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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Week in, week out, we work. But what can we do to not lose ourselves in the 9-to-5 grind? This hour, we question how long we work, why we valorize work, and what good leadership looks like. Guests include executive coach Anne Morriss, economist Juliet Schor, social psychologist Azim Shariff and political scientist Margaret Levi.

Original broadcast date: September 22, 2023

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0:00.0	This message comes from NPR sponsored Ted Talks Daily, a podcast from the Ted Audio Collective.
0:06.0	Ted Talks Daily brings you a new talk every day.
0:09.0	Learn about the ideas shaping this generation, from AI to zoology and everything in between.
0:15.1	Find TED Talks daily wherever you get your podcasts.
0:18.7	This is the TED Radio Hour. Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks.
0:25.0	Our job now is to dream big.
0:27.0	Delivered at TED conferences,
0:28.0	to bring about the future we want to see.
0:30.0	Around the world.
0:32.0	To understand who we are.
0:33.0	From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
0:38.0	You just don't know what you're going to find.
0:40.0	Challenge you.
0:41.0	We truly have to ask to ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy and even change you I
0:45.0	literally feel like I'm a different person yes do you feel that way ideas worth
0:50.6	spreading from Ted and NPR, I'm Manouche Zamorodi. Back in the late
1:00.3	90s and early aughts, companies that were turning out new software and internet tools
1:07.3	had to start making business decisions just as quickly.
1:11.3	And so a new ethos for business was born. You've probably heard of it. Move fast and break things.
1:18.0	The mandate being handed to entrepreneurs was to sprint and if you hit some things with your tail
1:26.4	along the way that's just the cost of doing business. This is leadership coach
1:30.4	Anne Morris and saw this at times reckless strategy play out again and again.
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