Kelly welcomes back fan-favorite Kim Scott to the podcast to discuss how she decided to reframe and significantly rewrite her book “Just Work” to turn it into “Radical Respect.”

“Collaboration is essential to any great human accomplishment.” 

“Words matter. You are not the word dictator.” 

“Self-righteous shaming is an act of vengeance, not repair.” 

Kelly sits down with philosophy professor Christopher Wong Michaelson and management professor Jennifer Tosti-Kharas to talk about their fantastic new book, “Is Your Work Worth It? How to Think About Meaningful Work.”

“Sometimes it takes a catastrophe for us to pay attention.” 

“Art and work have more in common than that they share the word artwork.” 

“In American cultures, callings are prized while jobs are not.” 

Kelly talks to Mary Murphy, professor of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University and founding director of the Summer Institute on Diversity at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Her new book is called “Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams and Organizations.” 

“We’ve got mindset all wrong. Well, not all wrong, but we’ve over-simplified it drastically, and to our detriment.” 

“People often misperceive the growth mindset as softer and less rigorous.” 

“In cultures of growth, great ideas come from anywhere in the organization.” 

Kelly connects with Stanford professor of psychiatry, Elias Aboujaoude, to talk about his provocative new book, “A Leader’s Destiny: Why Psychology, Personality, and Character Make All the Difference.” 

“Coaches may be ‘treating’ people who should be receiving mental health care instead.” 

“Much is lost by embracing a narrow leadership brand.” 

“One does not go online to become moderate.” 

Please enjoy this bonus podcast as Kelly interviews opera legend Renee Fleming live for the Chicago Humanities Festival as they discuss her new book “Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness.” 

“We humans likely sang before we spoke.” 

“I believe that the arts should be embedded in our health-care system.”

“As a singer, my body is my instrument.”

Kelly welcomes the prolific author Cass Sunstein back to the show to talk about his new book, “How to Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgetting Superstars and How The Beatles Came to Be.”

“Success and failure are exceedingly hard to predict.” 

“Excessive familiarity is boring, and excessive novelty is incomprehensible.” 

“Every successful artist succeeds in their own way, and the same is true of every failed artist.” 

Kelly has a compelling conversation with Jerry Colonna, the Co-founder of Flatiron Partners, one of the most successful, early-stage investment programs; former partner with J.P. Morgan Partners (JPMP), the private equity arm of J.P. Morgan Chase. Jerry is the author of two books: REBOOT: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up and his latest book – which we discuss – REUNION: Leadership and the Longing to Belong. 

“It’s hard to look to the things we don’t want to know.” 

“Seeing our parents’ broken hearts gives us no choice but to feel our own.”  

“Better leaders are not just better humans, they reject indifference.” 

Kelly speaks to journalist Tricia Romano who has published a vast oral history of the Village Voice newspaper called “The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of The Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture.” 

“The paper was called the Voice, and that’s what it was. It was like a loud, open mouth.”

“It was the paper of record for the women’s movement.” 

“The whole idea of countercultural journalism as invented by the Voice.” 

Want a productivity hack that will change your life? Kelly connects with Marc Zao-Sanders, the co-founder and CEO of filtered.com to discuss his new book “Timeboxing: The Power of Doing One Thing at a Time.”

“Timeboxing is the flexible friend of any and all other time management techniques.” 

“Disconcertingly organized people weren’t born that way.” 

“Time well spent renders a life well lived.” 

Is your spouse a tightwad or a spendthrift? Kelly talks to Scott Rick, marketing professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, about his new book “Tightwads and Spendthrifts: Navigating the Money Minefield in Real Relationships.” 

“Too much dissimilarity is bad for a marriage.” 

“Selecting great gifts requires careful listening.”  

“For many of us, the way we think and feel about money is not ideal.”