Episode 181: Puzzle Thinking and Radical Product Leadership with Radhika Dutt

Healthcare Leadership Excellence · Mar 5, 2026 · 48m

In this episode, I talk with Radhika Dutt, MIT-educated engineer, startup founder, and author of Radical Product Thinking, about how leaders solve complex problems by changing the way they think, not just the way they act. She shares lessons from her early startup years and the “product diseases” that trap teams into chasing big logos, funding, and metrics instead of meaningful outcomes.

Radhika reframes a product as a mechanism for creating change, which applies just as much to healthcare as it does to tech. We walk through how leaders can clarify the problem, challenge the status quo…