James Rhee, RED HELICOPTER: A Parable for Our Times: Lead Change with Kindness (Plus a Little Math)

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🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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James Rhee, a high school teacher, Harvard Law graduate, private equity investor, and the unexpected Chairman and CEO of Ashley Stewart, joins Zibby to discuss RED HELICOPTER—A PARABLE FOR OUR TIMES: Lead Change With Kindness (Plus a Little Math), a brilliant business handbook that elevates kindness, joy, and goodwill. James shares what he learned from his Korean immigrant parents and from the black women he worked with. He reflects on the challenges faced by Ashley Stewart, weaving in themes of race, gender, and systemic barriers. He also touches on grief and the importance of embracing emotions in the workplace.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.
0:08.1	I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank.
0:14.2	I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more.
0:21.8	Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at
0:28.4	Zivie Readers.
0:31.4	James Rhee is the author of Red Helicopter, A Parable for Our Times, Lead Change with
0:36.8	kindness plus a little math.
0:38.8	James Rhee is a high school teacher and Harvard Law School graduate turned private equity investor and CEO.
0:44.6	James' leadership story first grabbed global attention during his unlikely seven-year tenure as chairman and first-time CEO of Ashley Stewart.
0:52.8	After his radical and yet intuitive approach
0:55.5	fueled a transcendent, unprecedented reinvention story for the company, James concretized his
1:01.3	leadership philosophy and operating system, kindness, plus a little math, in the form of Red
1:05.9	Helicopter, his media education platform. Re teaches at Howard University, where he serves as the Johnson Chair of
1:11.9	Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Duke Law School. His TED Talk and Dare to
1:16.8	lead interview with Bray Brown have captured the imagination of millions. He composes systems
1:21.6	that bridge peoples, industries, and ideas. He is the author of Red Helicopter and lives
1:26.9	outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
1:28.7	Welcome, James. Thanks so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss
1:32.3	Red Helicopter, Lead Change with Kindness, plus a little math.
1:38.0	Thanks for having me. It's nice to meet you. It's nice to meet you, too. What a powerful book
1:43.1	you wrote. I mean, it's a unique hybrid of sort of the businessy side of stuff, but mostly the emotional side, which of course is the point, right, that we have to bring it all together. Can you tell listeners what the book is really about and how, you know, when you decided to write it, which, of course, you write about in the book.
2:01.7	Yeah, I think the book at its core, it's about a son and his relationship with his parents,
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