Best playtopotential Podcasts (2024)

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686: 103.00 Ricardo Sunderland on The Energy Advantage 1:23:42

2M ago1:23:42

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GUEST: Ricardo Sunderland is an author and a CEO Transformational Coach with Egon Zehnder, a global leadership advisory firm. In this podcast, we discuss his latest book, "The Energy Advantage, How to go from managing your time to mastering your energy," Ricardo's life’s purpose is to help leaders connect to and manage their energy to become humane…

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685: EP 9 Connecting the Dots: Parenting - Helping our children play to their potential 53:50

4M ago53:50

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This episode of Connecting the Dots is on Parenting - something we are all winging. We go to colleges, trainings and leadership development programmes for all sorts of capabilities, but there is none for parenting. In this episode, we learn from Roger Federer’s parents, Nandan, Nilekani‘s parents and many other successful leaders who reflect on the…

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684: EP8 Connecting the Dots: Judgment - Making sound decisions amidst complexity 1:00:43

8M ago1:00:43

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This episode of Connecting the Dots deals with Judgment - Making sound decisions amidst complexity. VUCA - (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) is a term that is used to describe the state of the world. Some people use BANI - (Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear, Incomprehensible). Whatever the terminology, it is fair to say that the world has gotten…

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683: EP7 Connecting the Dots - Staying resilient through quakes 1:26:33

9M ago1:26:33

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This episode of Connecting the Dots deals with STAYING RESILIENT THROUGH QUAKES. We explore what it takes to be resilient as an individual and go on to examine what it takes to create a resilient culture in an organization. Very often, even the notion of resilience is misunderstood. We examine the nuances in what the term means. Is it “bouncing bac…

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682: EP6: Connecting the Dots - Building Habits that stick 58:55

10M ago58:55

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This episode of Connecting the Dots deals with Building Habits that stick. This is that time of the year when your new year resolutions meet the rough and tumble of your life. Having a process that ensures that you work towards your outcomes is critical. As James Clear says, we don’t rise to the level of our goals. We fall to the level of our syste…

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681: EP5: Connecting the Dots - Breathing Life into Work 1:22:48

12M ago1:22:48

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This episode of Connecting the Dots deals with BREATHING LIFE INTO WORK. A lot of us, consciously or sub-consciously end up putting work on our pedestal and relegate the other elements of life to a distant second. In this episode, I share some of my learnings (from the 102+ episodes and from my lived experiences) around how focusing on Health, Pers…

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680: EP4: Connecting the Dots - Identity 1:38:44

1y ago1:38:44

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This episode of Connecting the Dots deals with IDENTITY. When we look at issues around transitions, reinventing ourselves and navigating the pulls and pressures of mid-life, the key often is in reflecting on our identity. This episode, we go deep into how we think about Identity and how sometimes, we end up caging ourselves and end up being a priso…

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679: EP3: Connecting the Dots - Listening 1:03:34

1y ago1:03:34

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Welcome to CONNECTING THE DOTS - Episode 3. The first two were on Internal and External Self-Awareness. This one is on Listening! How do we listen to others, ourselves, our heart, our body, our inner voice and much much more. The quality of our listening can have a significant impact on the lives we lead! While this episode is a compilation across …

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678: EP2: Connecting the Dots - External Self-awareness 42:14

1+ y ago42:14

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Welcome to the second episode of CONNECTING THE DOTS. We pick a theme for every episode and try and look at that topic from multiple lenses. Where appropriate, I also try and bring in my experiences as a Coach and a Sounding Board and from my journey as well. In this second episode, we discuss External Self-Awareness. How do we tune into the feedba…

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677: EP1: Connecting the Dots - Internal Self-awareness 46:14

1+ y ago46:14

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Welcome to the first episode of CONNECTING THE DOTS. We pick a theme for every episode and try and look at that topic from multiple lenses. Where appropriate, I also try and bring in my experiences as a Coach and a Sounding Board and from my journey as well. In this first episode, we discuss INTERNAL SELF-AWARENESS. Barry Schwartz (Author of Parado…

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102.00 David Noble & Carol Kauffman on Real-time Leadership 1:17:20

1+ y ago1:17:20

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GUEST Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. This quote is attributed to Viktor Emil Frankl, an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, devoted his life to studying, understanding and promoting “meaning.” Carol Kaufman and David Noble give us practical tools that we can …

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676: 102.01 David and Carol - The MOVE framework 6:17

1+ y ago6:17

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NUGGET CONTEXT Carol and David speak about their M.O.V.E framework; M – Mindful, O – Options Generating, V – Validating the Vantage Point, E – Engage and effect change. The key, they say, borrowing from Viktor Frankl, is to create the space between stimulus and response. This is a “sampler” of what a nugget looks like in our podcast. While we have …

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675: 101.00 - Stephen M.R. Covey on Trust and Inspire 1:32:58

1+ y ago1:32:58

1:32:58

GUEST Stephen M. R. Covey is an American writer and public speaker and the author of the books: The SPEED of Trust, Smart Trust, and Trust & Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash the Greatness in Others. He is the co-founder and CEO of a company called CoveyLink Worldwide and former President and CEO of Covey Leadership Center. He happens to be …

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675: 101.1 Stephen M.R. Covey - Growing out of father's shadows 10:30

1+ y ago10:30

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NUGGET CONTEXT Stephen speaks about how he initially focused on the business side of things while his father was the ‘larger than life’ thought leader. He speaks about how, over time, his insights around the high cost of low trust have emerged and how he has found his voice a thought leader over time. This is a “sampler” of what a nugget looks like…

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674: 100.00 Christopher Clarey on Roger Federer's journey 1:26:18

1+ y ago1:26:18

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GUEST Roger Federer is somebody who needs no introduction. While, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal have overtaken him in terms of the overall Grand Slams won, when there is a discussion about the Greatest of All Time (GOAT), all fingers very often still point to Roger. One could attribute that to his fluidity, his charm on and off court, his longevi…

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673: 100.01 Christopher Clarey - Signs of early potential 5:47

1+ y ago5:47

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NUGGET CONTEXT Chris speaks about how people were talking about Roger’s potential when he was just 13 or 14. He speaks about how Regis Brunet saw Roger in action in Florida and then immediately ran to the payphone to get hold of Roger’s parents back in Switzerland. This is a “sampler” of what a nugget looks like in our podcast. While we have a few …

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672: 99.00 Michiel Kruyt on Deliberate Calm - How to Learn and Lead in a Volatile World 1:10:58

1+ y ago1:10:58

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GUEST Michiel Kruyt is CEO of IMAGINE, an advisory boutique helping executive teams develop future fit leadership and company vision. He had a fifteen-year career at McKinsey and Co, where he was a partner focusing on top team effectiveness, large-scale transformations and culture change. He helped many top teams around the world increase their abi…

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672: 99.01 Michiel Kruyt - HUL to McKinsey to Transformation Work 10:04

1+ y ago10:04

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NUGGET CONTEXT Michiel speaks about the arc of his journey and how he shifted trajectories over time and over time his interests and passions shifted from Sales, Marketing and General Management at Unilever to driving Personal Transformation at McKinsey and beyond. This is a “sampler” of what a nugget looks like in our podcast. While we have a few …

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671: 98.00 Jeffrey Pfeffer on 7 Rules on of Power 1:08:16

2y ago1:08:16

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GUEST Jeffrey Pfeffer has been teaching at Stanford since 1979. He has Co-Authored or Authored 16 books, the last one being, 7 Rules of Power. He is in the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame, a list that celebrate the all-time greats in the world of Business that are moving the world forward with their original ideas. We spoke at length about his recent book…

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671: 98.01 Jeffrey Pfeffer - Autonomy vs Power 6:04

2y ago6:04

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NUGGET CONTEXT Jeffrey speaks about how he came around to studying Power. He also goes on to speak about the kinds of career choices he has made and what he has said No to over time as his Power increased over time. This is a “sampler” of what a nugget looks like in our podcast. While we have a few nuggets on popular podcast platforms, entire libra…

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670: Top 10 Insights from 2022 40:34

2y ago40:34

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Merry Christmas and Best wishes for 2023! As we wind down 2022, we share the Highlights from the year gone by. If you have been following the podcast, you would appreciate that we are offering the Podcast as a service. All the content is free and there is no advertising on our podcast. If you are deriving value from the podcast, this festive season…

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669: 97.00 David Bradford on Connect - Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends and Colleagues 1:19:02

2y ago1:19:02

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GUEST David has been teaching the landmark Interpersonal Dynamics course (informally called as Touchy Feely by many) at Stanford for over 50 years. He has distilled some of his learnings and insight from these five decades in a recently published book titled – Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends and Colleagues. It is al…

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669: 97.01 David Bradford - Markers of an "exceptional" relationship 9:47

2y ago9:47

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NUGGET CONTEXT David shares 6 markers of what he calls as “Exceptional Relationship”. 1) You can be more fully yourself and so can the other person. 2) Both of you are willing to be vulnerable 3) You trust that self-disclosures will not be used against you 4) You can be honest with each other 5) You deal with conflict productively 6) Both of you ar…

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668: 96.00 Ethan Kross on Chatter – The voice in our head 1:02:52

2y ago1:02:52

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GUEST Ethan is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. He is an award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s Psychology Department. His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science. He has recently published the bo…

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667: 95.00 Manjari Jaruhar - The story of Bihar’s first Woman IPS officer 1:57:41

2y ago1:57:41

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GUEST Manjari Jauhar is Bihar’s first IPS officer and one of the first five IPS officer in India (Kiran Bedi being the first). After an unexpected turn of events upended the homemaker role her parents had planned for her, Manjari Jaruhar overcame extraordinary odds to become the first woman from Bihar to join the country’s elite police cadre. Her j…

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666: 94.00 Tarun Khanna on his book - Leadership to Last 1:14:09

2y ago1:14:09

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GUEST Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School (HBS), where he has sought for two decades to study the drivers of entrepreneurship in emerging markets as a means of economic and social development. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton and Harvard, he has taught courses on strategy, corpora…

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665: 93.00 Raghu Ananthanarayanan on Leadership lessons from The Mahabharata 2:10:37

2y ago2:10:37

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GUEST Raghu is formally trained as an engineer with an MS in Bio-Medical Engineering from IIT, Madras, He has been in immersive involvement in questions of human life. He says that three extraordinary teachers mentored him when he was going through a very difficult phase of life, namely, J Krishnamurti, Yogacharya Krishnamacharya and Pulin K Garg. …

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664: 92.00 Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg on The Art of framing the problems to solve 1:16:36

2+ y ago1:16:36

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GUEST Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg is the author of What’s Your Problem? (Harvard Business Press, 2020), a book on how to solve the right problems. His research has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Economist, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, BBC Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek and the Financial Times. His work on innovation led HR Magazine …

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663: 91.00 Ayelet Fishbach on her book - "Get It Done": Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation 1:18:46

2+ y ago1:18:46

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GUEST Ayelet Fishbach, Ph.D., is the Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and the author of Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation. She is the past president of the Society for the Study of Motivation and the International Social Cogn…

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662: 90.00 Alisa Cohn on her book - From Start-Up to Grown-Up 1:03:43

2+ y ago1:03:43

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GUEST Alisa has been coaching startup Founders to grow into world-class CEOs for nearly 20 years. She has recently authored the book - From Start-Up to Grown-Up. Alisa is a guest lecturer at Harvard and Cornell Universities, Henley Business School and the Naval War College. She serves on the board of the Cornell Advisory Council. Her articles have …

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661: 89.00 Dan Pink on The Power of Regret 1:17:38

2+ y ago1:17:38

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GUEST Daniel H. Pink is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including his latest, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, published in February. His other books include the New York Times bestsellers When and A Whole New Mind — as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. Dan’s books have w…

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660: 88.00 Pradeep Chakravarthy on Lessons from Indian History 58:08

2+ y ago58:08

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GUEST Pradeep Chakravarthy is a behaviourist who uses Indian models of L&D to alter behaviour. He has recently published the book - Leadership Shastra which looks at some of the rulers of the past and culls out lessons in leadership and culture. He has written a book - Thanjavur - a Cultural History (2010) and A Road Less Travelled - A Historian’s …

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659: 87.00 Ravi Venkatesan on his book - What the heck do I do with my life 1:31:48

2+ y ago1:31:48

1:31:48

GUEST Ravi Venkatesan has been on the podcast about 5 years back. In that conversation we spoke about his journey and his transition from Cummins to Microsoft to Board Roles. In this conversation, we dive into his recently published book - What the Heck Do I Do with My Life. Some of the topics we cover include the notion of a punctuated equilibrium…

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658: 86.00 Ayse Birsel on Bringing Design Thinking principles in creating a life we love 1:15:53

2+ y ago1:15:53

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GUEST Ayse is an accomplished Industrial Designer and has worked with Brands like Herman Miller, IKEA, Amazon and Toyota. She is the author of Design the Life You Love and gives lectures on Design the Work You Love to corporations. She was on the Fast Company’s list of Most Creative People in 2017 and on the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 people t…

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657: 85.00 Dorie Clark on Playing the Long Game 1:07:57

3y ago1:07:57

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GUEST Dorie Clark is an American author and executive education professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She has recently published her 4th book - The Long Game - How to be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World. Her previous books include Reinventing You (2013), Stand Out (2015), Entrepreneurial You (2017). She completed her Mas…

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656: 84.00 Rajiv Vij on his book - Inside Out Leadership 1:41:49

3y ago1:41:49

1:41:49

GUEST Rajiv Vij is a life and executive coach, author and speaker. He works with senior leaders of several Fortune 500 companies and other large organisations across Asia and India and has been a coach to industry leaders. He also voluntarily coaches a number of founders and leaders of social-sector organisations. He is the author of Discovering Yo…

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655: 83.00 Harsh Mariwala on his book - Harsh Realities 1:11:35

3y ago1:11:35

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GUEST Harsh Mariwala is Founder and Chairman of Marico, an FMCG giant well known for brands like Parachute and Saffola. He has recently Co-Authored the book - Harsh Realities (Published by Penguin Random House) along with Management Guru, Ram Charan. The book is a story of how Harsh broke away from the shackles of family-run Bombay Oil Industries L…

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654: 82.00 Sukhinder Sing Cassidy on her book - Choosing Possibility - How to master risk and thrive 1:04:44

3y ago1:04:44

1:04:44

GUEST Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is one of Google’s and Silicon Valley’s most respected leaders. She has worked at various tech and media companies including Google, Amazon, NewsCorp, Yodle and Polyvore. At one stage she was heading Latin America and Asia Pacific in Google in 2008. She is credited with building Google’s presence across 103 countries i…

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653: 81.00 Lloyd Reeb on Half-Time: Transitioning from a life of Success to Significance 1:24:37

3y ago1:24:37

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GUEST Lloyd Reeb is a successful real estate developer and owner of retirement housing who made a mid-life transition, looking for greater meaning, joy and impact in his second half. He has had the privilege of investing 20 years helping leaders plan their second half. He helped launch the Halftime Institute, a global team that teach, coach and con…

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652: 80.00 Harish Bhat on his journey, the Tata Group, Leadership, Social Impact and more 1:25:43

3y ago1:25:43

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GUEST Harish Bhat is the Brand Custodian of Tata Sons. He has had a ~35 year career at the Tata Group and has held several leadership roles including COO - Watches and Accessories Business at Titan, MD & CEO of Tata Consumer Products, Chairman of the Board at Tata Coffee Limited and more. He is the Author of four books. "#Tata Stories", 40 timeless…

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651: 79.00 Katy Milkman on her book - How to Change - science of getting from where you are to where you want to be 1:15:06

3y ago1:15:06

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GUEST Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a secondary appointment at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. Her research explores ways that insights from economics and psychology can be harnessed to change consequential behaviors for good, such as savings, exercise, vaccination…

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650: 78.00 Amy Edmondson on Psychological Safety and Leadership 1:14:13

3y ago1:14:13

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GUEST Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. Amy has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #3 in 2019. She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organizational learning, and her articles have been…

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649: 77.00 Darleen DeRosa on her book - Leading at a distance - Lessons on Virtual Leadership 1:26:58

3+ y ago1:26:58

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GUEST Over the last year and a quarter, since March 2020, a lot of us have been thrown into this work from anywhere world without any prior preparation. It is like being thrown into the deep end of a swimming pool without any prior training. We have had to figure out our own response to the evolving situation. While there has been no shortage of wi…

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648: 76.00 Tom Vanderbilt on his book - Beginners: Embracing challenges and the joy of learning at any age 1:33:39

3+ y ago1:33:39

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GUEST For many of us, the last time we learned a new skill was during childhood. We live in an age which reveres expertise but looks down on the beginner. Upon entering adulthood and middle age, we begin to shy away from trying new things, instead preferring to stay nestled firmly in our comfort zones. Beginners asks the question: why are children …

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647: 75.00 Dan Cable on Unlocking Our Best Self: Reflections through Life's Highlights 1:22:41

3+ y ago1:22:41

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GUEST Dan Cable is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. Dan’s research and teaching focus on employee engagement, change, organizational culture, leadership mindset, and the linkage between brands and employee behaviors. Dan was selected for the 2018 Thinkers50 Radar List, The Academy of Management has twice honored Dan …

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646: 74.00 Sally Helgesen on her book - How Women Rise 1:34:01

3+ y ago1:34:01

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GUEST Sally Helgesen, cited in Forbes as the world’s premier expert on women’s leadership, is an internationally best-selling author, speaker and leadership coach. Sally’s most recent book, How Women Rise, co-authored with Marshall Goldsmith, examines the behaviors most likely to get in the way of successful women. It became the top-seller in its f…

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645: 73.00 Dr. Jennifer Goldman Wetzler on embracing Healthy Conflict and finding our style 1:17:17

3+ y ago1:17:17

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GUEST Dr. Jennifer (Jen) Goldman Wetzler is a leading expert on Conflict and Organizational psychology. For two decades, she has advised senior leaders at global corporations in a wide range of industries as well as at large non-profit and governmental institutions. She is the author of Optimal Outcomes - Free yourself from conflict at Work, at Hom…

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644: 72.00 Bill Carr on the Amazonian Way 1:29:41

3+ y ago1:29:41

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GUEST Bill Carr is the Co-Author (along with Colin Bryar) of the recently published book Working Backwards - Insights, Stories and Secrets from Inside Amazon. In Working Backwards, these two long-serving Amazon executives reveal and codify the principles and practices that drive the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the world has e…

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643: 71.00 Sanjeev and Hari on their book: From Pony to Unicorn 1:15:39

3+ y ago1:15:39

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GUEST Sanjeev Aggarwal and Hari TN have seen the "scale-up movie” in different contexts. Sanjeev was the Founder CEO of Daksh that he eventually sold to IBM. He is now an investor at Helion Ventures and Fundamentum Partnership. The have recently co-authored the book - From Pony to Unicorn - Scaling a Start-up sustainably. From Pony to Unicorn lucid…

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642: 70.00 Bruce Feiler on his book - Life is in the Transitions 1:22:22

4y ago1:22:22

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GUEST Bruce Feiler is an American writer and television personality. He is the author of 15 books, including Council of Dads, a book that describes how he responded to a diagnosis of a rare cancer by asking a group of men to be present in the lives of his young daughters. His latest work explores the power of life stories. Drawing on interviews wit…

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