97% Effective

Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

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Why is doing great work not enough to advance your career? Are you paying enough attention to all parts of your “PIE”? In this short episode, Michael helps you re-examine your PIE, sharing the thinking and actions that will disproportionately drive promotions, bigger bonuses – and your power and influence at work.

• Performance and PIE
• Think about yourself as a product
• Does this mean I should stop doing great work?
• Why organizations are different than school and many sports
• 3 “sad but true” research findings that reveal who gets credit, and who gets picked
• Insight on perception from photographer Richard Waine: “You’re professional headshot is not about you.”
• Flip the script: how do others see you?
• “I” = Image
• The definition of brand and a quick exercise to uncover your brand
• A warning from executive coach Anne Marie Segal about typecasting – and the leap you need to make
• How are you showing up?
• “E” = Exposure, which can come in many ways
• How award-winning speaker Alex Tremble did two things to catapult his early rise in the Federal Government
• Exposure in a remote world
• Do you need to make radical shifts?
• If you don’t manage your Image and Exposure, what’s likely to happen

BIO AND LINKS:

Michael Wenderoth is an Executive Coach that helps executives re-examine their assumptions about power, politics, and authenticity to get promoted, become more effective at work, and break glass ceilings holding them back. Having served 20 years in senior roles with companies across the globe, and then 7 years as a professional coach, he has helped accelerated the careers of clients from diverse industries, backgrounds, and levels of seniority, helping them get ahead – without having to sell their souls in the process. Michael is the award-winning author of Get Promoted, host of the 97% Effective career acceleration podcast, and a frequent speaker and media contributor on career advancement, leadership and navigating power and politics. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Stanford Business School Executive Education and IE Business School, where he collaborates with renowned professors, coaches, executives and experts. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford and trained as an executive coach at Columbia University (3CP).

• Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74
• Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelchangwenderoth/
• Research cited: See Chapter Chapter 5 (“What the Evidence Really Says” in Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74
• Richard Waine on what professional headshot is really about: https://tinyurl.com/2wcmamkw
• Anne Marie Segal on how to avoid being “typecast”: https://tinyurl.com/39myjfzs
• Alex Tremble on visibility in the corridors of power: https://tinyurl.com/4paf4evj
• Michael on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcwenderoth
• Michael on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wenderoth.michael/
• Get Promoted named Winner (Business-Careers) and Finalist (Business-General), 2023 International Book Awards: https://www.internationalbookawards.com/2023pressrelease.html

Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

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How do you avoid living in an echo chamber, deal with someone who has more influence, and prevent others from sowing misinformation? In this continuation episode, Michael and Jakub (Kuba) Kocinski debate how Jakub’s trust and safety insights can be applied to improving organizations, work relationships and careers. Jakub shares why things are not spiraling out of control, what Tik Tok is great at – and how to adapt to new technology. We end on Jakub’s definition of success, and how he has “adapted without losing himself” to life and work in the U.S.A.

• Previous episode (Part 1) with Jakub: https://tinyurl.com/2ezpdx8h
• The #1 thing we can learn from bad actors
• “Things are not spiraling out of control” – Why Jakub is optimistic
• Deal with bad actors daily? Best practices on taking care of yourself at work
• Discussion #1: Trust and safety applied to your career: How to manage someone more powerful and influential, when you have less voice?
• Truth: People want to hear things that align with their worldview
• Solution from Tik Tok? “Sparse and interject different types of content”
• Solution from Twitter? “Birdwatch” to allow crowdsourced fact checking
• Discussion #2: Trust and safety applied to your career: How to prevent the sowing of misinformation?
• Solution? Yellow and red cards..but where do you cross the line?
• Solution? Communicating and building strong relationships
• Mastering communication in the Tik Tok era
• How he adapts without losing himself – and a practical way to assesses a new employer
• Jakub at Tik Tok: The backlash he got from Silicon Valley peers
• How Jakub defines success – and what he means when he says he is “still very European”
• Jakub on his “controlled midlife moment”

BIO AND LINKS:

• Previous episode (Part 1) on 97% Effective, with Jakub: https://tinyurl.com/2ezpdx8h
• Jakub on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kocinski/
• On X/Twitter: @qbaas
• On Instagram: @qbaas
• Jakub, on the P&G Alumni podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jakub-kocinski-digital-safety-trust-from-p-g-to-google/id1509346585?i=1000569399519
• Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74

Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

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What can we learn from a trust and safety expert about creating better workplaces and navigating our careers? In this episode, Jakub (Kuba) Kocinski shares his path from communist Poland to leading digital trust and safety in Silicon Valley for Google, Bytedance (Tik Tok), and Meta. Listen to how the world’s best seek to prevent harm and deter “bad actors.”

• The two words that most resonate with today’s youth
• Jakub’s journey from growing up in communist Poland to leading in trust and safety in Silicon Valley
• Keys to his career moves: On mentors and building out a “set of specialists” in your network
• Want to get promoted? How to advocate for yourself
• The mandate of “trust and safety” at a tech company
• The triangle structure – and the immense power that comes from controlling the top of the pyramid.
• Is it easy to detect misinformation and bad actors?
• Dealing with misinformation
• The top strategies used by bad actors
• Important tools: Incident trend analysis, third party intelligence and building internal red teams
• Can a community police itself? One company model worth studying

BIO AND LINKS:

•  Jakub on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kocinski/
• On X/Twitter: @qbaas
• On Instagram: @qbaas
• Jakub, on the P&G Alumni podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jakub-kocinski-digital-safety-trust-from-p-g-to-google/id1509346585?i=1000569399519
• Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74

Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

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Martin Young, Managing Director at M3 Partners, explains what turnaround and restructuring experts do – and how his training as a military chaplain has served him and his work on Wall Street. We discuss: thinking in terms of best interests, understanding organizational behavior through the theological concept of total depravity, how a chaplain approaches contentious situations – and the misunderstood paradigm between communication and being effective.

• How Martin’s religious side emerged
• How his theological training and military service shaped his worldview – and connect to his Wall Street job
• The US Constitution on bankruptcy and the idea of a fresh start
• How Marty defines power: formal and informal
• Thinking in terms of “the best interest” tests
• Is the restructuring world all about brutal cost cuts and layoffs?
• The two core things that turnaround professionals look at
• Income Statements and Balance Sheets, Turnarounds vs Restructuring
• Managing constituencies who have influence & navigating egos and politics: The first thing you need to do
• Triangulate to the core, shed and thinking it terms of a bankruptcy paradigm
• The grey areas create the most contention
• Looking at organizations through the theological lense of “total depravity”
• Forcing a process upon people where they actually have to do things that are in their best interest
• How his chaplain training helps him when advising executives and companies
• Going into contentious meetings, what Marty does to stay self-controlled, be able to listen and understand other perspectives
• How to share bad news without pissing off the CEO
• What are people’s anchors?
• “Leadership is identifying a problem with a moral center that people can get behind and want to solve”
• The “Theology -> Ethics -> Leadership” progression that is sadly being lost
• The basic issues we all struggle with
• The misunderstood paradigm around communication and being effective

BIO AND LINKS:

Marty Young is a globally recognized restructuring, turnaround, performance improvement and investment banking professional and executive with over 25 years of financial and operational experience in addressing over 75 special situation investments. He is a Managing Director at M-3 Partners, a top Wall Street boutique restructuring advisory and investment firm, serves on the Advisory Board of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Georgia Tech, and has held executive roles with Noragh Analytics, Young Broadcasting, Best Textiles and most recently as CEO of Buckle, an innovative insurance company that serves the shared economy. Marty has been globally recognized by the Turnaround Management Association, Turnaround and Workouts, and the Global M&A Network, including being named one of the Top 100 Restructuring Professionals. Marty is a West Point graduate and served as an Officer in the U.S. Army Infantry, earned an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business and an MS in Operations Research from Georgia Tech, and trained at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, from which he holds a Masters of Divinity, Masters of Theology (Biblical Theology), and Doctorate of Ministry in Workplace Theology, Ethics and Leadership. Marty serves as a Chaplain in the Delaware National and is a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College.

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinsyoung/
• M3 Partners: https://m3-partners.com
• Buckle: https://www.buckleup.com
• Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74

Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

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 It's that time again: Promotions are being decided, and the path for the next year is being determined. Do you want to be in the driver’s seat, or frustrated that you got passed over? Does it feel like some of your peers operate by a playbook that you never got? In this short episode, Michael shares “The Rock the Map and the Snowball”, a 3-step framework to help you Get Real, Get Strategic and Get Doing – so you Get Promoted. In each step, he offers one question to ask yourself, and one action – so you get moving in the right direction.

•  Step #1, The Rock: Better to build your strategies on truths and evidence, not comforting fantasies
• In organizations, the hard truth about who promotes us
• Can’t articulate how the promotion process works in your organization? Then you need to this.
• What is your organization promoting (vs saying it promotes)? Find out through this short exercise.
• What’s holding you back? Kara Williams, Partner at Credera, shares what held her back.
• All progress starts by doing this.
• Step #2, The Map: What good is knowing north if you don’t assess the landscape?
• Why you should first ask “Who?”
• Peter Belmi, Professor at Darden: Your job is to find the right people!
• How a frank talk with his boss got my client out of daydream mode and into the leadership program
• How are you spending your time?
• Step #3, The Snowball: Nothing happens unless something moves
• Are you waiting for the stars to totally align?
• Doing vs Thinking
• Gorick Ng, Harvard Career Advisor and Author “The Unspoken Rules”: The #1 career limiting move
• The value of being uncomfortable
• 3 Questions, 3 Actions

BIO AND LINKS:

 Michael Wenderoth is an Executive Coach that helps executives re-examine their assumptions about power, politics, and authenticity to get promoted, become more effective at work, and break glass ceilings holding them back. Having served 20 years in senior roles with companies across the globe, and then 7 years as a professional coach, he has helped accelerated the careers of clients from diverse industries, backgrounds, and levels of seniority, helping them get ahead – without having to sell their souls in the process. Michael is the award-winning author of Get Promoted, host of the 97% Effective career acceleration podcast, and a frequent speaker and media contributor on career advancement, leadership and navigating power and politics. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Stanford Business School Executive Education and IE Business School, where he collaborates with renowned professors, coaches, executives and experts. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford and trained as an executive coach at Columbia University (3CP).

•  Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74
• Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelchangwenderoth/
• Kara Williams Episode “Advancing Your Career Through ‘Salt, Acid, Fat & Heat’”: https://tinyurl.com/59tmctku
• Article “Great Leader Embraces Office Politics” (Harvard Business Review): https://hbr.org/2016/04/great-leaders-embrace-office-politics
• Professor Peter Belmi Episode “Social Class & Our Beliefs – How They Affect Our Path to Power”: https://tinyurl.com/2ys2h8r8
• Michael’s Power Map Tool (FREE): https://changwenderoth.com/the-power-map/
• Gorick Ng Episode “What You’re Not Taught in School – Unspoken Rules That Accelerate Your Career”: https://tinyurl.com/bdze24px
• Article “How to Get Your First Promotion” (Harvard Business Review): https://hbr.org/2022/10/how-to-get-your-first-promotion
• Michael on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcwenderoth
• Michael on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wenderoth.michael/
• Get Promoted named Winner (Business-Careers) and Finalist (Business-General), 2023 International Book Awards: https://www.internationalbookawards.com/2023pressrelease.html

Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

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 Life is not fair, so why do we pretend that it is? Samia Qamar, Director People at S&P Global Pakistan, shares how hard work and educational degrees might be necessary – but are not sufficient – to accelerating your career and impact. She shares how a mid-career meeting in Dubai dramatically shifted her trajectory, encouraging her to surround herself with the right people, speak her mind, and take risks. Listen for inspiration and to pick up practical tips on how to self-advocate and create win-win scenarios. Samia has been named one of South Asia’s Top 100 Power Women, and was inducted to the WAW Hall of Fame.

•  The extra-ordinary story of an ordinary woman
• “Degrees don’t help people in the practical world”
• A mentor’s advice in Dubai that shifted her trajectory
• Why you should ask
• “The flywheel effect”
• The special sauce at S&P: Putting people first
• How Samia practically applies career-accelerating advice
• Reframing feedback and articulating your self-development goals
• Don't wait for the role – do this instead
• The power of thinking win-win
• Plant the seeds early
• Why Asians and women need to speak up and self-advocate, particularly in Western multinationals
• Cutting “second-order” details: How Samia dramatically improved her presence and public speaking
• Top People Trends on Samia’s radar
• Samia’s networking tips: make a list, offer support, be a connector – and create a Thanksgiving Day tradition

BIO AND LINKS:

 Samia Qamar is a Pakistani citizen with more than 16 years of rich experience in human resources across leading companies in healthcare, management consultancy, hospitality and financial services. As Director People at S&P Global, she works as a trusted partner for business. Her purpose is nurturing talent for scalable business and a sustainable planet, and she has an innate passion for philanthropy through community outreach. Samia has been listed as one of South Asia’s Top 100 Power Women (2022), inducted to the WAW Hall Of Fame (2021) and Global Library of Female Authors (2020), recognized by the Women Economic Forum as “Exceptional Woman of Excellence” in Cairo (2020), and appointed as Global Goodwill Ambassador for Pakistan (2019). Samia is member of the LEAD Alumni community at the Stanford GSB.

•  Samia on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samiaqamar/
• S&P Global: https://www.spglobal.com/en/
• Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74

Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

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 To mark the first anniversary of 97% Effective, host Michael Wenderoth highlights memorable moments from the more than 52 guests he’s interviewed. He shares 6 “hard truth” clips about accelerating our careers that most of us would rather avoid. May these provide bite-size fuel to challenge your thinking, embody the show’s goal to dispense with feel-good happy talk – and speak instead to what it really takes for good people to get ahead. He ends with a sneak peek at what’s coming in year two. Enjoy.

• The singular goal and focus of 97% Effective
• Political Skills: Giselle Timmerman on “positive manipulation”
• Networks: Michael Melcher on your feelings and building effective relationships
• Visibility and Brand: Lisa Bragg on coming to terms with self-promotion
• Executive Presence and Communication: Professor Don Moore on artfully and honestly delivering with confidence – when inside you’re actually not
• Confronting our deepest fears about leadership: Words of wisdom from Ron Carucci and Professor Maggie Neale
• What’s ahead of 97% Effective
• Thanks

BIO AND LINKS:

Michael Wenderoth is an Executive Coach that helps executives re-examine their assumptions about power, politics, and authenticity to get promoted, become more effective at work, and break glass ceilings holding them back. Having served 20 years in senior roles with companies across the globe, and then 7 years as a professional coach, he has helped accelerated the careers of clients from diverse industries, backgrounds, and levels of seniority, helping them get ahead – without having to sell their souls in the process. Michael is the award-winning author of Get Promoted, host of the 97% Effective career acceleration podcast, and a frequent speaker and media contributor on career advancement, leadership and navigating power and politics. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Stanford Business School Executive Education and IE Business School, where he collaborates with renowned professors, coaches, executives and experts. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford and trained as an executive coach at Columbia University (3CP).

•  Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelchangwenderoth/
• Reaching Michael: michael [at] changwenderoth.com
• Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74
• Get Promoted named Winner (Business-Careers) and Finalist (Business-General), 2023 International Book Awards: https://www.internationalbookawards.com/2023pressrelease.html
• X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcwenderoth
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wenderoth.michael/
• Giselle Timmerman Episode: https://redcircle.com/shows/97-effective/ep/083182f0-9185-46e8-b1e3-f8ddca762bd9
• Michael Melcher Episode: https://redcircle.com/shows/97-effective/ep/ac6c1a30-1116-4136-afb9-20a409906bb6
• Lisa Bragg Episode: https://redcircle.com/shows/97-effective/ep/e542896f-2511-4518-8ada-c1ef29468713
• Don Moore Episode: https://redcircle.com/shows/86fcd90d-083e-4af2-9bc8-6d52fb981ae1/ep/06780ce7-2b31-422f-b5cf-4879c49aa4a5
• Ron Carucci Episode: https://redcircle.com/shows/97-effective/ep/affca376-2611-40b4-abea-fef9eee2b26d
• Prof Maggie Neale Episode: https://redcircle.com/shows/86fcd90d-083e-4af2-9bc8-6d52fb981ae1/ep/451d4f4e-add9-4847-bbf8-e6943aba9206
• Books referenced: Your Invisible Network (Melcher), Bragging Rights (Bragg), Perfectly Confident (Moore), Rising to Power (Carucci), How to Get (More of) What You Want (Neale), Get Promoted (Wenderoth)

Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

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 Chris Fenning, award-winning author of Effective Emails, wants e-mail to stop being such a time sink, and help you write ones that get to the point, and get results. In this episode, Chris analyzes and rewrites two e-mails, which Michael also runs through ChatGPT. You assess the difference – but listen closely to Chris’s thought-provoking critique. When it comes to communicating clearly and concisely, the hard truth is that there’s a lot on the line: Business e-mails suck up more than 2 hours a day, and poor communication is one of the top reasons people don't get promoted.

• Isn’t e-mail dead? Why Chris wrote his book.
• How being clear, concise and organized will help you in all your communication.
• A key difference between written and spoken communication
• Keys: Structure, introduction and framing
• The evidence and research that backs his recommendations
• Tip #1: The surprising benefit of adding “white space”
• Tip #2: “Short and brief” improves response rate and retention by 60%
• When to use e-mail – and when NOT to use e-mail
• Tip #3: Audit your last 5 emails
• Case Study#1: Chris analyzes a dense, info-rich email (for copies of the Before-After, visit: https://changwenderoth.com/podcast/)
• Tip #1: Lots of text will cause people to put your email aside for later.. or never
• Tip #2: Instead of long URL’s, do this instead
• Tip #3: Pick one powerful point! (Beware of cognitive overload)
• Tip #4: Subject lines: When you read it, do you know what it’s about – and why you need to open it?”
• Tip #5: A lot of information is ok, but the key is how you structure it and highlight it
• Tip #6: Requests and actions: make them stand out by doing 2 things
• Tip #7: Summarize and be explicit at the beginning (Don’t bury the lede!)
• Tip #8: Add white space to mark where the message ends, and the info begins
• Tip #9: Provide structure with headings, and put info in small chunks
• THE TOP TAKEAWAY FROM CASE #1 (Because no one reads a long e-mail)
• Case #2: Chris analyzes an email between an assistant and their boss (for copies of the Before-After, visit: https://changwenderoth.com/podcast/)
• Tip #1: Subject lines should address topic AND purpose: What are they supposed to do with the message?
• Tip #2: Make it easy for the other person to avoid ambiguity and unintentional problems
• Tip #3: When to write separate emails, instead of just one
• Tip #4: If there’s a deadline or time frame, highlight it!
• Tip #5: Be consistent with your structure and highlights
• How to prevent “whack a mole” e-mails that multiply
• You be the judge: Michael compares Chris’s rewrite vs a ChatGPT rewrite
• Chris’s thought-provoking critique of ChatGPT’s workmanship.
• Making your e-mail effective always come back to this one thing
• Michael’s half-serious musing: How to rewrite the prompt in ChatGPT, to make the e-mail rewrite better?
• Chris’s personal bugbear: never do this when you forward an e-mail!

BIO AND LINKS:

 Chris Fenning is on a mission to help make communication less painful. Through his books, keynotes and training programs, he helps technical and business professionals communicate clearly – and get results. His award-winning books (The First Minute and Effective Mails: How to Start Conversations That Get Results; and Effective E-mails: The Secret to Straightforward Communication at Work) show you how to be concise, step by step. His insights draw from tens of thousands of conversations, decades leading technical and business teams across the world, and training individuals and teams from start-ups to Fortune 50 companies. He occasionally uses ChatGPT.

• Chris’s Website and Book link: www.chrisfenning.com
• Chris on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-fenning/
• Links to the Before-Afters (visuals/emails) referenced in the podcast: https://changwenderoth.com/podcast/)
• Chris provides practical, bite-sized videos: https://chrisfenning.com/videos/
• Chris on how to improve your spoken communication – a previous episode on 97% Effective: https://tinyurl.com/46555wxz
• Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74

Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

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 What if leadership did not require changing hearts and minds? What if you could make a big impact by making small adjustments that lead people to make better decisions, which created better outcomes? In this episode, I speak with decision-making and leadership expert Don Moore, Professor and Associate Dean at the Haas School of Business, about his latest book, Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices. Don is on a mission to expand how we think of leadership. We discuss when to deliberate vs rely on intuition, how to get quality advice from experts, and ways to create more ethical organizations. It’s not all happy talk: He lays the smack down on Malcolm Gladwell and cautions against the downsides that his field may unwittingly produce.

• Behavioral economics 101: major advancements since the field emerged in the 1990s
• Why he wrote his new book
• 3 “non-traditional acts” that Don argues should be included in the field of leadership
• How his message has been received by leadership scholars
• The upside – and risks -- of simple, cheap behavioral science interventions (example of overstated results with “belongingness interventions”)
• Skeptical? Run more experiments (and how to do them properly)!
• Be skeptical of grandiose claims – and make bets through “contingent contracts”
• The smackdown-breakdown on the usefulness of intuition, popularized in Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller, Blink.
• The value of deliberation
• The strengths of algorithmic models – and how are they trained
• Mobs vs Crowds: How to get advice from others, without amplifying overestimation
• The role leaders play setting – and designing -- the ethical tone
• Don’s next inspiring challenge: “You can’t pick the moment when greatness calls”
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BIO AND LINKS:

Don Moore is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and holds the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Carleton College and his Ph.D. in Organization Behavior from Northwestern University. His research interests include overconfidence, including when people think they are better than they actually are, when people think they are better than others, and when people are too sure they know the truth. His research has appeared in popular press outlets and academic journals, from Psychological Review to Harvard Business Review. Don is the author, with Max Bazerman, of Decision Leadership and the widely used textbook, Judgement in Managerial Decision Making. He teaches popular classes on managing organizations, negotiation, and decision making. He is only occasionally overconfident.

• Previous episode on 97% Effective, where Don and I discuss his Book, Perfectly Confident: https://stream.redcircle.com/episodes/06780ce7-2b31-422f-b5cf-4879c49aa4a5/stream.mp3
• Decision Leadership, the Book: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259698/decision-leadership/
• Haas Faculty Profile: https://haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/moore-don/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-moore-01725b/
• LearnMoore at the Moore Accuracy Lab at Berkeley Haas: http://learnmoore.org/about.html his self-aggrandizing autobiographical sketch)
• Hass Berkeley Executive Education programs: https://executive.berkeley.edu
• Top behavioral science books that have shaped the field: Thinking Fast and Slow (Kahneman); Predictably Irrational (Ariely); Decisive (Health & Health); Nudge (Thaler and Sunstein); Misbehaving (Thaler).
• Colin Kaepernick acts of protest – or leadership? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBdoDOXMWkg
• Bruce Friedrich shifts from activism to setting up the Good Food Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxXUWDt0Mqw
• Jessie Wisdom, Co-founder of Humu, on interventions: https://www.humu.com/team/jessie-wisdom
• “Behavioral Science BS” (Interview with Jason Hreha on 97% Effective: https://redcircle.com/shows/97-effective/ep/0310f040-0b91-4dce-901a-0c39433efb53
• Jason Hreha, applied behavioral scientist: https://www.thebehavioralscientist.com/about
• Overblown results? RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence From Two Nudge Units (Haas research): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3982/ECTA18709
• Don’s article on the lure of overconfident leaders: Leadership & Overconfidence, Behavioral Science and Policy: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=62299

Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

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 What can we learn from China about leadership, power, and influence? Gabor Holch, intercultural leadership expert who has helped thousands of Western and Chinese leaders, discusses his latest book, Dragon Suit: The Golden Age of Expatriate Lives in China. Gabor busts myths, shares how working in China enhances your leadership, and points to top trends most people overlook. He offers practical ways to engage and learn from the Chinese, which he argues is even more important in a divided world.

•  “If you don’t come to China, China will come to you”
• Why Gabor wrote Dragon Suit, and the voices he draws from
• Did Gabor self-censor?
• The impact China has had on Gabor’s career
• It’s a glimpse into the future: What relation do you want with that?
• The pressure – and benefits – of scale and speed
• Challenges expats encounter when they return home
• How Chinese companies found Gabor when he moved back to Europe
• The trends to keep your eye on
• Going abroad: Top issues Chinese experience outside China
• How do we restore trust between the West and China?
• Building personal bonds and connections: the tool to use
• What the “exposure index” reveals
• The shifting nature of “foreigners” in China
• Optimistic or pessimistic?
• The stories you don't hear
• His concern about exchanges drying up
• Ways to find out what’s really going on in China
• What we can learn about power and influence from China
• Does it work, does it get results… Is there a Chinese leadership style?
• Open your eyes: How China is harnessing technology
• Understanding China’s social security system as a route to understanding their behavior
• Tearing up “guanxi”
• Where China has most changed since he started writing his book
• How going online shattered “time to prepare culturally” – and how Gabor’s book seeks to remedy that

BIO AND LINKS:

 Gabor Holch, founder of GM of Campanile Consulting, is an East-West intercultural leadership expert, coach, author and keynote speaker who has served 100+ clients in 30+ countries. An expat since age 4 and China-based since 2002, he is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) in English and Mandarin. Dragon Suit: The golden age of expatriate executives in China is his latest book.

•  Dragon Suit, the book: http://www.dragonsuit.info/
• Gabor on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaborholch/
• Campanile Consulting: https://www.campanileconsulting.com
• X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/GaborHolch
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gaborholch
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/GaborHolch
• Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74