Dr. Goulston combines insights from neuroscience, FBI hostage negotiation tactics and marriage counselling and puts them to work in the modern office environment. His book reveals the basis in our brain chemistry that causes communication to break down and what we can do to turn difficult conversations around. In this audio, you’ll learn how to deal with chronic negativity, apathy and resistance, how to handle angry and passive-aggressive people, how to get fighting team members to work together and much more.

Just Listen

Ben Casnocha has spent over 4 years working closely with Reid Hoffman as his co-author and LinkedIn’s Chief of Staff. In this episode he shares 5 timeless lessons he learned from the King of Tech: 

1. People are complicated and flawed. Root for their better angels. 
2. The best way to get a busy person’s attention: Help them. 
3. Keep it simple and move fast when conceiving strategies and making decisions. 
4. Every weakness has a corresponding strength. 
5. The values that actually shape a culture have both upside and downside.

10,000 Hours With Reid Hoffman

For over a decade, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (known online as DHH) have turned conventional business wisdom on its head. In their bestselling book Rework they share some surprising lessons they have learned while growing Basecamp to a $100-billion company - from bootstrapping to growing slowly, embracing constraints, saying no to good ideas and asking better questions.

How Basecamp build a $100 billion business by doing less

Gist.fm peeks into the bookshelves of successful entrepreneurs and remarkable thinkers pulling out those ideas you wish you’d heard before and the ones you need to hear again. We pick timely and timeless pieces of nonfiction and boil them down to 20 minutes with the help of their authors and professional voice actors. 

Learn how FBI hostage negotiators handle difficult conversations; what a study of 80,000 managers tells us about hiring and motivating people; what most productivity hacks grossly underestimate; how to beat your competitors by underdoing them; and more. To get the full show notes, resources, transcripts and access previews, go to http://gist.fm/

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