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Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz

Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Luminary

From the creator of How I Built This, host Guy Raz invites you to listen in as he talks to leadership experts and the visionary leaders of some of the world's biggest brands. Along the way, you'll hear accounts of crisis, failure, turnaround, and triumph, as the leaders reveal their secrets on their way to the top. These are stories that didn't make it into their company bios, and valuable lessons for anyone trying to make it in business.
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Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz - Getting the Big Ideas Right: General Petraeus

Getting the Big Ideas Right: General Petraeus

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09/25/24 • 34 min

General David Petraeus is one of those leaders who rose through the ranks to become one of the most well-known military figures of our time. Growing up in the shadow of West Point, General Petraeus defied the odds in a career where becoming a four-star general is nearly as unlikely as being struck by lightning.


Petraeus’s rise to prominence began in 2003, but it was in 2007, as the commander of Multi-National Forces in Iraq, where he made his mark by leading the controversial but pivotal “surge.” He later commanded coalition forces in Afghanistan during one of the deadliest periods for U.S. troops, before transitioning to a new chapter as the Director of the CIA under President Obama.


In this encore episode, General Petraeus shares his insights on leadership, revealing that the key to success lies in “getting the big ideas right,” refining them, and ensuring they’re communicated effectively across an entire organization.

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Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz - Radical Candor: Kim Scott

Radical Candor: Kim Scott

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01/26/22 • 54 min

Since 1992, Kim Scott has worked in almost all levels of management—from a diamond business in Moscow to startups in the Silicon Valley to leading teams at Google. Along the way, she developed a management philosophy called "radical candor" that calls for "caring personally while challenging directly." Kim has since provided CEO coaching at Dropbox, Qualtric and Twitter and is the author of several popular leadership books.
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Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz - Don't Waste Your Failures: Erling Kagge

Don't Waste Your Failures: Erling Kagge

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04/17/24 • 42 min

Explorer, writer, and publisher Erling Kagge came from a childhood enriched by an artistic household (the likes of Chet Baker and Eubie Blake once visited his home) and by ready access to nature. He was the first person to complete the Three Poles Challenge -- reaching the South Pole, the North Pole, and the top of Mt. Everest -- on foot. He talks about what a life of extreme exploration has taught him about silence and the value of failure.

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Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz - Tiny Habits: BJ Fogg

Tiny Habits: BJ Fogg

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06/15/22 • 45 min

What does it take for a person to change? BJ Fogg, founder of Stanford's Behavior Design Lab, says the key to behavior change isn't what we've always been taught. In Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything Fogg draws upon true experiments - from his lab and his life - to outline a system anyone can use to create good habits or unravel the bad. In this episode: on making change through design and celebration.

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Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz - Built to Last, Great by Choice: Jim Collins

Built to Last, Great by Choice: Jim Collins

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09/11/24 • 80 min

Jim Collins is one of the most influential business thinkers and writers of our time. Yet, Collins considers himself more of a researcher than an author.He has made a career of extracting the data embedded in the narrative arcs of companies and drawing lessons from them. With bestsellers like Good to Great, Built to Last, and BE 2.0, each of his books represents years of meticulous analysis, all before he even begins to write. What sets Collins apart aren't just his groundbreaking ideas but the unconventional choices that shaped his career. In this interview from 2021, Collins unpacks insights from his research, among them: the fact that ideas don't matter as much as people think they do. In fact, he found a negative correlation between starting a business with a great idea and creating a successful and enduring company. The key lies in "clock building" rather than "time telling," that is—creating a system and structure that transcend any one innovation or product. (He uses examples like Sony, which began with a failed rice cooker). Another side to this concept can be summed up with "preserve the core, stimulate progress." When leaders maintain what is core to the company, they can continually evolve their strategies and other aspects and build companies that last.


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Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz - Imagine it Forward: Beth Comstock (NBC and General Electric)
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10/02/24 • 42 min

Author, and business executive Beth Comstock says to Guy Raz in this classic 2021 interview "I'm about change." In college, she wanted to be a doctor, but organic chemistry wasn’t her strong suit, so she shifted to journalism. When journalism didn’t work out, she started working in publicity. So, when GE bought NBC in 1986 right as Beth was starting her career in advertising, she was ready to adapt again. She worked her way to becoming CMO of GE, helping grow revenue, devise a successful green energy program, and more. Then, when NBC began to explore their approach to digital media, Beth couldn't resist returning to the storied network, where a new frontier in media was opening up (for reference: this was around the time Google bought YouTube). While there she helped seed what would become Hulu. Around the time of the 2008 financial crisis, Beth returned to GE as the company's first female Vice Chair of Business Innovations, which was also around the time she penned the inspiring and candid book Imagine it Forward: Courage, Creative, and the Power of Change .


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Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz - Sprint: Dan Hesse

Sprint: Dan Hesse

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06/22/22 • 45 min

Customers crave simplicity, Dan Hesse figured out early in his career, as he streamlined phone bills at Sprint. He saved 2 billion dollars, just by taking better care of customers in a few key ways. Plus, just how hard Sprint had to work to get the iPhone on its network, and the movie he hoped would change the company culture.

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Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz - How to Build Confidence via Strangers, ft. Joe Keohane
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01/24/24 • 45 min

Joe Keohane is a longtime journalist and editor who believes that talking to strangers can not only help people feel happier and more empathetic, but can actually make the world a better place. In his first book, The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting In A Suspicious World, Joe talks to psychologists, anthropologists and plenty of strangers to prove it. In this encore episode, Guy and Joe explore why the lost art of connecting is now so important for our personal and professional well-being.

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Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz - Introducing Wisdom From The Top

Introducing Wisdom From The Top

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09/27/21 • 0 min

From the creator of How I Built This, stories of crisis, failure, turnaround, and triumph from some of the greatest leaders in the world.
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Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz - The Gospel of Slow Growth, ft. Jason Fried

The Gospel of Slow Growth, ft. Jason Fried

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02/14/24 • 38 min

Jason Fried, the CEO and co-founder of 37signals (maker of Basecamp) doesn’t want you to come to meetings. He insists that you work no more than 40 hours a week; 36 in the summer. He doesn’t really want you coming to the office either...and this approach has helped make Basecamp hugely successful. In this episode, Fried describes how he’s built an institution by bucking a lot of conventional wisdom.
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How many episodes does Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz have?

Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz currently has 165 episodes available.

What topics does Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz cover?

The podcast is about Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Podcasts and Business.

What is the most popular episode on Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz?

The episode title 'Getting the Big Ideas Right: General Petraeus' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz?

The average episode length on Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz is 48 minutes.

How often are episodes of Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz released?

Episodes of Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz?

The first episode of Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz was released on Apr 17, 2019.

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