Hosted by Lynn Thoman · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 304 episodes
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3 Takeaways™ features insights from the world’s best thinkers, business leaders, writers, politicians, scientists and other newsmakers. Each episode ends with 3 key takeaways to help you understand the world in new ways that can benefit your life and career. Hosted by Lynn Thoman. A global top 1% podcast.
Lynn Thoman hosts 3 Takeaways™, a business show with 304 episodes published.
Dr. Robert Cialdini, author of Influence - 5 million copies sold, and one of the most important books Warren Buffett says he's ever read - has spent decades studying why people say yes. He reveals the psychological force
Most people think healthcare is broken by accident. Mark Cuban says it isn't. In part two of our conversation, he explains the hidden companies who really control healthcare, where AI is headed, and the biggest opportuni
The NBA thought it was selling basketball. Mark Cuban thought it was selling something else. That insight shaped how he has built companies, evaluated opportunities, and challenged entire industries. The lesson starts wi
What if those brief conversations - with a barista, a neighbor, or someone sitting next to us - matter far more than we realize? Gillian Sandstrom, a University of Sussex psychologist and author of Once Upon a Stranger,
The wind stops blowing. The sun goes down. What happens next? Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz explains why the transition to clean energy may be far more complicated than most people realize. In one of the m
We think of North Korea as a communist dictatorship. But Jonathan Cheng, the Wall Street Journal’s China Bureau Chief and former Korea Bureau Chief, says that misses the real story. He argues North Korea functions more l
When people think about war, they picture missiles and mushroom clouds. But what if the greatest threats today are the ones most people never see coming? Christine Wormuth, former U.S. Secretary of the Army and current l
Most people see the world as the U.S. vs. China.But the real power shift is happening elsewhere. Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security and a former senior advisor at the National Security Counci
Inflation, interest rates, AI, tariffs, the dollar… Most people treat them as separate stories but actually, they’re not. Former Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jason Furman explains how these forces are all connected
“We trained a whole country.” It sounds like an exaggeration. It’s not - according to Patrick McGee, author of Apple in China. So what actually happened in China?
Dr. Tom Mihaljevic, CEO of Cleveland Clinic and a leading heart surgeon, explains how medicine is already changing in ways most people don’t see. He has spent his career performing complex heart surgeries and now leads o
Iran briefly showed it could choke off a waterway carrying nearly a fifth of the world’s oil. That’s the visible threat. The real risk may be something else entirely. Former Deputy National Security Advisor and U.S. Spec
We’re entering a world where life itself could become programmable. What if creating new forms of life becomes as simple as writing code? Geneticist Adrian Woolfson explains how close we are — and why the consequences co
Is the war with Iran actually a turning point for the Middle East? Dan Kurtzer - former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Egypt, advisor to presidents, peace negotiator and Princeton professor - has seen these moments up clo
Love him or hate him, Elon Musk has upended entire industries - from cars to rockets - by doing things differently. Jon McNeill, former president of Tesla, reveals the thinking behind Tesla and SpaceX that drives radical
A few paragraphs from Washington once stopped oil tankers in their tracks halfway around the world - no navy, no missiles. Eddie Fishman, who helped design and implement U.S. sanctions and economic warfare policies, expl
Scientists are finding tiny fragments of plastic inside the human body - including the brain. Dr. Matthew Campen of the University of New Mexico explains how they get there - and why the biggest source may surprise you.
The government feels louder and faster than ever: executive actions, constant disruption, everything happening at once. But Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute argues that all this motion may be masking some
The rules of quantum physics aren’t just strange - they’re usable. Particles can exist in multiple states at once. Observation can reshape reality. Now, scientists are turning those quirks into machines that could solve
The Constitution isn’t just a statement of ideals. It’s a framework for power - built to divide authority so that no single institution can fully control the law. But that design has a consequence: it slows decisions and
Jonathan Cheng
China bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal · WSJ
1 appearance on this show
Richard Fontaine
CEO · Center for a New American Security
1 appearance on this show
Jason Furman
former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Obama · Harvard Kennedy School
1 appearance on this show
Patrick McGee
Financial Times San Francisco correspondent and author of Apple in China · Financial Times
1 appearance on this show
Elliott Abrams
former deputy national security advisor and Special Representative for Iran · Council on Foreign Relations
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Adrian Woolfson
co-founder · Genyro
1 appearance on this show
Jon McNeill
former President · DVx Ventures
1 appearance on this show
Yuval Levin
editor-in-chief of National Affairs magazine, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute · American Enterprise Institute
1 appearance on this show
Cass Sunstein
law professor, former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, co-author of Nudge · Harvard Law School
3 appearances on this show
Richard Thaler
Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics · University of Chicago Booth School of Business
1 appearance on this show
Raj Chetty
Harvard professor · Opportunity Insights
1 appearance on this show
Sophie Scott
Award-Winning Science Communicator and TED Speaker · The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
1 appearance on this show
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