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What are you willing to do to get what you want?

What’s the biggest mistake any leader can make?

Believing that you have to choose between being good and being successful.

Is your business about purpose or profit?

Is your company culture about human values or market value?

Do your people work with you or for you?

As an ethical leader, you don’t have to choose. Rabbi Yonason Goldson has spent a lifetime studying and teaching ethics. Joining Adam, he shares his wisdom on preserving the ethical mindset in this new, virtual world.

Discover:

• What misconceptions make ethics a challenge;
• How an increasingly virtual culture is affecting our collective awareness of ethical values and principles;
• What ethical issues have arisen from the current crisis;
• Practical steps to take if we want to become more ethical;
• And much more! ​

Imagine replacing distraction, disengagement, and conflict with passion, purpose, and productivity.

When we make plans, we naturally believe that the future will go according to plan. That wrong-headed mental blindspot, the planning fallacy, results in not preparing for contingencies and problems, both predictable ones and unknown unknowns.

We suffer from the tendency to prioritize the short term, and undercount the importance of medium and long-term outcomes. Known as hyperbolic discounting, this cognitive bias is especially bad for evaluating the potential long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky wants to protect us from cognitive bias and joins Adam to share his insight and strategies for adapting to the pandemic.

Discover:

• How to identify where the current reaction to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic might be oriented excessively toward a short-term and/or optimistic outlook;
• The neuroscience-based evidence for how we tend to make poor choices in the face of slow-moving major disruptions like the pandemic;
• Techniques to evaluate and shift your career trajectory, professional development, and business model to adapt to and plan effectively for the pandemic;
• How to develop a long-term strategic plan to navigate successfully the disruptions caused by the pandemic;
• And so much more!

We’re not out of the COVID-19 woods yet, and if you want to learn how to prepare for long-term, tune in!

Building and running a successful business is difficult to say the least. Toss in having a disability and the challenge of running a business increases exponentially.

Legally-blind since birth, Steff Green never let others’ misconceptions about her disability stop her from living her dream life. A six-figure USA bestselling author, Steff joins Adam to share her tips for not letting a disability get in the way of your dreams.

Discover:

• Why it is so important for disabled people to see people like them succeed as business owners;
• Why imagination, creativity, and perseverance are vital for success;
• What Steff means by ‘change is opportunity’;
• What opportunities exist for writers, creatives, and entrepreneurs;
• And so much more!

Listen to this inspiring story of one woman’s journey from failed archeologist to best selling author.

Change either paralyzes or energizes – the choice is yours. ShiftShapers shape the shifts in business and industries into new business models, products and best practices.

David Saltzman is one of the foremost experts in Transformation Strategies. After more than 300 interviews with industry ShiftShapers, he has revealed that despite their diversity and the differing offerings, all of them share seven distinct success strategies. He joins Adam to share some of those strategies.

Discover:

• How ShiftShapers start their process;
• What makes this so unique;
• Tips to create awareness and bring innovation to market;
• How creative disruption can allow us to work within existing infrastructures and industry;
• How someone can apply and profit from these techniques in business;
• And much more!

If you want to become a ShiftShaper in your industry, tune in!