Ok. Maddie is a bit unusual in the world of CEOs but she still needs to be ready for the politics of her Board. They’re not going to agree with her just because she has a clever tech idea and good presentation. You have to be ready. You have to think.
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Cast:
Vinny the CTO: Geoffrey Grier
Penelope the Principal: Debbon Ayer
Maddie the Entrepreneur: Zoe Anastassiou
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We think about the future in terms of the past. Star Wars, after all, takes place a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. When we think about cyberdefense, we find that we are still think in terms of the static defense of physical infrastructure. We try to defend mobile data with references to earth and stone works from the 8th century.
Our Intern, Anna, attempts to explain the basic model of cyber
defense as a metaphor of castle defense. Her description, though completely accurate in argument, has a few errors of fact, errors which should make us rethink how we use metaphor to describe cyberspace.
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Cast:
Anna The Intern: Sarah Corbyn Woolf
Evelyn the Business Manager: Margaux Amie
Sullivan from Policy: Josh LaForce
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Big Data. It gives you facts. It tells you what is really happening. It has Volume, Varity, Velocity, Veracity and, of course, Vexation of Spirit. Vexation can come with the data, no matter how much you have of it, tells you more about the structure that gathered it than the truth of any matter. When you have that, you have a problem called Simpson’s Paradox – the bane of Big Data.
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Cast:
Evelyn the Business Manager: Margaux Amie
Rohit from IT: Noah Masur
Anna The Intern: Sarah Corbyn Woolf
Chuck of Acme Products: Ron Bianchi
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Agility begins at home. Or more to the point, it begins with the board. Too often, companies are organized conventionally and then the CEO tries to make the Agile by applying various tricks and procedures. As Vinny argues in today’s episode, you really need to start at the top, think of the company as a whole, and start by understanding the claims and obligations of all parties.
It is a little crazy, we do admit, to build a company for an 8-year-old Entrepreneur. But it is not crazy to ask how your CEO will grow into the leadership demands of the organization.
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Cast:
Evelyn-the-Business-Manager: Margaux Amie
Sully-from-Poliy & PR: Josh LaForce
Vinny-the-CTO: Geoffrey Grier
Penelope-the-Principal: Debbon Ayer
Maddie-the-8-year-old-Entrepreneur: Zoe Anastassiou
Delores Payne-Perkins: Margaux Amie
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There was a reason for this title. We talked about it in the writers room. But that reason is gone. It was just another step towards Audio Drama.
You want to be innovative do something new and think that you can just change directions on a dime. But that’s the problem. Novelty is not innovation. Without a structure to support it, a new idea won’t advance your goals. So we turn the cast loose to wrestle with this problem. Some success. Some problems. A couple of hosts disagreeing about a new idea. A little CEO who may be realizing that contract is not enough.
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Once you have a character, it is impossible to control him or her. In the winter of 2016, Anna-the-Intern made a pitch to the (even then) notorious Elon Musk. She thought that he might like to be the next host of the podcast as the then current hosts were not pulling their weight.
She waited. No call. No email. No tweet. No nothing.
But it was a good performance with we felt worthy to preserve in our archive.
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