Episode #153: Building Meaningful Relationships To Win in Work and Life

Tim Sanders is a Best-Selling Author of Love is the Killer App, a VP at Upwork, and an expert on building and cultivating relationships. While Tim’s book was released over 20 years ago, it has stood the test of time as relationships and building connection are critical elements of succeeding in life and in your career.

Tim is the author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller, Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends. His publications have over one million copies in print with bestseller status in India, South Korea, Italy, Brazil, and Denmark.

During this conversation, Tim spoke about his story in writing the book, along with some of the lessons he’s learned about building relationships from his time at Broadcast.com, Yahoo, and now Upwork. He also shared advice and practices for how people can use a mindset of abundance, generosity and collaboration to build meaningful and impactful relationships in work and in life.

Links:

Love is the Killer App

Niya Dragova is the Co-Founder and CEO of Candor, a company that helps tech employees negotiate compensation packages and advocate for pay equity in the tech industry. After learning on the fly about how to negotiate compensation and becoming aware of the information gap that employees face in compensation negotiation, Niya started coaching friends and colleagues on their compensation negotiation, which eventually led to starting Candor. Through her own experience and with advising hundreds of employees, Niya believes that your career can be a powerful source of wealth, and ensuring you are negotiating with the right information when you make career decisions is critical to your own financial well-being.

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Links

• Candor Newsletter
• Lenny’s Newsletter: Salary Commandments

Lindsey Pollak is NY Times Best-Selling Author author, speaker, consultant, and career and workplace expert. For the past two decades, Lindsey has been writing, speaking, researching and advising individuals and organizations on how to navigate and thrive in the workplace.

During our conversation, Lindsey shared her observations and insights from her research and ongoing conversations with company leaders, higher education professionals and other career and workplace research that she has conducted. We also spoke about her most recent book: Recalculating, and how employees can recalculate their own mindset and ways of thinking, to build a successful career in our fast changing world of work. 

Listen Today on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

Links

• Recalculating: Navigate Your Career Through The Changing World of Work
• Lindsey’s Website

To celebrate the 150 episode of the MBA Insider Podcast, Al Dea jumps on to share some of his reflections from building MBASchooled and the MBA Insider podcast.

In this episode, Al shares some of his stories and experiences around going to business school, starting MBASchooled and deciding to launch the MBA Insider podcast. He also shares lessons and reflections of what he has learned about the MBA degree through the past 150 episodes, what he’s learned from starting a podcast, and what to expect from the MBA Insider Podcast moving forward.

We’d love to hear from you about what YOU want to hear on the podcast moving forward, so reach out to Al ([email protected]) or Connect with him on LinkedIn to share your thoughts!

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Khe Hy is the Founder of Radreads, an online community and newsletter around productivity, life and careers. After a career on Wall Street, Khe quit his job and went on to pursue his own path, and started writing a newsletter, blogging, and building an online learning business all along the way

During our conversation, Khe spoke about his career, and what led him to quit a career in finance to pursue a path to entrepreneurship, and eventually what led him to creating Radreads and the Supercharge Your Productivity Cohort Course. He also shared his journey to Founding Radreads, along with how he thinks about using your time in ways that align to the things that are most important to you.

Listen now on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!

Links

• Website
• Khe's Supercharge Your Productivity Course

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Powerful ways to live the action part of your life is to be focused. Be focused on what you want and what might hold you back. Being able to move things forward is an important skill!

Write an essay about yourself for where you want to be in 5 years.

This episode features MBA Insider Guest Host, Brad Vonick. A longtime supporter and friend of MBASchooled and the MBA Insider Podcast, Brad takes over the mic to interview his friend, Fernando Gutierrez, a Booth MBA graduate from the Class of 2017. 

After Starting his career in Management Consulting, Fernando decided to pursue an MBA at Booth, and then transition into tech. During the last 3 years he has been working in Product Management, and today he is the Head of Product at Jointly.

During this conversation, Brad spoke to Fernando about traveling and living abroad, and the impact that these experiences have had on his personal and professional life. He also spoke about product management, startups, and Fernando’s guiding principles to navigate his career for the last 10 years.

Listen today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

Links

• Brad Vonick’s MBA Insider (ep 35)
• Fernando Guiterrez’s Profile

Ethan Burris is a Management Professor and Senior Associate Dean at the University of Texas-Austin McCombs School of Business. He studies and researches on the concept of employee voice, and how employees can make their voices heard. 

Recently, Ethan wrote an HBR article titled “How to Sell Your Ideas Up The Chain of Command” a critical skill for any employee who wants to advance within their company, get their ideas heard and successfully execute projects. 

During the conversation, we spoke about why some ideas get heard and others don’t, how employees can use different tactics to speak up, and different ways to build relationships and connect with others to gain influence, get your ideas heard, and advance your career.

Listen today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

Links

• HBR Article
• Ethan’s Bio

Ben Jackson is the Founder and Principal of Hear Me Out, a Culture Strategy service that works with fast-growing companies to improve their culture and their workplace. Through 1:1 interviews, Ben and his team talk directly and confidently with the employees of the companies that hire them to understand workplace and culture challenges, and to identify potential solutions to improve company culture. But at the heart of their work is an ability to create spaces for employees to speak openly, directly and transparently, to help companies identify solutions to improve culture and performance. During our conversation, we spoke about some of the common challenges that Ben is hearing from employees about the state of work right now, and what might lie ahead, as well as where many companies go wrong, with trying to listen to employees, and build company culture. Ben also shared some practical tips, for how any employee or job seeker, can try to understand company culture prior to joining a company.

Listen now on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!

Links

• Ben’s LinkedIn
• Ben’s Twitter
• Hear Me Out

In this solo episode, Al Dea talks about what to do once you’ve been admitted to an MBA program. He’ll go over some of the common things you need to think through before you accept your offer, and what information to find out from admission weekend events if you’re still evaluating your decision. Finally, he’ll also share a couple examples of things you can do to start preparing for your MBA.

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Links

• How to Prepare For Business School
• MBA Math
• My Experience with a Pre-MBA Internship

Jeroen Verhoeven is the Associate Director of Admissions and Recruitment at ESADE Business School. After working in Spain for 19 years with 16 of them at ESADE, Jeroen is well-versed in the value and impact of a global MBA experience. During the conversation, Jeroen spoke about the invisible, but essential aspects of the ESADE MBA experience and what makes it unique, along with the opportunities of attending a global MBA program. He also spoke about his observations of the changes in the MBA degree, what he is excited about for the future of the MBA, and what prospective students should consider when evaluating applying to a Global MBA program like ESADE.

Listen Today on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

Links

• ESADE Youtube Page
• ESADE MBA Page