Bob Safian

Host, Rapid Response · 26 appearances on the record.

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Safian served for over a decade as the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director of Fast Company, leading the publication to ASME's Magazine of the Year honors in 2014. Through his advisory firm The Flux Group, he hosts the Rapid Response podcast and interviews global business leaders.

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Safian: Meeting in person more than quarterly boosts execution but hurts balance

“In my experience, having a group together more frequently than once a quarter can speed up execution and urgency, but I guess that doesn't always make for the most empathetic environment when it comes to balancing other parts of your life.”

Bob Safian Jan 19, 2024 ▶ 25:52 What’s wrong with the remote vs. in-office debate? (with Atlassian’s Scott Farquhar)

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Women make up half of Under Armour's executive leadership team

“Half of your leadership team are women, which doesn't happen in all companies.”

Bob Safian Oct 13, 2023 ▶ 10:18 Under Armour’s pivot to growth (with Stephanie Linnartz) | Masters of Scale

Appearances (26)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
IBM's $10 billion bet on what comes after AI (with CEO Arvind Krishna) \| Masters of Scale	Jun 23, 2026	8m
How to transform a company’s culture (stories from Apple, Google & Uber) \| Masters of Scal	Sep 18, 2024	3m
How optimism fuels the economy (U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Suzanne Clark) \| Masters of S	Apr 26, 2024	5m
Reid Hoffman on OpenAI’s $7 trillion plan, Apple’s Vision Pro, and AI traps \| Masters of S	Apr 24, 2024	6m
How Star Trek prospers against Netflix and Disney+ (with EP Alex Kurtzman) \| Masters of Sc	Apr 18, 2024	5m
2024 is the most significant time in human history (with futurist Ari Wallach) \| Masters o	Apr 8, 2024	3m
Bracing for a possible TikTok ban, with Cassey Ho (Blogilates and POPFLEX) \| Masters of Sc	Apr 5, 2024	3m
Battling cyber attacks and deepfakes with AI (with Darktrace's Poppy Gustafsson) \| Masters	Feb 22, 2024	8m
What’s wrong with the remote vs. in-office debate? (with Atlassian’s Scott Farquhar)	Jan 19, 2024	8m
5 memorable lessons from 2023 \| Masters of Scale	Dec 19, 2023	11m
Inside Intel’s AI ambitions (with Intel Corporation's Pat Gelsinger) \| Masters of Scale	Dec 18, 2023	5m
Can companies survive a leadership crisis? (with Web Summit’s Katherine Maher) \| Masters o	Nov 30, 2023	6m
Scott Harrison & Charity: Water, five years later \| Masters of Scale	Nov 28, 2023	4m
GaryVee wants your attention w/ VaynerX’s Gary Vaynerchuk (Masters of Scale Complete Inter	Nov 16, 2023	2m
Your pandemic business takeaways are wrong \| Masters of Scale	Nov 9, 2023	6m
Gaza in crisis (Mercy Corps’ Arnaud Quemin) \| Masters of Scale	Oct 27, 2023	7m
Supporting Palestinian builders versus destroyers \| Masters of Scale	Oct 23, 2023	5m
On the ground in Israel (with Hello Heart’s Maayan Cohen) \| Masters of Scale	Oct 20, 2023	5m
Under Armour’s pivot to growth (with Stephanie Linnartz) \| Masters of Scale	Oct 13, 2023	6m
How to revive collaboration at work (with Mark Read) \| Masters of Scale	Oct 6, 2023	7m
4 strategies for tackling the toughest challenges \| Masters of Scale	Sep 19, 2023	10m
Think like an outsider (with Sallie Krawcheck, Shellye Archambeau, Tope Awotona) \| Masters	Aug 22, 2023	5m
Reid Hoffman: Prepare for where AI is headed next \| Masters of Scale	Aug 21, 2023	5m
How great cultures are built and rebuilt \| Masters of Scale	Aug 17, 2023	6m
Leading in an age of burnout (with Arianna Huffington & Padmasree Warrior) \| Masters of Sc	Aug 16, 2023	5m
How to re-skill for AI (with PwC's Tim Ryan) \| Masters of Scale	Jul 21, 2023	7m

Bob Safian

Appearances (26)

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