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How to Lead With Integrity
Great companies are built on intention, not instinct. Music mogul and entrepreneur Steve Stoute, often called “the CEO other CEOs turn to for advice,” shares what it takes to become a strong leader.
Productivity for Mortals
Explore a more humane, realistic approach to productivity that replaces constant striving with focus, creativity, and peace of mind.
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Leading Your Organization Through “Wartime”
In times of crisis, effective leaders like Satya Nadella, Mary Barra, and Howard Schultz swiftly abandon outdated strategies and make tough decisions, as outlined by investor Ben Horowitz, who emphasizes the need for adaptability and decisive action in “wartime” business scenarios.
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Managing Smart People Who Are Bad Employees
In this lesson, investor Ben Horowitz discusses how to effectively manage brilliant but challenging employees—categorized as Heretics, Flakes, and Jerks—by leveraging their strengths while minimizing their disruptive behaviors to benefit the organization.
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Building a Culture That Actually Works
Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz emphasizes that a company’s culture is shaped by specific, consistently practiced behaviors rather than abstract values, advocating for clear actions—like acknowledging customer inquiries promptly—to reinforce desired cultural traits.
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Accounting for Management Debt
Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz warns that neglecting tough decisions, akin to ignoring a small leak, leads to “management debt” that compounds organizational issues, resulting in dissatisfied employees and ineffective teams, while effective leaders confront problems directly to prevent long-term dysfunction.
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No-Nonsense Leadership
Leadership demands resilience, as it involves navigating high-stakes decisions amid challenges like market shifts, but venture capitalist Ben Horowitz advises that embracing tough problems rather than avoiding them is key to moving forward.
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What to Do When You’ve Been Disrespectful
In this video lesson, executive coach Kim Scott outlines a six-step strategy for responding to professional missteps—focusing on awareness, acknowledgment, acceptance, amends, and behavior change—before offering an apology to effectively restore trust without rushing.
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Five Ways to Be an Upstander (Instead of a Bystander)
Psychologists highlight the “bystander effect,” where witnessing a problem reduces individual action, but executive coach Kim Scott offers five strategies—disrupt, delay, distract, delegate, and document—to encourage proactive support and transform bystanders into upstanders in challenging situations.
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A Case Study in Taking on Risky Efforts (How GE Launched Ecomagination)
In 2003, GE faced public backlash as a “Global Enemy,” but through the bold leadership of Beth Comstock and Jeff Immelt, the company transformed into a proponent of “Green Energy” via the “Ecomagination” initiative, emphasizing ecological and economic benefits while fostering stakeholder engagement and accountability.
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Strategies for Transformational Leaders
To combat workplace sexual harassment, companies must prioritize elevating women into leadership roles, fostering a culture of accountability, ensuring safe reporting mechanisms, and providing comprehensive in-person training that empowers bystanders to act against misconduct.
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Taking Harassment Seriously
Gretchen Carlson’s whistleblowing on workplace sexual harassment sparked a transformative journey for justice, highlighting the need for multifaceted solutions—including legal reforms, education, and organizational culture shifts—to effectively combat harassment and improve women’s lives and corporate outcomes.
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Practice the 4 Pillars of Habit Formation
In her video lesson, habit expert Gretchen Rubin outlines effective strategies for forming good habits through monitoring, scheduling, accountability, and prioritizing foundational habits that enhance self-command, emphasizing that change requires a structured approach rather than sheer willpower.
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Identify Your Tendency
Approximately 25% of people abandon New Year’s resolutions within a week, with the rate rising to 50% after a few months, often due to poor planning and an inability to replace old habits, prompting habit expert Gretchen Rubin to emphasize the importance of identifying one’s habit-formation tendency.
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Create a Culture of 100% Accountability
Real accountability, as emphasized by CEO Brent Gleeson, involves individuals taking full responsibility for project outcomes, fostering a culture of trust and resilience, and requires leaders to model this behavior by owning mistakes and prioritizing ethical values in peer reviews.
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Earn the Right to Lead
True leadership is demonstrated in challenging times when accountability is embraced, as emphasized by ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott, who asserts that the right to win must be earned, not simply given.
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The Last Man Standing Mindset
Former CIA operative Andrew Bustamante shares how the “win or die trying” mindset can enhance leadership by fostering accountability, minimizing distractions, and promoting excellence in business through strategic decision-making and support for high performers.
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Restoring Broken Trust
In this video lesson, Michelle Tillis Lederman discusses the causes of broken trust in the workplace, such as internal spying and micromanagement, and outlines steps for restoring trust, emphasizing accountability, communication, and patience.
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How to Implement Slow Productivity in Your Organization
Cal Newport emphasizes the importance of effective workflow strategies for teams, advocating for transparent workload management and structured communication to enhance productivity and reduce stress, ensuring the team operates smoothly like a well-oiled machine rather than a sinking ship.
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Enter a Deep-Work State
Cal Newport emphasizes that while frequent email and social media checks are common, they lead to “continuous partial attention,” hindering productivity, and suggests adopting deep work strategies to enhance focus and efficiency in achieving high-quality results.
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Obsess Over Quality (Principle 3)
Productivity expert Cal Newport advocates for slowing down to prioritize quality in work, emphasizing the importance of identifying key priorities, enhancing professional skills, and avoiding perfectionism to achieve better outcomes and a more fulfilling work experience.