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How Microsoft, Amazon, and T-Mobile use big bets to build durable businesses

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Technology, Tech News, News

4.4116 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, our guests are John Rossman and Kevin McCaffrey, authors of the new book, "Big Bet Leadership."

It's a playbook for business leaders to systematically make bets in a way that reduces risk and increases long-term flexibility. The book draws lessons from the likes of Microsoft, Amazon, T-Mobile and SpaceX, while also leaning heavily on the first-hand experience of the authors overseeing and implementing big bets.

With GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop; Audio editing by Curt Milton.

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0:00.0

Uncarrier Moves is the term that they use for their big bets, right?

0:03.2

And John Ledger and team had a mission and a goal of launching a new uncarrier Move every three to six months,

0:09.5

which was a pace that the organization before never even believed they could achieve and

0:14.8

importantly is a pace that AT&T&T Verizon could not keep up with.

0:18.6

T-Mobile would launch an uncaryor move. It would take AT&T-N-T-N-T-N-T-N-T-N-T-Vizon six

0:22.4

months just to get organized, have a meeting

0:24.9

to discuss how they're going to respond.

0:27.0

By time they've even had that meeting, the next moves coming out, the next moves coming out,

0:30.6

the next moves coming out, the next moves coming out.

0:32.1

The only way to solve that problem is to grow

0:35.5

productivity to innovate within our economy. This next 25 years, what you know I've framed as the

0:41.2

hyper-digital era, is going to be the past digital transition,

0:46.2

digital transformation era, 10 to 100X.

0:50.2

Reading one part of the book inspired me to do something for our own business here at GeekWire that I think might be an interesting thing to discuss as just an example

0:59.8

briefly. Hopefully.

1:05.0

Hi and welcome to GeekWire. I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop.

1:09.0

We are coming to you from Seattle where we get to report every day on what's happening around us in business technology

1:13.9

and innovation. What happens here matters everywhere and every week on this show we get to

1:18.6

talk about some of the most interesting stories and trends in the news. This week Big Betts. My guests are the

1:26.2

authors of a new book called Big Bet Leadership, your transformation

1:30.4

playbook for winning in the hyper-digital era.

1:33.0

It's fascinating to see how the companies in the Seattle area play into this book,

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