Curious Minds at Work

Mar 09 2025 286 ep. 44 mins 1.3k

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Want to get better at work? At managing others? Managing yourself? Gayle Allen interviews experts who take your performance to the next level. Each episode features a book with insights to help you achieve your goals.

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CM 287: Andrew Brodsky on the Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication

Mar 09 2025 46 mins

We’re all virtual communicators. Even if we don’t work remotely, we’re texting, using social media, and making phone calls. But the question is, are we good at it? Do we know the best practices that can set us apart? Andrew Brodsky can teach us. He’s a management professor and virtual communication expert. In this episode, we discuss his book, Ping: The Secrets of Successf

CM 286: Chris Lipp on Stepping into Your Personal Power

Feb 23 2025 48 mins

Most advice on power is about why we need it or how we can get it. And it's typically focused on things outside us, like titles or promotions. While these external markers are important, they can leave us empty inside. Advice that focuses solely on external power leaves out how to build and maintain the crucial internal power we need. That’s why Chris Lipp decided to mine the

CM 285: Adam Galinsky Shares What Great Leaders Do

Feb 09 2025 53 mins

Adam Galinsky is a social psychologist and the Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. He believes leaders are made, not born, and he’s spent decades proving it. In this interview, we talk about his findings and how they apply to today’s leaders. We also discuss his latest book, Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others. I

CM 284: Alison Wood Brooks on the Science of Conversation

Jan 26 2025 64 mins

Conversations play a big role in our personal and professional lives. It’d be hard to build or maintain a relationship without them. That’s why Alison Wood Brooks, Harvard Business School Professor and conversation expert, has written the book, Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves. She’s found that if we improve our conversations, even a little,

CM 283: Sandra Matz on Protecting Our Privacy Online

Jan 12 2025 54 mins

With few exceptions, we have digital footprints. And each time we scroll social media, run a Google search, or use a smartphone to navigate, we’re adding data to that footprint. While we gain a lot from our ability to do all these things, we also feed companies the data they need to target us. Sandra Matz is a computational social scientist and professor at Columbia Business Sch

CM 282: Cassie Holmes on Happiness, Meaning, and Fulfillment – Rebroadcast

Dec 29 2024 45 mins

We go to the dentist, get our eyes checked, and get our cars inspected. These regularly scheduled health and safety audits let us know how we’re doing. But we rarely audit how we spend our time. Sure, most of us have a calendar. Yet few of us study how these calendar events impact our happiness. We rarely track the connection between what we spend our time doing and how well we

CM 281: Alison Fragale on Women and Success

Dec 15 2024 51 mins

If you’re a woman in the workplace, you know the deck is rarely stacked in your favor. For example, promotions are harder to come by. The gender wage gap is real. And power can feel elusive. Psychology professor and researcher, Alison Fragale, has studied the power problem for decades. What she’s figured out is that the solution lies with status. But, as she argues in her book

CM 280: Michael Gervais on Overcoming Our Biggest Fear – Rebroadcast

Dec 01 2024 50 mins

There are many good reasons to look to others. For example, you might need expert advice or feedback to improve your performance. But there’s one reason not to, and, that is, to determine your self-worth. When you look to someone else to define you or tell you how to live your life, you lose a lot. And if you find it hard to believe you’d ever let someone else influence you

CM 279: Brian Lowery on Who You Really Are

Nov 17 2024 42 mins

It’s tempting to believe that the self is a constant. That it’s a core component of who we are from the time we’re born. But social psychologist and Stanford Professor Brian Lowery has a different view. He believes the self we are today is a product of our social relationships – our friends, our families, our communities, our technologies, even our geography. That as our

CM 278: Lorraine Besser on Living a Richer Life

Nov 03 2024 35 mins

We need pleasure in our lives. We also need meaning. Pleasure gives us joy and delight. Meaning gives us purpose and a set of goals to work toward. But have there ever been times in your life when you’ve experienced meaning and pleasure, yet felt something was missing? Turns out, you’re not alone. What’s missing, according to recent research, is something called psychologic