February 13, 2013

Interview with Roger Martin, co-author of the book Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

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Mike Carruthers:
Do you have a strategy for your life or for your business? People talk about the importance of strategy and yet…

Roger Martin:
Very few people actually have a sort of an operational definition of what that actually means enough to be able to create a strategy that is useful.
 

February 11, 2013

Interview with Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, author of the book Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become

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Mike Carruthers:
When we feel love towards someone what is that emotion exactly - is it something that comes over time?

Dr. Barbara Fredrickson:
Well, love does come over time and yet it’s built up over time through these micro-moments of shared positive emotion - the shared positive emotions that we feel with others.
 

February 7, 2013

Interview with Leil Lowndes, author of the book How to Create Chemistry with Anyone: 75 Ways to Spark It Fast--and Make It Last

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Mike Carruthers:
Anyone who’s been in a long-term relationship knows that the passion dies down – usually in about 18 months.

Leil Lowndes:
Why? Because after we do the same thrilling thing with the same person over and over it doesn’t give the same kicks.
 

February 5, 2013

Interview with Jack Bishop Editorial Director at America’s Test Kitchen and contributor to the book The Science of Good Cooking (Cook's Illustrated Cookbooks)

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Mike Carruthers:
Cooking whether you realize it or not is actually science – for example when you brown meat on the grill or in a skillet…

Jack Bishop:
It is actually a reaction between the natural sugars and carbohydrates and the proteins. And so you are basically creating flavor when you brown something.