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  • collaborative leadership

    Episode 39: Collaborative Leadership

    Our guest for this episode, Mike Beer, is back with us for an encore. He spoke with us a year ago about his latest book, Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations about…

  • rebel talent

    Episode 38: Rebel Talent

    In these turbulent times, business as usual is a recipe for failure. In our work—and in our lives more broadly—we need to challenge the status quo and find new ways to overcome obstacles and…

  • on track

    Episode 37: Getting a Bad Conversation Back on Track

    Imagine you’re emailing back-and-forth with someone trying to resolve a problem. What if you had an app that would track your words and coach you on how to engage more effectively? Or,…

  • conscience code

    Episode 36: The Conscience Code

    Richard Shell, who teaches negotiation at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, is our guest in this episode. His new book, just published this month, is The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values,…

  • four p's

    Episode 35: The Four P’s of Adaptive Leadership

    The top-down, command-and-control model of leadership has fallen out of fashion in today’s complex and fast-paced world. Our guest in this episode, Rob Wilkinson provides an agile alternative that he and Kim…

  • impossible

    Episode 34: Negotiating the Impossible

    That’s the name of a book by our HBS colleague Deepak Malhotra, the guest in this episode. The book’s subtitle is How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (without Money or Muscle). The…

  • moral leader

    Episode 33: The Moral Leader

    Our guest in this episode is Joe Badaracco from the Harvard Business School. Decades ago, he designed a literature-based course for MBA students to enable them to deeply explore moral issues which…

  • difficult conversations

    Episode 32: Prepping for Difficult Conversations

    Greetings from Kim Leary and Mike Wheeler, co-hosts of Agility at Work! And for our latest episode, we’re co-authors of this description of our latest episode.  It’s Kim here at the top,…