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Your Daily Prayer
A Prayer to Ease Worry
"Friend, if worry is gripping your heart and it is leading you down a dark path, may I remind you that we aren't meant to carry the weight of this world. Our minds, hearts, and physical bodies will literally collapse under such weight. That's the test we were never meant to withstand the constant knowledge near submerged in on the daily. Ecclesiastes one and 18. While we are to seek wisdom, we must control what we ingest by guarding our hearts and minds. The truth of the matter is that our hearts will be troubled in this life. We will encounter trials of all sorts. They can be certain of that. First, Peter four, 12 to 14. But we have hope as the lemurs that tucked within our worry is a pathway to peace. We are called to stand firm in that truth. Let's pray. Heavenly father, you are a God of peace. We are so thankful that you give us the ability to come to you with our troubles, worries, and concerns. And you love when we grant us a piece that goes beyond our own understanding. While we know we will come into places that bring on sear and worry, we ask that you stay with us and draw us close. Remind us that you will see us through. They are safety net in times that bring on confusion and lead our hearts back to the promise of sound throughout your word. We invite you to help us see areas in our lives in which we need to create safeguards for our hearts and minds. Guide and urge us to focus on what is pure wholesome and righteous. Lord, please give us a calm spirit as well when we receive news that is troublesome. Help us find resourceful ways to heal or anxious heart. Give us the will to seek your wisdom in these times and pour your unfailing love upon us. When our hearts want to wander off the pathway, when seer and worry wants to consume less, get us the courage to seeking and give us discernment. Help us trust new loan and remember that you have a special plan and purpose through our lives. We know that we were created for such a time as this and want to glorify you. So we ask that you make a fast Jeremy's rather strange time. And plant a sense of peace that will carry us through. We ask this in Jesus name. Amen.
AP News Radio
Senate votes to keep 2001 authorization for war on terror
"The Senate has voted overwhelmingly to continue congressional authorization for the use of military force in the global fight against terror and Ben Thomas with the latest. Senators voted 86 to 89 to reject the effort by Kentucky Republican Rand Paul to repeal the 2001 measure. It gave president George W. Bush brought authority for the invasion of Afghanistan in the fight against terrorism. It came up in a debate over a separate repeal of two authorizations of military force in Iraq. There is brought bipartisan support to withdraw the congressional approval granted in 1991 and 2002 for military strikes against Saddam Hussein's regime. Those authorizations are rarely used and focused just on Iraq. Ben Thomas, Washington
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Joe Biden's Unending Stream of Lies
"In the beginning of February, Joe Biden spoke before the assembled representatives of our government, regarding the current state of our union. The speech bears many similarities to the State of the Union Biden gave last year. And not in just topics, but also in the unending stream of lies our White House resident insists on peppering us with, with his every utterance, according to Biden, the deficit has been reduced, inflation is down, and jobs are growing at record rates. If this was even remotely true, Americans would be having a collective sigh of relief. Most people are grappling with these major problems on a daily basis. Biden also believes that granting citizenship to illegals will somehow solve the border crisis that pro life beliefs and laws are extremist, that it was COVID and not defund the police that is causing nationwide crime waves. And that the protesters martyred by police at the U.S. capitol represented the greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War. This second series of claims occupy that characteristically Biden esque sweet spot between utter stupidity and self serving political fable. He's either really that dumb or he thinks his audience is.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Why America's Navy Is No Longer Best in the Sea
"Back in America, as I said the most important thing. Not just to the Hugh Hewitt show audience, but to the world is that the communist Chinese party had Xi Jinping. The strong man, the totalitarian ruler of all of China, head of the Chinese Communist Party has been in Moscow for two days, meeting whether he calls his junior partner Putin, it reminds you of Hitler and Mussolini, if you know your history in 39 getting together, that's why I asked doctor Hendricks to come on today, Jerry Hendricks will be on an hour three to discuss his brand new essay in the Atlantic, which is really caught the attention of Washington D.C.. Because the Atlantic is the last magazine that many people read in America in hardcover copy form. And the title of the article is the age of American naval dominance is over. The subheading is the United States has seated the oceans to its enemies. We can no longer take freedom of the seas for granted. And this is sort of something I talk about a lot for the last, I don't know, ten years. When Donald Trump was running and promising a 355 ship navy, that didn't come about the biggest failure of the Trump years was the failure to get the shipyards expanded up and running, getting a navy plan. And the key facts that I'll be talking about with doctor hendrickson an hour three is that the United States had 6700 chips at sea at the end of World War II. By the end of Eisenhower administration, we were down to a thousand, which is consistent with the Cold War, and then it fell and fell and fell until regular arrived and rebuilt the navy to 590 ships that had the deterrent effect on the Soviet Union. It fell apart. And then in our wisdom, we thought the end of history had arrived and we are now at 271 ships afloat. And doctor Hendricks says, the complications of that, the implications of that are so profound that people don't even see the obvious in front of them. So I'm
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
The Red Cross Is Mapping Out Routes for Illegals to Cross the Border
"Debbie showed me this article on the Red Cross, and it's a little disturbing. It's the Red Cross has guides for U.S. bound migrants that have maps of the border, resources along the journey, lists of things to do when you encounter dangers along the highway. And it even goes to the extent of telling people like bring your contraceptives with you in necessary cases, Red Cross clinics and medical brigades will give them to you for free. So this appears to be like a how to be an illegal manual. Well, that's disturbing to the contraceptives. I mean, are they saying that they're going to get raped along the way so they may as well bring well, either that or, hey, listen, if you want to, I mean, who knows what they're saying, they appear to be just trying to make life easy and show people where to go. I mean, this is almost like a, you know, I mean, to the degree that crossing the border is an illegal act. This is to me no different than how to rob a bank. Yeah, no, it is. Right? Yeah. So, and these packets apparently come their stamped with the international committee of the Red Cross and the American Red Cross. So they show you what do they show you? Hotels and clinics and shelters. They have clearly defined lines that take you to various parts of El Paso, Texas, nogales, Arizona, I lived close to nogales. Met Gala in Texas. And so, and evidently all of this has also been funded by the U.S. government. By the Biden administration. Shocker. So the Red Cross apparently is part, gets grants from fema. The federal emergency. So what fema says, and again, this is all put into the garb of humanitarian. Well, you know, these guys are coming in and anyway, so we got to make sure they don't starve or you know when we drive to the valley and we see those big tubs of water. Yeah, that's agua. And so you're like thinking, um, why would they have that on the side there of the king ranch, which is like total desolation. There's nothing there. But they have these big tubs. Why? Because they're expecting for these illegals to walk through there and oh, you know, they need water, so there's agua.
The Dan Bongino Show
Anthony Fauci: One of the Most Powerful Men in Modern History
"Fauci Anthony Fauci who is one of the most powerful men in the modern history of humankind You're being ridiculous Am I Am I being ridiculous Am I really being ridiculous Doctor Anthony Fauci who was one of the architects with doctor Deborah birx and others Of a plan to lock down the United States destroy the futures of millions of school kids put out of work tens of millions of people close hundreds of thousands of big businesses and millions of small businesses at the same time Who did that Not by himself granted but who was one of the architects of that Doctor Anthony Fauci tell me again how he wasn't one of the most powerful people we've seen in modern times Who else is who else has done that Oh wait You may say well Trump was behind it That correct I'm going to get any argument here And he wasn't the only one And I got to tell you given the ridiculous pressure at the time I'm not apologizing for anyone I'm not sure any politician out there would have had the guts to do anything different
The Charlie Kirk Show
Rep. Andy Biggs on the Continuing Catastrophe at the Southern Border
"How you doing? Good, Charlie, good to be with you. Amy, I want to thank you for your leadership in demanding the impeachment of mayorkas. How many people are crossing the border every single day and is anything being done about it? Well, if you take this week, you're going to probably average about 6500 to 7500 a day of encounters. And then you're going to have probably another four or 5000 of got aways. This administration actually, Charlie, they're doing something about it. They're making it easier and incentivizing more people to come into the country illegally. So they give the CBP one app and they're granting parole so they're giving you these people to a two year work permit to go out and work in the country. They'll then be lost. And otherwise, I will just say our CBP agents are working their tails off trying to stop this and do what they can, but this administration was simply will not let them enforce the law and the causing every kind of problem that, I mean, we could go into the weeds and go into the ground on this thing, but secretary mayorkas must be he should either resign or be impeached. He's not going to be impeached. And just testimony from CBP chief Ortiz admitted finally, somebody admits that our border is not secure who's in that top leadership, but major York is testified at the borders operational control, which is just a flat out piece of perjury in my opinion.
AP News Radio
Abortion ban injunction upheld by N. Dakota Supreme Court
"North Dakota's ban on abortions will remain blocked while legal challenges against the law continue. North Dakota's Supreme Court just ruled the state's abortion ban can not be implemented, while a lawsuit continues that challenges the constitutionality of that ban. The ban was designed to take effect once the U.S. Supreme Court overturned roe versus wade. But the Red River women's clinic sought an injunction, saying abortion rights were protected under the state constitution. The clinic's director is praising the court's extension of an injunction granted last summer. The clinic has already moved its operation from Fargo North Dakota to nearby moorhead, Minnesota, where abortion is still legal. I'm Jackie Quinn
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Most Important Court Case of 2023 With James Lawrence
"Now is James Lawrence, who's an attorney for the Mackey legal defense fund. You may or may not remember, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago, and now it's going to trial. It's actually went through jury selection. I would go into trial. Of the case of Douglas Mackey. Where they're trying to put a young man in prison who made Internet memes and jokes about the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016, and they're trying to lock him up and throw the key away. James joins us now. James welcome back to the program. Charlie, thanks so much for having me again. Good to be with you. So James, give us the update. What is the status of the trial or the jury selection, fill us in? Yeah, so I believe we're in day three of jury selection and mister Mackey's case. But since we last talked, there are two developments that I would like to make your audience aware of with respect to the case. The first involved the government's plan to introduce evidence from a confidential witness and to just give your audience context around that request. The Sixth Amendment guarantees the rights of Americans to be able to confront their accusers and open the court. It's something that goes to the core of the constitution as a native of Raleigh, north Carolina. I can tell you this is something that sir Walter Raleigh was complaining about from his prison cell and the Tower of London in the 1600s. I mean, this is how bad rock this is to our country. And in this particular case, the government plans to introduce testimony from a confidential witness whose name will be withheld from the public and the court has not only granted the government's request to keep that person anonymous, but also to prevent mister Mackey's trial team from engaging in a fullsome cross examination of the witness with respect to that individual's connections with the Federal Bureau of Investigation through the briefing, mister Mackey's defense team has learned that the confidential witness has a relationship with the FBI and back has pled guilty to the very same offense that mister Mackey is accused of and is continuing to work with the government, but
AP News Radio
Conn. woman 1st non-Vermonter granted assisted suicide right
"A woman from Connecticut has become the first non resident granted the right to take advantage of Vermont's assisted suicide law. 75 year old Linda bluestein has terminal cancer. One thing that surprised me about getting this latest terminal diagnosis is just how hard it is to die the way you want to die. It seems like everybody has an opinion on what should be allowed and what shouldn't be allowed. Bluestein lives in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and has reached a settlement with the state of Vermont, she can end her life there as long as she complies with other aspects of the state's assisted suicide law. I care so deeply about how the last moment of my life is going to go. Because I've said goodbye to so many that I've loved, who didn't have a good depth. Bluestein wants to make her death better. Not only for me, but for the people who are going to remember that. For whom that's going to be their last memory of me. Blue Stein is currently undergoing chemotherapy. I'm Ed Donahue
Mark Levin
Catherine Herridge Implies U.S. Government Paid for Research in Wuhan
"Catherine herridge is on CBS mornings today She's actually a great reporter She used to work for Fox And she's going at it a bit over these projects at China's Wuhan lops through the NIH and the USAID And I want you to listen to some of this if you would Cut 15 mister producer go Sources tell CBS News and investigation of this complexity could take at least 6 months to reach a conclusion about whether U.S. government agencies were billed twice for projects in Wuhan China The probe kicked off after new information came to light from Congress We are collecting evidence here And collecting facts Former federal investigator Diane cutler spent two decades combating white collar crime in healthcare fraud During the pandemic cutler turned her attention to U.S. government grants that supported coronavirus related research in China How many records have you viewed My collection is certainly well over 50,000 documents Records reviewed by CBS News indicate the U.S. government may have paid twice for projects at the Wuhan labs through the national Institutes of health and the U.S. agency Jesus sick So basically it was like pulling teeth to find that our government the Fauci and their hemorrhoids did in fact pay for these projects at the Wuhan lab Now the question isn't whether they pay by whether they pay twice Well I can see why they want to increase my taxes Can't you mister producer If they're not experimenting on beagles I guess they're doing this sort of thing
CoinDesk Podcast Network
SVB Depositors Will Get All Their Money After Frantic Weekend
"So Silicon Valley bank collapsed last week following a $42 billion bank run. And the bank did a count number of crypto entities as clients, including coin desk. Around 85% of depositors held money in accounts that were not FDIC insured, but FDIC came in and said, don't worry, we will save you. And basically, without FDIC insurance, it means that without federal action or purchase of the bank those funds could be irretrievable, but FDIC came in and is saving everything. This is a big story who wants to take over next and talk about it. I love the way you describe this Wendy. FDIC came in and said, don't worry. We got you. But it was a really kind of tumultuous weekend. I remember on Friday talking to a lot of people in the industry because I was stressed out, right? I am one of the people who get paid in USD C so I was like, oh my God, what's gonna happen? And a lot of people were like, well, you know, we don't know what to do. There's no literature on what can happen. This is something that, you know, people are not prepared for. And what that made me think about was, you know, when that person said there's no literature on this. I was like, well, if we think about the Bitcoin white paper, it was written out of something exactly like this, right? And so to see Bitcoin pumping today on Monday isn't surprising to me, I think we see all of these banks failing. A lot of people came out over the weekend and said, you know, this is not a crypto story. This is a larger economic story and to see one bank after the other fail, granted two of them were very crypto friendly. It doesn't surprise me to see Bitcoin pumping. Zach? Yeah, I mean, this is a classic bankrupt, right? We had Silicon Valley bank, which we talked about previously, right? Major investors advise some of their portfolio companies to maybe seriously consider moving funds out because things are looking dicey, right? They were having to sell off assets to meet this influx of withdrawals, and in doing so, just given how quickly sort of the macroeconomic footing has changed in the U.S., they were selling things due to the interest rates where they were selling things that were far less than what they had thought. And before you know it, they were no longer able to continue.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Understanding Human Nature
"When you realize what human nature is, back to your subject, you'll find this fascinating. I said on one or more of my male female hours, if your husband has the opportunity to be unfaithful like he takes a lot of business trips, let's say. And he's faithful, periodically, just say, honey, I'm in, I want you to know you're being faithful, doesn't go unnoticed by me. I don't take it for granted. That's very interesting. You know, a lot of women would react differently than I am right now. They would hope they would love it. Oh my God. They would say, so should I thank my husband for not beating me? Correct. That is different. But it's different. Yes. And I take your point. I take your point.
Your Daily Prayer
A Prayer for One Questioning Their Calling
"My heart at your feet today. I seek your will. Your way in your calling. Grant me peace as I walk into the unknown, but trust you with each step. I will wait patiently on you to lead in guide me. I am your humble and faithful servant. I'm it. Your daily prayer is a production of life audio and Salem media. If you liked what you heard today, please take a second to rate and review this podcast in your favorite podcast app so that more listeners like you can find the show. For more faith filled inspirational podcasts, visit us at life audio dot com. Has fear stolen your piece. I'm Jennifer slattery lead host of the faith over fear podcast helping you fight your fears and grow your faith. Subscribe at life audio dot com.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Joe Rogan Drops Major J6 Truth Bomb and Julie Kelly Reacts
"This tape last hour, but I find this to be unbelievably persuasive and Julie, I think you'll enjoy hearing it. Cut 70 9 is Joe Rogan and Michael malice reacting in real time. It's as if you had a private hidden camera of how they react to the footage that is now being made public to people that are not right wing ideologues by any measure. Play cut 79, please. Right, you're not supposed to go into the capitol building. Grant. I thought you were not like that. Yeah, I don't like that idea. Not like that. But when you see the people taking them around, essentially on a tour. That's not what I thought it was. Not even defending them. It's just forget about it. Let's look at what actually happened. We didn't know that happened. Right. We had a version of it was just chaos and the cops ran away. And cops were murdered. I would have never imagined that this. I've shocked to see that. That's so wild. And so I think people are just starting to recognize that it's not what you thought it was. So Julie, that clip is very powerful. What is your reaction? To not just that clip, but this idea that finally the American people can get educated and informed of what happened on January 6th. And while you're at it, tell us about potential Brady violations as well. So Charlie, that's very similar to the response that I got from a lot of people. Even people who have been sort of following January 6th that they were expecting some bombshells, but not to the level that what Tucker presented on Monday and Tuesday. When you see what happened with Jacob chansley, completely railroaded by his Justice Department, get this, Charlie. I really looked up his documents today. Jacob chansley, as we now see walking peacefully around building accompanied by numerous capital police officers, that was January 6th on January 11th, 5 days later, a grand jury in Washington D.C. handed down several crimes against Jacob chandley 5 days later. It's like this was preset ready to go this DoJ D.C. U.S. attorney's office had all of the charges collected that they were going to use against these people. I mean, that is pretty stunning, something
The Charlie Kirk Show
1984 on Steroids With Tracy Beanz
"Tracy you have an article here, bombshell court order outlines proven government big tech censorship to tell us about it. Yes, this is Missouri versus Biden, one of the biggest cases that's going on right now in the country. It is so huge. Well, basically, the states of Missouri and Louisiana decided they were going to sue the federal government because they said the federal government was stepping in to censor American speech on a myriad of topics from COVID to vaccines to the Hunter Biden laptop to election integrity, all kinds of different stuff. They stepped in, they asked the judge if he could file a temporary injunction to stop the government agencies from discussing this stuff. Any longer with the social media companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google, all of them. So in order to get there, to grant that temporary injunction, the judge gave them expedited discovery and deposition power, which is almost unheard of generally. But to do it at such a high level of all these government agencies was absolutely bonkers. They did it. They granted it. The government kicked and screamed and fought. But ultimately, the heads of sissa, the CDC, you know, Anthony Fauci was deposed. Elvis Chan from the FBI was deposed. All these people were deposed in this case. And today we're getting the filing finally from the states of Missouri, Louisiana and various plaintiffs to make the case for that temporary injunction. The judge has already said they've basically made their case because the discovery they've received has been absolutely off the charts insane. So remember that disinformation governance board that they tried to spring up, Nina jankowitz, who's now begging for money. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, she is to sue what Fox News. Is that what she's doing? 100,000 bucks, yeah. Yeah. So she, that disinformation governance board was actually just a cover for what they're already doing at sissa. Sisa declared they learned through this lawsuit discovery. Your thoughts, cognitive infrastructure. So cisa has declared that your thoughts, the things you type on social media and what you think are part of their infrastructure. Therefore, they can regulate those things as they would any other piece of critical infrastructure that they are in charge of.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Jennifer Horn and Sebastian Discuss the Issues of the Day
"Communications major you are the hardest working person I know in radio. So let's talk about communications. Let's talk about Chris ray. And this interview from Brett bad. Did you get to watch all of it? I did, and I was actually shouting follow-up questions at the television. I felt like an insane person. Why didn't he do? Do people not understand the concept in Congress and in the media? They don't understand the concept of follow-up questions. His best questions I thought came from the people who were tweeting the questions and he would ask. He would ask some pretty solid questions, but there were so many missed opportunities for follow-up. And I will tell you that the field is not big. I do like Brett bear most of the time I think that he tries to be down the middle. Politician Freudian slip, but a journalist, but it was disheartening because there were so many opportunities for follow-up. And especially when it came, I think the big glaring one for me was whether or not they had undercover people at the capitol. There should have been more questioning about that. He obviously alluded to yes. I mean, my goodness, if anybody listened to Christopher wray and his answer to the question about whether or not they were agents in place at the capitol, the answer from him was yes in the way that he evaded the question. So there is so much more and there's so much more about how people have been arrested why trials have taken so long there's just been so there were so many missed spots, I thought I was a little disappointed in the interview, but it was funny because in the morning answer today we had a little disagreement with my co host granted. Tell me. Tell me. Well, when he was talking about COVID, you know, he comes along and says, well, the FBI believes that this came from a Wuhan lab. I mean, first of all, welcome to the party. We've all been hang on hang on. The coronavirus that started in Wuhan from the coronavirus lab in Wuhan. Weird, right? It's such a coincidence. Wow. So when he admits that. Yes. Isn't it perverse? That we make jokes about this now after three years of being told that it's a continuous bizarro world. It's like bizarre world, so grant tells me he says, well, I don't like to agree with the FBI. And I said, well, it's not agreeing with them. They're finally here.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Peter Kirsanow and Bob Frantz Unpack Title 9
"For 50 years since 1972, title 9 has been granting girls and women athletes equal opportunity and access to compete, equal opportunity and access to facilities for their own selves on campuses and in schools. And it has done wonders for the growth of women and girls in sports and some of their achievements. Why is the Biden administration trying to rock that boat? Why on earth is he trying to essentially I think you use the word D form? It's the deformation of title 9 of the education amendment of 1972. Why is he trying to deform something that has worked so effectively in advancing the cause of girls and women? Because the transgender craze has now taken over the Democratic Party and has superseded the rights of women and girls to equal opportunity to participate on an equal basis with respect to facilities and resources and events related to sports and whole host of other issues such as accommodations in schools and athletic facilities.
WorkLife with Adam Grant
"grant" Discussed on WorkLife with Adam Grant
"Hey where clay first it's Adam here and I have some exciting news. Last year by popular demand, we started releasing more conversations and debates with my favorite thinkers, creators, doers, and leaders. The goal is to figure out what makes them tick and what they can teach us about a life well lived. Sometimes we talk about work, but often it's just been a window into the interesting ways their minds work. If you haven't had a chance to listen, the guests have included Lin-Manuel Miranda, brene Brown, Ava duvernay, and Malcolm gladwell. You asked for more episodes. So we're doing just that. Regular episodes all year round. We've decided to call it rethinking with Adam grant. Because that's been the pull for me. A chance to reexamine the things I think are true, and to dig into the psychology of these fascinating guests. We'll kick off the fall with conversations with entrepreneur Mark Cuban, bestselling author, Celeste ng, Oscar winning actor and producer Reese Witherspoon. Neuroscientist shantel Pratt, Nobel laureate physicist Saul perlmutter, and death defying rock climber, Alex honnold. And season 6 of work life will still be coming out right here next year. Thanks as always for listening. Follow rethinking with Adam grant on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. PRX.
WorkLife with Adam Grant
"grant" Discussed on WorkLife with Adam Grant
"Done or I won't do it. You're shortchanging this. But me, straight out of Sundance, like, hey, I can do 20 million 20 $1 million. People are saying they can't make this soon for 20 million. I can make it for the week and make it for 20 minutes. So Paul garnes and I independent film producer and partner and I we got into it. And we made it independent film about king that looked the way it looked for that amount of money. Very tight. But it was the naivete of not knowing what we really should have had. And I apply the same thing, not really knowing that. Why couldn't they get those speeches? Oh, 'cause there was no money to get the space, right? You could have paid. You could have figured it out. And so instead I said, well, I'll just roll up my sleeves and do it a different way. And it's really informed so much about the way that we work because my company array started. It was just me and two other women. We had no money to lane Jones and Mercedes Cooper, no money, and everything that we did. There's nothing that we think we can't do. As I was thinking about you rewriting the speeches, what I realized in reflecting on your experience is, I don't think you really learn leadership just from studying somebody else. I think when you really learn it, is when you have to ask yourself, what would that leader say? And have I internalized their way of thinking, their principles, their decision processes, that I could anticipate some of what they would put out into the world. Yeah, I think so. I mean, yes, I had studied him and I tried to get into his head and really understand his process and so much of those speeches. I tried to say so close to what he was saying. He was such a great orator and writer. And there was such a precision to the idea that he was trying to get across that. I learned his thinking by staying close to his words. I was able to learn the big idea from the small word selection. And gave me just a deeper understand, a very personal emotional, intimate understanding of him. That I think helped me make the picture. I have this image of you now sitting with a thesaurus saying red hills, maroon mountains. A little bit. Yes, somewhat, but without the thesaurus. Yeah. Some work on the dream speech that Nancy duarte did. She analyzed the structure and arca the speech..
WorkLife with Adam Grant
"grant" Discussed on WorkLife with Adam Grant
"Another thing that I wanted to get your reaction to, maybe start coming back to summer a little bit is I think we have this image of leaders as having these bold convictions, knowing that this is the thing that I want to do and all these people are going to follow me. And yet I was stunned to learn that doctor king was very much a reluctant leader of the civil rights movement that he had to be voted in to running it. And it makes me curious about how many people never get coaxed or cajoled or drawn into those roles that they might be reluctant to do. Do you see that in your world? Or my sister works for a great leader. His name's Brian Stevenson. And he has an equal justice initiative. So Tara duvernay is the director of the museum and the memorial operation. So when you go to Montgomery, Alabama, and you go to this if you have not been this landmark, extraordinary, physical monument to justice and injustice. That has been put together by my sister Tara. And just last week she was invited to a very prestigious university to speak. And it's called me and she said, I think they meant to ask Brian. And I said, well, the letter says tera duvernay, so I'm pretty sure it's to you because they're saying Tara, please come Tara, come talk about this. These are the things you've done. And she said, yeah, I'm not going to do it. I said, why? And she said, because I like to be in the background. And so me, the alpha. I'm saying no, this is your time. You did these things. You can do it. This is how you talk about this. How you doing? I'm telling her all these things at the end of it. She said, but I don't want to. I said, why? Because I don't need to talk about it..
WorkLife with Adam Grant
"grant" Discussed on WorkLife with Adam Grant
"Hey, I don't tell it to me like I'm 12. Just tell it to me like I'm a kid. I really don't know what you're talking about. Just can you just bring it down and just tell me, don't use big words. Just tell me. Before they even start, I'll say to everybody. Just, you know, I don't really know a lot about VFX, although I do. Usually I'm in a room with a lot of men. Guys, I don't really even know about this. So just tell it to me really plain, right? And then you'll get a lot of them talking to you like you're four years old, which I like to take because it allows the people who are intimidated to also speak that way. It's a lot of strategy in almost every conversation. And within that, I've struggled to remain authentic to myself. While also understanding, okay, there's a certain way I'm going to have to operate in the space to extract what I need, or to lead in the way that I want. And it's a mental exercise every single time. One of the fundamental challenges of leadership, I would say. You saying, I don't know this. Right. That's something that a lot of leaders are uncomfortable with, because they think it's going to make them look incompetent. I mean, I'm sure you've encountered lots of white men in Hollywood who never say, I don't know. And are convinced they have all the answers. How did you get comfortable? Just putting that out there. Yeah, that's really great question. I don't know the trajectory of it. I know that early on, I didn't make studio films. I made independent films, so I was able to curate the people around me. The first curation came from who will work for no money. This is how we started, right? Who will work for no money? If you will work for no money, we're all on the same page. We don't have money and we need something to do..
WorkLife with Adam Grant
"grant" Discussed on WorkLife with Adam Grant
"The debate that was happening within the multiple organizations that were converging on Selma in that moment. You know, a lot of us think king's group went in and kind of dominated it. They were already multiple groups on the ground, namely a SNCC that was not even led by John Lewis, who was one of the kids who were one of the leaders of it. There were different points of view within each organization as to how to move forward. It wasn't like SNCC thought one thing and these people thought another thing within the organizations you had these new ideas were being forged. There was a lot of, you know, I won't even say may the best idea when it was made the best presentation of an idea when. I mean, sometimes the best idea is not well presented, right? And that's one thing that I've had to really learn as a leader on the set or of my companies. You know, the best idea could be inside the head of the person who's not the best speaker. I also know that I'm very persuasive. I know that about myself as a bad thing sometimes because I know when I can push an idea through because I just know how to say it. I know how to tell it in a story form or I know how to look you in the eye and everyone doesn't know how to do that, right? So it's really about listening about through about trying to give people the space and the time to do that. I think that's a lot of what's happening in that same with king. Giving folks a chance to everyone communicate. And then when it gets devolved into kind of like a bickering, then it comes in. And that's also something that I've had to learn is not to always speak first, especially hard for me when I'm walking in a room. And people are expecting me to speak first, or wanting to get the answer. Not figure out the answer for themselves. And so those are all challenging things to navigate. And I know that king through his whole life was trying to figure it out. I sometimes think this is a false dichotomy when leaders discover, wow. My greatest strength is also a potential weakness if I overuse it or misuse it. So I may be too persuasive because in your case, you're such a great storyteller and publicist. And then the over correction is, well, now I have to stand back and be quiet. I've often wondered if the middle ground is to say, look, I want to frame the decision as a leader. I want to talk about what our goals are. And then I want to go around the room and find out what everybody's ideas are before I've let my own be known because as soon as I put mine on the table, I may persuade and also people are going to want to conform because that's the most powerful person in the room. That's right. See, I need to.
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"And commit or did they do it on the side? And it turned out that the people who started a company as a side hustle were 33% less likely to fail. And the ones who just quit. And so it seems like there are actually a lot of people who have followed the same arc as you. It allows you to cultivate best practices. I mean, how the heck do you do it? What works and what doesn't? Are you going to do that in the prime time? Are you going to do it in the spare time? I'd rather do it in the spare time. Yeah. I love that. So I want to talk a little bit about, actually, a lot of it about summer. A lot of it. Is that a thing? It is now. Did I just coin a phrase that shouldn't be? You did. I think it's a good one. I'm going to try not to do that again. So I don't know if you know this, but you are responsible for a huge part of our leadership education at Wharton, because when our MBA students come to campus, the first class they take is on leadership. And the first video we show is a scene from Selma. Really? Yeah. Which one? It's the scene with a young John Lewis where doctor king comes in sort of quietly. Exactly. Wow, is that true? Yeah. And what are you trying to show with that? Well, a lot of things. Part of what we do is we say, look, we want to teach that leadership is a skill set. You see so many leaders at the peak of their game and you think they're naturals. They have borne charisma. What we want to do is we want to get students in the habit of analyzing the learned behaviors and say, I may have a different starting baseline than the guy who is winning public speaking competitions at age 15. But there was still a big Delta from where he started to where he got. And if you focus on the behavior, there's a lot you can learn. And so we start this whole discussion of what are the leadership lessons from watching what MLK was doing behind the scenes. You've all seen the dream speech, right? But let's look at how he actually led exactly. What a great that's a great scene for what you're trying to share there. Well, I mean, you did it so beautifully..
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"With the Ted audio collective. I'm an organizational psychologist. My job is to think again about how we work, lead, and live. Thanks to Deloitte for sponsoring this episode. My guest today is Ava duvernay. She's the trailblazing filmmaker behind Selma, a wrinkle in time, and when they see us. She's been the first black female director to win Sundance and be nominated for best picture at the Oscars. She's been named one of times most influential people and her arts and social impact collective array has won a Peabody Award. If as the executive producer and host of a new HBO Max docu series, one perfect shot, where she joins other great directors to deconstruct their most iconic images. I'm a huge Eva fan. I use her work to teach leadership and creativity. And as you're about to see, she's a force as a leader and a creator..
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"That one creates around you, especially the more senior you are, becomes, I think, super important. And to your point, one technique of that is to share your own fallibility because that gives confidence to others. Feeling secure, leads you to be more vulnerable. But then the real issue is systemically, how do you help people feel secure? And so that is where the cultural element of having psychological safety as being a first class thing that's talked about, where people are not jumping down people's throats, the first time they admit a mistake, which by the way, I do sometimes, and then I have to check myself in my last staff meeting somewhere asked me this question. Hey, when somebody sort of sends a male where you know something's wrong, what do you do? And I thought about it for a while. And I said, you know, the first thing that comes to mind of schools, I want to send back a flame mail too, like in the next person, but then a good times, I check myself and say, God, you know, all that will do is cause that person to be more stressed, but I got to really look at the systemic issues here, and then help them recognize to fix it. So the more introspective we are in creating these safe zones and psychological safety as a cultural thing as opposed to any one individual being vulnerable from time to time. I think it's probably the most important thing. One of the things that that surface is for me is the challenge especially for people from marginalized groups to have that psychological safety. We know it's that much more difficult to speak up whether you're raising a problem or bringing an idea when you are not resembling the dominant majority in the room. And I know that's something you spend a lot of time on and care deeply about. What guidance do you have for leaders and managers there? That's a fantastic point. In fact, that is the crux of it, which is that everyday practice of figuring out what is the lived experience of the people in your team. So when you think about when in the model coach care that last element of care, it's that extra level of thought that you put into, who are all the people on my team, the reality is all of us have different histories, different backgrounds, different daily events, impacting us. And so being able to deeply have empathy for that and then making sure that their voice is heard in a meeting that flexibility we talk about is being exercised to help people do their very best at work while they can take care of everything that's needed in their life. That is what I think is the big thing that I think we're all I would say we're much more capable today just because of what the trauma of the pandemic has taught us that now the question is how do we exercise it? I think the impact of what's happening broadly in the world on any employee at this point can not be separated from how the employee feels at work. Are you ready for a lightning round? Let's do it. Okay, ground rules, looking for between a word and a sentence, you can pass once if you want. Okay. Make sense? All right. You can pass more times if you want. But I always think it's fun when we drag that extra answer out of you. So first question is, if you weren't in tech, what job would you most want to have? I'll trade with you. I don't want your job, 'cause I'm not qualified, but I think you'd be pretty good at mind..
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"That perhaps is the biggest thing that we are trying to make sure we build into our managerial capability. I think tech companies in general have had this thing about, hey, it's all about technology and management is not the critical thing except everybody's realizing and waking up and saying, look, leadership and management and technological excellence in both go together. And we actually have to put our money where our mouth is and focus on building that managerial capability. And so we have this framework atom called model coach care, which is sort of the thing that we say, every manager needs to sort of exhibit in terms of real skills. And I'm glad we got that started a few years before the pandemic. And it's really helped us a lot during the pandemic, but I think that it's now become really clear to me that the company's success depends on great and everyday management. That approach of model coach care, I think, has been central to one of the major culture changes that you've spearheaded. I've found in some of my latest research that it's not enough just to admit that you have things to learn as a leader. It's helpful to ask for feedback and open the door. But what's much more powerful is to actually criticize yourself out loud. Because that way you're not just claiming that you're receptive, you are proving that you can take it. And one of the things I've admired about your leadership for a long time is the humility and vulnerability that you show that you're not afraid to admit when you don't have all the answers or when you made a mistake or got something wrong. Can you talk to us a little bit about how you built the confidence to share your mistakes and what that looks like doing it effectively? That's a great question. That comes from, I think, feeling very secure, right?.
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"His approval rating on glassdoor is nearly perfect, and this conversation will give you a sense of why. He exudes care, curiosity, and humility. He's also a big fan of cricket and poetry. And as a computer scientist, of course he loves data, and Microsoft has gathered quite a bit on the future of work. So enjoy. There was a time and I'm not going to locate it, but you can. When Microsoft was externally known for a lot of internal competition, force rankings that pitted people against each other were pretty popular. And you came in and challenged that dynamic and said, look, we want to collaborate, we want to be one Microsoft. Can you help us understand how you made that change real? Being essentially the first non founder CEO, I felt the real need to in some sense refound the company, borrowing the phrase that Reid Hoffman uses, which I like a lot because from time to time companies need that moment where you need to reground yourself and starting with both the sense of purpose and mission. Like why do we exist and if we sort of disappeared would anybody miss us to remind? Because I think every one of us who work in any company need that anchoring in order to then go on to make all the decisions and work we do. And then the other one was to really put forth the culture that we aspire to. And that's where I borrowed from Carol dweck's work on growth mindset, which has been a godsend to us because, you know, it's really helped us go from this know it all to learn it all. And that mission and culture has given us perhaps Adam more of that permission to look inwards, look to what systems, processes, behaviors, make us successful in the first place and reinforce them. And then in the same thing, what systems processes and behaviors make us sort of not successful and then get rid of them. So is this the future? Are we in it right now? Or what is it coming? You know, we definitely are in it and it is going to evolve. I think our expectations of what to wear and how we work have gone through a real structural shift. But I think we're still figuring it out in terms of this next phase before long-term trends truly stabilize. Satya, you made one of the most profound comments I've heard through the whole pandemic. When you said we should stop thinking about remote work like a switch and think about it more like a dial..
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"People thinking I was weird and me being a student at Juilliard and people think oh hey, what is he doing? Why is he playing in the subway? Why is he doing this in the crowd and taking people from the crowd and bringing them outside? There was always this pushback I got. There's always a sense of resistance that I got. Ever since I started really on this quest from 17 years old to just be original and to find my own way, it was always pushed back from the elders from people who I admired from people who didn't get it from my peers at times. I had to find my tribe and build my tribe because they were the right people who could understand at least somewhat the vision that I had for the music and presenting social music. So yeah, man, it was pushback. A lot of the time. And how did you know when to listen to it as useful feedback versus when to ignore it? You know, it's like an instinct. I really believe your instinct can be honed and it's your true north. So you have this instinct when you hear feedback and this first an emotional response because you obviously care you want people to like you. You want people to like it. But then a certain party is like, well, you know, F them. I don't care what they think. This is what I'm doing. And that's healthy too. So once you find your internal equilibrium with that, then I feel like you can start to assess things that people are telling you. And you also have to assess who is coming from. You know, a lot of these folks would be telling me stuff based upon what was possible for them. And what they were capable of doing. And what their limitations were in their era and what they thought based on those limitations would be possible for somebody like me based on their assessment of what my skills were, which nobody really knows what your skills are only you know..
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"If you were writing a PepsiCo today, where would you start on that? You know, it's interesting. One thing I won't do is create hoteling systems and offices. Because if we're going to go to work, you need your personal space there. Because you're leaving home, which is, you know, kids running around the center of all the work required to be done. If you go to the office, you want peace. But now if you're sitting in a hoteling system, where it's not your place, you're plugging your computer wherever you want and start working. It doesn't feel quite personal to me. So hoteling which was in effect in the last few years may have to be revised into some workspaces. I think it would be impossible to hire to retain the best and brightest without some flexibility. I think it would be impossible to retain higher and retain young family builders and women without some flexibility. And so we're going to be writing the rules of the future of work quite a bit in the next two years. But I just hope Adam, all of these committees on the future of work, some of which I'm a part of. Don't just talk about robots and cryptocurrency and technology, but also talk about role of women, role of families. How do we go back and rewire the social infrastructure of the country? How do we do that? I hope all of that is part of the future of work. I hope so, too, which begs the question, what are you up to now? The moon shot just to set up a car economy. But beyond that, I said to the board of Amazon, which is, you know, a lot of fun, I'm learning a lot. I said on the board of Phillips memorial Sloan Kettering, the international cricket council. I teach up at the military academy at West Point. So my plate is full. I'm having a time of my life. The only thing I'm missing is my quarterly earnings pressure. That was a joke. Almost looked like you were savoring that for a second. The Hartford is an insurance company, but they're also human beings. They believe that people are capable of achieving amazing things with the right encouragement and support. As the first carrier to create a team dedicated to small business, more than 30 years ago, they really understand small business owners. They're here to help you succeed with insurance solutions that can be designed for small businesses like yours. To learn more about the Hartford's small business insurance and why over 1 million small businesses trust the Hartford, head to the Hartford dot com slash small business. So watching Amazon given that you sit on the board. I almost did a touchdown dance when Jeff Bezos finally after two decades committed to being earth's best employer, not just earth's most customer centric company. Why did it take him so long? And what can we do to accelerate more leaders down that path? I don't think look I've been on the Amazon board for two years. And long before Jeff articulated being the earth's best employer. I think it's very easy to put out a set of words. If you don't have the programs to go behind it, it's a problem. I think what Amazon is constantly looking at is if we say we're going to be the earth's best employer, what does it mean? And can we deliver on that? So the companies consumed by that on customer centricity, they figured it out. On the employer piece, everybody's focused on that. What does it mean? And is it an absolute number? Is it a relative measure? How are we going to make sure that I mean, Amazon was always one of the highest paid minimum wage? $15, Amazon committed first. Educating its employees giving them the opportunity to go get a college degree, major commitment. They're raising the wages again. And so Amazon is trying to figure out what's the basket of pay and benefits that their workers need to remain happy at Amazon. And so I think they have all the work done and the implementing it. So you're saying the talk followed a little bit of the work. I think the talk, the public talk, followed a little bit of the walk, which is I think the way it should be. Yeah. I think so too. So we're going to go to some audience questions. I've asked a few, but they're more coming before we do that. Can we do a lightning round? Sure. All right, it's up to you whether you want to give a word or a sentence or something in between. First question is, who is the living leader that you admire most? Lynn Manuel Miranda. Okay, I have to follow up on. The fact that he can wrap the way he does. Oh, play. I keep trying it, I can't do it. You've tried. I've tried, doesn't work. All right, we'll ask for a demo tape later. Okay, secondly, a company whose culture you really look up to. That you're not on the board of. But I'm not on the board of. Patagonia. Hard to disagree with that one. Okay, third question. If you were now going to have the challenge of running any company, which company do you think you'd be most excited to take the helm of? Oh, God. I'd take a healthcare company. Because the healthcare industry needs such radical reinvention so many ways. I don't know if I can pull it off, but I would give it a good shot. Well, we could certainly use your wisdom and talent there. If you were going to take any class in business school, what would it be? Data analytics. And finally, your best tip for dual career couples, you had a pretty complicated situation with your husband's work and yours, taking you to two different states and cities. And sometimes even multiple countries. What did you learn from that? First marry the right guy, very, very important. And early on in your life, make sure before you get married, just make sure both of you understand it's an equal partnership, not you're going to do all the work and your husband is going to be along for the ride. And also make sure the husband's family. In the Indian context, make sure the husband's family is supporting you. Because if they put pressure on the sun, you've lost it. So in my case, my in laws are bigger supporters than even I expected. They even today, my biggest supporter. So I had the lottery of life on this. It has been in the end. Perry for good in laws. Check them out too is what I'm saying. Check them out. There is nothing that you don't do, diligence on. I have to. All right, let's take some additional audience questions here. How did you become comfortable in your skin in a large company? You know, you never comfortable. There's always that unease. And even now, after having lived there for 42, 43 years, having been CEO been in all the halls of power, there's still that unease. And maybe that's what propels me to keep doing better all the time, but I'm comfortable, then I used to be, but you never get fully comfortable. And the big piece of advice I'd give people is, maintain your authenticity, maintain your roots, maintain what makes you, but don't come to a different culture than expect everybody to accept you for a 100% of what you are. You've got a blend into. You've got to blend into. The one story I tell you is that when I first came in here, in those days, the first question they would ask in a recruiting interview is about the ball game that happened the previous night. Sports was the language of business. So how was that touched down? What did you think of this playoff game? Everything was about sports. I can say can we talk cricket? No. They don't even know what cricket is. They think it's the most boring game. You know, I remember one C you're telling me cricket, oh yeah, you talk about cricket, I'll go shopping and come back. It does the most boring game, which is okay. You know, if you're not used to it, it can be. But I never watched baseball, please. Remember, cricket is 5 days. Without an outcome, all right? So let's just be clear here. It puts baseball to look.
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"Buy into it. The few that didn't, we had to work on them. I thought it was such a compelling example of what our own drew carton would study around creating a truly vivid vision that people can see the future. They can taste it, they can touch it as opposed to a bunch of abstract words. How did you get there? Because we know from Jewish research that so many people get promoted on the basis of their abstract strategic thinking skills. And then it becomes very difficult to tell the vivid story and really lay out the narrative for who we're going to become and what our products are going to look like. So how did you develop that over time? Did you just wake up one morning and say, ah, nourish replenish cherish my work here is done. Wow, God. So remember, when I was president of the company going back to 2000, I was still managing all of the corporate functions. I mean, I had 16 reports or something like that at every corporate function that reported to me. So I was already thinking about the future of the company. And there was some very interesting findings. Nobody consumed the PepsiCo product before ten a.m. in the morning. Because we didn't have a breakfast product. We didn't have a breakfast beverage. Tropicana was our first acquisition that got us into the pre ten a.m. day pod. And the one aha was prior to ten a.m. people need consume by and large, good for you products. So it was a healthy day part, and we needed our brands in the morning. So all of a sudden, the real start to move, saying, we were to get that day part filled in Quaker roads came in. Quaker was actually a more excited about the Quaker trademark than Gatorade, because it gave us an inroad into the morning day part. So once we filled out the morning data you start saying, what else do we have to do to keep this company healthy and growing? So as you go and piece by piece by piece, you realize exactly what you have to do. And at that time, we got a letter from some coastal senators in the eastern seaboard. All of the companies in the consumer space, saying that too much plastic is washing up on our shores. How are we going to address this? You know, I took it personally, because I said, this is our seashores. So we have to do something about it as opposed to let the others worry about it. Everything became personal for me. So we started to think about all of these issues and say, we have to do something. We have to do our part to make the portfolio healthier overall because obesity is becoming a big issue, address these issues like plastic. And I grew up water distressed in Madras. There was no water in Madras. And the fact that we had a plant in the outskirts of Madras, going deeper and deeper into the aquifer and taking out water to make Pepsi bothered me. So I realized we had to get much more water efficient. So the whole nourish replenish cherish was personal to me. And I concluded on something they added if I may. If you want to execute purpose and all these ESG things we're talking about each other, form of purpose. Either the CEO feels a deep down inside because of a lived experience. Or their convert because they've seen it all and now say, boy, I've got to do something different. The third group do it just because there's an external force. And if you take away the external force, I believe a large number of CEOs won't do it anything. And that is a problem. And we have to bring them back to business schools to teach them how to run companies, the right way. Well, I know, highly rated business school that would be very glad to have that class if you were to teach it. I think your next book should be on that. Not another bestseller, New York Times Best Seller. Every list bestseller. It's a valiant effort, but I think Indra has somebody who's actually led a Fortune 500 companies and much more qualified to deliver that particular message. So what would you teach? What would you say to those CEOs? I know you're doing a lot of this work as part of the B team. But what do you think is the most compelling message to start opening their minds? You know, one of the things I made some of my PepsiCo senior executives do, I said to them, look, if you're going to talk about obesity, don't talk about it from the offices. Go out in the communities and see what's going on. Look at markets where people are obese. Look at how they live. Look at what happens in diabetes clinics. You know, this is in spite of the fact that only 2% of the calories came from beverages from our beverages. So it's not that I was worried about just our beverages. I think it's a broader societal issue. And there's a downstream cost to society. And all companies have to work on it. So I took the bold step of addressing the industry association and saying, it's not one company that has to do something. All of us together have to act in unison to improve the food supply. And so we committed to the healthy weight commitment foundation, committed take out one and a half trillion calories in 5 years. In reality, we took almost 6 trillion calories out of the U.S. food system in a matter of about four years. And so I think that industry working together with a very clear idea of where we need to go can actually make a huge difference. And too often I think we've got to bring CEOs together and say you're better suited to solve societal problems than governments are. Because you know engines of efficiency, you're big. I've always said companies are little republics. A 160 billion put us up there. So you look at the statistics that way you go big companies, a little republics. They are engines of efficiency and effectiveness. They ought to be able to move mountains, faster than a political system can. So why not us band together to get to the right change? Well, I love that vision. The metaphor calls to mind, though another challenge, which is too many of those little republics are run by miniature dictators who are basically power hungry and trying to get their employees to sell their souls and work nonstop and not care about their families. This is another huge issue for you. I think the challenge is where to start. So are we going to reimagine organizations and say, forget the 9 to 5 workday, forget the 5 day workweek. Where would you begin if you were rebooting? I think the pandemic is forcing us to rethink everything. You can't take what people are saying today as the answer, because we went from everybody going to work. Everybody locked down. We're trying to figure out what's the resting point. We don't know what it is. The first CEO who comes and says, we're going completely flexible. Office space is going to come begging, and there's a game theory principle here, which is everybody has to say everybody is going to come back to work. And then quietly exit the office space market. So I think people are waiting to see how to play this commercial office space market. Wow, I had no idea that was happening. This is how she used to think. I'm a retired CEO. Please don't forget that without retired CEOs think. But really think about it, okay? Sorry. We get better with age actually. No, I think what it is is it is not possible for everybody to say a 100% come back to work, because people have got a taste of caring for families, having some flexibility. Technology has accelerated to a point which allows hybrid working flexible working and to make it work effortlessly. The issue is going to be our frontline workers. People are manufacturing people in retail. People who are driving trucks, people in care jobs. They don't have flexibility. At best we can give them predictability. So we should be careful not to create two classes of citizens. One group that has to get up in the morning get to work and another group that rolls out of bed and looks at zoom. So we can't allow that to happen. So we have to figure out how this is all going to work. I think this is the challenge for the next 12 to 24 months. I think so too..
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"A kind of safety or security a sense of deep sense of home that i may don't feel now because circumstances have changed. I'm in a different place in my life. And that's what i was thinking about. I was thinking about how there's always there's always a past that you can't get back to that part. At least part of you wants to return to right. Like i would love to have a conversation with people. I love who've who've died. Or i would love to be able to. I would love to be able to go back and spend one day in the apartment that sarah and i shared in in new york when we were in our twenties. Now i am happier in almost every way now than i was then but i still do sometimes feel a longing for for an old an old self so that that speaks to what i found so interesting about it after i stopped rejecting the idea it it seemed like you were defining a new type of nostalgia or at least one that i never thought about before because normally when i thought about nostalgia. It was longing for an experience or a moment that was passed. Its person i've lost or It's a place. I was in a group that i was part of. That's moved on and you wanted to go back. it sounded like identity nostalgia. You wanted to recover a version of you. And as i thought about it more i realize yeah there are parts of my pass selves that i miss The just the the sheer wonder of being curious about what career i might pursue a little bit even though that was mostly an anxiety provoking but but i think there is a weird phenomenon where once we've gone through something it feels different so everything feels survivable after you survive it and i think that's a lot of why i allow myself sometimes to think about those those past versions of myself fondly. Well my favorite review that you did in the whole book was cut..
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"And he's got that's an edge. You levonne is. He's like you like dan penn on those things. There is a difference between being kind and soft between being strong and tough and then that non-threatening and not threatened. I was like that super important because a lot of times especially black women. We get typecast as we're going to come in and be brutal. I meet with people. And they're like you're so much nicer than i thought you back and i'm like what were you expecting. Living on. that edge has been something that helped me in lots of settings where there weren't people like me the other piece. This i heard an a funeral for john johnson. The great american entrepreneur who started ebony and jet magazine. Tom joyner the disc jockey said. In one of the eulogies. John johnson was unapologetically black and i remember sitting in the pew at rockefeller chapel in chicago. And saying that's what i wanna be. I wanna be unapologetically a woman. I do not want to apologize for who i am. I want to own this person in this package. Jane and i think in doing so i could be unafraid of being different so it was joke with people. Yes a lot of times have been. The only one in the room coulda conferences people. Come up to me. They call me by my name. How did they even know my name than i realized. I'm like i could be like beyond say or share. I'm the only one. I don't even need a last name. Somebody us all this advantage of an make sure that if i'm interacting with people they remember me and they know and so it was the composite of all those things you can be non-threatening but at the same time you can be authentically who you are. And in my case that's authentically black woman mission accomplished. You have been very vocal and also put your money where your mouth is when it comes to changing some of the broken systems around race in this country. Tell me about what the future to look like to build. Anti-racist workplaces universities and other kinds of systems what the future looks like for me. I'll just articulate it. The way that i articulated for my seven year old because i think it's very simple. When i grew up my mother used to say to me melody you can be or do anything. I believe her. I really did and at the same time that she told me i could be or do anything. She also explained to me. All the obstacles. I would confront in life and why those obstacles could be no excuse to my success. My daughter seven years old mixed race. My black girl child i say to her everest. You can be or do anything. But i want you to believe that true of anyone and everyone. That's the difference that you go out into the world looking at all..
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"Constantinos could farris where we show that. It's not enough for leaders to ask for criticism if they want to open that door and make it safe for people to speak up. It actually is more effective for them to criticize themselves out loud because then they're proving that they can take it not just claiming that they're open to it and i wondered if you could highlight what that sounds like because for a lot of leaders. There's some hesitation of ono if i admit my insecurities if i disclosed my weaknesses. Everybody's gonna know. I'm weak and then i'm to be seen as incompetent and my career is over and you just seemed completely unfazed by this so first of all in every job interview i do. I ask people a couple of questions so one i ask them. What is your genius. What do you do better than anyone else people. Just the words few so fast doesn't take them even a minute to lock in on their genius. And then i say when you're truly honest with yourself what don't you do well so one of the things people say. I'm not good at saying now. This is like the biggest bs answered that everyone gives because they don't want acknowledge that they're bad at something and they think it sounds great so i said now. Give me the number two. And i say the race if i want to know that is it's not about defining you for this role as being the right fit or not the right fit but it's understanding what we need to work around in. It's better to know on the front end. What the shortcomings are so we can plan for it. And so i always do that to try to show them the path to being intellectually honest about your weaknesses in just so you know. Why don't i give you a few for me. One of my great strengths. I am the person that if you have a problem. I should be your first call. I am the consummate problem-solver of something really hard. I can think of five or six things people etc. Get on the phone. But on the flip side if you were person who constantly has problems and need to be held. I am not going to be a good leader for you. I'm going to disappoint you. Because after a while i will see constant need for support and needing to be held up as weakness and i will start to become very weary. If that is something you need. I won't be a good leader. And so i try to tell people that weakness right out of the gate to help them to understand and then i give them all sorts of other ones. They joke in my office. That i'm guber focused. When i'm doing something to the extent that people talk to me i do not hear them. I can be looking right at you and not hearing you. 'cause my mind goes to another place which then makes it seem like. I don't care that much about you. So i had one chief of staff who used to say the window just closed at net. He's like i'm talking to you and the window and close it's annoying time and try to tell myself focus. Concentrate listen to them. But if someone's going on and on and on and on. I like checkout. I can think of a moment or two and i've seen you do it and i didn't realize that was what was happening. I'm like oh melodies lost interest. Now as you talk about it. I think it might be part of what makes us such a good problem solver. You have this laser. Focus on whatever's urgent or important as the thing in front of you isn't you're going to go somewhere else. First of all part of what. I react to is just brevity. Can you explain the issue. In a way that i can understand so i tell people all the time at mike. I'm really smart. I am not tracking like what is the headline..
WorkLife with Adam Grant
"grant" Discussed on WorkLife with Adam Grant
"He's been the one to teach me. There can just be different ways. I've been able to sit around some of the greatest leaders in the world and learn that separating style from scale there is obviously a key. I wonder what happens when when you give this kind of critical feedback to more junior people and they don't take it with the same resilience that you did when you were in their shoes. How do you help them move through that. So sometimes i have to actually have a conversation about. I'm giving you this feedback and you're crying. I have to add another twenty minutes to this conversation to put you back together when time is of the essence for me every day. Which will discourage me from doing this again. So i want you to understand what the cause and effect can be in this situation. I'm not saying people should be unemotional. I want to be really clear about that. But i do think that it can't be over something like we didn't do this right. And you're breaking into tears. It just doesn't work were professionals. And that's not the way to run a railroad at the same time. There are times when i to walk you through whitefield this way. What i see what i think were you. Just don't go in with guns blazing because you know. They can't handle it now at the end of the day. I have to tell you. I wanna work with resilient people. That's very very important to long term. Success resilience is like a muscle that built up if that resilience is not starting to build up in that individual. I will have serious questions about them. Over the long term especially in a leadership role or an inner circle kind of situation. We have a new. Cfo joining aerial. In a couple of weeks. And i said i just want to be super clear. About what kind of partnership. I need with you. I cannot ever walk on with you. i don't want to ever sit and think about how to say something to you. This role partnership with me is so critical. I need you to be super resilient. And i could come at you in the way. I need to come at you at that time in that moment and not hang up thinking i have to call him back and make sure he's okay. That is the cfo that i want. If you can do that. We're going to be great partners. That's what i need now. That isn't true of everyone will at aerial but in that role. That is what i was looking for. This is one of the things i admire most about. You melody is how clear you are with your expectations and never have to wonder where i stand with you because if you think something you're going to say it and that means i don't have to waste all this energy worrying. I said the wrong thing or in some way fell short your standards and i think. Sometimes i've struggled to get people to be that way with me. And i think the most effective discussion. I've had with people so far is just to sit down with them and say look if you ever hesitate to tell me something because you're afraid it's going to hurt my feelings or hurt the relationship. The only way you can hurt me is not being honest with me. And i take your candor as a sign that you care enough about me to tell me the truth and sometimes it works sometimes. It doesn't what else do i need to do. And it doesn't well first of all. I just want to qualify my approach. Because i do speak my mind but not everything on my mind. Every time i have a thought. I don't speak it. I think you have to edit john. Rogers taught me this..