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Conflict in Business and Politics: Why Tension Can Drive Change

Season 4 · Episode 1

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 • Duration 11:52

This episode explores why conflict is not always a breakdown, but often a signal that a system is ready to evolve. It looks at how productive tension can drive innovation in business and politics, and why leaders need to tell the difference between healthy friction and destructive rivalry.

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A Better Way to Understand International Complexity

Wednesday, July 8, 2026 • Duration 12:19

This episode argues for thinking in systems rather than silos when analysing complex problems. It shows how systems thinking can improve strategy in geopolitics, business, and leadership by connecting incentives, institutions, and outcomes across different levels.

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How Systems Break: Understanding Institutional Failure and Systemic Risk

Season 1 · Episode 2

Sunday, April 26, 2026 • Duration 04:35

Most systems don’t collapse in a single moment. They erode slowly, silently, and structurally. So, how do we know when a system is heading for trouble?

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Power and Culture: Why Culture Usually Follows Authority

Season 3 · Episode 1

Friday, March 13, 2026 • Duration 11:08

This episode argues that culture usually follows power rather than leading it. It looks at how authority and incentives shape beliefs, behaviours, and norms in politics, markets, and organisations, and why cultural change is often harder than it sounds.

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Power and Geopolitics: Why the Strong Stop Playing by the Rules

Season 3 · Episode 1

Thursday, January 8, 2026 • Duration 06:45

This episode examines how power reshapes political systems over time, and why strong states sometimes begin to ignore the rules they helped create.

It explores the link between geopolitical change, institutional decline, and the shifting logic of strategy.

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Graduate Employment and Business Strategy in the Age of AI

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 • Duration 10:11

This episode looks at why the graduate job market is changing and how AI, automation, and shifting power structures are rewriting the rules of employability. It explores the relationship between universities, markets, and governments in shaping career outcomes.

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Turning Disruption into Direction: Strategy, Clarity, and Leverage in a Changing World

Season 1 · Episode 5

Thursday, October 23, 2025 • Duration 07:34

This episode explores what strategy really means in an age of constant disruption. It examines how political systems, economies, and industries are being reshaped by unpredictable forces, and why clarity and leverage are the most powerful tools for turning uncertainty into direction for leaders, businesses, and decision-makers.

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Multipolar Geopolitics: Why the Global Order is Harder to Manage

Season 2 · Episode 2

Thursday, September 11, 2025 • Duration 09:27

This episode examines what happens when no single power is in charge of the international system. It explores revisionist states, supply chain weaponisation, and the implications of a more fragmented global order for politics and business.

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The Circular Economy: How Business Strategy Is Moving Beyond Growth

Season 2 · Episode 1

Thursday, August 28, 2025 • Duration 10:45

This episode explores how circular thinking is transforming product design, strategy, and profitability. It traces the idea from Kenneth Boulding’s “Spaceship Earth” to today’s boardrooms and asks what circularity means for leadership and the future of capitalism

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Oil and the Global Economy: How a Single Resource Shapes Power, Strategy, and Conflict

Season 1 · Episode 12

Thursday, July 3, 2025 • Duration 09:43

This episode examines oil as a foundational resource in the global economy and a key leverage point in geopolitics. It explores how oil powers industries, anchors national strategies, and shapes the balance of power, while also driving conflict and complicating the climate transition. The discussion focuses on the hidden systems behind oil production and distribution, and what they mean for strategy, leadership, and long-term wealth.

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