Vaibhavi Bhat
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How to turn a group of strangers into a team
Business school professor Amy Edmondson studies “teaming,” where people come together quickly (and often temporarily) to solve new, urgent or unusual problems. Recalling stories of teamwork on the fly, such as the incredible rescue of 33 miners trapped half a mile underground in Chile in 2010,…
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Ask Sanyin: How to Approach Layoffs With Compassion
In this short video, leaders can learn how to handle the difficult task of layoffs with humanity and compassion.
Layoffs, especially ones involving large numbers of employees, are extremely difficult for both the staff members losing their jobs and the teams they’re leaving behind. How a leader…
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Sprinting to Cut Carbon: Lessons From the Paris Olympics
In this short video, the 2024 Paris Olympics’ sustainability director offers business leaders advice on making dramatic cuts to carbon emissions.
Sustainability efforts, including carbon reduction, are a priority for many organizations. However, many leaders struggle to scale this work.…
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How to make faster decisions
In a world of endless reviews and options, it’s easy to become paralyzed by indecision. Investor and writer Patrick McGinnis shares the dangers of “FOBO” — the fear of better options — and how to overcome it.
Patrick J. McGinnis is a venture capitalist, writer…
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How your brain responds to stories — and why they’re crucial for leaders
How do the world’s best leaders and visionaries earn trust? They don’t just present data — they also tell great stories. Leadership consultant Karen Eber demystifies what makes for effective storytelling and explains how anyone can harness it to create empathy and…
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Hybrid Work: Surprising Lessons From Gen Z
What does Gen Z really want from hybrid work? This brief video shares advice for leaders on how to turn Gen Z’s preferences into overall culture improvements.
Many stereotypes and anecdotes surround Generation Z’s supposed work styles: Maybe you’ve heard “They don’t like to work very hard” or “They…
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How to build a company where the best ideas win
What if you knew what your coworkers really thought about you and what they were really like? Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparency and algorithmic decision-making to create an idea meritocracy where people can speak up and say what they really think — even calling out…
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Three Traps When Reinventing Your Company
This brief video shares advice for leaders on how to avoid mistakes that often trip up companies when they decide to move in a new strategic direction.
A corporate reinvention gone wrong can be the quickest path to organizational oblivion. How can leaders balance the tension between a market-driven need…
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3 rules to help you build a successful business
Have an idea you’re yearning to turn into a business? Julissa Prado, founder and CEO of Rizos Curls, explains how she was inspired by the Latino and immigrant communities she grew up in — and shares 3 principles that guide her in her work.
Julissa Prado is founded Rizos Curls, a clean hair care…
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Agility and Guardrails: What Toyota Learned
Can constraints actually boost agility? In this short video, MIT research scientist Nick van der Meulen shares lessons from Toyota.
The conventional wisdom is that policy overload can weigh large corporations down with bureaucratic red tape and that agility is the wheelhouse of the startup. It has…
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