Teaser: WorkLife Season 2

Worklife with Adam Grant

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Work doesn't have to suck; science says so. Take a trip inside the minds of expert networkers and Olympic champions, an Oscar-winning director and an office-politics whisperer — who've all mastered ways to make work more creative and more fun.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.0	I'm Adam Grant. I'm an organizational psychologist.
0:10.0	No, I don't organize closets and I definitely can't cure your OCD.
0:15.0	I study how to make work not suck.
0:17.0	And I love learning from people who are especially good at that.
0:20.0	Like this guy.
0:21.0	I didn't know already rules!
0:23.0	I thought I could use Guile!
0:26.0	This is Herb Keller, the founder and longtime CEO of Southwest Airlines.
0:30.0	And this recording is from the floor of a boxing rift.
0:34.0	A few years ago, Southwest got into a legal tangle with another airline over a slogan they shared.
0:42.0	But they didn't go to court. There was no loss in it.
0:45.0	We don't need those taken lawyers! We're gonna do it in the ring!
0:48.0	Herb and his rivals CEO decided to arm wrestle for the rights to the tagline.
0:53.0	And the winner paints all of Ted Bay!
0:55.0	What followed was a giant arena smackdown that drew tons of press and raised money for charity.
1:01.0	Very much not business as usual.
1:03.0	That's a good idea! That's the way she knew it!
1:09.0	But Herb wasn't just a guy with a good nose for flashy photo ops.
1:13.0	He had a lot of heart.
1:15.0	He even once took the time to call a young nobody, an unknown professor.
1:19.0	Professor Grant, this is Herb Keller at Southwest Airlines.
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