Jane Goodall on leadership lessons from primates

Worklife with Adam Grant

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Have you ever felt like your work colleagues sometimes act like animals? In this conversation, Jane Goodall and Adam take that idea literally, exploring what Jane's expertise on chimp behavior can teach us about how humans relate and organize. With grace and wisdom, she shares primal insights on how we acquire and keep power, the difference between being a leader and being a boss, and the role of patience in making discoveries and making a career. This episode was previously released on March 2, 2021.

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0:47.9	This year and last, many of us have been forced to communicate with our closest colleagues
0:51.9	and friends from a distance.
0:53.9	And that skill is not
0:55.3	uniquely human. This is the distance greeting. And that simply means this is me, this is Jane.
1:07.4	Yep. This is Jane Goodall, legendary ethologist, an expert on primate behavior.
1:13.7	Jane greeted us from her home in the UK over Zoom. It's an unnatural habitat for a person
1:18.7	who usually spends most of her time outdoors. More than 60 years ago, Jane started her career
1:25.8	studying chimpanzees in Tanzania, along with
1:28.6	anthropologist Louis Leakey.
1:30.9	She famously immersed herself with wild chimps and made groundbreaking discoveries about
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