Trailer: Boss Class Season 1
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🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
The workplace keeps changing and managers have to keep up. The best bosses create systems for solving problems old and new—from navigating working-from-home demands to hiring the right people, from running good meetings to managing themselves.
Andrew Palmer, author of the Bartleby column, looks for advice on how to be a better boss by talking to people who have actually done the job. Listen to The Economist's seven-episode guide for managers.
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| 0:00.0 | Few people in your life are more important to your well-being than your boss. |
| 0:05.8 | They can make your day or they can make your life miserable. |
| 0:09.5 | But I never understood just how hard it is to be a good boss until I started writing about them. |
| 0:15.6 | Because making an office tick requires handling the most baffling substance on earth. |
| 0:21.0 | People. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm Andrew Palmer. I've been a journalist at The Economist for 16 years. |
| 0:27.4 | Of all the things I've written about, nothing catches our reader's interest like Bartleby, |
| 0:32.4 | my weekly column on management. |
| 0:35.0 | For a new podcast, I've tried to find the secrets to being a better manager |
| 0:38.8 | and squeeze them into seven episodes. |
| 0:41.5 | It's called Boss Class, from The Economist. |
| 0:47.3 | You could spend your time memorizing motivational quotes |
| 0:50.4 | or practicing trustfalls, |
| 0:53.2 | or you could listen to practical advice from people who actually |
| 0:56.9 | run things. Somebody once told me that when you're a CEO, the mindset you have to have is what |
| 1:01.6 | really difficult, intractable problems people are going to bring me today. I do not believe you can be a |
| 1:06.8 | leader and not be accessible to your people. You do what we did at the beginning of the year and like you throw away 12,000 meetings, right? |
| 1:14.1 | Whether you manage people now or want to in the future, whether you're in charge of a company, |
| 1:19.9 | or you dream of founding one, whether you want to build a culture or just run a meeting properly. |
| 1:26.7 | Boss class is for you. |
| 1:29.1 | Episodes are out weekly, starting later in October. |
| 1:32.1 | If you're not already a subscriber to The Economist, |
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