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Transformational Leadership For The 21st Century
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David Schonthal: How To Overcome The Resistance That Always Awaits New Ideas from 2022-02-10T23:28:27
2,500 years ago, Greek philosopher, Heraclitus famously observed that “there is nothing permanent in life except change.” And anyone who’s lived just a few years on our planet knows old Heraclitus ...
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Eric Johnson: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Every Day Decisions from 2022-01-28T15:14:26
“Would you like vanilla, chocolate or strawberry?” When presented with simple decisions like these, most of us will instinctively pick our favorite from the three options, without ever considering ...
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Peter Cappelli: Why Most Employers Still Haven’t Decided The Future Of Their Offices from 2022-01-14T14:30:55
For much of the pandemic, a familiar ritual played out in workplaces around the globe. Companies set return-to-office dates, only to repeatedly backtrack & delay them due to health concerns. Apple,...
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Dorie Clark: How To Be A Long-Term Thinker In A Short-Term Focused World from 2021-12-29T20:27:30
Success in life is never a question of how many tasks we get done in a day. It’s not even a question of what we manage to achieve. Instead, it’s about knowing our life’s purpose & taking the right ...
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Brad Stulberg: Remaining Grounded When The Future Is Uncertain from 2021-12-17T15:15:05
As we near the two-year anniversary of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the occasion merits some acknowledgment. The stress, strain, fear & ambiguity we’ve all endured as a result of this ordeal...
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G. Richard Shell: How To Stand Up For Your Values At Work Without Paying A Dear Price from 2021-11-05T13:59:51
Longtime Wharton business and law school professor, G. Richard Shell, joins us to do double duty. It was Shell whom Wharton specifically chose to reinvent its entire MBA program curriculum, & our f...
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Naomi Shragai: To Understand Your Colleague’s Irrational Behavior, You Must First Understand Your Own. from 2021-10-22T09:42:15
We’ve all been frustrated by people who were difficult, angry & arbitrary. And we’ve all had hard-to-please bosses not to mention work colleagues who consistently got under our skin. It’s easy to p...
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Jon Levy: Why A Sense Of Belonging Is Essential To The Well Being Of People Who Work Remotely from 2021-10-08T14:25:39
The key benefits of working remotely are clear to all of us. Not having to commute into an office every day frees us up to get more sleep, spend more time with family & get in regular work-outs in....
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Annie Murphy Paul: The Key To Superior Performance Lies In Thinking Outside The Brain from 2021-09-24T14:15:59
One of the recurring themes of our podcast series is the idea that society largely believes that all human cognition occurs in our brains & ignores the emerging science which proves human intellige...
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Katy Milkman: The Science Of Getting From Where You Are To Where You Are Meant To Be from 2021-09-10T14:11:56
Are you a manager, coach, or teacher who aims to help other people make meaningful change in their lives? Are you someone who’s currently struggling to kick-start change in your own? If you are eit...
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Tom Gryta & Ted Mann: The Leadership Failures Of Two CEOs Who Steered GE Into Its Tragic Fall from 2021-09-03T14:07
Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently said that every leader in the world must read “Lights Out: Pride, Delusion and the Fall of General Electric.” Written by two masterful Wall Street Journal repo...
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Maria Konnikova: Poker As A Guide To Life, Luck & Decision Making from 2021-05-20T14:21:34
All of us are seeking greater self-knowledge, & Maria Konnikova found it through poker – literally by challenging herself to become a champion of the game despite never having played it before. And...
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Paula Davis: Strong Teams Are The Secret To Beating Employee Burnout from 2021-05-07T13:13:11
“Burnout” may be one of the most talked about workplace topics these days, & for good reason. According to a recent survey of people in over 40 countries published in the Harvard Business Review, 9...
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Hubert Joly: The CEO Who Transformed “Best Buy” By Leading From His Heart And Mind from 2021-04-23T14:01:33
Hubert Joly is the former CEO of Best Buy – a large American electronics retailer – who orchestrated his company’s spectacular turnaround by changing the rules of executive management. His uncommon...
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Martin Lindstrom: Empathy Is The Cornerstone Of Common Sense from 2021-04-09T14:14:15
Time Magazine named Martin Lindstrom one of the “World’s 100 Most Influential People – and “Thinkers50” named him one of world’s top 20 business thinkers. He’s the author of 7 New York Times best-s...
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Tsedal Neeley: Navigating The Remote Work Revolution from 2021-03-26T14:39:49
Anyone who’s worked from home this past year knows the experience brought many joys & also many sorrows. The upsides included nonexistent commute times, the freedom to dress as we liked, the consta...
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Damon Centola: How To Make Big Change Happen On Your Team Or In Your Organization from 2021-03-12T16:15:07
Years ago, research by Harvard Business School professor, John Kotter found that when major companies sought to initiate any kind of major organizational change, most ended up failing. Kotter & his...
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Ethan Kross: How To Tame Your Inner Critic from 2021-02-26T15:07:03
Do you have a voice in your head that operates like an inner critic & saboteur – one that undermines your success by calling you a loser or a failure, one that insists you’ll never be any good at s...
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Dr. Stephen Trzeciak: Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes A Difference from 2021-02-12T15:39:13
While making coffee one morning, a man passed out in his kitchen and fell onto a travertine floor. After being taken to the hospital, doctors discovered broken ribs, a punctured lung – & a blood cl...
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Rich Diviney: The Attributes Of People Who Excel When Life Gets Hard from 2021-01-29T14:24:08
Do you have what it takes to excel in times of high stress & ambiguity – even during a crisis? Are you able to succeed no matter what conditions you face? While we might imagine that people who per...
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Margaret Heffernan: How To Face The Future With Confidence & Courage from 2021-01-15T16:31:26
“In her excellent & very timely new book, “Uncharted,” Margaret Heffernan stresses that while the forecasting business has made its ‘experts’ very rich, it is also based on a fallacy: the idea that...
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Mauro Guillén: The World As We Know It Is About To Profoundly Change from 2020-12-31T23:00:33
While none of us could have predicted that the arrival of a global pandemic would fundamentally reshape our lives in 2020, stunning research by Wharton Business School professor, Mauro Guillén, sho...
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Jim Loehr: Why Character Is Destiny from 2020-11-20T15:30:22
Dr. Jim Loehr is the co-founder of Johnson & Johnson’s Human Performance institute & the author of 16 books. He’s a performance coach to some of the world’s greatest athletes including professional...
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Nilofer Merchant: The Power Of Your “Onlyness” from 2020-11-06T16:20:35
It’s part of the human condition to wonder if we can truly make a difference in the world, & whether our personal talents & experiences are unique or special in any meaningful way. In her book, The...
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David Rubenstein: “How To Lead” from 2020-10-23T14:30:02
As co-executive Chairman of the Carlyle Group, one of the world’s most successful private equity firms – & host of his eponymous podcast on Bloomberg – David Rubenstein has had unparalleled access ...
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Minda Harts: A Conversation With The Author Of “The Memo” from 2020-10-09T14:30:22
A recent Fortune Magazine survey shows that nearly two-thirds of American CEOs have committed to taking meaningful action to advance racial equity within their organizations . Just this week, JPMor...
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Marshall Goldsmith: Lessons From A Coaching Legend from 2020-09-25T14:35:11
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” ? Thich Nhat Hanh An underlying objectiv...
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Bruce Tulgan: The Secret To Becoming Indispensable At Work from 2020-09-11T14:34:08
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended our work lives. It’s forced many of us to work from home, away from our bosses, and has us worrying about the long-term security of the jobs we hold. And all these...
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Gary Hamel: How To Create Organizations As Amazing As The People Inside Of Them from 2020-08-28T14:30
The Wall Street Journal calls London Business School professor, Gary Hamel, the world’s most influential business thinker – and his landmark books have been translated into twenty-five languages. H...
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Sigal Barsade: What’s Love Got To Do With Leadership? from 2020-08-14T14:30:03
Wharton Business School management professor, Sigal Barsade believes too many leaders focus on how employees think and behave at work & largely ignore how they feel. This is because few managers re...
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Frances Frei: How To Build And Rebuild Trust from 2020-06-05T15:20:53
In 2017, ride-sharing innovator, UBER was in serious trouble. The company was facing a lawsuit from drivers that alleged the firm had cheated them of pay. Various media reports described UBER as ha...
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Don Moore: The Mindset You Need For Making The Best Life Choices from 2020-05-22T16:15:13
Who isn’t impressed by a highly confident person? Confident applicants are more likely to be hired, & self-assured politicians are more likely to be elected. Because we believe it produces a winni...
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Stewart Friedman: Be a Better Leader And Have a Richer Life from 2020-05-08T19:05:48
What percentage of people would say they’ve ever had a really great boss? In an ideal world, most of us could recall a long list of past and present managers who fit the bill. But we know highly ca...
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Erik Larson: Why Winston Churchill Is The Greatest Crisis Leader Of All Time from 2020-04-24T15:15:08
Author Erik Larson has written six New York Times bestselling books including “The Devil In The White City,” a National Book Award finalist. On the day we recorded this podcast, his new book, “The ...
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Alex Edmans: The Choice Between People & Profits Is A False Dichotomy from 2020-04-10T17:15:02
Now Is The Time To Make Employees As Important As Shareholders: For decades, businesses have deferred to the interests of shareholders above and beyond the interests of all other stakeholders – mos...
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Amy Edmondson: How To Lead & Succeed When The Future Is Uncertain from 2020-03-26T23:05:48
A Special Podcast! In the new era of remote working – forced upon at least a third of the world’s working population in just the past few weeks – all of our lives have been disrupted. The Coronavir...
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Deborah Gruenfeld: You Are Far More Powerful Than You Believe from 2020-03-20T15:17:09
But according to long-time Stanford Business School leadership professor, Deborah Gruenfeld, while power makes human beings act on their best and worst instincts, research shows people are consiste...
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Emily Balcetis: How Successful People See the World from 2020-03-06T21:30:10
It’s been said that “sight is a faculty, but seeing is an art,” and New York University social psychology professor, Emily Balcetis, fully concurs. In her new book, “Clearer, Closer, Better: How Su...
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Doug Conant: A Top CEO’s Blueprint For Leadership Success from 2020-02-21T21:15:56
At 32 years old, Doug Conant was fired from his job as Marketing Director for Parker Brothers Toy and Game Company – and he never saw it coming. Stunned, hurt, indignant, angry and humiliated, Cona...
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Buster Benson: Mastering The Art Of Productive Disagreement from 2020-02-07T23:15:16
Can you recall the last time you tried to talk to someone about a personal, political or work issue and quickly discovered their view of the situation was entirely different than yours? How’d that ...
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Laura Huang: Four Powerful Ways To Create A Winning EDGE from 2020-01-25T00:12:46
If you’ve ever felt unseen, under-estimated or unfairly passed over in your career, this podcast provides all the remedies you’ll need to ensure you never feel that way again! While we’d all like ...
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Adam Davidson: The New Rules for Thriving In The Twenty-First Century from 2020-01-11T00:50:56
In an economy marked by downsizing, offshoring and an accelerated deployment of robots and automation technology, fears around the future of our work and careers abound. But according to New Yorker...
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Safi Bahcall: How To Nurture Crazy Ideas Into Breakthrough Innovations from 2019-11-22T17:15:15
Some of the greatest business innovations of our time were first proposed by other companies, but summarily rejected: *** Polaroid (now gone) invented the digital camera – and then ditched it in th...
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Michael Gelb: The Emerging New Formula For Organizational Success from 2019-11-08T21:15:32
For decades, the commonly accepted purpose of a corporation (or any company for that matter) has been to ensure the interests of shareholders always came first. But today, we’ve finally reached a p...
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Kim Scott: Leading With Radical Candor from 2019-10-25T19:59:05
We musn’t fool ourselves into believing that the majority of the world’s workplace managers have bought into the idea that caring deeply about people is essential to leadership success. Metrics on ...
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Rich Karlgaard: Forbes Magazine Publisher Says “Hail To The Late Bloomer,” Which Is Most Of Us from 2019-10-11T16:00:49
We live in a society today that’s obsessed with early achievement, whether it’s getting perfect SAT scores, gaining acceptance into an Ivy League school or landing an amazing job at Google or Faceb...
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Marc Brackett: Yale’s Chief Emotion Scientist Unlocks Your Leadership Potential from 2019-09-27T22:00:13
Many of us believe that our emotions are a distraction to success in life – and that they upend our ability to make sound decisions. When it comes to leading and managing people, we carry over thes...
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Herminia Ibarra: How A New Mindset And A Massive Culture Change Made Microsoft Number One Again from 2019-09-13T22:15:37
It wasn’t all that long ago when tech giants like AOL, Yahoo and Blackberry seemed immortal. Today, of course, we remember them only as fallen giants – a fate Microsoft appeared to be headed toward...
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Stephen M.R. Covey: Leadership & The “Speed Of Trust” from 2019-08-30T23:00:24
It’s an irrefutable truth that trust is on a serious decline. And all the key pillars of society are affected. The RAND Corporation recently reported that trust in government, the media – even in o...
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Jonathan Rosenberg: Why Bill Campbell Was The Greatest Executive Coach The World’s Ever Known from 2019-06-28T23:00:03
Bill Campbell is a Silicon Valley legend. Following a career leading sales & marketing at Apple – & as CEO of Intuit – he spent nearly two decades coaching a “Who’s Who” list of world-changing exec...
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Esther Wojcicki: How To Raise Successful People from 2019-06-14T21:00:41
Esther Wojcicki knows what it takes to raise successful children. Her daughter, Susan, is the CEO of YouTube. Janet is professor of Pediatrics at the UC San Francisco Medical School (and A Fulbrigh...
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Daniel Cable: How To Ensure Your Employees Come “Alive At Work” from 2019-05-31T23:00:41
When researchers tell us employee engagement is especially low, they’re almost always referring to American businesses. But as distressing as engagement is in the United States, the truth is it’s f...
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Jim Harter: Gallup’s Chief Scientist Discusses His #1 Bestseller, “It’s The Manager” from 2019-05-17T21:05:48
Pick up any business magazine today, and it won’t take you long to find an article that features the phrase, “according to Gallup research.” And whether that article is about workplace management, ...
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Gerald Kane: How To Prepare For The Digital Disruption Headed Your Way from 2019-05-03T23:10:52
Over a span of only a couple of decades, we’ve witnessed entire industries get wiped out by digital disruption – advances in technology that have decimated traditional business models while usherin...
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Ashley Goodall: Nine Lies About Work from 2019-04-19T23:15:51
In their new best-selling book, “Nine Lies About Work,” co-authors Marcus Buckingham (“First Break All The Rules”) & Cisco’s Director of Leadership, Ashley Goodall prove that many of the basic trut...
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Tomas Chamorrow-Premuzik: Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? from 2019-04-05T23:15:39
Gallup research shows 75% of people quit their jobs in response to a bad manager. 65% of Americans say they’d rather change their boss than get a pay raise. Global surveys report a staggering 70% o...
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Brad Staats: A Framework For Staying Relevant In A Rapidly Changing World from 2019-03-22T11:44:19
When we consider the future of our careers, most of us fully realize that the only way we can ensure our continued relevance & viability is by learning & growing. We know we have a need to get incr...
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Amy Edmondson: Why Psychological Safety Breeds Exceptionally High Performing Teams from 2019-03-09T01:00:23
Harvard Business School professor, Amy Edmondson, is one of the world’s top experts on building highly cohesive, cooperative and productive teams. And much of her expertise comes from her decades o...
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James O’Toole: Leadership Lessons From The Enlightened Capitalists from 2019-02-23T01:00:18
We all know the primary reason companies go into business is to make money. But is it possible for organizations to thrive financially while also doing good in the world? USC Marshall School of Bus...
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Liz Fosslien: The Future Is Emotional from 2019-02-08T09:30:43
There’s a longstanding taboo against displaying emotions in the workplace – and it’s based on the idea that we make our best business decisions when we keep feelings and intuition out of the mix. B...
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Patty McCord: Parting Ways With Traditional Leadership Rules Is How Netflix Built It’s Hugely Successful Culture from 2019-01-25T22:00:46
If you’d invested $1,000 in Netflix stock just a dozen years ago, you’d have $90,000 today – quite an extraordinary return from a company that fearlessly took on the Goliath, Blockbuster Video, and...
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Chip Conley: How To Create A Thriving Multi-Generational Workplace from 2018-12-01T09:15:37
With people living longer than ever – and therefore wanting to work longer – a big question many workplace leaders are asking themselves today is whether workers in their 40’s, 50’s and 60’s can re...
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Ellen Ruppel Shell: How To Sustain Your Career Once Technology Changes Or Eliminates Your Job from 2018-11-10T09:15:55
Not since 1974 when Studs Terkel published his groundbreaking book, “Working,”has anyone performed a deep dive into the modern-day work experience. But with automation and digitalization poised to ...
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Dr. Christine Porath: Workplace Incivility Requires A Leadership Fix from 2018-10-27T08:15:23
HOW DOES A LEADER TAKE THEIR TEAM FROM GOOD TO GREAT? Georgetown University business school professor, Christine Porath says we won’t make that leap until we address the incivility that’s taken ove...
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Dr. David Dotlich: Why Leaders Fail: The Top Behaviors That Can Derail Your Career from 2018-10-13T08:15:45
Is it possible that you have a pattern of behavior or a personality trait that greatly limits your effectiveness as a person and as a leader? Could you have an unconscious way of acting – particula...
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Erica Keswin: How To Design A Workplace That Is Good for People & Great for Business from 2018-09-29T06:50:30
More than anything else today, what people want from their employers & leaders is to be given a safe & respectful place in which to work. That’s the conclusion of new Pew research which shows 89% o...
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Rollin McCraty: Why The Heart Is The Driver Of Optimal Human Performance from 2018-09-15T14:21
While we might consider the time in which we’re all living a more enlightened age, the word “heart” still carries a lot of negative associations when it comes to workplace leadership. Tied to tradi...
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Francesca Gino: Why It Pays To Break The Rules In Life, Work & Leadership from 2018-09-01T06:50:08
Hear the word “rebel” & we immediately think of troublemakers & outcasts – people who end up with bad reputations for being non-conformists. But after a decade of studying rebels (especially rebel ...
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Jim Harter: Gallup’s Chief Scientist Explains Why Employee Engagement & Caring Cultures Differentiate Thriving Organizations from 2018-08-18T06:50:05
In 2012, Gallup made the startling announcement that employee engagement across the globe was in crisis. We learned that only 30% of American workers were fully committed in their jobs – and the n...
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Leah Weiss: Why A Class On Mindfulness & Self-Mastery Is Now Stanford Business School’s Top Elective from 2018-08-04T06:50:56
If you have the chops to get accepted into an elite MBA Program at a school like Harvard, Wharton or Yale, you pretty much know that the next two years of your life will be devoted to mastering lef...
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Sally Helgesen: The Bad Habits That Limit Our Career Growth & Success from 2018-07-21T06:50:46
Everyone has self-limiting behaviors, for the simple reason that we’re all human. But frequently, what holds women back from obtaining the next raise, promotion or job tends to be different from me...
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Liz Wiseman: Leaders Who Are Multipliers Make Everyone Smarter from 2018-07-07T06:55:15
We’ve all worked for managers who sapped our talent, energy and commitment while always needing to be the smartest person in the room. And if we’ve been lucky, we’ve also worked for leaders who bro...
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Kim Powell: Master Just Four Leadership Behaviors And You Could Be CEO Material from 2018-06-23T06:55:26
Podcast 008: Kim Powell Many of us have it in our mind that very few people (including ourselves) have what it takes to become a CEO. We conjure up images of oversized personalities like Steve Jobs...
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Dr. James Doty: Stanford Medical School Professor Says The Heart Matters More Than The Brain In Leadership from 2018-06-09T06:50:20
Podcast 007: Dr. James Doty Dr. James Doty: Stanford Medical School Professor Says The Heart Matters More Than The Brain In Leadership As a world-class brain surgeon and Stanford University Medical...
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Geoff Colvin: Fortune Magazine’s Editor Believes “Humans Are Underrated” from 2018-05-26T06:50:56
Podcast 006: Geoff Colvin With technology poised to eliminate millions of jobs in every imaginable industry, we’re left to wonder what kind of work will remain and what skills will be most highly v...
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Daniel Coyle: Cracking “The Culture Code” from 2018-05-12T06:55:12
Podcast 005: Daniel Coyle New York Times bestselling author, Daniel Coyle spent the past four years researching the cultures at eight of the world’s most successful organizations — including the U....
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Garry Ridge: The CEO Most Of Us Wish We Had from 2018-04-28T06:45:06
Podcast 004: Garry Ridge For the past 20 years, Garry Ridge has been CEO of the WD-40 Company, and he’s built one of the most inspiring workplace cultures on the planet. INC. Magazine named him one...
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Tom Peters: A Leadership Legend In Rare Form from 2018-04-14T15:27:22
Podcast 003: Tom Peters Legendary leadership author, Tom Peters could easily be reclining on a New England beach these days. But he’s by no means the retiring type. Instead, he just published his 1...
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Jim Kouzes: A Leadership Giant! from 2018-03-28T17:00:39
Podcast 001: Jim Kouses Thirty-years ago, Jim Kouzes and his collaborator Barry Posner wrote “The Leadership Challenge” – a book that has sold 2.5 million copies (so far) and is taught in universit...
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Adam Bryant: Leadership Insights From Over 500 Corner Offices from 2018-03-28T16:00:09
Podcast 002: Adam Bryant Imagine having the opportunity to interview hundreds of the world’s top CEOs and hear them describe their leadership philosophy, not to mention the successes and failures t...
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Mark C. Crowley: Glad You’ve Joined Us! from 2018-03-28T14:00:09
Podcast 000: Mark C. Crowley The expression “Lead From The Heart” elicits different meanings to different people, so Mark uses his first podcast to introduce himself, his vision for the show and so...
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