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🗓️ 19 March 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Leah Weiss studies and practices how mindfulness and compassion affect leadership in businesses and every day life. She spoke with us about the effects those two simple factors have on leaders and workers, gave us her thoughts on education and what needs to change in it, and much more in our latest episode!
Leah Weiss is a teacher, researcher, and meditation expert at Stanford University specializing in the application of mindfulness and compassion in secular contexts. She’s the author of How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind.
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0:00.0 | And I think time and again there's this a rationality for the fact that like if we are even from the perspective of trying to be quick to market, compete, come up with the best ideas, You're never going to get there if your team |
0:15.6 | can't work together well and we are having an epidemic of just interpersonal |
0:22.3 | issues in the workplace that cost billions of dollars a year |
0:25.8 | because people do all sorts of crazy stuff when they don't like or want to |
0:31.2 | support their coworkers. |
0:33.0 | There's all these amazing studies that are just, you know, |
0:37.0 | documenting the sort of sabotage or inefficiencies that happen if my priority in the situation is to make sure you |
0:47.7 | don't get ahead that has real implications if we need to be working as a team. |
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1:47.0 | Lea, welcome to the Un Mistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
1:49.0 | Thank you so much for having me. |
1:51.0 | Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here. |
1:53.2 | So I was actually introduced to you by way |
1:55.4 | of a mutual friend and long-time listener of the show |
1:58.1 | and was very intrigued when I found out a little bit |
2:00.3 | about what you did. |
2:01.2 | And given the nature of your work I would like to |
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