You really have to recognize that the people around you have value to add and that you may be the person in charge, you have the vision, you have the responsibility, but if you're not able to make the people who you're leading feel valued and

feel like their input matters then you're going to lose them.

I'm Carly Zaken.

I'm Danielle Weisberg.

Welcome to Skim from the couch.

This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.

From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team.

To the rough stuff, like negotiating your salary

and giving or getting hard feedback.

We started the skim from a couch,

so what better place to talk it all out

than where it began on a couch.

Today we welcome Ambassador

Ambassador Susan Rice to skimmed from the couch. Ambassador Rice was National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama.

Before serving as National Security Advisor, she was the United States Ambassador

to the United Nations as well as a member of the

Cabinet. Prior to the Obama administration, Ambassador Rice was a fellow at the Brookings Institute

and began her career in foreign policy under President Bill Clinton.

So many questions.

Also, Ambassador Rice has just published her book, Tough Love. The title references her parents

approach to raising her, which prepared her for a career in world politics, and

I'm guessing a lot more. The memoir has been called both highly personal and unflinchingly honest.

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