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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.

It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work

is changing us and it's going to be a big year, folks.

There is so much coming at us, there are so many ways in which we have the opportunity to step up

here. So let's start this week. Let's start this year with a vision statement.

Do you have one? I'm not talking about your work here, the organization you're part of.

Do you have a vision statement for yourself?

Me, I've been working on this one and here's what I've got so far.

My vision, to make people feel more connected to themselves and to each other.

That's my goal. Regardless of where I work or what job I have, this is the work that I'm really

trying to do. This year on Hello Monday, we're focusing on optimism.

As I said last week, optimism is the promise that we have agency and it's our own belief that we

can exercise that agency in any given moment, to create better circumstances for ourselves,

better solutions to our most intractable problems, better lives for future generations,

for the people that will inevitably come after us. We can change things. My guest today is Alex

Budeck. Alex is a member of the Business Schools faculty at UC Berkeley. Where he teaches this

popular course on how we can change things. Last year his course became a book, it's called

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