Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz
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Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz
From the creator of How I Built This, host Guy Raz invites you to listen in as he talks to leadership experts and the visionary leaders of some of the world's biggest brands. Along the way, you'll hear accounts of crisis, failure, turnaround, and triumph, as the leaders reveal their secrets on their...
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The Way Up, Episode 6 - Nixta Taqueria
They fed neighbors during a storm — and ended up winning a James Beard Award.
In this episode of The Way Up, Guy Raz meets Edgar Rico and Sara M...
The Way Up, Episode 5 - Green Apple Books
Pop-up shops, clever T-shirts, and made-up holidays — all in the name of keeping indie books alive.
In this episode of The Way Up, Guy Raz sits...
The Way Up, Episode 4 - Vala’s Pumpkin Patch
Can a family farm turn into a full-blown theme park? The Valas made it happen.
In this episode of The Way Up, Guy Raz visits Vala’s Pumpkin Patc...
The Way Up, Episode 3 - Charles Pan-Fried Chicken
What happens when a soul food legend meets a business-savvy chef? A lot of diners go home happy.
In this episode of The Way Up, Guy Raz sits dow...
The Way Up, Episode 2 - Rustler Hat Co. with Alex Samuels
Note: This is the second in a series of episodes of The Way Up, a new video series from Square highlighting the real stories of grit, vision, growth,...
Wisdom From The Top Presents: The Way Up, Episode 1 - The Sports Bra with Jenny Nguyen (Presented by Square)
Note: This is the first in a series of episodes of The Way Up, a new video series from Square highlighting the real stories of grit, vision, growth, a...
Finding Work That's Got a Mission: Ken Coleman
Ken Coleman, known as “America’s Career Coach,” shares his wisdom on finding meaningful work and building connections to achieve your career goals. Dr...
When the Best People Want to Be on Your Team: Peloton's Dara Tresedor
As a child growing up in Ibadan, Nigeria, Dara Treseder was often reminded to keep her feet on the ground. But her mother urged her to dream big and p...
A Key Way to Grow Your Confidence: Joe Keohane
ENCORE EPISODE. Joe Keohane, a seasoned journalist and editor, believes that conversations with strangers can boost happiness, empathy, and even impro...
Small Habits, Huge Rewards: B.J. Fogg
What drives lasting personal change? BJ Fogg, founder of Stanford’s Behavior Design Lab, challenges conventional wisdom with insights from his groundb...
Price and Quality are Not Enough: Foot Locker's Ken Hicks
When Ken Hicks took the helm as CEO of Foot Locker in 2009, the company was on the brink: the economy was in shambles, sales had cratered by nearly a...
Define Success and Define Constraints: Etsy's Josh Silverman
Etsy was on the brink of collapse in 2017—its stock plummeting, cash reserves dwindling, and analysts predicting its demise. Enter Josh Silverman, a t...
The Power of Radical Candor: Kim Scott
"How do you build a team, inspire individuals to pursue their dreams, and scale that impact beyond just one group?" Kim Scott has wrestline with, and...
Why Generalists Come Out on Top: David Epstein
What makes someone excel—whether in sports, science, or life? David Epstein, author of The Sports Gene and Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Special...
Trust via Transparency: Marvel's Peter Cuneo
What does it take to rebuild a company from the brink of failure? In this conversation from 2020, Guy sits down with Peter Cuneo, the former CEO who f...
Mobilizing Talent When it Counts: Best Buy's Hubert Joly
In 2012, Best Buy was in deep trouble—a crisis so severe that Forbes declared, “Why Best Buy is Going Out of Business.” By March, the company reported...
Exceptional Leaders are Integrative Thinkers: Roger Martin
"You can't analyze your way into something new," says today's guest. Over the course of a career spanning four decades, Roger Martin has been a manag...
Leading Through a Perfect Storm: Carnival's Arnold Donald
When Arnold Donald took the helm at the Carnival Corporation, a public relations crisis of multiple layers threatened its future. Donald prioritized...
Values without Action are Propaganda: PayPal's Dan Schulman
[A 'BEST OF' EPISODE] Combining business with social justice isn’t a path most companies choose, which is why Dan Schulman’s leadership as PayPal’s CE...
Better Leadership via Failure: General Stanley McChrystal
[Encore release] General Stanley McChrystal was born into a military family: three generations of men in his family were officers in the armed forces....
Conviction, But Not Certainty: Autodesk's Carl Bass
An encore episode, exploring the unconventional leadership journey of Carl Bass, a self-described renegade and reluctant executive who took the reins...
Effective People Do This
[Encore episode] In the 1980s, Stephen R. Covey revolutionized leadership thinking with The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, introducing a leaders...
Imagine it Forward: Beth Comstock (NBC and General Electric)
Author, and business executive Beth Comstock says to Guy Raz in this classic 2021 interview "I'm about change." In college, she wanted to be a doctor...
Getting the Big Ideas Right: General Petraeus
General David Petraeus is one of those leaders who rose through the ranks to become one of the most well-known military figures of our time. Growing u...
Carry Water on Both Shoulders: Terry Lundgren (Macy's and Neiman Marcus)
Terry Lundgren, former CEO of Neiman Marcus and Macy’s, has been instrumental in shaping the American retail landscape. His believes leadership lies d...
Built to Last, Great by Choice: Jim Collins
Jim Collins is one of the most influential business thinkers and writers of our time. Yet, Collins considers himself more of a researcher than an auth...
Turning Trials into Triumph: Ryan Holiday (The Daily Stoic)
Can ancient philosophy be the key to modern success? Ryan Holiday, a leading thinker of his generation, believes so. From NFL quarterbacks to corporat...
When Staying Small Works: Richard Graeter
In a world where scale is, for many, their north star, Graeter's Ice Cream stands out by doing things the old-fashioned way. Richard Graeter, the fou...
'The Decency Quotient' in Leadership | Ajay Banga
What does it take to create a winning culture in the workplace? For Ajay Banga, who transformed Mastercard, success is built on more than intelligence...
Simple Change, Big Return: Sonic Drive-In's Cliff Hudson
In today's fast-paced corporate world, the pressure to specialize is immense. But what if focusing on one expertise isn't the key to success? Cliff Hu...
From Lab to C-Suite, Then Turning Around a Startup, ft. George Scangos (Biogen)
For George Scangos, the art of decisive leadership is part of his biology, you could say. Scangos is a former lab researcher who rose to the top of th...
Why Uncertainty Matters: Margaret Heffernan
Margaret Heffernan, an entrepreneur, CEO, executive leadership coach, and author of six books, delves into her often counter-intuitive insights on con...
Success Doesn't Teach You Much, ft. Cheryl Bachelder (KFC, Popeye's)
The former CEO of KFC and Popeye's doesn't love talking about success, of which she's had plenty. No, in fact she's more interested in life's stumbles...
'Forget Vision:' Lou Gerstner's IBM Turnaround
The legendary CEOs of the 1990s included Jack Welch of GE and John Chambers of Cisco, who was on our show last season. Another dominant figure was Lou...
Why to Put a Chink in Your Own Armor: Brad Smith (Intuit)
Brad Smith, the former CEO and now Chairman of the Board at Intuit, knows first hand why vulnerability and failure are intrinsic to good leadership. A...
The Importance of a Near Miss: Sarah Lewis (Harvard)
In this episode, Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, a Harvard professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies, joins Guy...
From Intern to CEO: Greg Wasson (Walgreens)
Greg Wasson jokes that he wanted to be a pharmacist because his two great uncles, both pharmacists, drove big Cadillacs. The Indiana native was, thou...
Purpose-Driven Leadership: Capital One's Sanjiv Yajnik
Sanjiv Yajnik, is someone who embraces risk and adapts to change with remarkable resilience. Sanjiv's career began as a marine engineer, spending over...
Never Stop Improving: Lowe’s Marvin Ellison
Marvin Ellison is one of the few Black CEOs leading a Fortune 500 company. In this episode he shares his remarkable journey from retail security guard...
Why Some Never Break Through: Greg McKeown ('Effortless' and 'Essentialism')
Leadership strategist, business speaker, podcaster, and author Greg McKeown (New York Times bestsellers Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less...