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Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 19 January 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Jerry Seinfeld shares his insights into innovation, self-criticism, and how to know when to quit. The U.S. comedian conquered 1990s television with his sitcom and is now finding a new audience for his online talk show, "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee."

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
0:05.9	HPR's podcast Coaching Real Leaders brings you behind closed doors as Muriel Wilkins coaches anonymous
0:11.9	leaders through raw honest career questions
0:14.6	that we all face.
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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review. I am Sarah Green Carmichael. There's not much
0:35.2	of a storyline to the online video series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Jerry Seinfeld
0:40.8	rides around in a car with another comedian and they stop for coffee.
0:44.6	Even with that simple format, the show has been streamed well over a hundred million times
0:49.6	and Seinfeld even interviewed President Barack Obama. Have you ever had one of those George W Bush?
0:57.2	Remember when he couldn't find the door in the wall?
1:00.1	And he was just looking for the door.
1:02.6	I don't ever believe that publicly you've had one of those.
1:05.6	I have not had a public moment like that.
1:07.4	You haven't tumbled down a stair.
1:09.6	You never leaned over and just started vomiting in Japan.
1:12.5	No, nothing like that's happened so far.
1:14.4	Nothing.
1:15.2	What's your most embarrassing president moment?
1:18.6	This may be it.
1:21.1	See? The Web Show even earned an Emmy nomination. A TV Award that Seinfeld, of course, knew well from
1:30.7	his successful mold-breaking sitcom Seinfeld with fellow comedian Larry David.
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