Speak Out Successfully

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🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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James Detert, a professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, studies acts of courage in the workplace. His most surprising finding? Most people describe everyday actions — not big whistleblower scandals — when they cite courageous (or gutless) acts they’ve seen coworkers and leaders take. Detert shares the proven behaviors of employees who succeed at speaking out and suffer fewer negative consequences for it. He’s the author of the HBR article “Cultivating Everyday Courage.”

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0:00.0	Hey everyone it's Kurt we need your help with our annual survey this is your last chance to help us get to know you so we can make idea cast even better for you
0:09.8	it's easy just go to HBR.org
0:13.0	podcast survey.
0:15.0	Again, that's HBR.org.
0:17.0	And thanks for listening. Welcome to the HBR Ideacaste from Harvard Business Review. I'm Kurt Nickish. Valentine's Day 2002, a congressional subcommittee was investigating a corporate scandal.
0:57.0	Today I look forward to hearing from an extraordinarily courageous woman who has been a bright spot in an otherwise sorry
1:05.2	and outrageous Sega. The sorry and outrageous saga was the collapse of Enron, the
1:11.7	largest corporate bankruptcy in US history at the time.
1:15.5	The extraordinarily courageous woman was former executive Sharon Watkins.
1:20.5	She had dared to question the company's accounting practices.
1:24.0	And I was shocked that people could explain this to me with no concern in their voice.
1:31.0	Like there was some magic structure that Enron and
1:34.8	Anderson had come up with to make this work. Watkins had written memos
1:39.2	warning of an impending company disaster. I was highly concerned that not only had the Titanic at the iceberg, but we were already
1:48.2	tilting.
1:49.4	Watkins had spoken up when others did not, and it took real courage to do so but our
1:56.0	guest today says active workplace courage can be much smaller and less dramatic
2:00.9	than this and still be quite effective and important.
2:04.8	Jim Dietert is a professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and is the
2:10.4	author of the article cultivating everyday courage.
2:13.7	It's in the November, December 2018 issue of Harvard Business Review.
2:17.8	Jim, thanks for coming on the show.
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