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Mike sits down with the world’s most important Chief Executives to answer your most pressing questions about leadership, career, and life.
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🎙️On the future of local community, journalism, and business 🎙️How AI is making the web … kinder? 🎙️Advice to our younger selves: don’t try to be perfect, try to be curious This episode will make you want to hug your neighbors! Explore More: 📚 Books recommended during the episode: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Available at Transom Bookshop) 📚 Bowling Alone (Available at Transom Bookshop) 🤘 More about The Career Manifesto, including free resources, at mikesteib.com. 🌟 Upcoming episodes: another great episode on local tech and community, something special from the artworld, a nonprofit tech revolutionary, and a pioneering world champion poker player. Text or call your questions at (213) 419.0596 or DM me on Linkedin.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
🎙️ A fan of The Career Manifesto shares her path to CEO 🎙️ How AI and data are lighting the way to a cure for cancer 🎙️ And finally an honest answer: is it any fun to be the CEO? A genuinely uplifting episode that will make you optimistic about the future of technology and human health! Explore more: 🤘 More about The Career Manifesto, including free resources, at mikesteib.com. 🌟 Upcoming episodes: a founder and a CEO who have each helped to revolutionize how we engage with our local communities. Text or call your questions at (213) 419.0596.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
🎙️ On pioneering internet advertising at DoubleClick and their transformative $3.1B sale to Google 🎙️ How the internet is transforming luxury … and everything else 🎙️ Views on the new X.com from a long time Twitter board director 🎙️ And why a leader’s job is “not to make the music, but to be the conductor” Tune in this week for a great hang with a terrific leader and Silicon Alley OG. Explore more 🤘 Discover more at mikesteib.com. 🌟 Send in your questions for our next episode at 213.419.0596.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
🎙️ On launching the first major online cosmetics company, despite being told repeatedly “women won’t shop online” 🎙️ How Minted.com unlocked the creative genius of thousands of designers around the world 🎙️ Why the more we live online, the more we value art and handcrafted objects 🎙️ What it’s like to raise $400 million … and counting This episode is for anyone who enjoys entrepreneurship, art, and the power of perseverance! Explore More ⁉️ Exclusive tease: Mariam’s new venture, arcade.ai, launching soon! 🤘 Mike's favorite art picks every week, recommended books for leaders, and more: mikesteib.com. 🎉 Up next: More from the world of art and design with another one of my favorite CEOs. Submit your questions at 213.419.0596.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
🎙️ Saeju’s immigrant journey from an unheated basement apartment to unicorn founder 🎙️ Decoding human behavior: insights from the Noom data treasure trove 🎙️ Building new habits with Cognitive Behavior Therapy 🎙️ Even in the age of Ozempic… there are still no shortcuts This episode will help you get inspired and make a plan to be the best you in 2024! Explore More 💪 🤘 Dive into Mike's recommended reads and resources at mikesteib.com. 🎉 Up next: A serial entrepreneur, a CEO on a mission to cure cancer, and more inspiring guests. Submit your questions at 213.419.0596.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
🎙️ Scaling joy while pouring 100,000 martinis a year 🎙️ Why the restaurant on your block went out of business 🎙️ Running a family business: a lot of happiness and a lot of yelling 🎙️ How to start being treated like a VIP at your favorite local joint This episode is a party in your ears—just in time for the holidays. Enjoy, subscribe, and please share with a friend who will love it. Go Deeper 🤘 The Career Manifesto, Mike's full reading list, art picks, and other resources here: mikesteib.com 🎄 Up next: We’re taking a week off for Christmas, and then it’s the New Year’s pod. Get your resolutions ready! Submit your questions at 213.419.0596.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode includes: 🎙️ The #1 most important operating principle 🎙️ To thine own self be … ENTJ? 🎙️ When to switch jobs, and why 🎙️ How inclusivity makes us better 🎙️ Self driving cars are here! (Almost.) If you’re an operator, or aspire to be one, this is the episode for you! Go Deeper 📚 Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building by Claire Hughes Johnson 📚 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni Find links, plus Mike's full reading list, and other resources here: www.mikesteib.com Next Week’s Guest 🚨 Tune in for our next guest, Michael Stillman, CEO of Quality Branded Restaurants. DM your questions on LinkedIn or call 213.419.0596.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week we talk about corporate communications, influence, and the future of political discourse with the world’s preeminent language strategist. We're diving into the power of empathy in communication, exploring how it influences everything from high-stakes business outcomes to our daily interactions with loved ones. Highlights include… 🎙️ The “Four Ps” of communications: personal, plain spoken, positive, and plausible 🎙️ How ESG went from insider acronym to “Eggs Grits and Sausage” to politicized buzzword 🎙️ The trick to changing minds: Tell them they're right? 🎙️ Politics and polarization: bridging divides by understanding the other side A down-to-earth, insightful episode for anyone looking to communicate with impact Go Deeper 📚 The Language of Trust: Selling Ideas in a World of Skeptics, by Michael Maslansky 📚 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert Cialdini 📚 Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, by Dan Ariely 📚 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Find links, plus Mike's full reading list, and other resources here: www.mikesteib.com Next Week’s Guest 🚨 Claire Hughes Johnson, COO of Stripe and author of Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building. DM me your questions on Linkedin or leave a voicemail at 213.419.0596.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week we sit down with a highly respected product leader, founder, and CEO who is revolutionizing your work docs with Coda, the all-in-one collaborative workspace. We talk about: 🎙️ How YouTube, Coda, and Artsy each found product market fit and scaled 🎙️ The “Golden Rituals” that create culture and help teams cooperate 🎙️ Under the hood: how AI really works in the products you love 🎙️ When bureaucracy ruins innovation—and mechanical bull office parties You’ll come away thinking differently about the routines that drive your work and the algorithms that shape your life. Go Deeper: 📚 Shishir’s book-in-progress: Rituals of Great Teams 🌐 The Art of Framing Problems: Eigenquestions 💪 The Career Manifesto, Mike's full reading list, and other resources at mikesteib.com Next Week’s Guest: 🚨 Michael Maslansky, founder and CEO of maslansky + partners, the world’s leading expert on language strategy and crisis communications. DM me your questions on Linkedin or call 213.419.0596See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Whether you’re just starting out, trying to make a change, or gunning for the C-suite, this conversation with the #1 CEO recruiter in the world and best selling author on career and leadership will get you to the next level. Tons of incredible advice, including: 🎙️ When to be a generalist, and when to “declare your major” 🎙️ The biggest mistake people make in interviews 🎙️ Solving the permission paradox: getting the job without the experience 🎙️ Making a career pivot—it’s never too late Whether you’re at the beginning of an ambitious career or looking to make a surge to the top, this conversation is essential. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-office-hours-with-mike-st-122602026/ 🚨And coming up next week: Shishir Mehrotra, founder and CEO of Coda, former product leader for YouTube. DM your questions or call 213.419.0596 Go Deeper 📚 The Five Patterns of an Extraordinary Career 📚 The Career Playbook 📚 Thinking Fast and Slow 📚 From Strength to Strength 🌐 Don't Just Network — Build Your 'Meaningful Network' to Maximize Your Impact 💪 The Career Manifesto, Mike's full reading list, and other resources here: www.mikesteib.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
When Mindy called her adopted parents to say she had broken off her wedding and dropped out of law school, her life of transformations had only begun. From the first woman to run a men’s fashion label to the bleeding edge of ecommerce, Mindy has spent her career building brands, fixing companies, and breaking glass ceilings. 🎙️ What one learns working with Phil Knight, Ralph Lauren, Barry Diller, and Tommy Hilfiger 🎙️ Going public in the financial crisis 🎙️ The radical rebranding of WeightWatchers 🎙️ Buying 4,000 Herman Miller chairs, just to let the team know she’d arrived 🎙️ Finding balance by putting your oxygen mask on first. This episode will make you a better leader! Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-office-hours-with-mike-st-122602026/ Go Deeper 💪 The Career Manifesto, Mike's full reading list, art picks, and other resources here: www.mikesteib.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As CEO of the world’s largest home for fan communities, serving 350M people every month—with leadership experience at the NBC Olympics, NFL, and WWE to boot—Perkins knows how to succeed in digital media. Plus: 🎙️ How AI is reshaping media and your job 🎙️ Growth hacking Google 🎙️ The path to a cool career 🎙️ How to pitch the boss: Be brief, be brilliant, be gone. A fun and illuminating episode for anyone passionate about media, marketing, and community. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-office-hours-with-mike-st-122602026/ GO DEEPER 📚 AI resources: https://chat.openai.com/share/4f51dca3-170c-4bad-9a7e-2b7cc0471d37 💪 The Career Manifesto, Mike's full reading list, and other resources here: www.mikesteib.com 🚨 Next week’s guest will be Mindy Grossman, former CEO of WeightWatchers and former CEO of HSN. Text or call in your questions @ (213) 419-0596. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Alexa von Tobel, Founder of LearnVest & Inspired Capital: Lean In … to the Pain! Alexa quit her Harvard MBA to build financial planning software during the banking crisis. Six years later, she sold it for $400M and is now investing in the next generation of entrepreneurs—in more ways than one. Alexa and Mike riff on raising money, embracing AI, personal investing, and staying on that grind. Plus: 🎙️ Should you get a coach? 🎙️ What kind of leader do investors want to back? 🎙️ Success vs happiness vs joy. 🎙️ The 50/30/20 rule of personal financial planning. 🎙️ And the one big secret of work life balance. Prepare to be inspired this week! You can listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. https://lnkd.in/ephV67C8 Go Deeper: 📚 Alexa’s latest book, Financially Fearless:https://www.amazon.com/Financially-Fearless-LearnVest-Program-Control/dp/0385347618 🎧 Inc. Founders Project with Alexa von Toble: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-inc-founders-project-with-31156625/ 💪 Mike's full reading list, The Career Manifesto, and other resources here: www.mikesteib.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Beloved tech leader and entrepreneur Tim Armstrong shares stories from the start up days of Google, divulges the secrets of the best salesperson in the game, and admits why he gave it all up—multiple times—to do something crazy. Plus: 🎙️ The 15% rule of a successful sales call 🎙️ Why a leader has to get her hands dirty 🎙️ When to quit a great job 🎙️ And about that time Tom Brady changed Tim’s life by the pool I think you are going to love this episode. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-office-hours-with-mike-st-122602026/ Go Deeper: 📚 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion https://bookshop.org/p/books/influence-the-psychology-of-persuasion-robert-b-cialdini/15467532?aid=7391&ean=9780062937650&listref=the-careerist-professional-development-must-reads 📚 Thinking Fast and Slow https://bookshop.org/p/books/thinking-fast-and-slow-daniel-kahneman/943943?aid=7391&ean=9780374533557&listref=the-careerist-professional-development-must-reads 📲 Flowcode https://www.flowcode.com/ 💪 The Career Manifesto, Mike's full reading list, art picks, and other resources here: www.mikesteib.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
With only a degree from "the school of hard knocks," one of Forbes World's Most Influential CMOs and Time Magazine's 100 Next gives the real deal on marketing, product development, social media, and more... 🎙️ The side hustle path to CEO 🎙️ Should you get an MBA? 🎙️ How to get 500K people to follow *you* on social 🎙️ A 4-day work week??? 🎙️ The insider’s guide to collecting contemporary art This episode just might change your life. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-office-hours-with-mike-st-122602026/ Go deeper: 💯Everette’s profile in The new Time100 Next: https://time.com/collection/time100-next-2023/6308465/everette-taylor/ 🖼️ How to become an expert art collector: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-5-tips-first-time-art-collectors 🎧 Gucci Mane explaining The Sauce: https://youtu.be/g0-F88c6Hrk?si=sqT9FxH66VPRSEcc 💪 The Career Manifesto, Mike's full reading list, art picks, and other resources here: www.mikesteib.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CEO of America’s Best Online Bank, celebrated digital innovator, and all-around great guy “JB” Brown shares the keys to building a culture that does right by customers and teammates. Plus, incredible insights on… 🎙️ Transforming a 100-year-old company 🎙️ Handling the first social media bank run 🎙️ Waiting—and waiting—for self-driving cars 🎙️ The brand power of women’s sports 🎙️ And being Father of the Year Sometimes nice guys finish first! Go Deeper: 📚 The Language of Trust, by Michael Maslansky: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-language-of-trust-selling-ideas-in-a-world-of-skeptics-scott-west/11158970?ean=9780735204560 📚 No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, by Read Hastings: https://bookshop.org/p/books/no-rules-rules-netflix-and-the-culture-of-reinvention-erin-meyer/13332186?aid=7391&ean=9781984877864&listref=the-careerist-professional-development-must-reads 💪 The Career Manifesto, Mike's full reading list, and other resources here: www.mikesteib.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
One of the youngest women ever to IPO her company shares the secrets of successful creators and entrepreneurs, the keys to building a great Gen Z team, the right way to get promoted, and reveals that when it comes to work-life balance, “behind the scenes, it’s all a hot mess.” Go deeper: 📚That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working TogetherSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The founder of MTV tells us how a young Mississippi DJ found his way to running some of the most culturally-important companies in the world, and what it has taught him about marketing, deal making, career moves, and...tequila! Go deeper: 📚 Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain https://g.co/kgs/YWoagL 🎧 Math & Magic: Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing with Bob Pittman | iHeart https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-math-magic-stories-from-t-31150153/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mayor Adams dishes on his unique political strategy, mastering public speaking, and why he loves the nightlife ("you can't be a shepherd if you don't smell like sheep.")See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mike is joined by Tommy Hilfiger to answer listener questions on navigating a company’s early struggles, creating a famous brand through celebrity and the arts, and dressing for the career you want. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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