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Amy Edmondson, professor at Harvard Business School, first identified the concept of psychological safety in work teams in 1999. Since then, she has observed how companies with a trusting workplace perform better. Psychological safety isn't about being nice, she says. It’s about giving candid feedback, openly admitting mistakes, and learning from each other. And she argues that kind of organizational culture is increasingly important in the modern economy. Edmondson is the author of the new book "The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth.”

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666: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace

Kieran Setiya, a philosophy professor at MIT, says many people experience a mid-career crisis. Some have regrets about paths not taken or serious professional missteps; others feel a sense of boredom or futility in their ongoing streams of work. The answer isn't always to find a new job or lobby for a promotion. Motivated by his own crisis, Setiya started looking for ways to cope and discovered several strategies that can help all of us shift our perspective on our careers and get out of the slump without jumping ship. He is the author of the HBR article "Managing Your Mid-Career Crisis."

669: How to Cope With a Mid-Career Crisis

Pipedrive has become the dominant player in the sales CRM market, with over 80,000 businesses using it daily. Their story to the top features persistence and overcoming a lot of negative bias towards building 'yet another CRM tool'.

In this week’s episode of This Much I Know, Carlos sits down with co-founder, Martin Henk as he shares the journey so far including challenges in product, growth, pricing and fundraising.

Tune in to hear how Pipedrive has managed to stand out in so competitive a market and why swapping out marketing hacks for brutal product simplicity has been the key to gaining customers and accelerating growth.

Links:
Martin - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/martinhenk
Martin - Twitter: twitter.com/henkmrtn
Martin - Medium: medium.com/@nokkloom
Carlos - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/carloseduardoespinal
Carlos - Twitter: twitter.com/cee
Carlos - Medium: sdca.mp/2entVR3

Pipedrive: www.pipedrive.com
Seedcamp: www.seedcamp.com

Pipedrive: Martin Henk, co-founder

In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Kartik Hosanagar, professor of technology and digital business, and professor of marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  Hosanagar is also the author of a newly released book, "A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence," an interesting tour through the recent evolution of AI applications, which draws from his extensive experience at the intersection of business and technology.

Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives—Here's How We Wrest Back Control

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Summary:

Audie Award Finalist, Business and Educational, 2013

Getting an MBA is an expensive choice - one almost impossible to justify regardless of the state of the economy. Even the elite schools like Harvard and Wharton offer outdated, assembly-line programs that teach you more about PowerPoint presentations and unnecessary financial models than what it takes to run a real business. You can get better results (and save hundreds of thousands of dollars) by skipping business school altogether.... 

Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to the business school boondoggle. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. Now, he shares the essentials of entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, productivity, systems design, and much more, in one comprehensive volume. 

The Personal MBA distills the most valuable business lessons into simple, memorable mental models that can be applied to real-world challenges. 

True leaders aren't made by business schools - they make themselves, seeking out the knowledge, skills, and experience they need to succeed. Read this book and you will learn the principles it takes most business professionals a lifetime of trial and error to master.


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