Protecting your time with Linda Babcock
Worklife with Adam Grant
TED
4.8 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this season of WorkLife, we’re pairing each of our regular episodes with a companion interview to do a deeper dive into the topic. This is the deeper dive for our episode on how to say no. Linda Babcock is a professor emerita of economics at Carnegie Mellon and co-author of “The No Club,” a club of people who help each other set boundaries. Linda and Adam share some of their personal struggles and lessons with around no, discuss Linda’s research on why women take on more non-promotable tasks at work, and explore novel strategies for us all to guard our time against people who don’t respect it.
To listen to our previous episode, "How to Say No," click here!
Host: Adam Grant (Instagram: @adamgrant | LinkedIn: @adammgrant | Website: adamgrant.net/)
Guest: Linda Babcock (Website: thenoclub.com)
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The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work
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