105: David Burkus – How The Best Companies Are Breaking All The Rules

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🗓️ 10 March 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Episode 105: David Burkus – How The Best Companies Are Breaking All The Rules

David Burkus is a remarkable leader… I really appreciate that he’s actively seeking out opportunities to learn and grow. His newest book takes an incredible look at some really interesting topics such as: getting rid of open offices, banning non-compete clauses, and making salaries transparent. We had a fascinating conversation on this episode of The Learning Leader Show.

David is the best-selling author of The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies Generate Great Ideas. He writes regularly for Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Psychology Today. He’s also the founder and host of Radio Free Leader, a podcast that shares insights on leadership, innovation, and strategy.

He’s delivered keynote speeches and workshops for Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft and Stryker, in-demand conferences such as SXSW and TEDx events, and governmental leaders and future leaders at the US Naval Academy and Naval Postgraduate School.

When he’s not speaking, he’s in the classroom. He is associate professor of management at Oral Roberts University, where he teaches courses on organizational behavior, creativity and innovation, and strategic leadership. His most recent book, “Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual” comes out March 15, 2016.

Episode 105: David Burkus – How The Best Companies Are Breaking All The Rules

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Being consistently dissatisfied with the status quo leads to sustained excellence
Always seeking opportunities to be pushed outside of your comfort zone
Being relatable like Dan Pink
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Mastering a new skill
Why we should ban non-compete clauses in contracts of employees
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Giving a speech at Google – What went into it
Why we all should have unlimited vacation
People trust their leaders when the leaders trust them first
Being a learning leader – “Strong beliefs weakly held”

“The Stories We Tell Ourselves Are True Even If They Aren’t True”

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Bio From DavidBurkus.com

David Burkus is the best-selling author of The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies Generate Great Ideas. He writes regularly for Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Psychology Today. He’s also the founder and host of Radio Free Leader, a podcast that shares insights on leadership, innovation, and strategy.

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0:00.0	I kept seeing all these articles on Fast Company and Inc and other places on like,
0:04.4	oh look at this, isn't this great Netflix has unlimited vacation?
0:08.0	Or isn't this amazing Zappos pays people to quit?
0:11.6	Or you know, in my favorite is like buffer and
0:14.0	some all and whole foods they all have totally transparent salaries and and yeah
0:17.5	those are like fascinating stories but because of the foundation that I had
0:21.4	gotten in graduate school I look at them and I'm like
0:24.0	wait a minute actually Netflix gives unlimited vacation well there's a ton of data on
0:27.2	trust and how trust is reciprocal and maybe this isn't even about the vacation days it's
0:30.9	about so like I'm immediately seeing the the research
0:33.7	foundation behind like these ideas seem crazy which is why they got written about
0:38.6	but to me I'm looking at them through the lens of all of this research and social science from a variety of different
0:43.9	fields that are like, no, these are actually really good ideas that are, they're unknowingly
0:48.9	empirical, right? And if that's the case, then why do they seem so crazy?
0:53.5	Well, maybe they seem so crazy because everything we know about management is based off of
0:58.8	some old school models that don't really work anymore.
1:01.8	I mean, Dan's book drive was one of the first to sort of point that out that we the way we think about motivation is broken because the type of work we're doing is different.
1:10.0	That doesn't just apply to motivation as these sort of policies prove they apply to kind of everything
1:14.7	so that was where the inspiration for the book came from was just there's all these crazy
1:18.4	company policies out there and crazy leadership practices out there that just seemed crazy until you realize
1:23.6	there's a mountain of evidence behind why they're more effective than
1:27.1	business as usual. Our leaders born or are they made. Our host Ryan Hawk believes that leaders can be made through
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