Stronger than Steel

Stronger than Steel

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 538 , Segment 6

Episode: Will Shortz Crossword King, Film Scoring, Born in China

  • Apr 24, 2017 11:00 pm
  • 17:44 mins

Guests: Spencer Rogers, BYU Technology Transfer Office; Carter Smith, President of IsoTruss; Nathan Rich, CEO of IsoTruss Our next guests claim to have a building product that’s 10-times stronger than steel but just 1/10th the weight of steel. If they can deliver on that, the technology could have exciting uses for construction and transportation. It’s called IsoTruss and it was invented here on campus. Two BYU graduates have now licensed the technology to try and make something of it in the marketplace.

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Understanding Your Own Bias

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Guest: Sara Taylor, President and Founder of deepSEE Consulting, author of "Filter Shift: How Effective People SEE the World" None of us like to think that we’re prejudiced toward others. Many of us go to great lengths not to let our biases show – but making that effort also acknowledges that our biases exist. They exist on the unconscious level, driving the assumptions we make and conclusions we jump to without even realizing it. And because they’re happening so automatically, they’re a little like blind spots as we roll down the road of life. When you unintentionally offend someone with a comment you thought was innocuous, you’ve probably veered into a blind spot. When a conversation with a colleague or customer suddenly turns tense, just when you thought things were going great, unconscious bias was probably involved.

Guest: Sara Taylor, President and Founder of deepSEE Consulting, author of "Filter Shift: How Effective People SEE the World" None of us like to think that we’re prejudiced toward others. Many of us go to great lengths not to let our biases show – but making that effort also acknowledges that our biases exist. They exist on the unconscious level, driving the assumptions we make and conclusions we jump to without even realizing it. And because they’re happening so automatically, they’re a little like blind spots as we roll down the road of life. When you unintentionally offend someone with a comment you thought was innocuous, you’ve probably veered into a blind spot. When a conversation with a colleague or customer suddenly turns tense, just when you thought things were going great, unconscious bias was probably involved.