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Product Thinking

5 episodes

A podcast with a fresh perspective about the best in product thinking. From product management and UX design to psychology and philosophy. How can we bring it all together to make life, our products, and our user experiences better.

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Saying "No" Effectively: 5 Ways to Say No As a Product Manager

Published: July 18, 2023, 3:54 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 56 seconds

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The End of Product Management at Airbnb

Published: July 13, 2023, 3:53 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 53 seconds

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Winner Takes All: Book Review

Published: July 6, 2023, 3:11 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 38 seconds

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Messi, Estimating, Heatwaves, AI, and House of Suns: Monthly Wrap from June

Published: June 29, 2023, 2:35 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 27 seconds

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Why We're So Bad At Estimating: And What We Can Do About It

Published: June 21, 2023, 10:58 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 3 seconds

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Lessons in Thinking Long Term: Understanding Consequences of Short-Term Focus

Published: June 7, 2023, 6:34 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 45 seconds

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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values - Book Review

Published: May 31, 2023, 5:59 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 11 seconds

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Twitter, True Grit, and Giving Up On Your Dreams: Monthly Wrap from May

Published: May 24, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 24 seconds

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Product Failures From Twitter and Others: Learning From Past Mistakes

Published: May 17, 2023, 8:51 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 47 seconds

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Ingredients of a Roadmap: Like Cookies, You Need Some Key Elements

Published: May 11, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 24 seconds

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The Innovator's Handbook: Book Review

Published: May 4, 2023, 7:21 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 43 seconds

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Skepticism, Martian Westerns, and Better Call Saul: Monthly Wrap from April

Published: April 27, 2023, 3:42 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 47 seconds

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A Healthy Dose of Skepticism: Finding the Signal in the Noise

Published: April 21, 2023, 5:04 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 31 seconds

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Product Management and Engineering: How to Effectively Communicate and Work Together

Published: April 14, 2023, 7 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 4 seconds

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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World - Book Review

Published: April 7, 2023, 7:36 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds

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Decision Demons, TikTok, and Emoji Watches: March Monthly Wrap

Published: March 31, 2023, 4:07 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 12 seconds

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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Curiosity, TikTok, and Free Speech

Published: March 24, 2023, 7:31 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds

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3 Lessons from Silicon Valley Bank: What The Rest of Us Can Learn from the Failure of SVB

Published: March 17, 2023, 4:20 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 6 seconds

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Finding Whole-Life Balance: Avoiding Myopia and Burnout, and Actively Finding Balance

Published: March 10, 2023, 9:03 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 15 seconds

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Life is Hard: Book Review

Published: March 3, 2023, 4:35 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 42 seconds

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Product Roadmaps, Mechanical Watches, and the Science of Fun

Published: Feb. 23, 2023, 8:44 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds

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The Messiness of Doing The Work: What Some Managers Don't Understand

Published: Feb. 17, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 56 seconds

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Product Roadmaps: What Are They Good For

Published: Feb. 10, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 10 seconds

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Zone to Win: Book Review

Published: Feb. 2, 2023, 6:34 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 13 seconds

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Shower Thoughts, Inner Circles, Networks and Prioritization

Published: Jan. 25, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 5 seconds

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Airplane Seat Switching and The Endowment Effect: Having Empathy and Understanding Our Own Fallacies

Published: Jan. 18, 2023, 9:55 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 4 seconds

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Product Prioritization: A Strategic Framework for Building the Right Thing

Published: Jan. 12, 2023, 4:16 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 44 seconds

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Crossing the Chasm: Book Review

Published: Jan. 6, 2023, 7:01 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 38 seconds

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Taylor Swift, Quiet Quitting, Ninja Turtles and Books: Monthly Wrap from December

Published: Dec. 28, 2022, 9:01 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 41 seconds

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Top Books of 2022: A Look Back at our Favorite Product and Non-Product Books

Published: Dec. 22, 2022, 6:09 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 54 seconds

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ChatGPT and Cautious Optimism: Imminent Job Killer? Probably Not.

Published: Dec. 15, 2022, 8:21 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 41 seconds

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Four Thousand Weeks: Book Review

Published: Dec. 15, 2022, 8:18 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 52 seconds

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Reggae, Holiday Gifts, Blue Checks, and Van Gogh: Monthly Wrap from November

Published: Nov. 30, 2022, 11:24 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 52 seconds

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10 Gift Ideas for Product Managers and Designers

Published: Nov. 23, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 5 seconds

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Elon, Twitter, and Blue Checks: Product Feature Critique

Published: Nov. 16, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 31 seconds

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The Laws of Creativity: Book Review

Published: Nov. 3, 2022, 2:58 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 58 seconds

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Underpants Gnomes, Chess Cheating, and The Laws of Creativity: Monthly Wrap from October

Published: Oct. 25, 2022, 3 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 48 seconds

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Sales Commitments vs. Product Commitments: Maybe We're Not So Different After All

Published: Oct. 19, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds

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Mastering Future Questions: Practicing So You Can Be Prepared

Published: Oct. 13, 2022, 2:20 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 14 seconds

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Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow: Book Review

Published: Oct. 6, 2022, 6:40 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 48 seconds

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Lumber Prices, Second Jobs, Floppy Disks and Pax Romana: September Monthly Wrap

Published: Sept. 28, 2022, 5:14 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 55 seconds

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The Art of Exploration: Taking an Idea from Abstract to Concrete

Published: Sept. 21, 2022, 10:03 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 40 seconds

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The Importance of Simplicity: Keeping It Simple Early

Published: Sept. 14, 2022, 3:09 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds

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Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products - A Book Review

Published: Sept. 7, 2022, 5:46 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 2 seconds

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Systems, Three-Body Problems, Resurrectionists and Yellowstone: August Monthly Wrap

Published: Aug. 31, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 6 seconds

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Dogs and Data and Assumptions: Bonus Week and Off Topic

Published: Aug. 23, 2022, 9:17 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 14 seconds

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When the System is the Problem: Working within the system vs changing the system

Published: Aug. 17, 2022, 2:44 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 53 seconds

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The Forest for the Trees: Zooming out to see the real problems

Published: Aug. 9, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 5 seconds

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The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker: Book Review

Published: Aug. 2, 2022, 9:38 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 54 seconds

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Being Overconfident, Getting Stupider, and Banning NFTs: Monthly Wrap from July

Published: July 26, 2022, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 13 seconds

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How to Be Wrong and Overconfident

Published: July 19, 2022, 3:56 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 13 seconds

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Camping Trips and Creating Products: Building Better Products By Learning Each Time Through

Published: July 12, 2022, 4:33 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds

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Build by Tony Fadell: Book Review

Published: July 5, 2022, 4:07 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 33 seconds

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Extreme Open-Mindedness, Free Will, and Reorgs: Monthly Wrap from June

Published: June 28, 2022, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 24 seconds

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Creating Product Principles: Developing A Framework for Alignment and Decision Making

Published: June 21, 2022, 6:36 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 53 seconds

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Extreme Open-Mindedness: The Mark of Educated (and Product) Minds

Published: June 14, 2022, 4:31 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 32 seconds

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How Innovation Works: Book Review

Published: June 1, 2022, 3:11 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 59 seconds

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You Are Not Your Customer, But You Should Be

Published: May 9, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 15 seconds

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The Startup Owner's Manual: Book Review

Published: April 26, 2022, 4:08 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 23 seconds

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Understanding Product Packaging: The Key Components of Pricing and Packaging

Published: April 12, 2022, 3:31 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 27 seconds

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Building A StoryBrand: Book Review

Published: March 29, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 4 seconds

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Processes Shouldn't Be Ends

Published: March 15, 2022, 5:59 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 44 seconds

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The Scout Mindset: Book Review

Published: March 1, 2022, 6:13 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 28 seconds

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Optimizing for Teams Rather Than Management

Published: Feb. 8, 2022, 5:17 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 45 seconds

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Arriving Today: Book Review

Published: Jan. 25, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 58 seconds

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Take Home Interview Assignments: 6 Tips for Managers and Interviewers To Do Them Right

Published: Jan. 11, 2022, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 45 seconds

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My Top 10 Books From 2021

Published: Dec. 28, 2021, 7:56 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 5 seconds

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The Importance of Product Strategy: Without Vision and Strategy, Everything is Tactics

Published: Dec. 14, 2021, 8:17 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 25 seconds

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The Alchemy of Us: Book Review

Published: Nov. 30, 2021, 6:22 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 12 seconds

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Long Reads: Rethinking History, Remote Work, And Teleportation

Published: Nov. 23, 2021, 10 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 7 seconds

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Learning from Zillow - Lack of Focus and Long-Term Thinking

Published: Nov. 9, 2021, 9:39 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 23 seconds

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Everybody Lies: Using Data to Better Understand People, Products, and Society

Published: Oct. 26, 2021, 9:24 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 9 seconds

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Product Discovery Interviews: A Guide and Framework For Effectively Talking to Users

Published: Oct. 12, 2021, 5:46 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 38 seconds

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The Mom Test: Book Review

Published: Sept. 29, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 18 seconds

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Supply Chains, Shortages, Monopolies & More

Published: Sept. 21, 2021, 9:28 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 46 seconds

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Understanding the Problem:

Published: Sept. 7, 2021, 11:54 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 17 seconds

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Ultralearning: Book Review

Published: Aug. 24, 2021, 7:44 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 56 seconds

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Ownership and Accountability

Published: Aug. 10, 2021, 7:54 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 23 seconds

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Creative Selection: Book Review

Published: July 27, 2021, 4 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 35 seconds

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Killing Features: The Art of Persisting Versus Ending Features

Published: July 20, 2021, 4:23 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 8 seconds

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User Empathy: Understanding Other Perspectives for a Better Experience

Published: July 14, 2021, 5:59 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 51 seconds

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Serendipity and Invention: Creating Products and Experiences Through Luck and Skill

Published: July 7, 2021, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 19 seconds

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The Myths of Innovation: Book Review

Published: June 29, 2021, 9:42 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 8 seconds

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User Empathy and Outcomes: Understanding the "Why" and Getting Past Our Own Perspective

Published: June 22, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 52 seconds

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Ritual Cats - Stopping To Question Our Habits To Improve Our Outcomes

Published: June 15, 2021, 4:49 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 5 seconds

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5 Whys Mindset - Asking Why For Deeper Understanding And To Get To The Root Cause

Published: June 8, 2021, 3:29 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 19 seconds

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Planting Trees - Long-Term Investments Over Short-Term Payoffs

Published: June 2, 2021, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 34 seconds

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Working Backwards - Book Review

Published: May 25, 2021, 8:52 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 21 seconds

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What is Innovation?

Published: May 18, 2021, 3:36 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 50 seconds

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What is Product Management?

Published: May 11, 2021, 9:36 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds

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Customer Retention: The Importance of Retaining Your Users and Continuously Adding Value

Published: May 4, 2021, 10:40 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 27 seconds

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Book Review - Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

Published: April 28, 2021, 12:14 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 18 seconds

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What Have You Failed At Recently - Overcoming the Fear of Failure

Published: April 20, 2021, 5:48 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 11 seconds

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6 Ways to Avoid Burnout - Prioritizing Mental Health and Finding Your "Why"

Published: April 13, 2021, 10:19 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 53 seconds

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5 Tips For Product Interviews

Published: April 6, 2021, 5:44 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 6 seconds

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Productization, Disruption, Bubbles, and More

Published: March 23, 2021, 2:13 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 32 seconds

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Death by Data - Avoiding Analysis Paralysis By Taking Action

Published: March 9, 2021, 10:27 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 29 seconds

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Taking the Long-Term View: Product Thinking and Mars Colonies

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 1:20 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 30 seconds

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Creating a Culture of Recognition

Published: Feb. 16, 2021, 6:22 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 52 seconds

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Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 22 seconds

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