The Great Work Podcast: Recent Episodes
Michael Bungay Stanier
What if you could do more of the work that made a difference, had meaning and created an impact? (And what if you could also do less of all that other stuff that fills up your day?) In these animated, engaging and practical podcasts, Michael Bungay Stanier, Senior Partner at Box of Crayons shares strategies, talks to thought leaders and provokes you to do less Good Work ... and more Great Work.
The other day I was rereading one of my favourite books of all time, The Managerial Moment of Truth. Robert Fritz is the co-author, and he is a giant in the management field, delving into how structural relationships impact behaviour, from individuals
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If you’ve ever felt that someone has been rude or uncivil to you at work, I think you’ll really enjoy today’s conversation. My guest is Christine Porath, associate professor of management at McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and
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If you’ve had conflicting thoughts about minimalism, you’re not alone. One of the core values here at Box of Crayons is elegance — finding the simplest, cleanest form of something. But I also love art and gifts; I’m not somebody
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If you read or have read Fast Company, you may already be familiar with Bill Taylor. He’s one of the magazine’s co-founders; he’s also the author of a terrific new book called Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things
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Here we are, settling into February. For many of us, all of our good intentions for how 2017 will be different have gone quietly by the wayside. However, there’s no better time to get back on track, and to get clarity on
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I first interviewed my guest today, Dan Roam, about five years ago. He is the author of several books on the power of drawing; his latest is Draw to Win: A Crash Course on How to Lead, Sell, and Innovate with Your
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Srinivas Rao has interviewed over six hundred people on his podcast Unmistakable Creative. He’s also the author of a new book titled Unmistakable: Why Only Is Better than Best. In it, Srinivas tells the story of quitting his job to pursue his dream of
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Have you ever been conned? I know I have. If you’ve ever felt a little vulnerable, you’re going to enjoy this conversation with my guest Maria Konnikova. Maria’s a New York Times bestselling author. Her first book, Mastermind: How to Think
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Ryan Holiday is a media strategist and prominent writer on strategy and business. His best-known book is The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph, and he has a new book out titled Ego Is the
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I loved Matthew May’s 2010 book, In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing. It was a seminal text for me. He now has a new book out, titled Winning the Brain Game: Fixing the 7 Fatal
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Business books can sometimes be too abstract; sometimes they’re too tactical. It’s like with Goldilocks: you’re looking for that perfect combination of not too much, not too little, but just right. Well, today I’m talking to Karin Hurt, co-author of Winning
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At Box of Crayons, our bigger purpose is to help people in organizations do less Good Work and more Great Work. So it’s a real pleasure to be talking with today’s guest, Cal Newport. Cal is an associate professor of
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How do you build your personal resilience, and why is it so important to do so? Well, you may have heard the term “VUCA world” — a volatile, uncertain, chaotic and ambiguous world. Chances are you can see elements of all four playing out in
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I met Jenny Blake when she worked for Google, where she was doing internal coaching and career development and helping manage Authors@Google. She left Google in 2011 to launch her first book. Then, interestingly, Jenny spent a number of years
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Everybody has those days where they feel a little more anxiety, a little more stress, than usual. I recently heard a quote that was attributed to a Navy SEAL: “Under stress, you sink to the level of your training.” Such a
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Around 2004, Dan Pink said—and I’m paraphrasing here—“The MFA is actually the new MBA because these are the skills that are required to really flourish in work.” However, figuring out how to bring our creative selves into a hectic, often
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In The Simplicity Survival Handbook, Bill Jensen offers up — in a way that is practical and easy to read — strategies for doing less but accomplishing more. Bill was one of my very first Great Work Podcast interviews, so it’s appropriate
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Jessica Hagy is an artist, a visual storyteller and the author of the book How to Be Interesting. I spoke to Jessica three or so years ago and was truly impressed by her wake-up call to be the hero of our own
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If you’ve read this blog or listened to my interviews over the years, you’ll be familiar with Jennifer Louden. Jen is part of my Brain Trust, a group of mastermind people who support each other through strategy and tactics, hugs and arse
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There are times when we are called forth to be a bigger, bolder, better version of ourselves. To do so, we need courage. When we can access our courage, it allows us to take a stand and gives us a
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Here at Box of Crayons we often talk about how Great Work has three key attributes: focus, courage and resilience. Four years ago, I interviewed Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener about his book The Courage Quotient, which explores the science of courage and myths
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Before writing the powerful and transformative book Body of Work, Pamela Slim was best known for her Escape from Cubicle Nation, an impassioned plea to organizations to let people do Great Work — or let them go free. That’s when I first interviewed Pam,
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I’m a big believer in the saying that, with the exception of gravity, all rules are negotiable. Lisa Bodell, founder and CEO of futurethink, as well as the author of the provocative culture-change book Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation
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Philip Zimbardo is a psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He’s probably best known for his book The Lucifer Effect, which is a powerful and disturbing look at why good people do bad things, based on the findings of the
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My friend Sally Hogshead is a New York Times bestselling author and world-class branding expert. Her book How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination is based on the premise that to become more successful, you do not
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This week during our month-long 300th-episode celebration, I’m bringing back some of the most provocative interviews I’ve had over the past few years of podcasting. One of those thought-provoking conversations was with Raj Sisodia, who waves the flag for capitalism as
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Daniel Witthaus is a gay rights advocate and education activist on a mission to eliminate homophobia. In 2002 he launched Pride & Prejudice, an educational program aimed at helping secondary school teachers challenge homophobia in their classrooms. Since then he’s launched
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Gina Trapani is a web developer and writer, and one of the most influential people in technology — she was recently named as among the 100 most awesome women in the open source community. I’m revisiting this interview with Gina as part
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As you know, dear reader, we are in the midst of celebrating of our 300th episode of the Great Work Podcast, and I’m reaching into the vaults to pull out some of the most enlightened, most profound conversations I’ve had
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Leo Babauta is a guy I have long known, admired and liked. He’s been a guest on this podcast twice over the years, and these interviews are some of the most popular here on the Great Work Podcast. He’s the
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When it comes to rewiring our patterns, one of the biggest names in behaviour change is BJ Fogg. He’s a teacher at Stanford University, where he leads the Persuasion Technology Lab, and also the force behind the website Tiny Habits.
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Hello and welcome to week 2 of our Great Work Podcast 300th-episode celebration. All this week I’ll be pulling out the best of the best from our vaults to highlight fascinating conversations featuring actionable insights. Be sure to comment here on the
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As part of the research for this month-long celebration of our 300th podcast, I took a look back at some of the most popular episodes, and in that Top 10 is this conversation with Dan Siegel. Dan is a clinical
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Mary Beth O’Neill is one of my heroes. I spoke with her back in 2011, and it’s a conversation that still resonates today. (Plus it is one of my most popular podcasts from the previous 300 episodes.) She is the author of
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We’re on a roll with our month-long 300th-episode celebration. So I’m pleased to share my conversation with Danielle LaPorte, which took place a few years ago. Danielle writes and speaks extensively on how to live an authentic, damn good life and make
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As part of our celebration of 300 episodes of the Great Work Podcast, I’m revisiting a handful of conversations that feature astute insights and actionable takeaways. I spoke to Dan Coyle, author of The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born; It’s Grown;
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As part of our month-long celebration of our 300th-episode milestone, I’m revisiting some of my favourite, most provocative, most popular and most insightful Great Work Podcast conversations. I’m kicking things off with a riveting discussion I had with the great Brené
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Today is a huge milestone for the Great Work Podcast. It’s the 300th episode since the podcast launched back in 2009, when it was originally called Great Work Interviews. I wanted to take this moment to reflect on some of
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In a quandary? Don’t know what to do? We all have moments when we aren’t sure which path is the right one for us. I’m sharing a short poem by Marie Howe, called “My Dead Friends.” I think you may
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We live in a “VUCA” time: Volatile, Unpredictable, Complex and Ambiguous. To survive, you need to be developing your own sense of personal resilience. I have four books to share with you. In each one I think there are some
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When I think about the icons of management and leadership theorists, not many names come to mind. But a few do. Peter Block, Peter Drucker, Frances Hesselbein. In this interview, I had the deep pleasure of speaking with Frances from her
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We’ve all been there. Those days when we feel a little lost, perhaps too old to try something new or like you’ve missed the bus on an opportunity. The ability for you to do your Great Work really comes down
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I’m excited to be speaking to Amy Cuddy, who you may remember from her incredible TED Talk on power poses. Amy has a new book out, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, in which she presents the underlying
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Can making a difficult decision be as simple as finding the easy way, and stepping into a more comfortable pattern? Listen to this poem and decide for yourself. Full Transcript Okay. I’ve got a poem for you. I think you’re
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Did you know that over 80% of the world’s employees are disengaged at work? That figure is both enormous and depressing. Unfortunately, too many workplaces can be a mediocre environment — the kind of environment that saps people’s spirit, engagement, motivation
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When you are up to your eyeballs in the Good Work you do every day, it’s sometimes impossible to figure out how to level up and get to your Great Work. That’s why I’m excited to be speaking to Whitney Johnson,
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It’s a distracting world out there. In the overwhelm of our workday, it’s easy to fall into the trap of trying to do it all at once. We’ve all been there—checking email while on a conference call or switching between
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Nancy Duarte, who has been a guest on this podcast more than once, is the well-known author of Slide:ology, a mind-blowing book about how to make PowerPoint not suck, as well as Resonate, which focuses on design. She’s also been one of the forces
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I’m really happy to be talking to Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff, the founders of Future Search. They have a terrific new book out called Lead More, Control Less: 8 Advanced Leadership Skills That Overturn Convention. In this conversation the three of us
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No doubt you are familiar with the phrase “Well, it’s not rocket science.” But you know, sometimes it actually is rocket science, and that’s what’s perfect about this next podcast interview I’ve got to share with you. I talk to Adam
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There’s a challenge with creativity and the way we think about it in our organizational life: it’s not part of our job description. It’s really important for all of us to understand that creativity is actually an everyday activity. It’s
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If Good Work is your job description, and getting stuff done for your organization, Great Work is about the work that has more impact, but also the work that has more meaning. It’s the work that lights you up. It’s
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There’s a quote that always makes me laugh. It’s this: for every problem there’s an answer that’s simple, straightforward, and wrong. One of the key challenges that we face in our organizational life, is that we’re always looking for the
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My guest today, Sally Osberg. She’s the CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and if you’re in the world of a social entrepreneurship you know that name well. Sally and Roger Martin, a previous guest on this podcast, have written a
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As a leader and manager, you want to help your team thrive and grow. To do that, you also need to help them learn. People learn when you create an opportunity to stop for a moment and reflect upon what
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You can probably guess that I’m interested in habits. I mean, after all, I’ve just published a book called The Coaching Habit, and maybe you’ve heard my podcast interviews with some people who I think are real thought leaders in this
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What comes first: culture or strategy? My guest today is Dee Ann Turner, who’s been the VP of Global Talent for Chick-fil-A for 30-some years. She’s also the author of a new book, It’s My Pleasure: The Impact of Extraordinary Talent
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Sarah Green Carmichael is an editor at Harvard Business Review. She is also the host of the HBR podcast called “The HBR IdeaCast” and has worked at HBR now for ten years. So Sarah has seen ideas come and go,
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I love this poem by Yeats. It touches upon how ordinary moments can be the catalyst for profound happiness, freedom and epiphanies. Full Transcript So here’s something short and sweet that I want to read to you. It’s a poem.
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One of the questions I hear all the time is, “So what are the best coaching questions for me as a manager and a leader?” Watch the video as I make the case for giving a little less advice and
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David Burkus is a busy man. He’s an author, a professor, a professional speaker, a podcaster and a tireless crusader for tearing down the wall between the ivory tower and the corner office. He’s also put a new book out
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You probably know Neil Pasricha from his amazingly successful Little Book of Awesome series, or perhaps his fantastic TED Talk. He’s just released a new book called The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything. In this conversation,
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One of the questions that comes up quite regularly when we’re talking to our clients at Box of Crayons is this: So, what are the barriers to coaching in the workplace? Coaching is a foundational skill for managers and leaders. And
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Are you are a seeker of conflict or an avoider of conflict? Today I’m talking to Amy Gallo (AmyEGallo.com), the author of the HBR Guide to Managing Conflict at Work, a really practical, useful book. She also runs workshops on conflict
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We’ve had Todd Kashdan on before talking about his book, Curious. We’ve had Robert Biswas-Diener on before talking about his book, The Courage Quotient. But somehow, without me really noticing, these guys got together, paired up, and have written a
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Fear and anxiety are a double-edged sword – they can both shut you down or help propel you to new heights. In this nine minute video, you’ll discover: What role “catastrophization” plays and how to avoid going down that path The
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The concept of the personal brand has been around for some time now, but in the freelance economy and the era of portfolio careers, it’s never been more relevant. How do you develop your own brand and accelerate your own
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We’ve all been there… those agonizing moments of self-doubt, or worse, when you feel like you’ve lost touch with who you are and who you were meant to be. Take a few minutes out of your day to listen to
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Are you ticking things off your to-do list or are you having a deeper impact at work? In this video, I reveal my top three books (and the lessons I’ve gleaned from them). Listen in as I cover: Why bad
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Coaching is a simple cycle. Insight, about yourself or about others, leads to behaviour change. In other words, insight allows you to think differently, which leads to positive impact, which leads to new insight. And hopefully that virtuous circle feeds
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Will MacAskill is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford. as well as the cofounder of two non-profits: 80,000 Hours,and Giving What We Can. He’s also the author of a new book called Doing Good Better, which is
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Kristoffer Carter, K.C., as he is known to everybody, is head of learning and development for Centro, a Chicago-based marketing and advertising digital media firm. That’s where he launched The Pause, a mindfulness & meditation program that has helped shaped Centro’s corporate
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Liz Wiseman is the author of Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work. She teaches leadership to executives and emerging leaders around the world and she’s the president and founder of the Wiseman Group, a
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It’s a tricky task to help people. On the one hand, your heart says, “Let me help you. Let me serve.” On the other hand, the very act of trying to do that often creates resistance to the very thing
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Today, I’m speaking with Kevin Nakao. He is the head of employee engagement and marketing at TINYPulse, a company that helps give leaders a pulse on how happy, burnt out, or frustrated their employees are. Kevin has a BA in philosophy
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Bob Chapman is the CEO of Barry-Wehmiller, and the author of a very good book, Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family. The heart of Barry-Wehmiller’s vision, is to use the power of business to
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I’ve had one, you’ve had one, we’ve all had one… at some point in your career you’ve encountered a boss who stresses us out. It can sometimes make work feel like you are walking on egg shells. And, that can
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I’m not calling you a bald-faced liar. But we all practise deception in our communication with those who matter to us, from co-workers to loved ones. Sometimes they’re sins of omission rather than commission. But all those deceptions keep us
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Much of life is a performance. From interviews to negotiations to first dates, we’re in high stakes situations all the time. So how do we ensure our best performance in these spotlight moments? Michael Port – actor, speaker, author and
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Today’s business environment is ruled by disruptive technology and rapid change. If you want to stay at the head of the pack, you have to remain hungry and competitive. Here, I talk with Jeremy Gutsche, CEO of Trend Hunter and
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My friend Dr. Laurel Braitman has written a big-hearted book about animals and how they thrive – and don’t thrive – in human company and what that says about us. Her book, Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants
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If you’ve been listening to this podcast for awhile, you may know that I talk about three core characteristics required to do more great work. One of them is resilience, and that’s what we’re going to be talking about today
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I get excited when I think about teams, because I think they are a real force of change and impact within most organizations. A good team is a wonderful thing. But if you’re like me, you’ve probably been on some
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Kevin Wilde is the maestro of learning at General Mills, but after a 17-year career with the company, he’s now in the process of wrapping up and moving on to his next challenge. During his time at General Mills, Kevin
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I’m really excited to talk to my guest today, Michael Housman. He’s the chief analytics officer at Cornerstone, but he describes himself as a workforce scientist. His webpage is called Decoding the Workforce, and he has devoted his career to
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Folks who are regular listeners of this podcast know that I’m fairly scornful of most business books. But I’m pretty excited to be talking today with Shane Snow, a web technology journalist and entrepreneur, and author of the new book Smartcuts:
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The interview was conducted before the holidays, when Leo Babauta of Zen Habits was promoting his new book, Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change, through Kickstarter. He is a guy who I have long known, admired and liked. Leo was one
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There’s a lot of interest lately in how mindfulness can lead to doing better work, and actually help us have a more meaningful life as we do our work. My guest today is Scott Eblin, author of a new book
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There’s something broken about the way we think about change, and about how we show up and work on a daily basis. So I’m really excited to be talking today with Niels Pflaeging, the author of Organize for Complexity, which
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Jen Louden is the author of eight books, including her latest, A Year of Daily Joy. She has also been part of what I call the Brain Trust, our mastermind group, for about eight years. I’m thrilled to connect with
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We all know what it’s like to feel overwhelmed, over-connected and overstretched. I’ve read a lot of books on the subject, and one of the very best I’ve read recently is by Brigid Schulte, an award-winning journalist for The Washington
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My guest today is Warren Berger, who has just put out a terrific book called A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas. He writes weekly for Fast Company and Harvard Business Review, and previously wrote
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Long-time listeners of the Great Work Interviews know that I think design and visual literacy are important. So it’s exciting to talk to Sunni Brown, who is Infodoodler-in-Chief at Sunni Brown Ink and author of the new book The Doodle Revolution:
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All of us need to influence others. To make an impact, we must convince the people around us that our ideas are worth considering. Today’s guest Roger Dooley, has fascinating insights into the subconscious, the most powerful word in marketing
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I recently had the pleasure of meeting Curtis Lefrandt, one of the principals at The Innovator’s DNA, which is a Silicon Valley-based innovation shop, training company and research engine. One of the organization’s co-founders is about to release a book
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My friend Sally Hogshead is a NYT bestselling author, whose new book, How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination, has rocketed to the top of the New York Times self-help and how-to-do-things list as well
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I’m really excited to be talking today with one of the leading thinkers in habit building. Tony Stubblebine is the CEO and co-founder of what used to be a habit app called Lift, but has evolved to become much more
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Lately we’ve been looking into how to build good habits so people can live better, happier and more productive lives. There are a bunch of apps out there to help build habits, and I use a couple of them, one
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Tina Nunno is a VP at Gartner, an IT research company. Her new e-book, The Wolf in CIO’s Clothing, deals with principles of thought leadership that apply whether you’re a CIO, a manager, a leader or even a regular person. Our conversation
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This month at Box of Crayons, we’ve been looking at how to speak the hard truth. There’s a lot of pretty ordinary advice out there on giving feedback and having the tough conversations, but I recently bumped into a guy
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This month, we’re looking into the theme of speaking the hard truth. So when I was thinking to myself who would be a great person to talk to about it, my friend Mark Silver immediately came to mind. Mark runs
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“Strategy” is one of the most abused and least understood words in the business lexicon today. It gets slapped in front of anything to make ideas sound more important. And a lot of the books out there that purport to
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This month I’ve really been thinking about the general sense of fun and joy within organizations. So when I noticed a book called Joy, Inc., it got my attention. The book is written by Rich Sheridan, who’s the CEO of
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So today I’m talking with Tal Ben-Shahar, who is an expert on the topic of happiness. He wrote Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment, which was a New York Times bestseller, and he was also a
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Today I’m wearing a pair of awesome socks and they come from the Bombas sock guys who follow the “buy one, give one” business model. One of those guys is Dave Heath, and he’s joining me today to talk about
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Most business books I read aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. That’s why I’m very excited to be talking today with Bob Sutton, author of a really great business book called Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More without Settling
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So I’m talking today with one of the true stars of the Box of Crayons faculty. Lea Belair has an eclectic background that includes certification in yoga, philosophy, meditation, hypnotherapy and NLP. She’s also a partner at the Coaching Center
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Quite frankly, my impression of the success of organizational change is pretty grim. I think only about 10% or 11% of change projects actually have the desired impact. So I’m excited to talk to my guest today, Leandro Herrero, who
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Dan Pontefract, who’s Head of Learning of TELUS. Dan has a lot of really practical experience thinking about how to get people aligned in doing meaningful work that makes a difference. He’s also speaking at the upcoming HRPA Conference. His
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So here in Canada, we just celebrated 10 years of gay marriage being formally recognized, and of course the U.S. has had some significant Supreme Court rulings lately. All of that is fantastic, but there’s still an awful lot of
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I’m talking today with Jennifer Corriero and Michael Furdyk. They’re co- founders of a fantastic Toronto-based organization that engages youth in social enterprise and technology, and really thinks about how we function as a worldwide community. It’s called Taking IT
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I recently started therapy, for the first time in my life, and it’s all because of a fantastic book called Mindsight. It’s very powerful and has already had a real influence on my life. So I’m very excited to be
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Whether you work for a big corporation or your own company, there’s very little job security in today’s economy. So it’s increasingly important to be thinking about yourself as a brand. My guest today is a global expert on personal
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Today the good folk at 99U launch their second book, Maximizing Your Life: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks, and Build an Incredible Career. I’m one of the contributors, and having just re-read it I must say I’m pretty happy with the
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So I’m excited to talk today with Mark McGuinness, a creative business coach who’s really a thought leader in his field. He’s a trained psychotherapist and also a poet, and he’s moved his focus into working with creative professionals to
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I’m talking today with Tim Harford, who’s something of an expert on financial matters. He’s a writer and senior economist for the Financial Times. He also wrote The Undercover Economist, a book that has sold gazillions of copies and has
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If you’re like me and you’re in the world of learning, development and employee engagement, you’ve probably heard me get excited about the concept of gamification. Well, I’m VERY excited to be talking to Gabe Zichermann today. He’s CEO of
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If you’re in this world of learning and development, as I am, you’ll understand that it’s a constant struggle to find ways of getting people to truly engage with the content and have it stick with them in a way
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I’m talking today to my friend and colleague, Roger Bilas. He’s a Box of Crayons Certified Program Leader and he also runs his own company, The Bilas Group. Roger and I have had many great conversations about helping people build
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If you’re a regular listener, you’ll know that I’ve talked to people like The Power of Habit author Charles Duhigg and TinyHabits.com creator BJ Fogg. My guest today is Josh Kaufman, author of The Personal MBA: Master the Art of
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As anyone listening to this interview probably knows, I’ve written a book called ‘Do More Great Work.’ So when I came across a book called ‘How to Find Fulfilling Work,’ the title grabbed me straight away. It’s written by Roman
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I’m speaking today with Mark Bowden, a friend, co-conspirator and accomplished author. In his new book, Tame the Primitive Brain: 28 Ways in 28 Days to Manage the Most Impulsive Behaviors at Work, Mark taps into the latest neuroscience to
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Wouldn’t it be cool if you knew how to stay sane? My guest today, Philippa Perry, has some helpful tips on how to do just that. She’s a U.K.-based psychotherapist and writer, and her new book, How to Stay Sane,
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So you may have seen today’s guest keynoting at any number of conferences around the world. His name is Mitch Joel and he’s a fantastic speaker, one of the most prolific bloggers I know and the author of a terrific
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So one of the great things about my job is that I get to travel to some interesting places, and one of those places is Amsterdam. One of the recent benefits I’ve had from visiting that wonderful city is connecting
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One of the interesting things I get to tackle in my job is working with smart people who are trying to increase the leadership capacity within their companies. One of those people is Gregor Thain, a man I first met
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I’m talking today with Chris Brogan who, if you don’t already know Chris Brogan, you should. He’s that awesome. He’s the CEO of Human Business Works, and author of a bunch of publications, including The New York Times bestseller Trust
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I’m really excited to be talking today with Penelope Trunk, who writes what is probably the world’s leading career blog. Her posts are fascinating, provocative and always well researched, but often go counter to what you might expect. So they’re
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If you’ve ever sat in your office and wondered whether your organization could be doing things better, you’re probably wrestling with some of the questions my guests today have explored in their book, The Org: The Underlying Logic of the
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I was speaking at the International Coach Federation (ICF) Conference several years ago, giving a talk called ‘The 5 Unspeakable Truths About Coaching.’ It was mostly well received, except by a few people who didn’t like my idea of examining
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I’m sure many of you want to change your behaviour. That’s one of the reasons you listen to this podcast. Lately, I’ve been reading up on how to build positive habits and shift out of less useful habits, so I’m
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A little while ago, I heard something that made me laugh: Inside every old person is a young person going, “What the hell just happened?” I’m 45, and I’m reaching the point in my career where a good percentage of
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(Jen’s opening enrolment to her terrific TeachNow program. If you’re a teacher, facilitator, trainer or coach, you’ll want to take a look to see how it can help you better engage and inspire those you work with. Here are the
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So if any of you were kind enough to buy End Malaria, the book I produced a year or so ago to raise money for Malaria No More, you’ll know that every section of the book starts with a cool,
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Gamification put simply, involves bringing game elements and design techniques into non-game contexts. After reading up on the concept for the past couple of years, I’m still not sure how it works. So I thought it would be fun to talk
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For more than a decade, Ron has worked at Cisco as the vice president of executive and customer engagement to develop and nurture a culture of sharing collaborative processes. Ron’s work lays out in 21st century terms the increasing need to have global
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Karen Wright is the ‘godfather’ of Canadian coaching. She is one of the most senior coaches in terms of experience, influence and connection to high-end executives in Canada. She runs a coaching company called Parachute Executive Coaching and has just
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Professor Clayton Christensen is a business world heavyweight. He’s an academic, author, entrepreneur, missionary, husband and father. He’s best known for his book, The Innovator’s Dilemma named one of the best business books ever written by The Economist. Prof. Christensen has created
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Bryan Pearson is president and CEO of Loyalty One, a global provider of customer insight and strategy, loyalty and marketing programs. Bryan has also written The Loyalty Leap: Turning Customer Information into Customer Intimacy. He’s been with Loyalty One for 20 years
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I’m fascinated with innovation and in particular, I always have an ear out for how the rules are changing. Lisa Bodell, founder and CEO of FutureThink, an internationally recognized innovation research and training firm is doing some very interesting work
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Dr. Beverly Kaye, is an official legend – as designated by the American Society for Training and Development. This speaks to her influence in the world of training and particularly in the world of career management. She wrote her first book, Up is
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It’s fair to say that I’ve been trying to meditate for more than half my life, but my record is still spotty at best. I’m always looking for well-written books to inspire me and I’ve found one in Real Happiness:
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If you want to do Great Work, you need to be able to enroll people, get them on your side and sell yourself. So whether you explicitly sell to people or are just trying to make stuff happen within your
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Jonah’s been in the news this week with the revelation that some of the quotes he attributed to Bob Dylan were fabricated. No doubt there’s a whole story behind what went on, but one victim in all of this might
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When I moved to Canada, ING Direct jumped out at me with their slightly rebellious, provocative and playful attitude. It seemed like the perfect home for Box of Crayons, and we’ve been dedicated clients over the past 11 years. So
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It’s always a delight to talk with a fellow Workman author. Today, I’m chatting with Paul Wilkes a freelance writer for 40 years with a slew of books under his belt including The Art of Confession: Renewing Yourself Through the
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I like to say that Great Work has three key attributes: focus, courage and resilience. Focus offers direction, so you know where to look. Courage gives you the willingness to take the first step. Resilience helps you keep going even when you
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Julien Smith is one of my all-time heroes. You take a dash of Seth Godin, a dash of Steven Pressfield and a dash of tequila and mix it all up and you get the provocative, dynamo Julien Smith. He’s the
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I’m thrilled to talk with Austin Kleon, author of the new book Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. I came across his work because we share the same publisher but his book really stood
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I can’t stop gushing about the work of John Jantsch. Anyone in the world of marketing and business should get to know him and see why Seth Godin calls him the Peter Drucker of small business marketing tactics. He’s the
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Here’s a statistic that will probably shock you: about 40% of everything you do is out of habit. So if you stop to think about it, almost half of your life is happening when you are largely unconscious working off
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If you’ve got too many plates spinning at once, feel overwhelmed by endless to do lists and no time to get stuff done, then my conversation with Lucy Jo Palladino, author of Find Your Focus Zone, is for you. Lucy
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Being strategic is one of those buzzwords in corporate life. So many companies seek to become more strategic without really knowing what it means or if all the stakeholders are defining it in the same way. Can people really learn
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Gina Amaro Rudan teaches that genius is something you can choose. She is the founder of Genuine Insights, an organization whose mission is the leverage the genius within each person and organization. She’s also the author of Practical Genius: The
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Danielle LaPorte’s website has been called, “The best place online for kickass spirituality” and I am pumped to be speaking with her today. She’s about to release her new book The Fire Starter Sessions. I caught an early glimpse of
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Jeff Liker has been studying Toyota for 30 years. With a background in sociology and engineering, he’s been watching them from up close and taking the lessons learned to apply more broadly to organizations and leaders. He’s the author of
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Today, as I sit on an IKEA chair at an IKEA desk, we’re talking to Anders Dahlvig, former CEO of IKEA. Anders is the author of The IKEA Edge: Building Global Growth and Social Good at the World’s Most Iconic
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Craig Ross is a CEO, executive facilitator, a coach, and co-author with Steve Vannoy of Degrees of Strength: The Innovative Technique to Accelerate Greatness. Today’s conversation is about the new book and how you can accelerate greatness: Craig shares about
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Dov Seidman is the author of a heavy, meaty book called How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything. Dov is the founder and CEO of LRN, which is focused on helping people build ethical corporate cultures and inspiring principled
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Michael Hyatt is a man of many talents. He writes a blog on leadership and he’s chairman of the Thomas Nelson Publishing Company, the largest Christian publishing company in the world. He’s a New York Times bestselling author, a runner
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If being more productive, creating a bigger contribution and tapping into a sense of purpose is something that matters to you, then you’re really going to value this conversation with Jason Womack. Jason is a champion of the psychology of
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I’m terribly excited about this conversation with Cinnie Noble, because she’s a fellow coach from Toronto and a world expert in conflict management coaching. Cinnie’s work as a coach has evolved from her career as a lawyer and a mediator.
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What’s your role in the workplace? Are you the visionary, the operator or the processor – and who are you driving crazy by taking on that role? I’d be happy to talk to Les McKeown anytime, but I’m especially excited
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Today we’re saying Namaste and welcome to my good friend and member of my mastermind group, Eric Klein. Eric has an eclectic background, bringing his meditation practice into his work with organizations, teaching how to enhance leadership through conscious development.
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Today we’re talking with a true champion of simplicity in our complex organizational lives. Dan Roam was the kid that got in trouble with his teachers because he spent all of his time drawing pictures in class. And 30 years
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I always say that there are 3 components to doing great work: focus to know what to do, courage to start, and resilience to keep going. So I’m excited to talk to Peter Bregman who offers new tools to help
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Many of us have suffered the tragedy of going to hundreds of meetings that are meandering and pointless, where you can feel your precious life slipping away. If you’re ready to revitalize meetings, then you need to check out Read
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Todd Henry is the creator of the popular business podcast Accidental Creative and the author of the new book The Accidental Creative: How to be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice. As many of you know, my background is in innovation
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Today, I have the pleasure of talking to a man that has the number 100 million on his mind. His personal mission is to help 100 million people make money through enjoyment by aligning their purpose, values and passions with
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It’s embarrassing that it’s taken me this long to post this interview with Tom. He’s an old friend, president and founder of the IATF, and and has long been a champion for helping teams do extraordinary things. This is important,
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Meet Mel Robbins, who is here on the planet to ignite courage inside of people and give people the permission and tools to be inspired again by life. She is the host of a daily radio show, author of Stop
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This in an interview from the archives. I talked to Professor Barbara Kellerman in 2008, shortly after the release of her book Followership: How Followers are Creating Change and Changing Leaders. (She has just released a new book, Leadership: Essential
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I’ve interviewed Alexandra before and she was one of the contributors to the End Malaria book. She has a new book out this week, Blind Spots which was a great excuse to catch up with her once more. The subtitle
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The Talent Code:Greatness Isn’t Born, It’s Grown Here’s How. It dances on the same space as Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, in that it really looks deeply at what it takes to succeed. What I like about it is it doesn’t just
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Mary Beth O’Neill is one of my heroes. I am insanely enthusiastic about her book Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart, and feel that her work has the ability to really shift the impact that coaching can have in an
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Andy Stefanovich shares my love of innovation. Andy was the co-founder of the innovation company Play, and is now the chief curator and provocateur at Prophet, a strategic brand and marketing consultancy. He recently wrote Look at More: A Proven
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Today I’m talking to Dr. Mike Pantalon, a motivational coach, consultant, speaker, psychologist and research scientist at the Yale School of Medicine. His book Instant Influence is about using motivational interviewing to connect and influence people. He has taught the
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If you’re in the business world, there’s no way you’ve missed the book Fish! In this book, Steve Lundin captured what it takes to make an organization flourish with joy, high morale and outstanding results. Steve has since written Top
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Rich Tosi is one of the founders of the Mankind Project, which helps men figure out how to live a full life. Over the past 20 years, tens of thousands of men have gone through this training (including me). The
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My guest today is Rafe Furst, whom I met at TEDActive in Palm Springs. Rafe stood up at TED and put something very interesting to the group. He said, “Look, I’m an angel investor. So I’ve got a lot of
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I came across Nic Askew’s work a few years ago when he started Monday9AM films, which are poignant and wonderful short films of both ordinary and extraordinary people reflecting on what makes them tick. Nic and his films were part
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What is your competitive advantage? How do you differentiate yourself? If you don’t know, you need to talk to Michel Neray, who is the “Chief Differentiation Officer” of Essential Message, a marketing company that helps people figure out their essential
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Mark Dowds had a comfortable job as a consultant when he decided to pursue his dream of creating software tools to foster collaboration and efficiency in the workplace. Friends thought he was crazy. It was a little crazy. So why
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Today’s guest is Jonas Ridderstrale, the Swedish author of the international bestseller Funky Business Forever: How to Enjoy Capitalism. As Tom Peters says, this book is the antidote for bland thinking and bland writing. It’s provocative, challenging and has been
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One of my goals in doing the Great Work interviews is to talk to people who make me think and make me laugh. And that’s why I’m thrilled to be talking to Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor at
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Einstein said, “If I had an hour to work out a problem, I would spend 59 minutes trying to figure out what was the actual problem and then one minute on the solution.” Steve Shapiro has applied this idea to
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How do you conduct brainstorming sessions that don’t suck? Shawn Coyne, author of Brainsteering: A Better Approach to Breakthrough Ideas” helps answer this question. Shawn is a former McKinsey consultant and with his brother Kevin, he is a founder of
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If you work in the music biz, you’ve heard of Derek Sivers, a musician and founder of CD Baby. CD Baby was started in 1997 to sell Derek’s own CD and then became a hobby to help out his friends.
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Some of us were sort of born into the world of self-development and coaching. But for Mike Robbins, his first calling was baseball. He was the standup pitcher at Stanford University, and led the team to a Pac-10 Conference Championship.
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I’m thrilled to be talking with Lynda Gratton, the Professor of Management Practice at London Business School. She is one of the world authorities on people in organizations and a significant influence around thinking about how people show up at
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Sally Hogshead is a star in the advertising and branding world. In her second year as a copywriter in an advertising firm, she won the most awards ever and was the most successful junior copywriter of all time. She opened
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Neil is a fellow Torontonian and the author of a totally fantastic blog, 1000 Awesome Things. Topics covered include: bakery air, finding money in your pocket and cool moms. This month his second (NY Times Best Seller) is out, The
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The problem with the internet is there are a gazillion blogs filled with information, but most of it is underwhelming. But an absolute gem, and one of my top three favorite sites ever on the internet is ThisIsIndexed.com, which is
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Today I’m talking to Professor Phil Zimbardo of Stanford University. I came to him through his book The Lucifer Effect which is a powerful and disturbing look at why good people do bad things, based on the findings of the
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My guest today is one of these young, funky people that makes me suddenly feel like an old man. Alexandra is a spokesperson for the new generation of workers, helping millennials to navigate the shift from being a student to
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Brian Hofland is working in his dream job as the Director of the Ageing Programme at Atlantic Philanthropies, an international foundation devoted to bringing about lasting change in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people, focusing on the areas of
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I came across Suzi Pomerantz two years ago when I got a copy of her book Seal the Deal, which is a terrific book for teaching the basic sales process for professional service businesses. Suzi is a Master Certified Coach
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Today is my first ever pair interview, with the two powerhouses behind the Milwaukee-based business book retailer, 800-CEO-READ. Jack Covert is the president and founder, and Todd Sattersten is the vice president, and these two guys read more business books
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Fun, failure and looking like a fool. What do these have to do with Great Work? Andreas Forsberg, Head of Management and Leadership Development at Nokia, will tell you all about it. I met Andreas at the Organizational Development Network
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Meet David Taylor, the Naked Leader. About six years ago, David’s book The Naked Leader was published in the UK and a friend emailed me and said I had to get a hold of it. I did, and I’ve been
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I often think, there should be a book for people who get out of college and look around and say, “What the hell just happened?” The good news is, there is a brand new book called Life After College by
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Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, with a bachelor’s, master’s and PhD in social work. She’s spent the past decade or so studying some juicy emotional issues — vulnerability, courage, authenticity and shame. Brene recently
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Professor Kanter is a colossus in the world of change and thinking about what it takes for organizations to thrive and flourish. She is the Ernest L. Arbuckle professor for Business Administration at Harvard Business School, a former editor of
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Given that so many people in the world are living in poverty, what is your responsibility to do something about it? This is the question Australian philosopher, Peter Singer tackles in his book The Life You Can Save. Peter is
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David Riklan is the founder and president of Self Improvement Online and the website www.selfgrowth.com, which is the super website of the self development world. In the early 90s, David was working in corporate America when he paid $35 for
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Joyce Russell is President and COO of Adecco USA, the largest staffing company in the country and the third largest employer in the North America. Joyce has been with Adecco for 20 years, and has risen through the ranks to
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Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. If there was one phrase that lies at the heart of the work that they do, it’s “Be remarkable.” Kevin has a new book out, From Bud to
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Where are the bottlenecks that slow down your projects? Today I’m speaking with a manufacturing manager at one of the most efficient, innovative, collaborative companies around. Peter Fritz works at 3M, which produces everything from Post-its to Scotch tape and
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There’s simple, complicated and complex. Simple is following a recipe for baking a cake, complicated is following a more sophisticated recipe for launching a space shuttle, and complex is a flock of birds. When I read Meg Wheatley’s first book
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I came across Neil Crofts’ work five years ago when someone rang me up from the UK and said “Man, you’ve got to read this book.” And that book was called Authentic: How to Make a Living by Being Yourself.
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Michael Port’s an interesting guy. His big splash was with his first book, Book Yourself Solid, and as you’d guess it’s about how to build a solid, profitable client base (especially if you’re a small, service-based company). But it’s not
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You already know that I’m a fan of David Allen’s work. So do you ever wonder what started him along the road to GTD? Let me introduce you to Russell Bishop. David and Russell were business partners for a number
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Today we’re rolling out the red carpet for the man in charge of Coca Cola’s brand. Until recently, Marc Mathieu was the Senior Vice President of Global Brands for the Coca Cola Company, where he worked for 12 years. During
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How do we change the world? How do we make the impossible happen? These are the questions addressed by Brenda Zimmerman, associate professor at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, a partner at Change-Ability and co-author
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I recently heard a story about a consultant who quit his job to become a car mechanic, and he loved it because he got the satisfaction of overseeing the whole process of taking a car that needed to be fixed
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As the director of Global Learning and Development and Chief Learning Officer at Dell, Inc., Alejandro Reyes is committed to making Great Work flourish in organizations. He was born and raised in Mexico City, and has managed learning and development
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Valeria Maltoni, the “Conversation Agent,” is one of the leading bloggers in the field of marketing. Valeria’s passion is around finding great people, building community, and building conversations between marketer and customer. Valeria describes herself as an endlessly curious, non-conformist
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A little while ago I got a phone call from someone who said “I’m talking to interesting, confident people. It’s what I do.” And that’s how I met Rich Litvin, that Confidence Guy. Rich is a coach with clients all
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