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  • PPP 520 | Are Smarter AI Tools Making Us Less Capable?, with LEGO® Serious Play® co-creator Johan Roos

    PPP 520 | Are Smarter AI Tools Making Us Less Capable?, with LEGO® Serious Play® co-creator Johan Roos
    2026/08/21
    Summary In this episode, Andy sits down with Johan Roos, professor and executive advisor at Hult International Business School, Executive Director of the Peter Drucker Society Europe, and co-inventor of the LEGO® Serious Play® method. Johan is the author of Human Magic: Leading with Wisdom in an Age of Algorithms, and he has spent decades studying how people think, create, decide, and lead together. Andy and Johan explore the two paths Johan calls erosion and amplification, starting with a question Andy has been wrestling with as he hands more of his manual driving over to Tesla's self-driving. You'll hear what an eroding project manager actually looks like day-to-day, why practical wisdom matters when the analytically optimal answer is not the wisest one, and how AI feeds one kind of curiosity, the laser, while starving another, the radar. Johan also explains the difference between becoming an AI concierge and practicing what he calls professional citizenship, and he shares what parents can do to help their kids hold onto the messy, hands-on curiosity that machines cannot supply. If you're looking for a thoughtful, hopeful way to use AI without surrendering your judgment, this episode is for you! Sound Bites "Almost every good idea I've had was not in front of the screen.""I know what to do, but I've stopped understanding why.".... The eroding project management can no longer explain the why.""So in a sense, they argue that the better the system, the stronger pull down the erosion curve.""So the message is really when the machines are taking over more and more of some of these subtle, very valuable capabilities we have, we have to climb the value creation ladder.""So a complexity is exactly where our wisdom gets exposed.""So every metric said fantastic, but nobody asked why, and is this right?""If AI can write a document that is important to you, the document was never where the value lived.""But we just have to be careful to not sort of delegate too much of our brain power and sort of erode our jelly bean.""When you lean back and you haven't struggled enough, you may be super smart and, and the best brilliant individual in the world, but, you know, friction is good.""Are you able to argue for your case without holding on to the AI-produced slide?""Protect the wandering curiosity, unstructured exploration, questions with no immediate payoff, the freedom to follow something nowhere in particular." Chapters 00:00 Introduction02:35 Start of Interview02:44 Growing Up Inquisitive and the Power of "Because"06:04 Self-Driving Cars, GPS, and the Erosion of Our Abilities10:31 Becoming an Active Supervisor Instead of a Passive Passenger13:55 What an Eroding Project Manager Looks Like Day to Day18:52 When the Optimal Answer Is Not the Wisest One22:03 Intuition, Gut Feel, and When Something Does Not Smell Right25:54 The Laser and the Radar: Two Kinds of Curiosity27:52 Creating Independently Before Consulting AI30:44 What Happens in the AI-Free Time35:18 Is It Intuition or Is It Ego?37:48 Turning the Models Loose on His Own Book40:00 Asking AI to Be Brutally Honest41:02 AI Concierge Versus Professional Citizenship45:51 Advice for Parents Raising Kids in the Age of AI49:26 Staying Human: Theater, Walks, and Getting Your Hands Dirty50:44 End of Interview51:15 Andy Comments After the Interview54:46 Outtakes Learn More You can learn more about Johan and his work at humanmagic.one. For more learning on this topic, check out: Episode 500 with Steve Brown. Steve is a former Google DeepMind futurist, and he has a unique perspective on where we've been and where we're going with AI.Episode 479 with Matt Mong. Matt shares his take on the AI skills we need to stay relevant in the years to come.Episode 463 with Faisal Hoque. Faisal helps us go beyond the fear and the hype around AI to a helpful way to think about the human-AI relationship. Chat with PMeLa You can chat directly with PMeLa, the podcast's AI persona, to get episode recommendations and answers to your project management and leadership questions. Visit PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/PMeLa to chat with her. Join Us for LEAD52 I know you want to be a more confident leader–that's why you listen to this podcast. LEAD52 is a global community of people like you who are committed to transforming their ability to lead and deliver. It's 52 weeks of leadership learning, delivered right to your inbox, taking less than 5 minutes a week. And it's all for free. Learn more and sign up at GetLEAD52.com. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Business Acumen Topics: Leadership, Project Management, Artificial Intelligence, Practical Wisdom, Curiosity, Critical Thinking, Creativity, Decision Making, Judgment, Professional Development, Human Skills, Parenting The following music was used for this episode: Music: Echo by Alexander Nakarada License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Chillhouse by ...
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    56 分
  • PPP 519 | Overcoming the Inner Propaganda That Sabotages Projects and Teams, with Owen Fitzpatrick

    PPP 519 | Overcoming the Inner Propaganda That Sabotages Projects and Teams, with Owen Fitzpatrick
    2026/08/14
    Summary In this episode, Andy sits down with Owen Fitzpatrick, a psychologist, speaker, and author of Inner Propaganda: Leading Hearts and Minds through Turbulent Times. Owen has spent close to 30 years studying how beliefs form and change, interviewing people everywhere from North Korea to Rwanda to Afghanistan. His thesis is unsettling: our brains do not simply take in facts and reach objective conclusions. They build a story we then experience as reality. Owen and Andy work through what that means on real projects. You'll hear how a warning from a colleague can quietly harden into a conviction about a teammate, and how Bayesian reasoning gives you a way out. You'll learn Owen's five types of truth, how to tell courageous conviction from dangerous denial, and what leaders can actually make stable when they cannot promise a stable outcome. Owen also explains why pushing harder for buy-in is often the very reason people resist, and how an antifragile identity helps teams face uncertainty like AI without denial or panic. If you're looking for a fresh way to think about belief, influence, and leading through turbulent times, this episode is for you! Sound Bites "We all live in that world where we think we're the one person that isn't the victim of propaganda, and my point or my thesis is we're all victims of our own inner propaganda.""We're not necessarily just convinced by others. We convince ourselves.""Because I think when we say, 'I'm no good at something,' we lock ourselves into it.""Well, if you're not great at communicating with people, get great.""Most of the time our beliefs just create a sort of a reality for us, and that reality can help us or harm us.""So our brains are prediction machines.""Whenever we talk about belief, believing in your ability to succeed in the future is critical if you want to succeed in the future, but that doesn't mean you deny the present.""It, it's not that we think negatively, it's we believe negatively, and we see the world through those lenses.""So I think we want to be able to challenge our beliefs and build a bit more and get more comfortable with uncertainty away from the table, but when we're at the table with our team, that's when we bring the certainty.""We like the idea that we are making this decision of our own free will.""And when you look at what a belief is, a belief is an idea we feel certain about, and that word feel is the most important word of that sentence.""It's okay to believe less in certain things. It's okay to believe more in certain things. It's okay to believe better." Chapters 00:00 Introduction02:29 Start of Interview02:40 The Belief About Himself Owen Took Too Long to Update05:56 A Sweaty Debate Speech and What Came After08:28 Not Good at Something Is a Skill Gap, Not an Identity09:45 The Belief Growth Mindset12:55 The Sandra Story: When a Warning Becomes a Conviction14:07 Why the Brain Craves Cognitive Closure17:15 Using Bayesian Reasoning to Loosen a Belief21:00 Melanie Perkins and Alan Mulally: Conviction or Denial?21:36 The Five Types of Truth26:24 Just Because It Is Your Truth Does Not Make It True28:41 Where Objective Truth Actually Belongs31:47 What "Leadership Is Propaganda" Does Not Mean34:45 Why Change Management and AI Adoption Stall36:30 Why Owen Chose Propaganda Over Self-Talk37:57 Do I Believe It Because It Makes Me Look Good?38:49 Answering the AI Question Without Denial or Hype40:15 Building an Antifragile Identity44:27 Certainty Is Contagious, and When to Change Course45:20 What Leaders Can Make Stable in a Volatile Period47:45 Control What You Can, Influence What You Can, Accept the Rest51:01 When Pushing for Buy-In Creates the Resistance52:45 You're Asking the Wrong Question About Persuasion54:30 Reading the Person Before You Make the Ask57:30 Helping Kids Hold Strong Beliefs Without Contempt1:01:46 End of Interview1:02:15 Andy Comments After the Interview1:05:09 Outtakes Learn More You can learn more about Owen and his work at InnerPropaganda.com. For more learning on this topic, check out: Episode 370 with Chantel Prat. One of the smartest, clearest, and funniest books on the brain, and why all of it matters for how you lead.Episodes 59 and 60 with Cathy Davidson. She explains how the brain science of attention changes everything.Episode 32 with Brad Kolar. A look at the direct implications of neuroscience for leadership.Owen's TED Talk, available here on YouTube. Chat with PMeLa You can chat directly with PMeLa, the podcast's AI persona, to get episode recommendations and answers to your project management and leadership questions. Visit PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/PMeLa to chat with her. Join Us for LEAD52 I know you want to be a more confident leader–that's why you listen to this podcast. LEAD52 is a global community of people like you who are committed to transforming their ability to lead and deliver. It's 52 weeks of leadership learning, delivered right to your inbox, taking less than 5 minutes a week. And ...
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  • PPP 518 | Why Better AI Prompts Aren't Enough for Better Decisions, with author Cheryl Strauss Einhorn

    PPP 518 | Why Better AI Prompts Aren't Enough for Better Decisions, with author Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
    2026/08/07
    Summary In this episode, Andy welcomes Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, founder and CEO of the decision sciences company Decisive and author of The Human Edge: Smarter Decisions in the Age of AI. Cheryl has spent decades helping people make better decisions, and her message here is a simple one: AI can gather, summarize, and compare, but it can't know what matters most unless we do the thinking first. Andy and Cheryl talk about why "AI first" can quietly turn into AI only, and why a poor answer from AI is actually useful feedback about your own thinking. Cheryl explains why separating the what of a decision from the why can change the path forward, shares her vision of success question, and walks through how human bias and AI bias reinforce each other. You'll also hear a practical way to use AI personas to pressure test your thinking before a big stakeholder conversation, plus what parents can do to help kids strengthen their decision-making muscles instead of letting them atrophy. If you're looking for practical ways to make smarter decisions in the age of AI, this episode is for you! Sound Bites "AI is about patterns, but we're about purpose.""We need to be the chief deciders in our own life.""We need to make sure that we actually have a way to push back and check the veracity of what it's giving us because it's a known liar.""And so the authenticity of human interaction is what actually builds trust, strengthens relationships, and really gives us a lot of the connections that are important to us in our home life and our work life.""You don't need to have a perfect prompt for AI.""AI is going to give you other people's answers.""'Knowledge is power' isn't as true now. It's what you are able to do with the knowledge, and it's why you want to collect the knowledge in the first place.""I almost never would accept AI's first answer.""We tend to have evolving hypotheses unless we really build an audit trail of our thinking.""So in the world of medicine, a fever tells you something is wrong, but it tells you nothing about what is wrong or where to look.""So first we know AI's a sycophant, right?""If it's 99% accurate in its conclusion, but its underlying data is the wrong data set, you've got the wrong answer.""I would say the more that I've studied these cognitive biases, these mental shortcuts, the more I realize that we see the world through a dirty windshield.""Our brains are muscles, and just like we exercise to strengthen our muscles, if we don't exercise, they atrophy." Chapters 00:00 Introduction02:00 Start of Interview02:12 Growing Up Surrounded by Questions04:30 What Leaders Should Watch Out for in "AI First"07:07 When AI Confidently Makes Things Up09:04 How AI First Turns into AI Only09:20 Why Polished Doesn't Mean Authentic11:59 A Prompting Problem or a Problem Definition Problem?14:37 The Vision of Success Question15:45 Why a Bad Answer Is Useful Feedback19:06 Separating the What from the Why20:32 Research: More Information Isn't Better Judgment24:35 Progressive Prompting and Never Accepting the First Answer25:18 Fabricated Quotes and the Trouble with Attribution26:50 Documenting Assumptions and Building an Audit Trail29:25 Committing to Your Own Thinking32:29 How Human Bias and AI Bias Reinforce Each Other34:55 Knowing About Biases Doesn't Make You Immune36:51 Using AI Personas to Challenge Your Thinking40:20 AI and Stakeholder Management42:42 Helping Kids Become Better Decision-Makers44:25 End of Interview44:51 Andy Comments After the Interview48:13 Outtakes Learn More You can learn more about Cheryl and her work at AREAMethod.com. For more learning on this topic, check out: Episode 460 with Joe Sutherland. It's an interesting look at the intersection of AI, data, and decision-making, and a great follow-up to this discussion.Episode 381 with Jim Loehr. One of Andy's favorite conversations about decision-making, from a remarkable figure in the human performance world.Episode 99 with Mike Roberto. A conversation about his book Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer, recorded long before ChatGPT showed up, and still insightful today. Chat with PMeLa You can chat directly with PMeLa, the podcast's AI persona, to get episode recommendations and answers to your project management and leadership questions. Visit PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/PMeLa to chat with her. Pass the PMP Exam If you or someone you know is thinking about getting PMP certified, we've put together a helpful guide called The 5 Best Resources to Help You Pass the PMP Exam on Your First Try. We've helped thousands of people earn their certification, and we'd love to help you too. It's totally free, and it's a great way to get a head start. Just go to 5BestResources.PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com to grab your copy. I'd love to help you get your PMP this year! Join Us for LEAD52 I know you want to be a more confident leader–that's why you listen to this podcast. LEAD52 is a global community of people like you who are committed to ...
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    54 分
  • PPP 517 | The Hidden Costs of Avoiding Difficult Conversations (And What To Do Instead), with Gustavo Razzetti

    PPP 517 | The Hidden Costs of Avoiding Difficult Conversations (And What To Do Instead), with Gustavo Razzetti
    2026/07/30
    Summary In this episode, Andy sits down with Gustavo Razzetti, culture consultant and author of Forward Talk. Gustavo makes a case that surprises a lot of leaders: fear is only part of why people stay quiet at work. The bigger driver is what he calls the pointlessness paradox, the belief that speaking up will not change anything. Andy and Gustavo talk about conversational debt and how it compounds over time, why silence is so often mistaken for alignment, and the subtle signs that a team is drifting into avoidance, blame, or groupthink. Gustavo unpacks the difference between backward talk and forward talk, offering practical ways to turn an objection into a question that opens possibilities. You'll also hear about conversational agency, why the second person who speaks up matters more than the first, and how the CPR approach of courage, perspective, and responsibility plays out under pressure. Along the way, Andy shares stories from Alfred Sloan at GM and Alan Mulally at Ford, and Gustavo shares a memorable one about his son and a crashed car. If you're looking for a more confident way to raise the issues your team keeps avoiding, this episode is for you! Sound Bites "However, fear only explains part of why people don't speak up. At some point, people feel nothing will change.""I like to say that agreement happens in the room, alignment happens after the meeting.""When you become the team leader, the number of people giving you feedback reduces, and when you become a senior executive, no one gives you feedback.  Or if they do, it's not honest.""But what you want is people to challenge your perspective, to show you what you're missing, to see the things you're not seeing or maybe you stop seeing.""The problem is when we put being accepted, being respected over the outcome.""So forward talk is when can we frame that objection into a question.""So you're not being difficult. You're being realistic, but trying to find a solution, and you're giving the other person options.""Most people don't regret the difficult conversations they had. What we regret are the ones that we never had.""There's research that shows that the person who speaks up first is not the most important person. The second person who reciprocates is actually the one that creates the change. That moment when two people are talking about the same issue, it gives permission to the other people to jump in and also participate.""Staying silent also backfires, not only because it hurts the company, but if you're seeing the problem and you're staying silent, you become part of the problem.""It's not the absence of conflict that makes us a good team. It's that we can do it and we can work through it." Chapters 00:00 Introduction02:05 Start of Interview02:17 Growing Up in a Family of Nine in Argentina05:18 Learning New Ways Beyond Your Family Culture06:16 Why Fear Is Not the Whole Story09:06 Why Waiting for Perfect Psychological Safety Backfires10:37 Explaining the Pointlessness Paradox11:37 Mistaking Silence for Alignment13:35 Alfred Sloan and the Value of Disagreement15:32 Subtle Signs You Are Drifting Into Groupthink17:58 Backward Talk vs. Forward Talk19:43 The Way to the Sun Is Through the Storm21:05 How Organizations Quietly Reward Avoidance23:08 When Speaking Up Gets You Labeled25:09 Alan Mulaly, Ford, and the Power of the Second Voice27:39 Alignment Debt, Belonging Debt, and Collaboration Debt29:11 Why Conversational Debt Compounds30:05 Surrendering Conversational Agency32:40 Complaining, and the CPR Approach36:31 You Get What You Tolerate37:42 Applying These Ideas at Home40:06 Conflict Is Fuel When You Channel It41:07 End of Interview41:37 Andy Comments After the Interview45:10 Outtakes Learn More You can learn more about Gustavo and his work at GustavoRazzetti.com. For more learning on this topic, check out: Episode 284 with Peter Boghossian. He wrote a book about how to have impossible conversations, and it's full of ideas Andy still uses almost every week.Episode 148 with Daniel Shapiro. Dan is the author of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable, an insightful guide to dealing with difficult conversations and influence situations.Episode 371 with Amanda Ripley. Her book High Conflict offers practical guidance on navigating even the most challenging of conflicts in an empowering way. Chat with PMeLa You can chat directly with PMeLa, the podcast's AI persona, to get episode recommendations and answers to your project management and leadership questions. Visit PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/PMeLa to chat with her. Join Us for LEAD52 I know you want to be a more confident leader–that's why you listen to this podcast. LEAD52 is a global community of people like you who are committed to transforming their ability to lead and deliver. It's 52 weeks of leadership learning, delivered right to your inbox, taking less than 5 minutes a week. And it's all for free. Learn more and sign up at GetLEAD52.com. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode ...
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    47 分
  • PPP 516 | Becoming the Project Manager, with Stuart Taylor

    PPP 516 | Becoming the Project Manager, with Stuart Taylor
    2026/07/27
    Summary In this episode, Andy welcomes back his friend Stuart Taylor, a PMO leader and PMI PMO Awards judge, author of Becoming the Project Manager. Most of us didn't grow up dreaming of leading projects. We drifted into the role, and then discovered it's far less about plans and methodologies than it is about people, pressure, and learning to lead while you yourself still feel unsure. Stuart shares the story behind the book, including the university project where he publicly chastised a teammate and the response from his dad that changed how he understood leadership. He and Andy dig into the real value and limits of PM certifications, why AI can help you communicate but can't replace the human part, the stakeholder questions younger Stuart was afraid to ask, what his mentor Wayne taught him about proximity and follow-through, and why a new sponsor has to be sold on your project rather than assumed into it. You'll also hear the 30-minute CV rule and the trouble it once caused him. If you're looking for an honest, human look at what it actually takes to become the project manager, this episode is for you! Sound Bites "Well, now that you've reprimanded that person, you do realize you've got to go and pick them back up again?""So going out into the world with this as my toolkit, and I thought it was a toolkit, but actually it turned out to be more like a life raft because I ended up clinging onto it without reasoning at an early point in my career.""There's an awful lot that falls between the processes, and that's what the early part of the book is really exploring.""I don't believe there's great value in repeatedly recycling the same learning over and over and over again. I think there's much greater value in taking that energy and going to learn something about your industry, the, actual industry that you're working in.""And also, I should add, you will have greater value to them by being there too, because you're the interesting change person in the room then, rather than one of another 200 change people walking around all talking about the same methodologies.""So be the person who is not avoiding hearing about challenges, but actively seeking them out, and cataloging them, and managing them.""Something else I've learned: they don't like you tiptoeing around them.""But if anybody's having to go into the office more frequently now, go and spend some of that time sitting with the people whose world you are changing.""But if your own leader, the person who's supposed to be championing you in the organization just doesn't get it, then you've got an impossible task on your hands.""When your sponsor goes or leaves and somebody else comes in and replaces them, don't just assume that, that because they've now been told they're gonna have to be the sponsor of your project, that they understand it and they can see the value in it.""Every project that you work on, the benefits, they are your accomplishments.""There is no point in being loyal to organizations. Be loyal to people." Chapters 00:00 Introduction01:56 Start of Interview02:15 Growing Up in Walsall and Learning Leadership from Dad07:15 Drifting Into Project Management09:06 When the Methodology Becomes a Life Raft10:14 Why the Playbook That Worked Elsewhere Fails Here11:49 Will AI Create PMs Who Look Prepared but Aren't?13:37 Using AI to Understand a Difficult Stakeholder15:31 The Value and Limits of PM Certifications17:44 The Talent Triangle and Learning Your Industry19:34 Stakeholders Are People, Not Org Charts20:46 Curiosity and Asking Better Questions21:54 Stop Tiptoeing: Busy Stakeholders Want the Point22:55 What Wayne the Mentor Taught Stuart to Notice25:47 Go Sit With Operations28:19 The Power of Proximity29:33 Sponsorship and Why PMOs Collapse34:18 Earning Support and Managing Up35:07 When a New Sponsor Takes Over37:08 Keep Your CV 30 Minutes From Ready39:39 When the 30-Minute Rule Got Stuart in Trouble41:28 Project Lessons That Carried Into Family Life43:23 End of Interview43:58 Andy Comments After the Interview47:08 Outtakes Learn More You can learn more about Stuart and his work at InfluentialPMO.com. For more learning on this topic, check out: Episode 474, which is an earlier and pretty candid conversation with Stuart about LinkedIn, careers, and AI.Episode 429 with Bill Dow. Bill and Andy talk about the signs that your PMO is going to fail, and you don't have to be in a Project Management Office to get value out of that discussion.Episode 441 with Michaela Flick. A discussion on the human side of project management that resonates with much of what you hear from Stuart. Chat with PMeLa You can chat directly with PMeLa, ;the podcast's AI person, to get episode recommendations and answers to your project management and leadership questions. Visit PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/PMeLa to chat with her. Join Us for LEAD52 I know you want to be a more confident leader–that's why you listen to this podcast. LEAD52 is a global community of people like...
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    53 分
  • PPP 515 | The Dangerous Drift Away from What Matters Most, with author Tom Rath

    PPP 515 | The Dangerous Drift Away from What Matters Most, with author Tom Rath
    2026/07/14
    Summary In this episode, Andy sits down with Tom Rath, one of the most respected researchers on wellbeing and human potential, author of What's the Point? Turning Your Purpose Into a Superpower. Tom argues that we can be incredibly busy while slowly drifting away from what matters most, optimizing our schedules while our lives quietly leak away. Andy and Tom explore why "follow your passion" can be harmful advice, how status seeking becomes career quicksand, and why our smartphones may be one of the greatest threats to purposeful living. They also discuss how many of us inherit ambitions from our parents that we never consciously chose, and how an honest awareness of mortality can sharpen our clarity, intentionality, and sense of purpose. Rather than treating purpose as one grand calling, Tom reframes it as something we create in small moments throughout the day. If you're looking for a practical, and honestly a little uncomfortable, guide to leading and living with more purpose, this episode is for you! Sound Bites "Here's what I know with absolute certainty: you're wasting most of your day. Not because you're lazy, but because you've never asked the right question. You're so busy being busy that you've forgotten to ask why. You're optimizing your schedule while your life leaks away, hour by hour in meetings that don't matter and tasks that won't be remembered next week, let alone next year.""If you fail to do those things in a day and take that initiative and have those meaningful and purposeful conversations, and you put those off until tomorrow, tomorrow never really comes because we get into that responsive mode.""Passion by definition starts with you, and it's a little self-oriented, whereas I would argue purpose by definition has an other orientation to it, which is a much better idea for anchoring your energy in a day.""If you're not connecting back with the impact that it made on one person that day, it fails to kind of count in the way we motivate ourselves and think about our work on a daily basis.""I would argue that 90% of the purpose in life is built in those moments, not in some epiphany on a sunny day.""I would estimate that at least 80% of people, maybe 90%, make it all the way to the very end of their career in their life without ever seeing what they could have been best at in life.""Even as managers and leaders, if we don't take care of our own health and wellbeing first, we just have no shot at even being our best for other people that we manage.""There's always someone making twice as much as you or 10 times as much as you, and there's always somebody with more followers or more listeners or more readers or whatever it might be.""The eulogy virtues are about what am I doing today so I'll be a better dad, a better husband, a better friend, to help readers, to help people with the products I'm working on.""I would argue that 80% of people I see out in public today, out in the wild, are essentially working for their smartphone.""Their smartphone's running their life, and they're the ones salivating like one of Pavlov's dogs every time the darn thing blinks or buzzes or vibrates, right?""Having your phone out sends an implicit message to the other person that the little black box on the table matters more than the other person, and it degrades the quality of the conversation.""The one thing we've all got in common is we have today to try and do some things that serve a purpose and help another person, and if you miss that opportunity, it's gone.""None of them, none of the headstones say anything about those kind of resume virtues that we were talking about." Chapters 00:00 Introduction02:00 Start of Interview02:08 Busy, Yet Drifting from What Matters05:50 Rethinking the "One True Calling"07:38 Why "Follow Your Passion" Can Backfire09:26 From "What Do I Do?" to "Who Do I Help?"11:20 How Our Parents' Paths Shape Us12:11 When Admirable Influence Becomes a Limiting Script15:01 Unlearning the "Always the Hardest Worker" Mindset16:55 Are We Nudging Our Kids Into Our Dreams?19:23 Status Seeking as Career Quicksand22:02 Choosing Your Own Scoreboard23:38 Smartphones and the Threat to Purpose26:28 Making Technology Work for You28:05 How Mortality Sharpens Purpose30:52 What the Headstones Don't Say32:33 Helping Kids Build Lives That Matter35:21 End of Interview35:48 Andy Comments After the Interview40:20 Outtakes Learn More You can learn more about Tom and his new book at tomrath.org/whats-the-point. For more learning on this topic, check out: Episode 132 with Tom Rath. An earlier conversation with Tom, digging into his story and his research on wellbeing.Episode 140 with Tom Rath. Another previous discussion with Tom on wellness and living with strengths.Episode 31 with Adam Grant. Adam's first-ever podcast interview, where he shares insights on how to lead with meaning.Episode 261 with David Epstein. A conversation about his book Range, a helpful complement on career decisions for kids and for...
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  • PPP 514 | Never Settling for Less: Why You're Leaving Value on the Table, with Attia Qureshi

    PPP 514 | Never Settling for Less: Why You're Leaving Value on the Table, with Attia Qureshi
    2026/07/10
    Summary In this episode, Andy sits down with Attia Qureshi, a coach and negotiation expert who is co-author, with John Richardson, of Never Settle. There's no shortage of great negotiation advice out there, yet in real conversations with real stakes and real emotions, that advice often fails to turn into action. This book tackles that gap between insight and habit. Attia shares why emotions are not a distraction from negotiation but central to it, why getting clear about what you actually want is harder than it sounds, and how we leave value on the table without realizing it. You'll hear practical stories, from resetting a difficult relationship with a glass of lemonade to expanding the pie in a salary negotiation, plus small daily exercises for building resilience to rejection and learning to say no in a way that strengthens relationships rather than damaging them. If you're looking for practical, doable ways to become a more confident negotiator and influencer, this episode is for you! Sound Bites "You can get more by caring about what the other person needs and building a strong relational foundation.""People are not born amazing negotiators. They develop that skill over time, just like people are not born confident.""You have to practice that small step out in the real world where the stakes are low and build that skill day after day, month after month.""You and I have probably already negotiated half a dozen times today.""When someone gives us something, we want to return the favor.""New studies now show that 90 to 95% of decision-making comes from unconscious emotional processing.""So many of us quit before we even start.""But if we do have a goal and we do prepare for the conversation, our likelihood of success is double.""A good negotiation doesn't always mean getting 'yes' at the end of it.""I always tell my students, people can almost always help you. It depends on if they want to or not." Chapters 00:00 Introduction02:06 Start of Interview02:17 Growing Up: Early Lessons in Conflict07:10 Negotiation and Confidence Are Skills, Not Personality08:04 Life Is Full of Everyday Negotiations10:30 Why Negotiation Training Often Fails12:30 Resetting a Difficult Relationship17:20 Influence vs. Manipulation22:33 Emotions, Fear, and Building Resilience28:00 Using the Emotion Wheel29:36 Getting Clear on What You Really Want33:39 Expanding the Pie: Creating Value40:50 The Power of Saying No47:27 Teaching Kids to Negotiate51:23 End of Interview51:55 Andy Comments After the Interview55:22 Outtakes Learn More You can learn more about Attia and her work at AttiaQureshi.com. For more learning on this topic, check out: Episode 157 with Dr. Robert Cialdini. Known as the godfather of influence, his name came up several times during today's discussion, making this a great follow-up.Episode 412 with Scott Walker. A former Scotland Yard hostage negotiator who shares a lot of practical lessons about influence.Episode 385 with Vanessa Patrick. She wrote one of the best books on how to say no, a fitting companion to today's conversation. Chat with PMeLa You can chat directly with PMeLa—the podcast's AI persona—to get episode recommendations and answers to your project management and leadership questions. Visit PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/PMeLa to chat with her. Join Us for LEAD52 I know you want to be a more confident leader–that's why you listen to this podcast. LEAD52 is a global community of people like you who are committed to transforming their ability to lead and deliver. It's 52 weeks of leadership learning, delivered right to your inbox, taking less than 5 minutes a week. And it's all for free. Learn more and sign up at GetLEAD52.com. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Power Skills Topics: Negotiation, Influence, Leadership, Project Management, Reciprocity, Emotional Intelligence, Resilience, Saying No, Stakeholder Management, Relationship Building, Value Creation, Confidence The following music was used for this episode: Music: Quantum Sparks (Full Version) by MusicLFiles License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Tropical Vibe by WinnieTheMoog License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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  • PPP 513 | Thriving in an Age of AI: What Most Leaders Are Getting Wrong About the Future, with Fred Marshall

    PPP 513 | Thriving in an Age of AI: What Most Leaders Are Getting Wrong About the Future, with Fred Marshall
    2026/07/08
    Summary In this episode, Andy sits down with Fred Marshall, entrepreneur, founder of Quantum Learning, and author of Thrive: The Antidote to Future Shock. Fred introduces his Super Eight, eight interconnected areas of life that shape our ability to adapt, lead, and grow in a world of accelerating change. Together, they explore why doing all the seemingly right things, the endless life hacks, can still leave you feeling off. Fred makes the case that attention is the single variable that governs almost everything, and that you can ignore almost all of the change coming at you and still thrive. You'll hear about managing your neural net, guarding your time with two 90-minute focus blocks, clearing the open loops that clog your thinking, and choosing the relationships and ecosystems that lift you up. Fred also walks through PANDA, a simple five-step method inspired by a panda that helps you stop a mental spiral and regain focus. If you're looking for a practical, hopeful way to lead through an age of AI and constant change, this episode is for you! Sound Bites "You can ignore almost all of it.""So everything, everything you look at, every book you read, every text you read, everything you do is shaping your neural net.""If you look at that rock, you're gonna hit that rock.""Two 90-minute blocks a day is my new normal.""If you want time to go fast, turn on your computer, open your iPad, or look at your phone.""An open loop is something that needs to get done, that's not done yet, that's still taking up space in your head.""The worst thing is to think of something when you can't act on it.""The people you surround yourself with have an enormous impact on your life and how you think and how everything unfolds, and it's probably the most important choice you make is who you hang out with.""If you develop relationships with people in a growing ecosystem, you're gonna have a great career, you're gonna have a great life.""I want to prepare people so that it's, it's more of surfing a big wave rather than getting overwhelmed by a tsunami.""And I think if you're in your head and you're spiraling, getting out of your head and into action is how you really close the loop.""But if you can just stop for a second and give that person your full attention, even if it's just for a minute, it's so powerful." Chapters 00:00 Introduction01:47 Start of Interview02:00 Getting to Know Fred04:29 What Most People Get Wrong About Change06:29 Designing Your Life08:03 The Life Hack Paradox08:34 Attention: The Single Variable10:20 The Super Eight and the Neural Net13:00 Guarding Your Time: Fred 3.015:38 Take Care of Your Cells16:09 Rethinking Sleep and Open Loops17:46 Minimum Viable Exercise21:23 The PANDA Method26:22 Designing Your Relationships28:32 Riding Growing Ecosystems31:00 Building Systems for the Future34:12 Applying It at Home36:48 End of Interview37:19 Andy Comments After the Interview40:32 Outtakes Learn More You can learn more about Fred and his work at thrivefutureyou.com. For more learning on this topic, check out: Episode 437 with Nada Sanders. A conversation about future-prepping your career in the age of AI.Episode 382 with Hal Hershfield. Ideas from his book Your Future Self that remain completely relevant to our times today.Episode 313 with futurist Brian David Johnson. A discussion that changed how Andy thinks about trying to predict the future. Chat with PMeLa You can chat directly with PMeLa—the podcast's AI persona—to get episode recommendations and answers to your project management and leadership questions. Visit PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/PMeLa to chat with her. Join Us for LEAD52 I know you want to be a more confident leader–that's why you listen to this podcast. LEAD52 is a global community of people like you who are committed to transforming their ability to lead and deliver. It's 52 weeks of leadership learning, delivered right to your inbox, taking less than 5 minutes a week. And it's all for free. Learn more and sign up at GetLEAD52.com. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Power Skills Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Change Management, Leadership, Attention, Focus, Productivity, Resilience, Relationships, Systems Thinking, Future of Work The following music was used for this episode: Music: Imagefilm 034 by Sascha Ende License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Music: Fashion Corporate by Frank Schroeter License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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