The World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast
Books & Literature
The Book Club podcast from the World Economic Forum brings you the world’s greatest storytellers. For the last three years, the Forum’s Book Club has engaged with some of the world’s greatest writers, allowing a community of over 200,000 readers to put their questions and share their views. The podcast features in-depth interviews with some of our favourite authors looking at their most recent work, their motivations, inspirations and so much more. Great fiction, economics, psychology, philosophy - the world’s best storytellers will be telling us their stories. At the Forum, we have access to some of the biggest and best minds from around our world and we want to share that with you in as many ways as we can. Host: Beatrice Di Caro. https://www.facebook.com/groups/worldeconomicforumbookclub https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/
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United States
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Books & Literature
Description:
The Book Club podcast from the World Economic Forum brings you the world’s greatest storytellers. For the last three years, the Forum’s Book Club has engaged with some of the world’s greatest writers, allowing a community of over 200,000 readers to put their questions and share their views. The podcast features in-depth interviews with some of our favourite authors looking at their most recent work, their motivations, inspirations and so much more. Great fiction, economics, psychology, philosophy - the world’s best storytellers will be telling us their stories. At the Forum, we have access to some of the biggest and best minds from around our world and we want to share that with you in as many ways as we can. Host: Beatrice Di Caro. https://www.facebook.com/groups/worldeconomicforumbookclub https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/
Language:
English
Episodes
Carolyn Kousky
1/14/2023
Carolyn Kousky is the Associate Vice President for Economics and Policy at the Environmental Defense Fund and the author of Understanding Disaster Insurance: New Tools for a More Resilient Future. In this episode, Kousky dives deep into the world of insurance markets, exposing major vulnerabilities and detailing how private and public partnerships can help built insurance models that are capable of responding to the climate crisis.
Duration:00:25:06
The Library: A Fragile History
1/6/2023
In the first episode of 2023, Kate Whiting speaks to academics and authors Professor Andrew Pettegree and Dr Arthur der Weduwen about their book The Library: A Fragile History. They discuss why, despite our love of collecting books, they have often been neglected and become tools and targets during times of war, while romance novels have gone from scourge to saviour of the modern-day library.
Duration:00:32:28
Review of the year: 2022
12/22/2022
In this last episode of 2022, host Beatrice Di Caro and Kate Whiting look back at some of their favourite reads of the year, collate top reads from around the World Economic Forum, and share some of the best quotes from authors who have been on the Book Club Podcast. These include Adam Grant, Elif Shafak and Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka.
Duration:00:21:36
Paul Daugherty
12/16/2022
Paul Daugherty is the Chief Technology Officer at Accenture and co-author of Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future.
In this episode, he discusses how the pandemic accelerated a shift towards a more human-centered use of AI technology and how artificial intelligence will drive four key areas for companies to be successful in future: talent, trust, experiences, and sustainability.
Duration:00:27:45
Jon Alexander
12/9/2022
In this episode, author Jon Alexander joins us to discuss his book Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything Is All of Us. How can we become better citizens? That is the question this book studies, looking at how people and societies moved from the subject story of kings and empires to the current consumer story. He argues it is now time to enter the citizen story.
Duration:00:21:09
Lynda Gratton: Redesigning Work
12/2/2022
In this episode, Professor Lynda Gratton discusses how a diary she started in the pandemic resulted in her latest book, Redesigning Work: How To Transform Your Organization and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone. She draws on real-world examples of companies getting it right and offers useful insights into everything from avoiding burnout to being a good manager.
Episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/book-club/episodes/lynda-grant-redesigning-work
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Duration:00:22:05
Dambisa Moyo: How Boards Work
11/25/2022
In this episode, Zambian-born economist and author Dr. Dambisa Moyo discusses her latest book, How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World. In it, she examines the traditional role of boards and suggests how they can adapt to the needs of a 21st-century marketplace.
Episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/book-club/episodes/dambisa-moyo
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Duration:00:27:57
Shehan Karunatilaka: Booker Prize Winner 2022
11/4/2022
In this episode, author Shehan Karunatilaka discusses the inspirations for his Booker Prize-winning novel The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida. It tells the story of a Sri Lankan war photographer, who realises he’s in a processing centre for souls in the afterlife and sets out to solve his own murder, which involves leading his friends to a box of incriminating photos under a bed.
Duration:00:32:22
Gaia Vince: Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
10/19/2022
From floods to wildfires and hurricanes across the globe, climate change is causing more frequent and catastrophic extreme weather events. In this episode, environmental journalist Gaia Vince sets out the central thesis of her book 'Nomad Century' which envisages a world where climate change forces as many as 1 billion people to migrate in the coming decades - and how the world can work together to cope.
Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/book-club-climate-change-migration-gaia-vince
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Duration:00:31:03
Summer books: why escapist fiction is good for you
7/20/2022
As summer sizzles in the northern hemisphere, this episode brings you top recommendations for books to pack on your vacation, and reading that will transport you far from home without you having to go anywhere.
Laura Battle, Deputy Books Editor at the Financial Times, gives her book picks and also tells us how social media, particularly TikTok’s #BookTok, has disrupted the global publishing industry and had a big impact on business.
And Ella Berthoud, a ‘bibliotherapist’ who uses the power of books to help people through tough times and who wrote ‘The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies’, lists her favourite escapist fiction.
Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/book-club-summer-books-2022
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Duration:00:22:57
Joeli Brearley: The Motherhood Penalty
7/13/2022
‘The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career’ looks at the reasons why women’s careers suffer when they have children, and what can be done about it.
The author, Joeli Brearley, is also founder of the UK campaigning charity Pregnant Then Screwed.
Robin Pomeroy sits in for regular host Beatrice Di Caro. Interview by Kate Whiting.
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Duration:00:30:54
Jessica Nordell: ‘The End Of Bias: How We Change Our Minds’
6/30/2022
In ‘The End Of Bias: How We Change Our Minds,’ Jessica Nordell, a science writer for publications including the New York Times, looks at what causes us to discriminate against other people, often without even realizing it, and the cognitive science and social psychology that can help change our ways of thinking.
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Duration:00:29:53
Gillian Tett
2/3/2022
In her book ‘Anthrovision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life’, Gillian Tett explains how she used her anthropology training to predict global events from the 2008 financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand the world, she says, we need to get out of the ‘goldfish bowls’ that we all live in, and see things from other people’s perspectives, and also recognise our own weaknesses, biases and blindspots.
Duration:00:30:48
Parag Khanna: MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us
1/13/2022
Parag Khanna, author of Move: The Forces Uprooting Us, which looks at one of the biggest issues of our time - mass migration. He explains why climate change will uproot millions of people, and suggest ways that can be made to work for the migrants, and the countries that welcome them.
Episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/book-club/episodes/parag-khanna
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Duration:00:16:13
Elif Shafak
12/23/2021
Elif Shafak, author of the acclaimed The Bastard of Istanbul and The Forty Rules of Love, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her 2019 novel 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World. The Turkish-British writer joins us to talk about her latest novel, The Island of Missing Trees, a story of forbidden love set in Cyprus and Britain, and tells Beatrice DiCaro why more men should read fiction.
Duration:00:20:09
Adam Grant
12/16/2021
Organisational psychologist and podcaster Adam Grant, author of Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, talks about his work and picks his favourite new books.
Duration:00:16:49
Trailer: The Book Club Podcast
12/9/2021
The Book Club podcast from the World Economic Forum brings you the world’s greatest storytellers.
For the last three years, the Forum’s Book Club has engaged with some of the world’s greatest writers, allowing a community of over 200,000 readers to put their questions and share their views.
The podcast features in-depth interviews with some of our favourite authors looking at their most recent work, their motivations, inspirations and so much more.
Great fiction, economics, psychology, philosophy - the world’s best storytellers will be telling us their stories.
Duration:00:02:32