The Future Of Work With Jacob Morgan

Do you have rules that you abide by? Not long ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Mark Randolph, co-founder and first CEO of Netflix. According to Mark, there are eight rules for success that his dad created, which he follows every day: Do at least 10% more than you're asked. There's no substitute for hard work. ✅Never present your opinions as facts. ✅Be courteous to people both up and down...

Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist and a science journalist, he is, in fact, known as the father of emotional intelligence. He's also the bestselling author of several books including Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ and Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence . Emotional Intelligence was named one of the 25 Most Influential Busi...

Are you a good listener? There are 6 levels of being a great listener according to Zenger Folkman. The first level of being a listener is being able to create a safe environment where people feel like they can talk to you. The second level is being able to avoid distractions like your phone or computer when you are talking to someone. The third level is seeking to genuinely understand what the oth...

Walter Robb is the former co-CEO of Whole Foods. Back in 1978, Walter started a store called Mountain Marketplace, and in 1991 it was bought by John Mackey and it became store number 12 for Whole Foods. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Union Square Hospitality Group, The Container Store, FoodMaven, and HeatGenie. He's also an investor, mentor, and advisor.  Walter found his passio...

Diversity and inclusion are not the same thing. But although they are very different, both are crucial to the success of any organization. Diversity is simply having a mix of people from different backgrounds, genders, religions, cultures, and ethnicities inside your organization. On the other hand, inclusion is making those people feel like they belong. Research shows that diversity and inclusion...

Colin Bryar is the co-author of the bestselling book Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets From Inside Amazon . He's also the co-founder of Working Backwards LLC and he is the former VP of Amazon. He started working at Amazon four years after the company started and he was there for 12 years, working very closely with Jeff Bezos. Colin says it was a fantastic experience working at Amaz...

Leaders are constantly worried about taking a side. They are always afraid that they might upset their customers or employees. They don't want other people to disagree with them. But that's not the big fear we should have. We should be more afraid of people not knowing what we believe in to begin with. Especially now with what we're seeing in this new world of work, you can't afford to not take a...

Ravi Saligram is the President & CEO of Newell Brands a global manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of consumer and commercial products. The company has 30,000 employees and it's brands include a lot of household names such as Sharpie, Rubbermaid, Paper-Mate, Crock-Pot, and Coleman. Ravi has been the CEO at Newell Brands for 2 years now, and looking back at when he first arrived he says the com...

You can be a 37 times better leader than you are now, and it won't require a crazy massive transformation. All you have to do is improve yourself 1% a day. By the end of the year, you will be 37 times better. And this doesn't just apply to leadership, this can apply to anything. It means taking 10 to 15 minutes a day to watch or listen to something new to learn a new skill. It means recognizing an...

Taylor Smith is the co-founder and CEO of Blueboard , the world's leading experiential rewards and recognition platform that helps companies celebrate their employees. The company was founded in 2014 and they currently have 150 employees around the world.  Employee experience and recognition has been at the forefront of conversations in the business world for a while now, but it's never been more...

What defines an entrepreneur is what they do when they are told "NO". Entrepreneurs get more competitive when they get rejected. They don't shrivel away or cower in the corner and quit. They want to know what they did wrong and why they were told no. They learn from the experience, improve on their failures, and move forward. To them, failure is never the end of the journey. This mindset is what s...

Cameron Herald is the bestselling author of several books including Meetings Suck and Vivid Vision: A Remarkable Tool for Aligning Your Business Around a Shared Vision of the Future . He is the former COO of 1-800-Got-Junk and in the six years he was in that position he brought the company from $2 million to $106 million in annual revenue and the company was named the #2 company in Canada people w...

Empathy is one of the cornerstones of leadership. The first thing that you need to do to practice empathy is take a step back and learn to listen. Don't respond too quickly, take time to digest and process the information. The next step is to be aware of your emotions. Research shows that to practice empathy, you either need to be in a neutral state or the same state as the person who is coming to...

Jason Redman is a Retired Navy SEAL Lieutenant, motivational speaker, and the bestselling author of Overcome: Crush Adversity With The Leadership Techniques Of America's Toughest Warriors . Jason grew up in a family that was very patriotic and enjoyed serving their country, so he heard about the military early on and from about the age of 12 he knew he wanted to do special operations. There was so...

Ever wonder why I tell stories in the talks I give? When someone asks me how I got involved with the future of work, I could give statistics and say, "13% of employees around the world are engaged and I had bad jobs working for other people, and now I'm doing what I'm doing." Or… I can tell my coffee story where my excitement for being called to the corner office of a CEO was crushed by a cup of S...

Simon Mainwaring is the bestselling author of We First and Lead With We: The Business Revolution That Will Save Our Future, which comes out in November. He is the founder & CEO of We First, Inc. and he was a finalist for Global Australian of the Year in 2015. Simon's first book came about after the global economic meltdown when he heard a speech from Bill Gates from the World Economic Forum. Bill...

Jobs aren't like keys--You don't just lose them, they get taken away from you. Some people are worried about losing their jobs to technology, but what really happens is that their jobs get taken away because of technology. There are two ways this can happen. The first way is if the company consciously decides it wants to replace humans with robots and that it no longer wants humans running the org...

Keith Ferrazzi is the bestselling author of multiple books including Leading Without Authority, Never Eat Alone, and his newest book, Competing in the New World of Work. He is also the Chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight and it's Research Institute. Keith and the co-authors of Competing in the New World of Work conducted a huge research project to find out how organizations around the world were react...

Self-serving employees are those who are typically just in it for themselves. They don't care who they have to step on or what they need to do to climb the corporate ladder. There are a few ways to figure out who amongst your employees are self-serving: They are always blaming other people. A self-serving person will always try to make other people look bad to make themselves look good. They alway...

Lorenzo Simonelli is the Chairman, President, and CEO of Baker Hughes, a $20 billion energy technology company with 60,000 employees in 120 countries around the world. Prior to Baker Hughes Lorenzo served as President and CEO of GE Transportation, CFO of the Americas for GE Consumer & Industrial, and General Manager, Product Management for GE Appliances, Lighting, Electrical Distribution, and Moto...

Does your leader have a growth mindset or a fixed mindset? There are a few ways you can find out. Leaders who have a fixed mindset place a very high priority on looking smart. They believe people can't change. If you work for a manager or a leader who doesn't believe in embracing vulnerability or admitting that they don't know something, your boss has a fixed mindset. On the other hand, if you wor...

Mike Capone is the CEO of Qlik, a business intelligence company that provides end-to-end cloud data integration and data analytics solutions for organizations around the world. Mike leads a team of over 2,600 people around the world.  Mike's experience as a leader started at the age of 24 when he was working in IT and he says he was totally unprepared for it. At the time he had no training, no exp...

There used to be a time where graduating from school was enough for you to be successful in life and in work. And when you worked for a company, it too, would teach you everything you needed to know. But today, that's no longer the case. Today, you can't rely on educational institutions and companies to teach you everything you need to know to be successful. You need to be more accountable over yo...

Martin Moore is the author of the upcoming book, No Bullsh!t Leadership , and the host of the podcast with the same name which has been downloaded more than 1.4 million times and has listeners in over 70 countries. He is also the former CEO of CS Energy and he currently runs Your CEO Mentor with his daughter, Emma. Martin wrote his book because there are so many books out on the market that teach...

Business is very much like the game of chess. We need to prepare for a lot of different scenarios. We do this in our personal lives all the time. When we think about buying a house or having a kid, we think through everything--what's going to happen to the property value? What should my child study when they grow up? I wonder who they're going to marry? We like to think about different scenarios....