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Boss Class from The Economist

The Economist

12 episodes · in order

The best bosses create systems for solving problems old and new—from navigating working-from-home demands to hiring the right people, from running good meetings to managing themselves.

More about the show

Andrew Palmer, author of the Bartleby column, looks for advice on how to be a better boss by talking to people who have actually done the job. Listen to The Economist's guide for managers.

Season 3 is all about the challenges of AI in the workplace. It's out Thursday 29th January.

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Episodes

  1. Trailer: Boss Class Season 1

    · 2:08 · Trailer

    The workplace keeps changing and managers have to keep up. The best bosses create systems for solving problems old and new—from navigating working-from-home demands to hiring the right people, from running good…

  2. S1 E1 Leadership: Weed it and reap

    · 32 min · S1 E1

    Andrew Palmer, The Economist's Bartleby columnist, learns lessons in management on a Norwegian mountainside. He hears from Emma Walmsley, the CEO of GSK; Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel prize-winning psychologist; and Claire…

  3. S1 E2 Hybrid work: Out of office

    · 33 min · S1 E2

    To manage a workforce divided between the home and office, bosses should ask the five basic questions of journalism: who, what, where, when and why. Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jane Sun, the CEO of Trip.com…

  4. Trailer: Boss Class Season 2

    · 2:03 · Trailer

    Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned. The Economist’s management columnist, Andrew Palmer, is here to help. The second season of Boss Class features leaders at some of…

  5. S2 E1 Innovation: Coming up with new ideas

    · 36 min · S2 E1

    Forget the hammocks and ping-pong tables. Creativity takes work. Managers at Google, Lego and a pair of AI startups share advice on breaking through. To listen to the full series, subscribe to Economist Podcasts+.…

  6. S2 E2 Meet the boss: Liz Reid of Google

    · 37 min · S2 E2

    For Season 2, we’re releasing an extended interview alongside each episode. This week: Who needs search engines when chatbots can answer every query for you? That’s the question confronting the head of Search at the…

  7. S2 E13 Company profile: Corning

    · 35 min · S2 E13

    The picturesque town of Corning in upstate New York doesn’t look like the site of bleeding-edge innovation. But inventions by a 174-year-old glass company there have changed the modern world, thanks in part to some…

  8. Trailer: Boss Class Season 3

    · 2:18 · Trailer

    AI is changing how we work. It's turning us all into managers. Be a good one. The Economist’s management columnist, Andrew Palmer, takes on the bots in the third season of Boss Class. From cloning to coding, agents to…

  9. S3 E1 Fat layer of humans

    · 35 min · S3 E1

    How should employees and bosses be using the technology right now? And how should all of us prepare for the future? Andrew Palmer returns for a third season of Boss Class. This time it’s all about AI. In the first…

  10. S3 Bonus 1: Bret Taylor of Sierra and OpenAI

    · 34 min · Bonus

    A conversation about the potential and limits of AI agents with the co-founder of Sierra, an agentic customer-service company. Bret Taylor, who is also the chairman of OpenAI, tells Andrew Palmer about the…

  11. Trailer: Tocqueville Road Trip

    · 3:27 · Trailer

    When Alexis de Tocqueville visited America from France in 1831 he saw a new kind of society. Not just a country, but an idea that would change the world. His book “Democracy in America” was a big influence on later…

  12. TRAILER: Shire folk

    · 2:08 · Trailer

    Shire Folk is the story of how some of the most powerful people in America came to see Britain—and Islam—through the eyes of a fringe football hooligan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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