Today’s guest is a best-selling author, sought-after speaker, and associate professor of leadership and innovation at Oral Roberts University.

He has written several books, his first was “The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas” and then he wrote “Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual,” which challenges traditional principles of business management and argues that many of them are outdated, outmoded, or simply don’t work.

His latest book,“Friend of a Friend,” takes a look at the science of human behavior and offers readers a new perspective on how to grow networks and build key connections.

His TED Talk, “Why you should know how much your coworkers get paid,” has been viewed over 1.8 million times. When he is not speaking or writing, he is in the classroom teaching students about organizational behavior, creativity and innovation, and strategic leadership.

Please join me in welcoming David Burkus

In this episode we discuss:

• his thoughts on leadership: “Leadership is influencing people to move toward a mutually desired objective.”
• how his attraction to leadership roles grew as he matured and became more self-aware.
• his advice for managing your job while also building a business, requiring you to do both until one gets in the way of the other.
• how he uses a combination of an app and a strategy to grow his network.
• his belief that the lack of diversity is a networking problem, and how you can overcome it.
• his strategy for connecting with people who are different from him.

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