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How to Out-behave the Competition with Dov Seidman

It once wasn’t uncommon to hear a boss tell their employees “just get it done. I don’t care how.” However, in the last decade, organizations have evolved. Now, we often hear leaders priding themselves on encouraging their employees to speak up. But, what if leaders created environments and cultures in which it didn’t take an act of courage for employees to speak their minds? In this episode, we explore how leaders can create a framework and playbook for moral leadership at their organizations that allows employees to out-behave and consequently out-perform the competition.

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The Business of Hope

Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, joined Dov Seidman on HOW Conversations to discuss Mr. Walker’s new book, From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth. “I was born into an America that believed in my promise.”

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Moral Leadership Matters More Now Than Ever

Moral leaders connect us in very deep places—values, principles, purpose, hope and aspirations!! . Dov Seidman author of the best-selling book, How, discusses the important role of Moral Leadership- the craving people have for this and the gaps we have in business from the How Institutes’ latest survey of Moral Leadership. This is part 2 of a 2 part podcast with Dov- last week we covered the importance of morality and moral philosophy in how we do things—in our society and in our businesses.

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Let’s Not Move Fast with A.I. and Break Things

Let’s face it, we did not understand how much social networks would be used to undermine the twin pillars of any free society — truth and trust. So if we approach generative A.I. just as heedlessly — if we again go along with Mark Zuckerberg’s reckless mantra at the dawn of social networks, “move fast and break things” — oh, baby, we are going to break things faster, harder and deeper than anyone can imagine.

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We Are Opening the Lids on Two Giant Pandora’s Boxes

Let’s face it, we did not understand how much social networks would be used to undermine the twin pillars of any free society — truth and trust. So if we approach generative A.I. just as heedlessly — if we again go along with Mark Zuckerberg’s reckless mantra at the dawn of social networks, “move fast and break things” — oh, baby, we are going to break things faster, harder and deeper than anyone can imagine

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Inside Gregg Berhalter’s leadership quest

By the time Berhalter and Seidman met in May of 2022, the USMNT coach was, in Seidman’s words, already “fully on this journey.” It began over a decade ago, even before he’d retired as a player, then intensified when he got the national team job in 2018. He had a culture to repair and a mission to shape. So he searched far and wide for any information that would help him do that.

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Why HOW Matters Most

Dov Seidman, Founder and Chairman of The HOW Institute for Society, joined Harvard as a Hauser Leader in the Fall of 2022. Throughout his time on campus, Dov drew students into deep, provoking conversations about frameworks and models of leadership and explored with students their own leadership journeys and how they can be guided by their deepest beliefs. Dov spoke with us about his experience engaging with students at CPL.

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A Message for Future Leaders: Always Keep Your Purpose and Values in Sight

Bill George has a challenge for the next generation — lead with authenticity. “We need you as leaders to step up now and hear the call.” Bill is a professor at Harvard Business School, a best-selling author and the former CEO of Medtronic. On this new episode of HOW Conversations Bill spoke with Dov Seidman about why emerging leaders must keep their purpose and values in sight.

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Gregg Berhalter & Dov Seidman – World-Class Leaders Discussing ‘How We Do Anything Means Everything’

Best-selling author and Chairman of The HOW Institute for Society, Dov Seidman pairs with Gregg Berhalter, head coach of the United States men’s national soccer team. Berhalter’s intentional build of team culture can be seen through the lens of Seidman’s best-selling book: How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything. Explains Seidman: “Self-governing cultures both inspire alignment and eject elements that don't fit in.”

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Do the Right Thing: It’s not Difficult to Figure Out but it Is Often Difficult to Do

As the president of the oldest university in the U.S. and one of the most prestigious schools in the world, Dr. Larry Bacow has had to make his share of difficult decisions. To guide him, he has a strong but simple framework for leadership, “Do the right thing, it is usually not that difficult to figure out. It is often excruciatingly difficult to do. And that’s when you really need to do it.”

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Leadership is About Inspiring, Not Imposing

Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla believes a strong culture and vision can make or break a company. Dr. Bourla joined Dov Seidman for an episode of HOW Conversations where they discussed promoting a culture of courage, leading in crisis, and Dr. Bourla’s new book Moonshot: Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible.

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Part One: Leading With Moral Courage

Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, sat down with Dov Seidman for a new two-part episode of HOW Conversations. They spoke about Jonathan’s new book, It Could Happen Here, Why America is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable – And How We Can Stop It. And their conversations touched on how to use moral courage to fight hate, why we need strong human connections in a transactional world and importance of pausing.

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Part Two: Human Connection Can Overcome Hate

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of ADL, doesn’t like what he sees. Hate — of all kinds — is on the rise. In his new book, It Could Happen Here, Why America is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable – And How We Can Stop It, Jonathan explains what’s at risk if we don’t confront hatred head-on but also why he is hopeful; he believes that decent, moral people far outnumber the haters.

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Moral Leadership Starts With Love

Senator Booker and Dov’s wide reaching discussion explored how we can overcome political division through moral leadership, the importance of taking risks with humility and why Senator Booker thinks we need to refocus on long term economic goals, ” I think what we have now is a perversion of the ideals of capitalism and it has changed dramatically since the 19080s…very different than the capitalism of the past where people were looking toward long term growth, [asking] what is the real value that I am creating?”

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Leading via Decency…and Winning

Ajay Banga tells Dov Seidman on a new episode of HOW Conversations. Ajay explains why he thinks capitalism as we know it needs an overhaul and why the business of business is now about society. “This [wealth] inequality, this climate inequality, they don’t work for me, and they don’t work for my children, and they don’t work for you.”