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From The Heartbeat Podcast: Interview with Dan Mall, Founder of SuperFriendly + CEO of SuperBooked
Dan Mall is the Founder of SuperFriendly, a design consultancy collaborative that has worked with clients like Apple, ESPN, and Time Magazine. He is also the CEO of SuperBooked, and has written a book on Pricing Design. In our 12 minute interview, Dan shares his biggest lessons learned on how to bring a team together successfully, and the idea of âservant leadershipâ.
Transcript of the interview is here.
Latest reads
How to Be Friends with Someone Who Works for You
âCan you be friends with someone who works for you, especially when your role requires you to harbor secrets from them?âWritten by Sabina Nawaz, Harvard Business Review
How to Harness Employeesâ Emotional Energy
âEmotional energy drives employees to go above and beyond, regardless of external incentives such as compensation and benefits.âWritten by Alice Zhou, strategy+business
Start Together. Finish Together.
âThe longer we let ideas and plans stew, the more we fall in love with our pet-solutions, and perspectives.âWritten by John Cutler, Hackernoon
Apple, Google CEOs demonstrate true leadership with this simple, free action
âAccording to a 2013 survey from jobs website Glassdoor, more than half of respondents say they would stay longer at a company if they felt they were more appreciated by their bossâWritten by Catherine Clifford, CNBC
Favorite reads
How Managers Can Excel by Really Coaching Their Employees
âManagers must take ownership of their employeesâ development and think of themselves in a new way: as a coach, not a boss.âWritten by Ben Wigert and Annamarie Mann, Gallup
The Most Important Skill for Great Leaders? Trustworthiness.
âWhen your team doesnât trust you, you donât get their best effort.âWritten by Heidi Grant Halvorson, 99U
The yin and yang of organizational health
âSimply put, healthy organizations are more likely to orient themselves toward the long term. âWritten by Lili Duan, Rajesh Krishnan, and Brooke Weddle, McKinsey Quarterly
Mike OâNeill Wants You to Put Away Your Phone
âItâs like sitting on that lifeguard stand. You could focus for an hour. The internet is very intrusive in that way. I used to sit in meetings and see people on their phones and wonder, âWhy are you here?ââWritten by Adam Bryant, NYTimes Corner Office
Just for fun
Love Map
My good friend Victor Saad put something together as a starting point if love and relationships seem overly complicated.