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Busy, Important, and Not Burnt Out (opens the original)
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It’s the beginning of fall, and a lot of people are catching their first colds of the season. “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” popped into my head, and I couldn’t not think about it: what if we shifted it to one nervous system reset a day keeps the burnout away?It doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, I know. But perhaps if we make it more of a catchy phrase, more people will do it. I have to think it may even have a bigger impact than an apple.There was a moment about six months ago when I t
The Question I Can't Stop Asking Myself (opens the original)
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Episode SummaryIn this solo episode, Whitney reflects on a question posed at a global leadership conference in Orvieto, Italy: five years from now, looking back at today, what will we be laughing at ourselves for stressing over. She uses that question as a lens for identifying where unnecessary suffering shows up, both in individual lives and inside organizations, and argues that leaders have an obligation to notice and help alleviate that suffering rather than treat it as a given cost of doing
The Thing AI is Making More Valuable (opens the original)
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It feels like AI is another one of those “things” leaders believe they need to quickly adopt and institutionalize as a stand-alone thing. It’s NOT. The real impact of AI comes when you combine it with two capacities that are much more difficult to build and scale: discernment and presence. That’s where the real value is.I think the bloom is off the rose a little bit with AI. The more people use it and recognize the “cost” and benefits of it, the more they are realizing it was not built to replac
What a Bassoonist Taught Me About Leading Without Saying a Word, with Kim Walker (opens the original)
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Episode SummaryWhitney sits down with Kim Walker, a former principal bassoonist with the London Symphony Orchestra turned university dean turned executive coach, and founder of the Orvieto Leadership Summit in Italy. The conversation starts with Kim's path from music to academia to coaching, then digs into what she taught at this year's Summit: leading without speaking, the way a conductor holds a room through presence alone. From there the two trace a throughline between musical mastery and lea
The Excellence Exchange (opens the original)
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The Glowe Podcast is live. Check it out here, or wherever you get your podcasts.What if we thought about our roles and our work as an exchange of excellence?I’ve been thinking a lot about what high performing teams look like in this next era, and in my conversation with Steven Kotler this week it hit me. We were talking about our own teams and this reciprocal nature of excellence came up. People in our organizations have different roles, but in essence we are all striving to provide excellence i
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