How to create a ‘transcendent’ career, with author Suzy Welch

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

NYU Stern School of Business professor Suzy Welch has designed a framework – “Becoming You” – to help you figure out how to build a career that aligns with your values. She joins host Jeff Berman to dig into what happens when those values are in conflict and how to navigate the fundamental misalignment between Gen Z and the rest of the workforce.

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0:13.8	Go to Mastersofscale.com slash Survey 25 to weigh in.
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0:25.4	Is your AI built for everyone, or is it built to work with your businesses' data?
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0:49.7	All we do all day is manage our conflicts, our values conflicts. And so I built an algorithm.
0:56.0	And that was not on my bingo card, writing an algorithm at age 60, having been a writer my whole life.
1:01.6	Susie Welch is an incredible writer and quite a prolific one.
1:06.7	After a stint as editor of Harvard Business Review, she went on to author several best-selling
1:12.1	books to help you reach new heights in your career.
1:15.4	Some she wrote solo and others she co-authored with her late husband, the iconic General Electric
1:21.6	CEO, Jack Welch.
1:24.0	Susie's latest project started as a class at NYU and has spawned a new book and podcast by the same name, Becoming You.
1:34.2	In the early semesters, I would say to people when they come into class, if you think this class is touchy-feely and woo-woo and it's going to be easy, please give your seat to somebody on the wait list because this is going to be very hard class.
1:44.0	The way we help people is we say to them, the economy has never been more uncertain.
1:48.5	I think it really is this pace of change and the pace of uncertainty and the lack of visibility
1:52.5	for the future life is very heightened.
1:55.4	So what can you know?
1:57.6	You can know yourself.
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