Bonus: The Fall of WeWork's Culture

Worklife with Adam Grant

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🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Exclusive: In his first public interview since WeWork’s collapse, former Chief Growth Officer David Fano opens up about the company’s leadership and culture. We go deep on the rewards and risks of charismatic leadership and bold visions, the differences between strong cultures and cults, and how a meteoric rise can come crashing down.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.0	Well, I would say there was kind of like three phases.
0:11.0	There was the time when you would tell people,
0:12.6	hey, I work at WeWork and nobody would know what that was.
0:16.0	And then very quickly it became pretty commonplace.
0:19.0	People knew what WeWork was and was on the cover of magazines.
0:23.0	It had a great mission.
0:25.0	It had this rebranding.
0:26.0	It had these like very grandiose ambitions.
0:31.0	And then from one day to the next,
0:34.0	it flipped completely.
0:37.0	And I think that was really, really intense for people to process.
0:41.0	That so much of their identity and who they were
0:46.0	was somewhat like scaffolded by the identity of the place that they worked
0:51.0	that now it became like an existential discussion.
0:58.0	And then you've got your grandparents who didn't even know where you worked
1:01.0	or calling you now being like, hey, that's the place you work.
1:04.0	And you almost go to like a place of shame.
1:11.0	I'm Adam Grant and this is a special bonus episode of Work Life,
1:15.0	my podcast with Ted, sponsored by Accenture, Better Up, Hilton and SAP.
1:20.0	I'm an organizational psychologist.
1:22.0	I study how to make work not suck.
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