Today is Embrace Your Geekness Day, and it’s worth exploring what a “geek” truly is. In an episode of the Forward Thinking podcast, McKinsey’s Michael Chui chatted with best-selling author, research scientist, and co-founder Andy McAfee, who says that “a geek is anybody who gets properly obsessed with a really hard, deep problem.”
That’s true for Electronic Arts’ Mihir Vaidya, Major League Baseball’s Chris Marinak, and Salesforce’s Simon Mulcahy. Workplace innovation is as tough as it is important, but they stepped up to the challenge. Check out these insights to see how others embrace their “geekness” across industries—medtech, defense, consumer goods, and more—to push the envelope on workplace problem solving and innovation.
Forward Thinking on how geeks are changing the world with Andrew McAfee
Talking innovation in video games with Electronic Arts
How Major League Baseball built an innovation machine
An interview with Salesforce’s Simon Mulcahy
Bringing innovation to a not-for-profit setting
Accelerating customer-centric innovation in medtech
A rising wave of tech disruptors: The future of defense innovation?
The next frontier in consumer goods: Digitally enabled innovation
Decarbonization: The new frontier for investment and innovation