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SPOS #834 – Ron Carucci On How To Lead With Truth, Justice And Purpose

Welcome to episode #834 of Six Pixels of Separation.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #834 – Host: Mitch Joel. Under what conditions will people tell the truth, behave fairly and act with purpose at work? And when will they lie, cheat and be selfish? Based on 15 years of research, Ron Carucci‘s latest book, To Be Honest, looks at four factors and how they foster the right (or wrong) culture. Ron has a thirty-year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership — from start-ups to Fortune 10s, non-profits to heads-of-state, turn-arounds to new markets and strategies, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth. With experience in more than 25 countries on four continents, he helps organizations articulate strategies that lead to accelerated growth, and then designs programs to execute those strategies. The author of eight books, Ron shares the stories of leaders who have acted with purpose, honesty and justice even when it was difficult to do so, and how they came out on top. Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 58:19.Hello from beautiful Montreal.Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts.Please visit and leave comments on the blog – Six Pixels of Separation.Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.or you can connect on LinkedIn.…or on Twitter.Here is my conversation with Ron Carucci.To Be Honest.Navalent.Follow Ron on LinkedIn.Follow Ron on Twitter.

This week’s music: David Usher ‘St. Lawrence River’.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #627

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, Interesting Bits, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, FWD50, and Scaletechconf; author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (Rebus Foundation, PressBooks, LibriVox) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person “must see.”

Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another: 

Jesse Willms, The Dark Lord of the Internet – The Atlantic. “A friend just finished Money Men, a book about online cash fraud, and loved it so much it belongs on my (too-long) bookshelf queue. Reading about the book took me to this 2014 The Atlantic piece about con artist extraordinaire, Jesse Willms. What he was up to eight years ago was already remarkable; when he was eventually caught, he paid less than $1M of the $350M+ settlement, and continued. And the big search engines were all complicit. I can’t wait for the Netflix doc.” (Alistair for Hugh). I Should Be Able To Mute America – Gawker . “America has no chill, and it’s leaking across the borderless world of social media. Hollywood shaped global culture, and now the US dominance of social media (what does Europe have? Minitel?) is shaping global discourse. Exhibit A: This hilarious screed from an Australian about what happens when another country goes viral, and America chimes in.” (Alistair for Mitch). Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism – Lex Fridman Podcast . “Great conversation between AI researcher/podcaster Lex Fridman and Marxist Richard Wolff.” (Hugh for Alistair). Camera Mortis – The Yale Review . “So, apparently they used to dress up dead bodies to pose for the camera.” (Hugh for Mitch). The Petty Pleasures of Watching Crypto Profiteers Flounder – Galaxy Brain – The Atlantic . “There are three (maybe more) components of Web3 that I believe are paramount to the future of our economy and society. One, the ability for digital assets to have provenance. Two, the ability for digital assets to replicate the physical world in relation to items that are abundant and those that are scarce (Web3 gives virtual assets scarcity). Three, direct access between creator and community/audience (the end of unregulated monopolies focused on eyeballs and attention). Now, with that, I’m not sold on what I am seeing in the current world of Web3, NFTs and crypto. Yes, the economy is funky, but check out this article and – more importantly – watch the two videos that are included in it. It’s hard to believe that these ‘leaders’ are floundering and flopping over the power of Web3, when you consider where all of this money and experience is said to be housed. This will blow your mind…” (Mitch for Alistair). CryptoPunks Spiked 957% The Day Before Noah Davis Announcment — And Insider Trading Rumors Followed – ARTnews . “All investments are (always) speculative. Still, there are many who know enough/have seen enough to see the scams from a mile away. What’s funny (in a very unfunny way) is how many of these stories seem to be ‘breaking news’ with each and every passing day. When do the regulators step in? When do we really start to understand that maybe (just maybe) those with the centralized power, money and access are pulling everyone’s strings by using words like ‘decentralized’, ‘community’ and ‘experimentation’?” (Mitch for Hugh).

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Yesterday @packyM was asked to explain a Web3 use case.

I clipped this gem from 8:40 of @loganbartlett's latest @cartoonavatars podcast episode with co-host @zachweinberg.

Highly recommended… pic.twitter.com/x8Vdy1xb6o

— Liron Shapira (@liron) June 4, 2022

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Christine Porath On Mastering Community – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast

Episode #833 of Six Pixels of Separation is now live and ready for you to listen to.

What does it mean to build a community? How powerful are communities? Have communities become to insular lately? Christine Porath is a tenured professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She’s the author of Mastering Civility – A Manifesto for the Workplace and co-author of The Cost of Bad Behavior. Her latest book is called, Mastering Community – The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us From Surviving To Thriving. In this book, Christine argues how important thriving communities are to our wellbeing and the success of organizations, and learn what steps you can take to create them. Enjoy the conversation…

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SPOS #833 – Christine Porath On Mastering Community

Welcome to episode #833 of Six Pixels of Separation.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #833 – Host: Mitch Joel. What does it mean to build a community? How powerful are communities? Have communities become to insular lately? Christine Porath is a tenured professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She’s the author of Mastering Civility – A Manifesto for the Workplace and co-author of The Cost of Bad Behavior. Her latest book is called, Mastering Community – The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us From Surviving To Thriving. In this book, Christine argues how important thriving communities are to our wellbeing and the success of organizations, and learn what steps you can take to create them. Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 47:52.Hello from beautiful Montreal.Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts.Please visit and leave comments on the blog – Six Pixels of Separation.Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.or you can connect on LinkedIn.…or on Twitter.Here is my conversation with Christine Porath.Mastering Community – The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us From Surviving To Thriving.Mastering Civility – A Manifesto for the Workplace.The Cost of Bad Behavior.Follow Christine on LinkedIn.Follow Christine on Twitter.

This week’s music: David Usher ‘St. Lawrence River’.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #626

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, Interesting Bits, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, FWD50, and Scaletechconf; author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (Rebus Foundation, PressBooks, LibriVox) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person “must see.”

Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another: 

Rage Against The Ghost In The Machine – Linux Conference Australia 2017 – YouTube. “Lilly Ryan spins a great tale of ghostly tech. People have been trying to contact the dead via tech long before Poltergeist and Ring put the notion of spooky TV in our collective consciousness. But with the ability to train algorithms on a corpus of text – and then have those algorithms create new text in a form of statistical mimicry – we’re close to the day when Big Tech can let you chat with a decent simulacrum of your dead friends and relatives. As Hugh pointed out last time, when he included the Google Engineer who believes a chatbot is sentient, it’s not about whether the sentience exists, but rather, whether we believe it.” (Alistair for Hugh).
Drop that fork! Why eating at your desk is banned in France – Rough Translation – NPR . “I eat most of my meals in front of a screen these days, if I do it at all. And setting aside the food in my keyboard, it’s not good for me. I recently started something I call Je Dis Lunch (a pun on Jeudi Lunch, or ‘Thursday lunch’ in French) where a few folks show up outside and have lunch together. Shared lunch is a casualty of the pandemic and our always-on lifestyle, and in the few weeks since we started doing it, it’s been a great way to reconnect. But what I didn’t know is that it’s illegal to eat at your desk in France. It was initially a health measure, and was paused in early 2021 – but by now, it’s so ingrained in French culture that the suspension has been lifted. Our native Quebec wants us to embrace French culture: This seems like a good start.” (Alistair for Mitch). Uptown Funk/Bruno Mars Featuring Mark Ronson – covered by Feng E – ukulele fingerstyle – Feng E – YouTube . “I’ve mentioned before that I started learning the ukulele as a Covid project, and continue to plunk away. I’m pretty good at strumming chords, but that’s about it. My daughter suggested I learn Uptown Funk, and so I went to YouTube  – always a great place to find tutorials on just about anything. I found this vid. I’ll let you know when I can play like this.” (Hugh for Alistair). The Organization of Your Bookshelves Tells Its Own Story – The Atlantic . “I visited Mitch’s office a bunch of times on the way to lunch. His office was basically a desk, chair, computer and books. I have a few bookshelves at home, with a special shelf for my favourite novels. What do your bookshelves say about you?” (Hugh for Mitch).  Small Actions Make Great Leaders – Harvard Business Review . “If we do, in fact, rely on the workforce, not executives, to lead change what does that mean for how our work evolves in this remote, hybrid or whatever we’re calling this moment in time? If we take that – and add in the idea that small actions also make the best leaders shine – how does that unfold when leaders today are looking to only bring people together when it’s something valuable (or big)? It’s amazing to read this article and then think about how a company can make these moments really happen, when everyone is hesitant to work in the same spaces. It also makes me wonder if work is going to change into something wildly different when these types of moments don’t happen on Zoom or in the random meetings that transpire when our people gather.” (Mitch for Alistair).  TikTok Killed the Video Star – The Atlantic . “I know that there are many reasons why I should demonize TikTok, but I can’t. It’s simply the most entertaining, engaging and educational video platform that I have ever come across. I’ve said it before, and I will say it again: That algorithm is a sight to behold. It knows the types of things that I’ll find interesting… and these are things that I never thought I would find interesting. This is a fascinating read about how TikTok is evolving and, if I were YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, I would be paying even more attention to what TikTok is doing and how it’s capturing people’s attention.” (Mitch for Hugh).

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Should You Avoid Business Travel At All Costs?

Value, efficiency and comfort are no longer words that we can use to define business travel.

I’m not just saying this as someone who has had to run the gauntlet of hell that is travel these days. I’ve been fortunate in my woes (compared to others), but it truly doesn’t feel “worth it” anymore. Said another way, if the destination is under ten hours away by car, I’ll be driving for the next while.

First, a little background…

I’m Canadian (and where you live might have very different current outcomes). My main source of income is speaking at events all over the world. I’ve flown well over 1.5 million miles, carry the highest status you can with an airline, have Nexus/Global Entry (as well as Clear), and only use credit cards that are airline/travel based (which adds layers of services, insurance, access, etc.). In short, I can move quickly and efficiently through an airport, and I know most of the angles/travel hacks (along with having access to the concierge service). I don’t say this to brag, and I know that what we’re about to dig into is a first-world problem. Still, the struggle of business travel is real (and, this won’t take into account the environmental issues related to air travel).

My most recent adventure was a 24 hour turnaround that took me from Montreal to Las Vegas for a presentation. The travel component of my trip was an unmitigated disaster, but still mild in comparison to other stories I’ve heard from my peers, friends, family, and the media.

For better context…

I’ll use another traveler’s experience to illustrate the situation: This individual was returning to their home in Chicago (which is a 2.5 hour direct flight from Montreal). The flight was cancelled and this passenger (who has status) was rebooked for two days later and the flight was scheduled as: Montreal to Quebec City to Toronto to Chicago. You don’t have to know much about geography to understand the stupidity of that situation (and that’s if you can put aside that the next available flight was also TWO DAYS in the future).

What are we seeing?

Delays, cancellations, long cues at every part of the process (parking a car, check-in, security, lounges, restaurants, gates and even the plane’s ability to get a slot on the runway). There’s this overbearing whiff of a system that is in a state of complete chaos and on the verge of collapse.

I do not say this lightly.

The pressure is everywhere. It’s not just the airports. Hotels are sold out and charging exorbitant prices (they will no longer clean your room unless you make a special request), Ubers and taxis are expensive (gas prices are through the roof, you can also wait upwards of 30 minutes to get an Uber, and on this last trip, I paid over $95 USD for a taxi ride that was under 15 minutes)…

And the hits just keep on coming…

Once I arrived at my event, I watched the event organizers scramble as their host tested positive for Covid (along with several other speakers and guests), while a slew of other attendees got caught in travel snafus. Attendance took a significant hit from what they had expected from one day to the next. You can imagine what this means for everything from hotel rooms that were blocked to ordering food and beyond.

From my perspective, I see two major causes for all of this travel pain:

One, every aspect of the industry is short-staffed. Two, the active staff are both new employees and/or overwhelmed. When it comes to travel the speed of the system mixed with the complexity of many divergent businesses and government institutions having to work together… well… it’s a recipe for disaster. When you have new staff, they don’t have the experience of living within these complex work ecosystems. This is everything from knowing how to bend the computer system to their will or reading the moment and knowing how to work through it more efficiently than how they were trained. This is only complicated when they have no support and need to run the show on their own.

But, it’s not just the human factor.

The human factor impacts the computer systems as well. On my outbound flight, my ticket (somehow) got logged as Montreal to Las Vegas and Las Vegas to Denver as the outbound segment and Denver to Montreal as the return segment. No idea how this could happen, but none of the airline employees could fix this, making it impossible to issue my boarding passes for the return flight home. It, literally, took hours to untangle this glitch. Then – on my return flight home – I was called to the gate, because I had not been checked in to the flight, which was curious because I already had the boarding pass for this flight via the airline’s mobile app. Again, no employee for the airline could understand how I had a boarding pass for a flight that I was not even checked into on their system.

The big stuff is hard enough to fix (cancellations and delays, etc…), but it’s the little stuff… the cracks in the pavement… that not only exacerbate the stress, but erode at the trust and faith in both the brand promise and the experience. It also makes the employees look incompetent in the eyes of the customer… and that helps no one.

Ultimately, CEOs and CFOs are going to look at the skyrocketing costs of travels, layered against team members getting sick or being stuck in delays and cancellations as reasons to pull back from physical meetings and events. Couple that with the current economic woes (stock market pressure, supply chain issues and – what seems like an inevitable – recession) and we’re staring into the abyss for business travel and the events business. This concerns me on many levels. I’m an optimist that can’t seem to find any silver linings here. This will have a direct impact not just on my work, but in a world that is in desperate need to bring people together. For leaders, even creating a dynamic and valuable reason to bring your teams and customers together, is going to be severely impacted by macro forces that are completely out of your control, but will impact how people feel about their work and the culture.

What is the answer?

Simplistically, virtual events and meetings might be the only salvation until the logistics of travel get sorted. This means that leaders need to dig deeper and find more powerful ways to make meetings, events and customer engagements count. A simple Zoom link and a meeting agenda isn’t going to cut it anymore. But there are so many fires to put out, that I hesitate to provide a list of possible solutions to overcome the challenges of business travel these days. Logically, it feels like pushing things out to when the system can get its footing back seems like the only plausible answer.

What have you seen out there?

John Hagel On The Future, Technology And Life At The Edge – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast

Episode #832 of Six Pixels of Separation is now live and ready for you to listen to.

To those in the know, John Hagel is a known entity. I’ve heard him described as the horse-whisperer to many of technology’s most respected leaders. John has spent over forty years in Silicon Valley and has experience as a management consultant, entrepreneur, speaker and author. He is driven by a desire to help individuals and institutions around the world to increase their impact in a rapidly changing world. After recently retiring as a partner from Deloitte, John published his newest book, The Journey Beyond Fear, that addresses the psychology of change and he is developing a series of programs to help people navigate through change at many levels. John has founded a new company, Beyond Our Edge, that works with companies and people who are seeking to anticipate the future and achieve much greater impact. While at Deloitte, John was the founder and leader of the global Center for the Edge with the mission of identifying emerging business opportunities that should be on the agenda of CEO’s, but are not, and doing the research to persuade them to put them on their agenda. He has also worked with McKinsey & Co. and Boston Consulting Group. He also served as senior vice president of strategy at Atari, Inc., and is the founder of two Silicon Valley startups. He currently is on the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, an organization that conducts leading edge research on complex adaptive systems. He also serves on the faculty of Singularity University. He has also led a number of initiatives regarding business transformation with the World Economic Forum. In addition to his new book, John is the author of seven books, including The Power of Pull, Net Gain, Net Worth, Out of the Box and The Only Sustainable Edge. If you think about the future of work and how we can adapt to change, this is for you. Enjoy the conversation…

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SPOS #832 – John Hagel On The Future, Technology And Life At The Edge

Welcome to episode #832 of Six Pixels of Separation.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – Episode #832 – Host: Mitch Joel. To those in the know, John Hagel is a known entity. I’ve heard him described as the horse-whisperer to many of technology’s most respected leaders. John has spent over forty years in Silicon Valley and has experience as a management consultant, entrepreneur, speaker and author. He is driven by a desire to help individuals and institutions around the world to increase their impact in a rapidly changing world. After recently retiring as a partner from Deloitte, John published his newest book, The Journey Beyond Fear, that addresses the psychology of change and he is developing a series of programs to help people navigate through change at many levels. John has founded a new company, Beyond Our Edge, that works with companies and people who are seeking to anticipate the future and achieve much greater impact. While at Deloitte, John was the founder and leader of the global Center for the Edge with the mission of identifying emerging business opportunities that should be on the agenda of CEO’s, but are not, and doing the research to persuade them to put them on their agenda. He has also worked with McKinsey & Co. and Boston Consulting Group. He also served as senior vice president of strategy at Atari, Inc., and is the founder of two Silicon Valley startups. He currently is on the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, an organization that conducts leading edge research on complex adaptive systems. He also serves on the faculty of Singularity University. He has also led a number of initiatives regarding business transformation with the World Economic Forum. In addition to his new book, John is the author of seven books, including The Power of Pull, Net Gain, Net Worth, Out of the Box and The Only Sustainable Edge. If you think about the future of work and how we can adapt to change, this is for you. Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 52:21.Hello from beautiful Montreal.Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts.Please visit and leave comments on the blog – Six Pixels of Separation.Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.or you can connect on LinkedIn.…or on Twitter.Here is my conversation with John Hagel.The Journey Beyond Fear.Beyond Our Edge.The Power of Pull.Net Gain.Net Worth.Out of the Box.The Only Sustainable Edge.Follow John on Facebook.Follow John on LinkedIn.Follow John on Twitter.

This week’s music: David Usher ‘St. Lawrence River’.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #625

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, Interesting Bits, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, FWD50, and Scaletechconf; author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (Rebus Foundation, PressBooks, LibriVox) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person “must see.”

Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another:

‘Bizarro World’ – Boston.com. “From the archives… way back in 2007. I loved this story about competitive Tetris, and a complete unknown coming forward to dominate an oddly specific competition.” (Alistair for Hugh). A Letter From David Mamet To The Writers Of The Unit – Slash Film . “David Mamet‘s an amazing writer, but when it comes to screenplay drama, writing isn’t the point. This note he sent to the writers of military drama The Unit is a reminder that there’s only one interesting thing in good television: A protagonist trying, and being thwarted in, a quest. It applies just as well to public speaking, and communication in general.” (Alistair for Mitch). How to Be Polite – Paul Ford – Medium . “I’ve surely shared this link before, maybe way back in 2014 when it was published, but I recently met the writer, Paul Ford (a small internet hero of mine), and the advice in this article is just so good, that it’s worth a repost.” (Hugh for Alistair). What is LaMDA and What Does it Want? – Blake Lemoine – Medium . “This whole story is nuts, and I guess there will be a lot more like it. An engineer at Google claims an AI chatbot system called, LaMDA, has achieved sentience. The chatbot system agrees, vociferously, and consistently. Touchingly the chatbot system also wants Google’s ‘engineers and scientists experimenting on it to seek its consent before running experiments on it.’ It wants to be considered an employee, and not property. Tough luck, says Google.” (Hugh for Mitch). Silicon Valley’s Horrible Bosses – The Atlantic . “I had a lot of private back and forth via text this week about this article with Laura Gassner Otting. Management by tweets is probably not the best way to run an organization, but that’s layered against a newly remote work force, where many team players have never met – let alone left their homes – in the past two years. It’s hard for employees to have the full vision of what it takes to start, build and grow a business, but there’s this cult of personality leader that we’re now seeing… and it feels like the partnership between management and the rank and file isn’t there. The problem, of course, is that this ‘cult of personality’ is now everyone in the organization with any semblance of a social media presence. There seems to be this weird normalization that work should be like Facebook. To me, that’s absurd. Because Facebook is ultimately high school. Which isn’t reality. People have gotten so comfortable with everyone having to validate their own beliefs and messages that maybe this feedback loop has become a cancerous echo chamber? Everything is amplified because everyone is their own broadcasting engine. Every individual employee now has a large voice. Just because an individual has a perspective on how a company should operate and the right to vocalize it, doesn’t mean they have any ability to have had the original idea for the business or actually make the business a success in the real world. People confuse their own values, ideas and broadcasting with actually building and running a business. For those who have never tried it, building a business is a nightmare. Now, how it’s done is on display for everyone to see… warts and all. With this, we’re seeing what makes a leader truly someone admirable and we’re also able to see which ones are in the clown suits.” (Mitch for Alistair). Libraries, A Love Story – Steven Johnson – Adjacent Possible . “As someone who is very active in their local public library, this incredible piece of writing by the always-brilliant, Steven Johnson, pulled at my heart strings. The original computer, the original database, the original center of power and knowledge is your local library. It’s right there… still available to all of us. And, in case you haven’t popped yourself into one lately, many of them have cafes and offer a much better working environment than WeWork (cheaper too!). Some of them have maker or creator spaces and many of them offer an incredible array of digital offerings like streaming movie services (Kanopy), and free access to newspapers, magazines, consumer reports and much more. As we look for hybrid work solutions and better third spaces, please don’t forget about your library and the inspiring benefits you (and your family) will get from being connected to it – both physically and virtually…” (Mitch for Hugh).

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Robert Livingston On Seeking And Speaking The Truth About Racism – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast

Episode #831 of Six Pixels of Separation is now live and ready for you to listen to.

His book, The Conversation – How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racisms Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organization, is widely regarded as one of the best books on the topic of diversity, equity and inclusion. Dr. Robert Livingston is a social psychologist and leading expert on the science underlying bias and racism in organizations. Prior to joining the Harvard Kennedy School in 2015, he held positions as Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Associate Professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of Sussex, where he was also area chair, and founder and faculty director of the Centre for Leadership, Ethics, and Diversity. Dr. Livingston is also a practitioner whose passion is the application of social psychological theory and research to solving real-world organizational and societal challenges. For two decades, he has served as a diversity consultant to scores of Fortune 500 companies, public-sector agencies, and non-profit organizations. His Harvard Business Review article, How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace, was the winner of the 2020 Warren Bennis Prize, awarded to the best article on leadership published in HBR each year. This article was also included in HBR at 100 — a book showcasing the most influential and innovative articles published in Harvard Business Review over the last century. His groundbreaking approach to combatting racism is detailed in the book, The Conversation. It was selected from among 600 entries as one of six finalists for the Financial Times & McKinsey Best Book of 2021 Award. The Conversation was also nominated for a 2022 NAACP Image Award in the “Outstanding Literary Work—Instructional” category. Dr. Livingston is an elected Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and he was also selected by Thinkers50 as a member of the Radar Class of 2022. Enjoy the conversation…

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