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Alexandra Levit on the Future of Work from 2019-01-04T14:00:31
Depending on your job, this episode is going to be a relief or a cause for concern. The good news is that automation is not going to get rid of the need for human work. In fact, technology is creat...
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Maggie Jackson on New Ways We’re Distracted from 2018-12-28T14:00:30
In the ten years since Distracted was first published and while a lot has changed a lost has stayed the same. Maggie Jackson is back with a new edition of her book, with new data and looking at our...
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Kathryn Sollmann on Ambition Redefined from 2018-12-21T14:00:29
Women have been told to lean in but, more often than not, what women want is to “lean in-between.” Kathryn Sollmann, author of the new book Ambition Redefined, is here to advocate for those women, ...
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John Chambers on Connecting the Dots from 2018-12-14T14:00:13
Cisco is hardly a startup anymore but they’re in the business of bringing startups into the fold. The trick to that, according to John Chambers, is to have a culture that accepts outside people and...
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Chip Conley on Embracing Your Place as an Elder from 2018-12-07T14:00:31
After decades of working Chip Conley started all over again. Hired as an advisor at Airbnb he eventually became something of an intern to the young CEO. He’s written a new book Wisdom at Work: The ...
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Mark Johnson on Seizing the White Space from 2018-11-30T14:00:07
Mark Johnson has updated his classic book Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal with a new chapter taking into account our relationship with digital technology. ...
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Alex Rosenblat on Star-Rating Your Uber Driver from 2018-11-23T14:00:22
If you’ve ever taken an Uber you know that you give your driver a rating at the end of your journey. You probably know that their job depends on how good their average score is. But do you know how...
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Ken Kocienda on Starting with an Idea from 2018-11-16T14:00:15
The story of Apple’s success with the iPhone is that they didn’t make a product people wanted, they made a product people didn’t even know they needed yet but very soon had to have it. Today we’re ...
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Ash Seddeek on Being a Leader of Leaders from 2018-11-09T14:00
AMA Faculty member and author Ash Seddeek joins us to review some of FranklinCovey’s 7 Habits and share some of the things he’s learned from his years as an executive coach and trainer.
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Dr Donna Hicks on Leading with Dignity from 2018-11-02T13:00:09
We’re all born with inherent dignity. However, according to Dr. Donna Hicks, author of the new book Leading with Dignity, many of us have to be trained to learn how to recognize when we’re being tr...
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Dan Schawbel on How Old School is New School Again from 2018-10-26T13:00:13
The last time Dan Schawbel was here he talked about the wonders of technology. Now he’s returned to tell you to back off of your screens. In his new book Back to Human he argues we’re suffering fro...
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Drew Dudley on Everyday Leadership from 2018-10-19T13:00:34
The understanding of what it takes to be a leader is both overly broad and too specific. We focus on lone, mythical, usually white, male figures and discount the leadership abilities inherent in al...
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Charlie Harary on Unlocking Greatness from 2018-10-12T13:00:25
We’re constantly trying to make changes that don’t align with our brains. We make New Years resolutions and try to keep up with the news and watch movies about people achieving great things while n...
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Allen Gannett on Encouraging Your Creative Curve from 2018-10-05T13:00:26
The myth of the lone creative genius is “wildly destructive” says Allen Gannett, not to put too fine a point on it. Our guest today talks about how we need to bring our ideas about inspiration out ...
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Carmine Gallo on the Power of Communicating Well from 2018-09-28T13:00:38
You don’t have to be giving a TED talk to benefit from learning how to speak and tell stories well. Whether you’re pitching a new project to your team or pitching yourself to an employer during an ...
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Suzanne Vickberg on Developing Chemistry in Your Team from 2018-09-21T13:00:37
You’ve heard of personality assessment tests before. You’ve probably taken one (or two, or three). But can you remember your personality type? Can you identify the type of the person sitting next t...
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Cal Turner Jr. on My Father’s Business from 2018-09-14T13:00:15
Cal Turner Jr. was the CEO of Dollar General for decades after inheriting the business from his father. He joins us to talk about how faith and family helped him turn a million dollar business into...
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Chuck Martin on Our Third Digital Transformation from 2018-09-07T13:00:03
We are currently in the era of the Internet of Things. What does that mean and how does it affect us? Chuck Martin joins us to talk about his new book Digital Transformation 3.0 and what it means f...
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Kevin Eikenberry on The Long-Distance Leader from 2018-08-31T13:00:46
Whether you’re working with gig workers or people in multiple offices worldwide, these days we’re seeing more and more teams spread out across the globe. Technology makes remote teams easier but it...
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Dr Albert Siu on Difficult Conversations as a Manager from 2018-08-24T13:00:55
One of the most difficult conversations at work is when you’ve got an employee who is under-performing. Albert Siu joins us with some tips on how to get through that conversation so everyone is hap...
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Howard Yu on Leaping Across Knowledge Disciplines from 2018-08-17T13:00:02
Novartis is currently a multinational pharmaceutical company but when it started over two centuries ago they were manufacturing dyes for textiles. It was only when someone noticed the health benefi...
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Jeanne Bliss on Treating Customers Like They’re Your Mom from 2018-08-10T13:00:50
When we think of customer service we tend to focus on the front line employees who are taking the customer phone calls. While they are often the face of the organization, there are thousands of dec...
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Leonard Mlodinow on Training Our Brains to Be More Elastic from 2018-08-03T13:00:18
At the two ends of the neurological spectrum are logical thinking and elastic thinking. Generally the purvue of artists and great thinkers, elastic thinking is called upon more and more in our ever...
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Fred Kofman on The Meaning Revolution from 2018-07-27T13:00:28
Can everyone run a marathon? Yes and no. A lot of people can but not tomorrow, not without training. The ones that want to will put in the work. To Fred Kofman, the same metric applies to leadershi...
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Jonah Sachs on Unsafe Thinking from 2018-07-20T13:00:21
Sometimes the more we know, the more we fall into a trap. How many times have we shot down ideas because we know they haven’t worked in the past. It’s time to break out of that monotonous thinking....
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