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Aug 2023
30m 54s

Companies Going on Offense

The Motley Fool
About this episode

Most companies find success in different ways, but there’s a secret sauce to ones that are leading innovators. 

Behnam Tabrizi is a transformation expert and a faculty member in Stanford University’s executive program. His book is  “Going on Offense: A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation.” Ricky Mulvey caught up with Tabrizi to discuss:

- Tech companies with a cultural advantage. - Why Alphabet might have a bureaucracy problem.  - Lisa Su’s “David and Goliath” story at Advanced Micro Devices

Companies discussed: AAPL, MSFT, META, TSLA, AMD, ADBE, NVDA, AMZN, WHR

Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: Behnam Tabrizi Engineer: Rick Engdahl

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