Jacob Morgan | Best-Selling Author, Speaker, & Futurist | Leadership | Future of Work | Employee Experience

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CEO of 120 Year Old Manufacturing Company On How Playing Piano Taught Him To Be Vulnerable

In today’s episode, I speak with Stephen Smith, CEO of Amsted Industries, an 18,000 person manufacturing company which is entirely employee owned. Stephen shares his belief that vulnerability is about acknowledging that you can be wrong and being willing to expose yourself as a human being. He emphasized that showing vulnerability helps to level the playing field and eliminates defensiveness, which can hinder effective decision-making.

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