This is Working has a new format! This podcast is a companion to LinkedIn Editor-in-Chief Dan Roth's This is Working video series, which features Dan's live con...
This Is Quick: How Ralph Lauren CEO Patrice Louvet leads the brand (with style)
This Is Quick– the lightning round of This Is Working. The CEO of Ralph Lauren, Patrice Louvet, speaks to Editor in Chief Daniel Roth about the best advice he ever got and how he manages his time.
Among the reveals:
- Why he prioritizes EQ when he hires
- How his success is thanks in part to his drive but also his flexibility in the face of new opportunity
- Why he thinks that “Sometimes people need to be hit, hit by a 2x4 across the forehead.”
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How Justin McLeod made relationships matter at Hinge
When Justin McLeod decided he had to reboot Hinge, three years after he had founded the dating app service, he had his doubts. It took a member of his team to remind him: "You're the CEO. What's stopping you?"
At the same time — and for many the same reasons — McLeod decided he needed to reboot his company: to create a transparent environment where colleagues were invested in their work and each other's success. At scale. It's why Hinge has an impressively small voluntary turnover rate of 3%. And it's not about the perks.
"People actually work very hard at Hinge, but it's that they feel like they are part of a team," Justin told me for This Is Working. "They feel like they have a purpose. They're working with people who are like-minded and like-valued and just doing work that they love. And I think ultimately that's what allows people to feel fulfillment and feel a level of sustainability with their work."
Listen in for McLeod's insights on how to manage relationships, teams, and an enterprise.
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This is Quick: The Algorithm of Connection - Hinge CEO on Math, Gratitude and Dating
This is Quick — the lightning round of This is Working. Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod speaks to LinkedIn Editor in Chief Daniel Roth. Among the reveals:
The unusual requirement for McLeod's first job — and why he got fired
The "dramatically different" thing he'd be doing if he wasn't running the #1 downloaded dating app in 10 countries.
What was on a list of do's and don'ts he carried like a "crutch" for years
Why he avoids social media
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Siemens CEO Roland Busch on AI — and being an introvert
"You would not replace a person with a robot, but a piece of the work a person does."
Roland Busch has a remarkable perch as CEO of Siemens, a massive multinational whose hardware and software touch nearly everything. In this second part of LinkedIn Editor-in-Chief Dan Roth's wide-ranging conversation Busch laid out his vision of how AI would not replace but liberate highly-skilled professionals, and why being in the comfort zone is a strong signal in business to mix it up.
And on a personal note, Busch shared how he confronted his introversion to become a better leader.
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"We were never going to miss one again" — Cisco Chair & CEO on the AI revolution
"We were never going to miss one again … We were never going to deny a transition was happening."
Cisco is one of the handful of companies from the dawn of the digital age that is still going strong. But as Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins told LinkedIn Editor in Chief Dan Roth, it isn't Cisco's many successes that propels him now, at the dawn of the AI age — it was missing the cloud wave.
That was then, this is now: Robbins says a small fraction of enterprises are prepared for the AI revolution and a vast majority know they don't have much time to get up to speed. Since Cisco has dealt with major enterprise customers for decades and still routes about 85% of the world's internet traffic, Robbins says Cisco is well positioned to seize this opportunity.
But navigating this tectonic shift in tech is only part of the problem. Robbins says the pace of re-skilling will be unlike the world has ever seen, and that getting people to adapt as quickly as necessary will require an emphasis on soft leadership skills.
In a wide-ranging interview we talked learning from mistakes, the need for "proactive education" to ensure the workforce can take advantage of a future of work that is already upon us, and why EQ is more essential than ever.
To keep up with these conversations and get inspired by the world’s top leaders, subscribe to This is Working: linkedin.com/thisisworking.
This is Working has a new format! This podcast is a companion to LinkedIn Editor-in-Chief Dan Roth's This is Working video series, which features Dan's live conversations with today's top leaders. Each podcast episode will now bring you interview excerpts alongside post-interview insights from Dan and his new co-host, Senior Producer Nina Melendez. They’ll look at top takeaways, reflect on big questions, and even share a bit of behind-the-scenes trivia. Nina and Dan will offer their own opinions - and we’re eager to hear yours as well.
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