COVID Save Retail? The Painful But Essential Lessons of the Pandemic | Shelley Bransten of Microsoft

It's no secret that the pandemic changed everything that businesses knew about their customers overnight. But old habits... Read more

8 Sep 2022

52mins

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Remaking Media: How to Build Trust in an Ever-changing Landscape | John Battelle, co-founder of Wired and The Recount

Remaking Media: How to Build Trust in an Ever-changing Landscape | John Battelle, co-founder of Wired and The Recount

Like many things in our country, media is broken – badly. It's hard to know where to start to fix it. Media outlets who ... Read more

31 Aug 2022

58mins

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Bringing Economics to the Masses: Finding Hope in Today's Economic Uncertainty | Michelle Meyer of Mastercard

Bringing Economics to the Masses: Finding Hope in Today's Economic Uncertainty | Michelle Meyer of Mastercard

The U.S. economy is absolutely massive. It’s also extremely complex, and that makes it difficult from the political pers... Read more

24 Aug 2022

46mins

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Failing on Purpose: Changing the Way We Think About the World's Biggest Problems | Astro Teller, CEO of X

Failing on Purpose: Changing the Way We Think About the World's Biggest Problems | Astro Teller, CEO of X

It’s almost impossible to keep up with all the crises in America today. There’s inflation, energy costs, drug prices, me... Read more

17 Aug 2022

52mins

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Return to Health: How Healthcare Needs to Change in the Post-COVID Era | Norman de Greve, CVS Health Chief Marketing Officer

Return to Health: How Healthcare Needs to Change in the Post-COVID Era | Norman de Greve, CVS Health Chief Marketing Officer

The health implications of the pandemic are staggering. Tens of millions of Americans got COVID, as many as 1 million ma... Read more

16 Dec 2021

43mins

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