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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 1206: Frances Frei Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Frances Frei, a Professor of Technology and Operations Management and the course lead for first-year diversity and inclusion studies at Harvard Business School. She has worked for Uber and been on the board of directors at WeWork. Her research investigates how leaders create the conditions for organizations and individuals to thrive by designing for excellence in strategy, operations and culture. 

The topic is her co-authored book Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Issues on leadership
  • Impact of trust
  • Concept of authenticity, logic, and empathy in building trust
  • Ups and downs of various companies, including Uber and Facebook
  • The role of inclusion in organizations and society
  • Constructive conversations and exploring different perspectives
  • Systematic approach to solving trust issues

Jump in!

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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.

0:10.9

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

0:21.2

I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

0:27.4

That's my passion.

0:33.5

My guest today is Francis Fry.

0:35.6

She's a professor at Harvard.

0:44.4

Her new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, The Trusted Leaders Guide to Solving Hard Problems.

0:54.4

I like the way that Francis breaks apart complicated issues, especially in this day and age where seemingly everything is controversial.

1:01.1

She was even reflective enough in this conversation to take apart something that I observed that I thought was controversial.

1:03.5

She broke it apart, acknowledged it, and essentially put her own bias on the plate.

1:08.6

A very useful, interesting way to break pieces down to their base

1:15.5

elements to have a better conversation. Without any further delay from me, let's jump right into a little

1:22.4

moving fast and fixing things with Francise. I hope you enjoy.

1:41.2

I felt like probably the place that we should jump in right out of the gate.

1:44.9

I think starting with this famous Facebook motto, maybe we won't get away from this the whole conversation, but back in the day, and you can correct me if my memory is wrong,

1:49.6

I think in their IPO perspectives around the office, the expression was at Facebook, move fast

1:56.2

and break things. I never really thought much of that. There's a startup guy back in the day and still with a

2:02.9

startup mindset. I felt like that's the way things are. Now, if a company gets to have Buku

2:09.4

bucks in the bank, you can do anything. You can clean up whatever mess took place to get from

2:16.6

the baby stages to the big boy stages, so to speak. But why don't you

2:21.0

explain your perspective on this famous Facebook motto, how it started to wake you up, make you

2:29.8

want to say something different? How did this get into your head other than just hearing it like everybody

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