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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

How to Inspire the People Around You

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.714.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Leaders aren't just generals, presidents and CEOs. You're probably a leader too! Someone in your home, school or workplace might look to you for guidance - and that's leading. So how do you inspire the people around you and make yourself the best leader you can be?

Columbia Business School's Adam Galinsky (author of Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others) reckons we can all learn simple lessons that will make us better and more encouraging colleagues, parents and friends.

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0:00.0

Here at the Life Kit podcast, we love helping you make small tweaks to your life that really add up.

0:05.1

Our policy is that your goals shouldn't be too punishing or too grant, which is why we've got shows on how to help you do little things, like go for 10-minute walks or start working out slowly, so that you can create health habits that stick.

0:17.7

Join NPR's Life Kit podcast to get the tools you need to make your health a priority

0:22.3

by searching for Life Kit wherever you get your podcasts.

0:32.0

Pushkin.

0:43.3

When you first think of what constitutes a leader, you might picture presidents, generals, and CEOs.

0:49.3

But if you reflect a bit, it quickly becomes clear that many of us occupy some sort of leadership role.

0:53.8

Parents and caregivers, they're leaders. So our college professors and coaches, even if you're not

0:55.1

officially a manager on your job, you're probably more experienced than at least one of your

0:59.4

co-workers. And if that less senior person looks to you for guidance, then guess what? You're a leader,

1:04.4

too. Given that so many of us are being looked up to in at least some capacity, we should

1:09.7

probably put more thought

1:10.9

into becoming the best leaders we can be,

1:13.4

which is why today's episode will be exploring

1:15.5

how to inspire the people around you.

1:17.9

And I've lined up a particularly inspiring guest.

1:21.0

Hi, I'm Adam Glensky.

1:22.6

I'm a professor at Columbia Business School

1:24.5

and I'm the author of Inspire,

1:26.4

the universal path for Leading Yourself and

1:29.2

Others. Adam is one of the top business school professors in the world. His research has

1:34.1

inspired the bosses of huge corporations and vast global organizations, but Adam has argued that the

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