In this week’s episode, I am joined by Amanda Goodall!

Based on her experience working with two university leaders, Amanda started a PhD at Warwick Business School in 2004. Her research was published into a monograph by Princeton University Press – Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should be Led by Top Scholars. 

She has been an ESRC post-doctoral fellow, a Leverhulme fellow, and worked in Germany for two years as a senior researcher at IZA Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn. She has held visiting research positions at Cornell University, University of Zurich, and Yale University.

Amanda is married to economist Andrew Oswald and together they live between London and South Wales, in beautiful Pembrokeshire.

She is a committed environmentalist, an ambassador for ‘Save Wild Tigers’, and a founder, with Jacki Sime, of the Pembrokeshire Seal Research Trust to be established in 2022. Key Points:

• Debunking one-size-fits-all leadership

• Data-driven insights vs. anecdotal lore

• Younger generation's workplace expectations

• Power of proximity for leadership efficacy

• Inter-generational dialogue & learning

 

Best Quotes: 05:43 - 05:52

• "Your boss matters to your job satisfaction, which matters more to your productivity than anything else. Double the amount that of your pay." 09:07 - 09:14

• "But what they don't realize is that that's actually really harming their career. And there is evidence to show that it is really harming their career."

23:49 - 23:56

• "It's not to say that I'm closed down to outside. 'cause a lot of people say to me, oh, you know, how can an insider know what's going outside on outside?"

38:35 - 38:42

• "When everything's a task, there's no emotion attached to it. And then everybody feels like they're just working for nothing."

43:40 - 43:44

• "So it's like not surprising that they haven't got those skills, but we are giving them those skills."

For more about Amanda: https://amandagoodall.com/