Office Hour

What does it take to lead in a world that never stops changing? Join ‘Fast Company’ editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan as he sits down with the world’s top leaders in business, government, and culture to explore the trends shaping our world right now. From groundbreaking innovations to shifting workplace dynamics, each episode dives deep into the forces driving change—and the leadership principles that guide today’s most influential minds. Whether you're a forward-thinking executive, an entrepreneur, or just curious about what’s next, ‘Office Hour’ delivers bold ideas and candid conversations that will help you navigate the future.

Office Hour is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Office Hour, a business show with 17 episodes published.

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  Can ‘Applied Creativity’ be the next ‘Design Thinking?’

  Aug 12, 202647 min

  Nick Law and Brendan Vaughan delve deep into a big new study Accenture Song's team just published on why so many companies struggle to actually turn their creativity into revenue. In other words, how to apply these ideas in a systemic way, not just have them in a bolt of creative lighting, only to see them fizzle and go nowhere in practice. The number that stopped me in my tracks: 81% of executives say their companies can come up with creative ideas, but only 16% say they consistently turn those ideas into actual growth. Nick unpacks the secrets of that 16%. He also gets into why he thinks most companies have built cultures that are exactly wrong for the AI moment we're in. Oh, and at one point, Nick calculates what a certain Beatles song would be worth in today's dollars — spoiler, it's a lot, for three minutes of work. Even if your colleagues aren’t quite as creative as Paul and John, there’s a lesson in here.

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  How do you actually build risky ideas inside a public company?

  Jul 15, 202645 min

  Astro Teller has a legitimate claim to the title of  the “coolest job in tech.” He’s the “captain of moonshots” at X, the Moonshot Factory, which is Alphabet’s in-house incubator for radical technologies aimed at huge global problems. He’s kind of the Willy Wonka of Google. Since 2010, Teller—whose grandfather was the famed physicist Edward Teller—has been turning sci‑fi ideas into projects like self‑driving cars (Waymo), delivery drones (Wing), and many more.  In this episode of Office Hour, we get into how Teller actually runs the Moonshot Factory day-to-day—how his team decides which wild ideas to back, how quickly they kill the ones that don’t work, and how they actually go about trying to turn the survivors into the next Waymo.

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  America's Sport of the Future becomes the Sport of Now with Roger Bennett

  Jun 10, 202648 minS0

  <p>If you’ve followed the rise of soccer in the United States – America’s sport of the future since 1971 – you know his voice, you know his humor, you know his unrivaled passion. He is Roger Bennett, the co-founder of the Men in Blazers Media Network. By the way I stole the line about the sport of the future from Rog, who likes to say some version of that at the beginning of his podcasts.</p> <p>We are speaking to Rog at a truly monumental moment for his beloved sport. The World Cup is finally here, running in 16 cities across t...

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  The Walmart blueprint: CEO John Furner’s first interview in the top job

  Jun 2, 202632 minS0

  <p>Four months ago, John Furner took the helm as CEO of Walmart Inc. after a lifetime at the company. Today, he’s steering a “people-led, tech-powered” transformation of the world’s largest retailer, which employs more than 2 million people worldwide. Furner has already centralized Walmart’s historically fragmented tech and product divisions under unified leadership in an attempt to supercharge enterprise-wide products and services—especially AI capabilities. As thousands of Walmart employees descend on Arkansas for the company’s annual Associates Week, Furner sat down for his first in-depth conversation in his new role. He discussed everything from leading through a mome...

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  Hollywood and the Creator Economy are Colliding

  May 19, 202645 minS0

  <p>Hollywood talent agencies have evolved far beyond the Michael Ovitz era, Ari from Entourage, and the whole mailroom-to-boardroom archetype. Today they're billion-dollar cultural powerhouses navigating AI transformation, creator economies, and the convergence of entertainment, sports, and corporate strategy. David Kramer embodies this evolution—he started in UTA's mailroom in 1992 when it was a 50-person  literary agency and has spent 34 years at the company. He’s about to celebrate his one-year anniversary as CEO.</p> <p>Under Kramer's leadership, UTA has radically diversified beyond traditional film and television representation, which he says now comprises just 40% of the business, compared to 95% fifte...

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