Mellody Hobson on taking tough feedback (re-release)

Worklife with Adam Grant

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Criticism rarely comes wrapped in a shiny gift box, tied with a bow. As a trailblazing leader, one of Mellody Hobson’s gifts is finding the diamond in the rough. She and Adam unpack how to look for the grain of truth in any critique, when to discount feedback, and what it takes to be honest without being brutal.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:25.6	Listen to TED Talks Daily, wherever you get your podcast.
0:28.8	Hey listeners, today we're sharing a past episode of rethinking from the archives.
0:34.7	Enjoy.
0:36.7	Today's guest is Leader Extrainaire, Melody Hobson.
0:43.0	In the eight years that I've known her,
0:45.0	she's consistently challenged me to think again
0:48.0	about giving and receiving feedback and speaking truth to power.
0:51.0	Melody has a long list of trailblazing achievement.
0:55.0	She's been on many lists, including Times 100 most influential people.
0:59.0	But through it all, she's only worked in one place,
1:02.0	aerial investments. the first black-owned mutual fund
1:05.8	in the US, where Melody is now the president and co-cee.
1:09.2	30 years at one company since 1991 I've only worked at one company the
1:17.1	average American has 11 jobs in their lifetime but it makes complete and total
1:22.0	sense if you grew up as me that you would cling to
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