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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's episode is going to be a slightly longer one, part of the

series where I interview fascinating people about how they take their days from great to awesome

and any advice they have for the rest of us. So today I am delighted to welcome Ron Friedman to

Before Breakfast. Ron is the author of the brand new book Super Teams. So Ron, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Laura. I'm excited to have you here. Why don't you tell our listeners a little

bit about yourself? Yeah, so I started off as professors teaching psychology at colleges and

universities, and then I went off into the corporate world. And my job was to be upholster. My role was to figure out what it is

that people believe and then advise organizations using psychological principles. And what I discovered

being in the corporate world was that there was a massive divide between the latest science

and the modern workplace. And it was everything from the way that companies hire to the way

that managers motivate to the basic layout of the modern office, just appeared blind to so many great insights

about how we can get people to be more motivated and engaged and productive. So I turned my

attention to writing my first book, and that was the best place to work. And in it, I turned

over a thousand academic studies into plain English so that regardless

if you're someone who's running an organization or just starting out, you had the best

research on creating a great workplace.

And in my new book, Super Teams, I talk about how to create the best possible team.

Awesome.

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