In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, co-host Michael Chui talks with Andy McAfee. McAfee is a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-founder and co-director of MIT’s initiative on the digital economy, and the inaugural visiting fellow at the Technology in Society organization at Google. His new book, The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results, will be published on November 16. In this podcast, he answers questions, including:
What is a geek?
How often does a technology alpha geek become a business alpha geek?
What geek norms are associated with success?
Does geek culture make diversity a challenge?
