First – thank you to everyone who responded with podcast app suggestions. I’m going to start my experiment with Spotify since they’ve got some of my people exclusively and I’ve been reluctantly missing out for long enough (Brene, Esther – I’m back). I’ve already raved about John Green’s book, The Anthropocene Reviewed, but if you … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: John Green Reviews Adam Grant’s WorkLife
Man, I love a good argument. Who else starts an interview with Malcolm Gladwell by accusing him of flip-flopping on his logic from book to book? Adam Grant does. And how does Gladwell’s counter, that “Consistency is surely the lamest of all human virtues” not make you smile? This podcast is a trip. We get … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Adam Grant Versus Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell has been re-examing some of the ideas he popularized in his book Outliers. He took a visit to Adam Grant’s classroom at UPenn’s Wharton School to run an experiment: Could a group of college seniors and recent graduates identify what shared but rarely discussed privilege they all had in common? I won’t spoil … Continue reading “We Game The Things We’ve Given Up On” – Gladwell
Mark Cuban told Adam Grant he doesn’t believe in “following your passion.” His beef with “passion” is he thinks people should follow their effort instead. There’s a difference between the thing you care about and the thing you care to do. I’m a longstanding fan of the Seth Godin idea about how a hobby is … Continue reading Mark Cuban Says Don’t Follow Your Passion, Follow This Instead
Mark Cuban says any team, group, or organization can afford to have one knucklehead. That’s because one knucklehead will blend in, follow, and figure out how to not muck things up. However, if you have two knuckleheads – then you have a problem. Culture and chemistry are critical to success. A team can have one … Continue reading Mark Cuban On Why A Team Can Have One Knucklehead (But Not Two)
Texas had a littering problem. People were chucking stuff out of their windows while driving and it was making a mess. In 5 years they achieved a 75% decline in littering. Here’s what they did. They painted a clear picture of what was going on and what needed to be done. They pointed at shared … Continue reading Don’t Mess With Texas
For a lot of us, work from home hasn’t been so bad. I’m loving my dog walks and on-the-phone-pacing freedoms, but I get why others are eager to be in the office again. Consensus seems to be the future has some balance between the two, but what’s that actually look like as businesses reopen? Especially … Continue reading Stay At Home To Work, Go To Work To Collaborate
Here’s a painful feeling you might be familiar with: something is going wrong, you think, “I can fix this,” and you proceed to double, triple, quintuple, and ultimately go all-in on despite its borderline hopelessness. Been there? Turns out there’s a name for it (because of course there is). They’re called, “escalation of commitment errors.” … Continue reading When You Can’t Stop Stupid…
Adam Grant is lining up all my favorite people at the moment, and this WorkLife podcast with Brené Brown does not disappoint. What I like most about this conversation is they focus on how vulnerability, shame, guilt, authenticity, boundaries, and more – belong in our conversations at work. Not fit in, belong. Uncomfortable yet? It’s … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Brené Brown On What Vulnerability Isn’t
It’s a pet peeve of mine, ok? I get upset when people think science is all about certainty. Science isn’t about certainty. Science is about living with uncertainty and still making progress. It’s about mistakes, experiments, and learning. Thinking like a scientist, in life and with our careers, isn’t a bad approach, it’s the approach … Continue reading Scientific Thinking Isn’t About Being Certain
