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629: Ashley Herd, Former Head of HR North America at McKinsey, on What Effective Managers Actually Do

Ashley Herd, former Head of HR North America at McKinsey, joins this episode to discuss what effective leadership looks like in practice, especially in environments defined by speed, pressure, and increasing expectations around AI. Drawing on her experience training more than 250 ...  Show more

628: Northwestern Law Professor John McGinnis on Constitutional Stability in the Age of AI

John McGinnis, law professor at Northwestern University and author of Why Democracy Needs the Rich, examines constitutional design, democratic stability, and the accelerating force of artificial intelligence. Drawing on the Federalist Papers, Tocqueville, and public choice theory ...  Show more

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