Podcast Articles

Colin Fisher: Why Teams, Not Stars, Create Lasting Success

    The core message of Colin M. Fisher’s new book, The Collective Edge: Unlocking the Secret Power of Groups, is simple but profound: we dramatically overestimate the role of individuals in success and underestimate the extraordinary power of groups....

Klaus Kleinfeld: A CEO Who Believes Well-Being Is the Real Edge in Leadership

    Klaus Kleinfeld has lived one of the most extraordinary leadership journeys of our time. He’s the only executive ever to serve as CEO of two Fortune 500 giants on different continents—Siemens in Germany and Alcoa in the U.S.—and he’s advised presidents...

Laurie Santos: Yale’s Star Professor Brings the Science of Happiness & Well-Being to Work

    Laurie Santos is one of the world’s leading voices on the science of happiness and well-being. She’s a psychology professor at Yale University, where her course Psychology and the Good Life became the most popular class in Yale’s 300-year history. So...

Amy Gilliland: A CEO Who Puts Employee Well-Being at the Center of Success

For the second half of this podcast season, we’ve been focused on employee well-being—why it matters, how to foster it, and what happens when leaders fail to take it seriously. Our new guest, Amy Gilliland, shows what it looks like when a CEO makes well-being a true...