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Totally Well Show - Host Joyce Strong with Guest David Burkus, Best-Sell...

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Episode Summary

Totally Well Podcast with Host Joyce Strong and her Guest, David Burkus talking about Friend of a Friend which is how we met through our connection to Groton.

Episode Notes

Totally Well Podcast with Host Joyce Strong and her guest David Burkus talking about connecting and networking, Friend of a Friend, which is how we met through our connection to Groton.  We also get into 3 degrees of influence and David hints at digging deeper into that theory in his upcoming work!

Reach out to David at www.DavidBurkus.com and on social medial @DavidBurkus

Biography (Amazon)

DAVID BURKUS is a best-selling author, a sought after speaker, and business school professor. In 2017, he was named as one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers50 His latest book, FRIEND OF A FRIEND, offers readers a new perspective on how to grow their networks and build key connections—one based on the science of human behavior, not rote networking advice. He is also the author of UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT and THE MYTHS OF CREATIVITY. David is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and his work has been featured in Fast Company, the Financial Times, Inc magazine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and CBS This Morning. David’s innovative views on leadership have earned him invitations to speak to leaders from a variety of organizations. He’s delivered keynote speeches and workshops for Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Stryker and governmental and military leaders at the U.S. Naval Academy and Naval Postgraduate School. His TED talk has been viewed over 1.7 million times. When he’s not speaking or writing, David is in the classroom. He is associate professor of leadership and innovation at Oral Roberts University where he was recently named one of the nation’s “Top 40 Under 40 Professors Who Inspire.” David lives outside of Tulsa with his wife and their two boys.

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Book Review: Friend of a Friend

Book Review: Friend of a Friend

Network. It can be such a loaded and overbearing term.

On the one hand, it’s a noun. Among other definitions, it can denote a group of people connected by some commonality. Maybe it’s your personal network of acquaintances. Perhaps it’s a subset, such as a network of gamers, artists, or musicians who gather to share expertise, even trade secrets. The network could meet face-to-face or in an…

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David Burkus has eight alternatives to asking, “What do you do?”

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Are you Responding Well?

Are you Responding Well?

Before the days of 24/7 social media, people used to sit at home waiting for a phone call to “hear news.” Today, we can get a text message update or phone call while traveling, working, shopping, and more. We once used to hurry out the front door each morning to pick up the morning newspaper and learn what was going on in the world. Now, we can scan the news headlines before we get out of bed.

Th…

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Two BrightSight Group speakers in conversation: Srinivas Rao interviews David Burkus about the future of work on his Unmistakable Creative Podcast. Listen above.

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Something Coming, Something Good ...

Something Coming, Something Good …

David Burkus has a new book coming out tomorrow, which should be very good news to us all …

David is a professor, author of The Myths of Creativity and other best-selling leadership and management titles, and a very clear thinker about leadership and management.  He writes concisely, with warmth and humor, and is useful to anyone who cares about making our workplace interactions more effective…

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