Ep 58. Kim Malone Scott: Radical Candor

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Kim Malone Scott is author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss without
Losing Your Humanity. She led AdSense, YouTube, and Doubleclick Online
Sales and Operations at Google and then joined Apple. These experiences
informed her theories on what makes a kickass boss! Stew and Kim discuss
how to give constructive feedback and avoid manipulative insincerity,
ruinous empathy, and obnoxious aggression. They explain how to practice and
its importance as well as the dangers of feedback debt.Listen to learn more
about effective, constructive feedback…[Click for more]

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Ep 57. Joanna Barsh: Grow Wherever You Work

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Joanna Barsh is a director emerita at McKinsey & Company and President of
the Centered Leadership Project.  She is the bestselling author of How
Remarkable Women Lead and Centered Leadership. And her latest book is Grow
Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest
Challenges. Stew and Joanna talk about how you actually do this.  They
discuss what happens if things don’t go the way you want them to and should
you stay or should you go?…[Click for more]

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Ep 56. Brett Hurt: Linking the World’s Data for Good

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Brett Hurt is the CEO and co-founder of data.world, his sixth startup, a
Public Benefit Corporation and Certified B Corporation® focused on building
the most meaningful, abundant, and collaborative data resource in the
world. Brett also founded and led Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics and is on the
Board of Conscious Capitalism. He and Stew talk about how to build a
humane, compassionate workplace…[Click for more]

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Ep 55. David Thomas: Overcoming Unconscious Bias

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David Thomas was recently named as the new president of Morehouse College,
a traditionally African American, all-male college in Atlanta. Previously
he was a Professor at Harvard Business School and Georgetown University’s
McDonough School of Business, where he served as dean. His research
addresses issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in
organizations, leadership, and organizational change.  Stew and David talk
about his powerful, award-winning book, Breaking Through: The Making of
Minority Executives in Corporate America, which has had a major impact on
tackling this issue, one of the most crucial in our society today…[Click
for more]

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Ep 54. Jeff Pfeffer: Leadership B. S.

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Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational
Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business  and author or
co-author of 14 books and more than 150 articles and book chapters.
Professor Pfeffer has won numerous awards for his scholarly research. He
spoke with Stew about his latest book,… [Click here for more]

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Ep 53. Amy Wryzesniewski: Job Crafting

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Amy Wryzesniewski  is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale
School of Management. She studies how people make meaning of their work. In
addition to being published in top academic journals, her work is cited in
best-selling books by Daniel Pink, Shawn Achor, Martin Seligman, and the
Dalai Lama. Stew and Amy talk about the different ways people construe
their work — either as a job, a career, or a calling. To find out how to
make your job more meaningful…[Click for more]

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Ep 52: Bob Pozen: Extreme Productivity

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Bob Pozen is currently a Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of
Management and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. And he is a
former President of Fidelity Investments and Former Executive Chair of MFS
Investment Management. He has written  Extreme Productivity: Boost Your
Results, Reduce Your Hours.  Stew and Bob talk about how we can all be more
productive, more efficient,  more mindful with our time, and how to get
more flexibility…[Click here for more]

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Ep 51. Vik Bakhru: Own Your Health

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Vikram Bakhru, M.D. is Chief Operating Officer at ConsejoSano, a
multicultural technology platform dedicated to improving health outcomes in
under served populations by improving their access and their engagement.
 He has an MBA from Wharton and serves on the Board of Directors for
several organizations including the Foundation for International Medical
Relief of Children.  To learn about changes in the healthcare industry and
how you personally can gain control of your own health…[Click for more]

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Ep 49. Josh Levs: Paternity Leave Champion

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Josh Levs is an author, entrepreneur, and expert on fathers in the
workplace. For 20 years, Josh wrote for NPR and CNN. He is a six-time
Peabody award-winner and two-time Edward R. Murrow award-winner.  At the
time of the birth of his third child he sued his employer, CNN/Time Warner,
to obtain a paternity leave for biological fathers that matched the
company’s leaves for mothers and adoptive parents….[Click here for more]

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Ep 48. Sanyin Siang: Find Your Superpower and Launch

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Sanyin Siang is an author, leadership advisor, and CEO coach. She
co-founded and leads the Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) at
Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.  Her The Launch Book draws on
first-hand stories and behavioral science principles to help us all be
braver about launching – because she believes that we’re all “launching”
all the time.  Stew and Sanyin talk about what happens when we’re trying
something new—whether it’s an idea at work, a big move in our personal
lives, or the start of a company. To hear more about Inspiration Boards,
Impact Boards, building your tribe — including naysayers — and more…[
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