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The Insightful Leader

Kellogg School of Management

Expert advice and cutting-edge discoveries from one of the world"s leading business schools.

business management

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18:11

How to Be a Great Mentor

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2018/09/10

Insight talks about mentorship and advice with two professors whose own executive careers were helped by others.

14:14

What Veterans Can Bring to Your Organization

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2018/08/03

Insight talks to an Army colonel and two finance professors about the unique qualities former servicemembers bring to the corporate world.

15:29

Mining NBA Data for Leadership Lessons

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2018/07/11

Insight looks to the NBA for leadership lessons on how to build a successful team, how to manage diversity, and how one NBA team has embraced data analytics to drive decision making across the organization.

16:16

Our Most Popular Advice on Improving Relationships...

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2018/06/11

Most of us spend a lot of time interacting with our coworkers. Being surrounded by the right teams can make long hours and challenging projects a lot more bearable. Getting along with our colleagues can make work fun. In this best-of podcast, Kellogg Insight offers advice on how to make the most of your work relationships. We hear from Kellogg School faculty Ellen Taaffe, a clinical assistant professor of leadership, and Eli Finkel, a professor of management and organizations, about the thorny

17:55

How You and Your Company Can Lend Expertise to a...

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2018/05/08

While most of us are interested in contributing to the greater good, it can be daunting to figure out just where to start, and how to make the most impact. In this podcast, we talk with Megan Kashner,a clinical assistant professor and director of social impact at Kellogg, about how companies and their employees can offer their expertise to nonprofit organizations. Then we discuss with Kara Palamountain, a research associate professor at Kellogg, how social impact entrepreneurs have some tough

14:05

Attract Rockstar Employees-or Develop Your Own

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2018/03/07

Building a new business comes with a lot of uncertainty, but there's one thing companies can do to make the odds of survival as favorable as possible. In this podcast, we talk with lecturer Jeff Hyman about how to identify, attract, and retain rockstar employees. Then we talk with Bernie Banks, Kellogg’s associate dean for leadership development and a retired brigadier general in the U.S. Army, about how to develop leadership talent from the ground up.

14:40

How Music Can Change Our Mood

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2018/02/10

Music can be powerful. It can change our mood, and, research shows, even change our behavior. In this podcast, we talk with professor Derek Rucker about his research on power songs and how they might shape the way we behave after we listen to them. Then we talk with Kris Kukul, a Broadway music director and orchestrator, who helps us understand how music is crafted in order to elicit an emotional reaction.

19:50

How Amazon's Alexa Learns

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2018/01/03

Ashwin Ram, one of the creators of Amazon Echo, describes how the artificial intelligence device is learning how to understand the ways we speak. Plus, a Kellogg School data scientist describes an algorithm that can identify new social-media hashtags as they emerge.

18:16

Give Better Feedback

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2017/11/09

Learn how to most effectively give and receive feedback in the workplace. Then an expert on marriage discusses the ways our relationships can inform our work communications.

14:26

How to Maintain Your Social and Professional Connections

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2017/10/04

Learn how the science of regret can motivate us to keep connections with friends and colleagues. Then get a practical tool for staying front-of-mind with business connections.

16:51

Why Do so Many People Distrust the News?

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2017/08/15

We look into three questions: How do we know when to trust new information? What can reputable journalists do to convince their audience that they are not, in fact, fake news? And why are people particularly skeptical about institutions these days?

12:30

Why Are Rankings and Listicles so Popular?

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2017/07/10

Why marketers and journalists benefit from an understanding of how effective lists are designed and deployed.

15:18

How to Avoid Five Common Career Pitfalls

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2017/06/06

Tips to recognize the tendencies and attitudes that may hold our careers back.

19:10

How To Steer Your Company Through a Twitter Firestorm

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2017/02/13

Tips for creating an audio brand and managing your company's voice on social media.

13:53

Hit Your New Year's Goals

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2017/01/04

This month’s Insight In Person podcast is an encore broadcast from January 2015 that investigates how to get off to a strong start in the new year. Blake McShane, an associate professor of marketing at the Kellogg School, explains that when faced with paying off multiple debts, those who tackle the smallest debt first are more likely to succeed in paying off everything. Eli Finkel, a professor of management and organizations at the Kellogg School, cautions that relying on others to reach our goals

21:58

Will Machines Ever Truly Understand Us?

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2016/12/06

Kellogg Insight takes a look at how humans can learn to work with machines in decision-making, and how machines can learn to understand us. We talk to three researchers who approach these relationships in exciting ways. Kellogg professor Brian Uzzi studies how machine learning can improve human decision making. David Ferrucci, formerly the principal investigator of IBM’s Watson project and now a senior technologist at Bridgewater Associates and founder and CEO of Elemental Cognition, discusses

18:24

How humans and robots are learning to trust each other

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2016/11/07

We often have complicated relationships with machines, whether we are anthropomorphizing our navigation system, expressing our "love" for our phone, or getting creeped out when technology gets "too human." But do we trust these machines... and do they trust us? Kellogg Insight takes a multifaceted look at human-machine trust with four researchers who approach these relationships in different ways. Kellogg professors Adam Waytz and Rima Touré-Tillery look at how designers can build human trust in

16:48

Big Data and Ideas Going Viral

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2016/10/03

From tweets to scientific discoveries, human behavior is surprisingly predictable. Why do some ideas go viral while others go nowhere? Is it all about reaching that mythical tipping point, or is something else at work? Kellogg Insight talked with two researchers who are starting to find answers by analyzing huge amounts of data. Microsoft’s Duncan Watts explains why we should stop worrying about a tipping point, and Kellogg Professor Dashun Wang discusses how human behavior is more predictable than

15:53

Facebook Advertising Effectiveness

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2016/07/18

Advertisers pay good money to reach potential customers as they read the news on their phones, or shop on their tablets, or skim their Facebook feeds at work. But determining whether those digital ads actually lead to new purchases? That can be surprisingly tricky. But determining whether those digital ads actually lead to new purchases? That can be surprisingly tricky. In this Insight in Person podcast, we chat with Kellogg faculty members, as well as researchers from Facebook, to find out why many

14:41

Tips for Managing Conflict at Work

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2016/07/05

Few people relish the idea of walking into a workplace rife with conflict. What’s more, conflict can be a drag on productivity and creativity. So what are the best ways to manage conflict at work? The answer depends on the type of conflict you face. In this Insight In Person podcast, we talk with two Kellogg professors of management and organizations about two different types of conflict. Jeanne Brett addresses cross-cultural conflict, offering advice on the best ways to diffuse tense situations—or

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