THE NON-OBVIOUS SHOW · EPISODE 4
with Safi Bahcall
Originally aired: December 15, 2021. Why is collaboration overrated? Safi Bahcall is a former public company CEO, second-generation physicist, biotech entrepreneur, and the author of international bestseller Loonshots. Today Safi advises CEOs and leadership teams on strategy and innovation, and has delivered keynote presentations at industry conferences, investor events, leadership retreats, medical meetings, and leading academic institutions around the world. In this episode, Safi Bahcall goes behind the mindsets required to see the world a little differently, explores why a focus on collaboration might counterintuitively hold us back from innovating in some situations and why thinking like a physicist just might offer a path to solving some of the world's biggest problems.
Physicist and entrepreneur; author of Loonshots
Safi Bahcall is a physicist and biotechnology entrepreneur, and the author of Loonshots. He holds a physics PhD from Stanford, co-founded a cancer drug company and led it as CEO for 13 years, and studies why organizations stop backing radical ideas.
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