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

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Times Are Stressful: Here’s How to Create More Joy at Work and at Home

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Joy and happiness are two very important aspects of life, and they are just what we need now as we face difficult times around the world. What is happiness and joy to you? We all have times that we struggle to find one or both. In her book, Ingrid shares a moment of awareness that changed her life. She shares, “Joy isn’t hard to find. In fact, it’s all around us”. Before we are able to create more joy and happiness at work and at home, we first need to define them separately, because a lot of times they get grouped together.

Leadership and Management

Why All Leaders Must Be “Technology Teenagers”​

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Whenever we have issues with technology whether it be a device, an app, or a piece of software, who do we usually turn to for help? Our kids (especially teenagers!). Teens oftentimes don’t know the inner workings of a piece of software, they can build a new device for you from scratch…yet somehow they just know how to figure technology out without having to be professional developers.

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How to Lead From the Future

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Every company wants to be more innovative in order to stay relevant, to be successful, to bring in the best talent, and to help the world become a better place. But innovation takes planning, effort, focus, and intentionality. So what is keeping companies from being innovative and how do we fix that?

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Leadership and Management

Research Shows Only 8% Of Leaders Are Great Listeners And Communicators

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Leaders of the future must be translators which means that they are great listeners and communicators.

Unfortunately, this is a skill that leaders today are surprisingly doing a terrible job of practicing. I partnered with Linkedin to survey nearly 14,000 employees around the world and only 8% of employees reported that their mid and senior-level leaders are practicing this skill “very well.” Clearly there is lots of room for improvement!

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Dan Heath On How You Can Solve Problems Before They Happen

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Leaders especially are constantly running around trying to “put out fires.” But, what if there was a way to stop the fires from happening to begin with? That is the premise of Dan Heath’s new book: Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen. Dan is the best-selling author of six books five of which he wrote with his brother Chip Heath (who I had on my podcast a little while ago). These books include classics such as: Made to Stick, Switch, and The Power of Moments.

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How to Nurture Crazy Ideas That Change The World

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Safi Bahcall is a second-generation physicist, a biotech entrepreneur, a former public company CEO, and bestselling author of Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries. He was also on President Obama’s Council of Science Advisors and it was during that time that he started down the path that would lead him to write Loonshots.

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Using Science to Make Your Meetings Matter

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My guest this week is Steven Rogelberg, the Chancellor’s Professor at UNC Charlotte and the bestselling author of The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance. In our discussion today you will hear what steps we can take to create great in-person and virtual meetings, how to leverage silence in meetings, what to do if you feel like you have too many meetings, how to get everyone in the meeting to participate, how to deal with negative people in meetings and much more.

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