teams

CM 245: Sally Jenkins on Elevating Your Performance

Winning athletes and coaches have a lot to teach us. They’re asked to perform at the highest level, day in and day out, and they face enormous pressure to succeed. Faced with these expectations, the most successful ones must continually elevate their performance. But how? That’s a question Sally Jenkins has spent a career trying…

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CM 177: Julie Shah on the Future of Robots

What will the world look like when we’re living and working with robots every day? Robots work on assembly lines. They zoom around warehouses. And they even fly planes. Most of us aren’t surprised to hear these stories anymore. But how will we work with robots when they’re driving our cars or delivering our food?…

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CM 163: Frances Frei on Leadership

What if leaders spent less time building themselves up and more time building up others? When leaders face challenges, they’re often encouraged to take a long, hard look in the mirror. Frances Frei, co-author with Anne Morriss of the book, Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You, agrees that leaders need to…

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CM 122: Amy Edmondson on Maximizing Team Performance

Which work environments are the most effective at leveraging their people’s talents, skills and abilities? Amy Edmondson, award-winning Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and author of the book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth, has spent her career trying to answer that question….

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CM 103: Daniel Coyle on How to Build Amazing Teams

How do we build remarkable teams, the kind that are more than the sum of their parts? Daniel Coyle answers that question in his latest book, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups. After talking to some of the greatest teams, such as the Navy Seals, IDEO, the San Antonio Spurs, and Pixar,…

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