Second City Works presents "Getting to Yes, And"

Kelly connects with legendary Harvard professor Max Bazerman to talk about his new book: “Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop.”

“When we collaborate with people who act in egregious ways, we are complicit in their harm.”

“Silence is an action. Blindly deferring to authority can lead to complicity.”

“Loyalty describes the best and worst of our behaviors.”

Kelly sits down with MD and Chief Innovation Officer at BetterUP, Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, to discuss her new book co-authored with Martin Seligman: “Tomorrowmind: Thriving at Work – Now and in an Uncertain Future.”

“Agency protects us from learned helplessness.”

“No one has shown that hugging a computer can produce oxytocin.”

“Creativity need not be like rain, something we pray for and hope to receive. It’s inside each of us – native to our species and bound up with our very humanity.”

Kelly sits down with Wendy Smith , the Academic Director of the Women’s Leadership Initiative at the University of Delaware where she is also a Professor of Management, to talk about a new book she co-wrote with Marianne Lewis, “Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems.”

“The greatest trigger for organizational failure is success.”

“The more we think we are in control, the riskier our decision making.”

“To open ourselves to tensions, we must move beyond focusing on our mindsets and thinking to be able to engage our heart. We need to use our emotions as an enabling resource, rather than crippling obstacle.”

Kelly takes a wild ride with University of Michigan professor of marketing Aaron Ahuvia to discuss his new book “The Things We Love: How Our Passions Connect Us and Make Us Who We Are.”

“Loving things feels normal to us. But actually, it is deeply weird.”

“Did you ever wonder why there are women’s and men’s shampoos but there aren’t women’s and men’s laundry detergent?”

“Creativity is one of the most important elements in today’s cultural capital.”

Kelly re-connects with American University professor Caty Borum whose new book, “The Revolution Will Be Hilarious,” looks at the intersection of social justice and comedy.

“Creativity and culture are still too often relegated to the theoretical sidelines of serious advocacy work.”

“Comedy resides within a great tradition of artistic activism as a mechanism to push for social change.”

“Comedy is unexpected and disruptive. It is a critique and an invitation.”