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Your People Will Forget 99% Of What You Do As A Leader!

2026-11-0357:03

Two of Chris Dyer's former senior executives got bonuses, promotions and raises when he sold his company. Over drinks on a rooftop they told him, "We're still really mad at you": they would give up all the money and all the titles to be back working in the old company. What they remembered was not the policies or the perks, but four or five moments. Chris spent more than two decades building companies and studying culture. After 9/11 he walked away from a safe job and the worst boss to start ...

Stanford's Humor Teacher: Your Joke Can Fail And Still Make Your Team Trust You!

2026-10-2751:06

Why do so many people do everything right, finish the course, earn the certificate, and still end up exactly where they started? Connor Diemand-Yauman was one of Coursera's early employees, where he and Jessica worked together, until an Uber ride changed his path: the driver had completed a Coursera course, earned the certificate, and was still driving. Connor and his Coursera colleague Rebecca Taber Staehelin went on to co-found Merit America, the nonprofit that trains low-wage working adult...

From NASA's Mars Lander to a $1B Startup: Why Engineers Will Run the Next Decade

2026-10-2052:32

What does it take to hire, lead and keep the best engineers in the world while your company grows faster than you planned? Bryce Strauss, co-founder of Nominal, went from flying NASA's Juno spacecraft at Jupiter and working on the InSight Mars lander at Lockheed Martin to building the testing software behind rockets, aircraft and energy systems. Nominal has raised $182.5M from Sequoia, Founders Fund, General Catalyst and Lux, and reached a $1B valuation in 2026. Host Jessica Neal, former Chie...

$500M Search Founder: This is why Most Executive Hires Fail!

2026-10-1351:16

Why do so many executive hires fail, and how do you spot a bad hire before you make the offer? Brad Stadler, co-founder of True Search, has spent 25 years in executive search placing CEOs, CFOs and leadership teams at venture-backed and growth companies, and in this episode he explains what is broken in executive recruiting and how founders, CEOs and boards should hire leaders today. Brad started as an auditor at Arthur Andersen, went on only two job interviews in his life, and moved into exe...

Stanford Meeting Expert: Your Packed Calendar Is Not Work!

2026-10-0651:20

Why do we keep sitting in meetings we know are a waste of time? And why do 75% of employees say AI makes them more productive while only 13% say their company sees real value? Dr. Rebecca Hinds has studied both. She leads the Work AI Institute at Glean, holds a PhD from Stanford, and wrote the USA TODAY bestseller Your Best Meeting Ever. In this episode of Truth Works, host Jessica Neal, former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix, asks her what actually fixes meetings, why AI is not showing up in...

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