Communication

Ep 220. Rob Cross: Breaking Free From Collaboration Overload

Ep 220. Rob Cross: Breaking Free From Collaboration Overload

Rob Cross is the Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College and the author of Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead and Restore Your Well-Being. He has studied the underlying network dynamics of effective organizations for more than 20 years. Rob is cofounder and Research Director of the Connected Commons business consortium and is the coauthor of five other books, including The Hidden Power of Social Networks. Stew talks with Rob about the causes of the epidemic of too much collaboration at work and how this problem has reduced productivity and well-being in all parts of our lives. Rob describes how to identify and reduce what he calls the now-common “micro-stressors” in our lives…[Click for more]

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Ep 206. Erica Dhawan: Digital Body Language

Ep 206. Erica Dhawan: Digital Body Language

Erica Dhawan is author of Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection No Matter the Distance and co-author of Get Big Things Done. She is also the Founder and CEO of Cotential. She was named by Thinkers50 as “The Oprah of Management Ideas” and featured as one of the Top 20 Management Experts around the world by GlobalGurus. Stew talks with Erica about her latest book and Erica shares lots of practical advice such as when to write in all caps, with whom to use emojis, how to negotiate ambiguous time-to-respond issues, how to respond to passive aggressive emails…[Click for more]

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Ep 202. Susan McPherson: The Lost Art of Connecting

Ep 202. Susan McPherson: The Lost Art of Connecting

Susan McPherson brings 25+ years of experience in marketing PR, and communications to her new book -- The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Relationships. Stew talks with Susan about the very best question to ask -- How can I help you? -- and how to build relationships at work and elsewhere….[Click for more]

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Ep 158. Maggie Jackson: Productive Uncertainty

Ep 158. Maggie Jackson: Productive Uncertainty

Maggie Jackson is an award-winning journalist. Her book Distracted: Reclaiming Our Focus in a World of Lost Attention has been described as “groundbreaking” and “essential.” Her book, What’s Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age, was the first to explore the fate of home in the digital age. Stew and Maggie talk about distraction and her new project — “productive uncertainty.” To learn about nourishing the “slow mind” and an openness to uncertainty… [Click for more]

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Ep 124. Hal Gregersen: Questions Are The Answer

Ep 124. Hal Gregersen: Questions Are The Answer

Hal Gregersen is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His new book is Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to your Most Vexing Problems at Work and In Life. Stew and Hal discuss the importance of posing questions and allowing them to sink in rather than jumping to answers and solutions and how to put yourself in a novel, even uncomfortable, situation that compels you to ask questions…[Click for more]

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Ep 71. David Burkus: Friend of a Friend

Ep 71. David Burkus: Friend of a Friend

David Burkus is a best-selling author and associate professor of leadership and innovation at Oral Roberts University. His latest book, Friend of a Friend: Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life and Your Career, offers a new perspective on how to grow networks and build key connections—one based on the science of human behavior, not rote networking advice. To learn about why mixers are not the best networking tool and what you can do instead…[Click for more]

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Ep 58. Kim Malone Scott: Radical Candor

Ep 58. Kim Malone Scott: Radical Candor

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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