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He Studied Gallup's Data for 25 Years: Here's What Makes People Great at Work

2026-09-1552:20

Marcus Buckingham has spent more than 25 years studying what makes people extraordinary at work, and his newest research points to a word most businesses are too nervous to use: love. In this episode of Truth Works, host Jessica Neal sits down with the co-creator of StrengthsFinder and author of First, Break All the Rules to talk about why Net Promoter Score barely predicts anything, why not one of the world's top business schools teaches the most powerful force in business, and how even a N...

How 2 Netflix Leaders Took "No Rules" Global! And Where It Almost Broke - Alix and Marta

2026-09-0801:07:13

Alix and Marta were the people who had to make Netflix's culture work outside America. Alix moved from the US to build the Amsterdam office and Netflix's European headquarters from a handful of desks; Marta, a Venezuelan-born recruiter who had just scaled Booking.com from 5,000 to 15,000 people, read the Netflix culture deck and assumed it was "American BS" until she flew in to interview and find out. Together they built the HR function for EMEA during the company's fastest international expa...

Former Skype Exec: I Nearly Died Mid-Flight, here's The Mistake That Caused It!

2026-09-0138:42

Eric Partaker built Skype's early business team into a multi-billion-dollar exit — then had a heart attack at 35,000 feet from years of 80-100 hour weeks. He rebuilt his entire approach to work around one method, and now coaches CEOs on it worldwide. In this episode, Jessica Neal talks to Eric about his new book Ultra Productive and the science behind doing more by doing less. In this episode: 1. The heart attack at 35,000 feet and the days leading up to it 2. Building Skype's business team...

Only 65,000 H-1B visas exist per year! This is what decides it - Jeff Joseph

2026-08-2537:29

For 30 years, Jeff Joseph has been one of the most influential lawyers in American immigration law — and he just joined Manifest Law, the AI-native immigration firm, as President of Immigration Strategy. On this episode, Jessica Neal sits down with him for a rare, no-spin look at how U.S. immigration actually works, who it works for, and why almost nothing about it has changed in decades. Jeff is the 79th President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the 18,000-member bar...

Rubrik CEO: From A $1,000-A-Month Garage In San Francisco To A Public Company

2026-08-1829:18

Bipul Sinha failed his first shot at India's hardest entrance exam. His father told him to drop out and try again — the only other option was selling tobacco on a street corner. Bipul is the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Rubrik, the cybersecurity and data management company he took public on the NYSE in April 2024. Before Rubrik, he spent four years as a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he was a founding investor and board member of Nutanix and part of the team behind early be...

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