Adi Ignatius

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699 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5d ago

Adi Ignatius’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 13 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 5.

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HBR IdeaCast · What It Takes to Make Progress When the Future Feels Out of Control · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

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I'm Adi Ignatius.

HBR IdeaCast · A Leading Restaurateur on What It Takes to Scale a Winning Culture · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

I'm Adi Ignatius and this is the HBR Idea Cast.

This is a classic business dilemma, and I think a lot of companies get it wrong, even though they understand the risk, right?

They make trade-offs for efficiency and profitability, they add layers of management, they forget about what made the business special in the first place.

HBR IdeaCast · Are Great Leaders Truly Great—or Just Lucky? · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

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I'm Adi Ignatius.

So Alison, today we're going to be tackling an age-old question.

Are successful leaders people who are uniquely qualified to handle their opportunity?

Or do the context and circumstances therein largely dictate how they'll perform?

We're essentially renewing the great man theory versus the idea that history rises from below.

And while the debate is in many ways unanswerable, Jared Diamond has tried to apply the rigor of research to look at the extent to which an individual leader can truly and deeply influence their institution success.

And he even has advice for leaders who want to increase their chances of doing well.

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