About Anu: Anu grew up and was educated in India. She started her career at the India Research Lab in Delhi, but then moved to Bangalore and was one of the first employees of that lab. Anu became a manager in 2009 and was soon thereafter given the opportunity to be a Global Technology Outlook (GTO) co-lead, which meant a move to the US. This experience, where she was not promoting her own ideas, but pushing others to develop their ideas, was a transformative one for Anu.

Anu ultimately settled down with her young family in the US and has become known for how she instills confidence in her own people and pushes them to stretch themselves and become growth minded. In this episode we learn a bit about what makes Anu tick, and some of the secrets to her ability to motivate her people and to make sure they are always growing.

Things to listen for:

• [00:05 - 00:27] Introduction
• [00:32 - 02:07] Anu's background
• [02:23 - 03:18] How Anu's interest in technology began
• [12:23 - 14:34] What GTO is and becoming a GTO co-lead
• [15:36 - 16:49] How Anu's GTO experienced affected her perspective on management
• [18:12 - 21:29] Lessons in management

Segev was born in Israel, in the capital city of Jerusalem, but then moved around a lot, spending three of his early years on a kibbutz in northern Israel and then six years in South Africa. He became hooked on computer science after watching the 1983 film WarGames, in which an AI system almost starts a nuclear war. Matthew Broderick, the computer nerd star of the movie, convinces the AI that sometimes not winning leads to a better outcome than winning, and nuclear war is averted.

In this episode of "On Not Knowing" we listen to Segev as he tells us how the theme of the movie has become a persistent theme in his own research. Along the way, we learn about some of the key concepts in so-called non zero-sum games, in other words games where one party's win does not necessarily mean another party's loss, and vice versa.

Some recommendations from Segev:

Robert Aumann's lecture upon receiving the Nobel prize for his work on game theory

Ender's game by Orson Scott Card

The 1983 film WarGames, starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy

Talia is the Director of Hybrid Cloud infrastructure Research at IBM. In this episode, Talia takes us on a journey through her formative education as a material scientist at MIT and the University of Cambridge, and how the education systems in the United States and the UK instilled two dual but important traits: personal rigor and independence of thinking. Talia goes on to tell us about how her experience playing rugby shaped her thinking about management and effective organization – a big part of her current work. Talia is a person known for her exuberant style of communication and ability to relate technically to listeners at all levels. So learn about Talia, in her own words. We think you are in for a treat!