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Talk Cocktail

Jeff Schechtman

Jeff Schechtman talks with authors, journalists, newsmakers and opinion shapers, and sheds light on the issues of the day, from local stories to national and international headlines and ideas. jeffschechtman.substack.com

news & politics

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24:38

The best places to work

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2014/12/12

We’ve recently seen year end lists of the best places to work. Free food, massage, pets, and a beautiful campus are all contributing factors. However, research, behavioral analysis and science can also tell us what make a workplace effective, productive, and more innovative. The famed management consultant Peter Drucker said that “culture eats strategy for lunch.” Affirming a long held conviction that the culture of a company, even more than its smarts or its products, drive its success or

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14:35

The healing power of our pets

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2014/12/07

While the origins of the quote are sketchy, Harry Truman, frustrated by the problems he faced in the White House, is reported to have said that “if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” Today the same might be said of our pets in general, or in the politically correct parlance of the day, our companion animals. Be they dogs, or cats. With all the talk about the amount of money spend on our pets, it’s easy to lose sight of the real power of our relationships with them. Sometimes exalted,

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18:49

Cheryl Strayed's WILD

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2014/12/05

Back in the 1940’s theologian Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the serenity prayer. You all know it. It tells us to accept those things that we can’t change and the courage to change those we can and the wisdom to know the difference. Over the years, it’s been adopted by AA and various other groups. But it might also be the coda for Cheryl Strayed's fantastically successful book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail The story of her trek on the Pacific Crest Trail, it’s also the story of coming

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20:42

If you're afraid of Genetically Modified Food, you'll...

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2014/12/04

During the recent Ebola scare, we were often reminded of the dozens of science fiction thrillers that set the stage for our fears. From the Andromeda Strain, to World War Z, The Stand and The Hot Zone, to name just a few. Today, the cutting edge of genetic manipulation, often provides the basis for similar fears. The brave new world of Bioengineering, plays upon our most primal instincts of what makes us human. Jamie Metzl a former member of the National Security Council, has added his new

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26:04

Only satire can save us now

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2014/12/03

We live in an ironic age. The speed of modern communication, juxtaposed with the traditional entrenched problems we face, provides a disconnect that only humor can bridge. Think about it this way. How often has humor engaged us to better understand tragedy? How long after certain tragedies, do we hear the first joke? Not out of disrespect, but out of a way to get our arms around something that our brains have trouble comprehending. When David Letterman asked, after 9/11, if we would ever laugh

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28:14

Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production

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2014/12/02

Even amidst the concerns about the impact of cattle on global warming, the disgrace of industrialized farming and slaughterhouses, and the increased worldwide population that has sworn off beef, it’s still very much a part of our diet. And perhaps it should be. But is there a better, more sustainable, more humane way to process that beef and bring it to market? In what too often seems to be world of black and white thinking, can we find a middle ground? A way in which beef is healthy,

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26:35

Is Word of Mouth advertising driving Black Friday...

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2014/11/28

John Wanamaker, the famous department store magnate, once said that he knew that at least half of his advertising budget was wasted. Problem was, he didn’t know which half. For anybody that’s in business today, you know how difficult it is making your product or service stand out among the competition and noise of today’s marketplace. It’s a lot tougher than it was for Don Draper. Advertising is everywhere. Television, radio, billboards, digital, banners, mobile, native advertising,

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22:55

The Marshmallow Test

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2014/11/26

I can’t even count the number of times that guests on this program have spoken about what’s become known as the Marshmallow Experiments. In conversations ranging from business, to public policy, to personal psychology, the impact of this experiment in determining self control, executive function, the predilection for addiction and even intelligence, has been profound. Walter Mischel started thinking about this experiment when he was in graduate school. Later, in the 60’s at Stanford, he devised

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20:11

Valerie Plame's BURNED

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2014/11/26

We live in an information age. The goal of virtually every App on our phone, and most websites, is perfect information; about the world, about our neighbors, about our friends and about ourselves. So how is it, that with all this information, the world is so much more dangerous. That secrets are sometimes so much deeper, that bad actors, and even good ones turned bad, can often outsmart, out run and out maneuver the CIA, the very agency designed to ferret out those secrets and keep us safe. Even

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26:36

The Business Moments You Can't Ignore

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2014/11/26

It was actually Winston Churchill, not Rahm Emanuel who said that we should never let a serious crisis go to waste. A crisis often creates a great opportunity to face, to talk about, and even sometimes to act on issues that had been previously frozen Or, as Donald Rumsfeld once inarticulately put it, “sometimes the only solution to an unsolvable problem, is to create a bigger problem.” But often these problems come out of the blue; in life and in business. When they do, when those pivotal moments

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20:12

Mark Leibovich's portraits of Citizens of the Green Room

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2014/11/24

Someone once remarked that when they saw a snake and a vulture having sex in Washington, and thought it was just business as usual. Fitzgerald said that he rich were different, because they have more money. Politicians are different, usually because that they have more insecurities The fact is that most politicians and other high profile inhabitants of our nation's capital are just flesh and blood human beings. And yes, they may be different than you and I, they are certainly more caught up in

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14:57

National Book Award Winner, Jacqueline Woodson

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2014/11/20

Recently we spoke of the 50 Anniversary of Freedom Summer and the early flowering of the civil rights movement. Much has been written of the historical roots and narrative of those events. But now Jacqueline Woodson tells her personal story and the larger story of the journey of a movement from the Deep South, to urban core of America. The story of Brown Girl Dreaming is a story made all the more powerful by recent events that bring into focus the arc of that journey. A journey that ended short

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21:48

Language and Cultural Evolution

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2014/11/18

When we do think about the state or origins of language, we often think about it as something based in the distant past. But language is very much a living thing, with a direct nexus to our cultural evolution. The choices we make about the words we use, reflect both our own place in the culture as well as the state of the culture itself. This is all part of the unique work of Princeton Professor Daniel Cloud in The Domestication of Language: Cultural Evolution and the Uniqueness of the Human

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21:48

Technology will keep us together

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2014/11/17

As we listened to election results last week, the one thing we heard over and over again is the slicing and dicing of the electorate. Into generations, incomes, ethnicity, etc. Certainly we hear repeatedly about the complexity and challenges of today's multi- generational workplace. With all of this talk about division, it's perhaps worth looking at what might actually unite us. There is an answer we might find surprising, and that is technology. To paraphrase the old orange juice commercial;

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18:48

Leading with Intention

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2014/11/17

In a business environment as data driven as ours is today, it’s not surprising that we don’t view success through the lens that Fitzgerald used to describe Gatsby, who saw his success as “an unbroken series of successful gestures.” Still success to be sustainable and replicable, both personal and professional, has to be more than habit or behavior, or just data. In a world in which changes take place so quickly, in which workforce diversity both generational and ethnic, is so varied, the

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22:33

The Uncensored History of the Food Network

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2014/11/14

If the past 30 years of television has been about anything, it’s been about specialization. While ESPN was the leader and Granddaddy of specialty television programming, you can now watch nothing but Sci Fi, or old movies, or cartoons, and of course food. Food programming, like sports has had a cultural impact far beyond the screen. The Food Network, like ESPN, has both shaped our perceptions and married it with our culture in ways that gives us both celebrities and food. What better combination

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21:32

Rules for Assassins

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2014/11/12

Throughout history, from Cesar thru Lincoln, from Archduke Ferdinand and Gandhi through the Kennedys and Malcolm X, a bullet has changed the world. But what’s different when assassination is not a random deranged act, but an instrument of policy. First, it’s the stuff of movies. Think about it; The Manchurian Candidate, Day of the Jackal, Executive Action, Parallax View, to name a few. Add to this list, Syriana, a story based on the life of former CIA operative Robert Baer. Baer has now

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19:32

Ratchets, Hatchets & Pivots

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2014/11/11

We are in the midst of a great migration to cities. The number of farms and people engaged in agriculture continues to decline. Yet human ingenuity has produced abundant resources of food, through innovation and technology. Historically, when disaster has struck and we have been threatened as a species, we’ve always seemed to find a way out, particularly with respect to our food supply. This has resulted in increases in population, which then takes us to the next crises. This cycle is

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19:39

Why Motivating People Does not work

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2014/11/10

Todays workplace bears very little resemblance to that of our parents. It’s multi generational nature, its focus on employee empowerment and its reflection of broader changes in society, education and culture, all create a perfect storm that requires whole new skill sets from today’s leaders. These are the skills that Susan Fowler writes about in Why Motivating People Doesn't Work . . . and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging My conversation with Susan Fowler:

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26:22

Love, Sex and Popular Culture in 21st Century America

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2014/11/07

Back in the early 1960’s the world took note of the decadence of life in the Italian capital of Rome, in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. Inspired by two major political/sex scandals of the era, the film, which would win the 1960 Palme d'or in Cannes, depicted a Rome that was ultra sophisticated, ultra modern and ultra decadent. Fifty plus years later, Prof. Roger Friedland would decide to move to Rome with his wife and adolescent daughters, because he saw Rome as an antidote to America being awash in

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