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This Is Working with Daniel Roth
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Join LinkedIn’s Editor-in-Chief Dan Roth as he pulls back the curtain on how the world’s most dynamic leaders think, lead, and build. Going beyond titles and buzzwords, This Is Working uncovers the human stories behind high-impact leadership. These are the thoughtleaders and changemakers who are reshaping industries: from tacos to tech, AI to alcohol-free beer, fashion to finance. You’ll hear from guests like Jamie Dimon on rethinking talent, Chuck Robbins on leading through transformation, and Dr. Fei-Fei Li on the human side of AI. Tune in every other week for candid conversations on what’s working at work, and what’s yet to come.
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Erin and Sara Foster on Turning “Failure” Into an Empire
Nov 600:16:28Summary readyFrom their early work with Bumble to building Favorite Daughter, Erin and Sara Foster turned “failure” into a business that now includes a clothing line, VC fund, podcast, and a hit Netflix series, “Nobody Wants This.” In this episode of This Is Working, they open up about what it takes to build brands, balance sisterhood with business, and turn uncertainty into direction. Subscribe to the This is Working newsletter for more great insights: linkedin.com/thisisworking
SummaryThis Is Quick: Why Rent the Runway’s CEO believes personality beats experience
Oct 1600:10:25Tap to summarizeOn this week’s episode of This Is Quick, Rent the Runway CEO and co-founder Jennifer Hyman shares the one trait she looks for in every hire, how she delivers feedback that actually sticks, and the interview question she swears by. To get more leadership insights like these in your inbox, subscribe to the free This Is Working newsletter.
Transcribe →IPO, Setbacks, and the Power of Resilience: Jennifer Hyman on Rebuilding Rent the Runway
Oct 200:16:51Tap to summarizeRent the Runway is one of those ideas you should have thought of first. But while the concept seems like a slam dunk — an infinite closet of outfits for customers who want to wear it once — the road was extremely bumpy for co-founder and CEO Jennifer Hyman. The challenges were epic. A global pandemic, which could have been an existential event. An IPO pop which disappeared almost overnight, precipitating a credit crisis. A crossroads when she had drifted away from day-to-day and her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Even coming to terms with something as fundamental as understanding the company's DNA. "Now, millions of women are renting clothes, whereas there were zero women renting clothes when I had this vision in 2008,” Hyman told me for This is Working. "I believe in this more ever." Subscribe to the This is Working newsletter for more great insights: linkedin.com/thisisworking
Transcribe →"We were never going to miss one again" — Cisco Chair & CEO on the AI revolution
Feb 6, 202500:17:11Tap to summarize"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.
Transcribe →The secret to Google CMO Lorraine Twohill's success
Jan 23, 202500:28:43Tap to summarizeIt could be that the best person for a tough job is the one who thinks she isn't. That's what people like Google CEO Eric Schmidt and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki thought when they prodded their founding EMEA marketing head, Lorraine Twohill, to be a big fish in a big pond: Cross the pond to become Chief Marketing Officer.More than two decades later, the matter is settled. It wasn't the first time Twohill wasn't entirely sure about a Google gig. The first time she didn't even know what the job was until she got through 22 interviews. "A lot of people at the time thought I was nuts," she said, "What is this Google thing? It was a small company at the time, but, of course that was a really exciting time to join."It got a lot more interesting, of course.Listen in on this edition of This is Working to see how one of the longest-lasting senior women executives in Big Tech thinks about EQ, IQs what AI can and can't do.
Transcribe →This is Quick: Google CMO Lorraine Twohill on learning from being the least important person in the workplace
Jan 9, 202500:09:57Tap to summarizeOn this week's rapid fire Q&A, Google CMO Lorraine Twohill shares about career paths and what she’s learned from Gen Z colleagues — and what they should learn from her, the importance of trying a few roles on for size — “Life and places like Google are more like a jungle gym than a career ladder" — and why it really is OK to nap at work.
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Feed Drop: Dan Roth shares his career pivot story on Suzy Welch’s Becoming You podcast
Dec 31, 202400:36:53Tap to summarizeWe’re offering a little something different for anyone seeking inspiration at the new year - a bonus episode featuring LinkedIn Editor in Chief Dan Roth on Suzy Welch’s new podcast, Becoming You. If you’ve ever been curious about how exactly Dan landed at LinkedIn, this is the episode for you. And if you’re pursuing your own career pivot, check out Becoming You wherever you get your podcasts.The whole This is Working team wishes you a bright 2025. We’ll be back soon with more great advice from top leaders.
Transcribe →Dr. Fei-Fei Li sees a bright future with AI
Dec 20, 202400:11:41Tap to summarizeAs we wind down 2024, the This is Working team is starting to dream big for 2025. Of course that means we have AI on our minds. And we’re not alone. AI has more than one spot on LinkedIn’s recent Big Ideas list. Who better to learn from than Fei-Fei Li, AI pioneer? Dr. Li is an AI researcher and professor at Stanford University and serves as Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute.In this conversation with LinkedIn Editor in Chief Daniel Roth, Dr. Li shares her vision for a collaborative future with our advancing artificial intelligence.To meet 2025 head on, subscribe to Dan’s This is Working newsletter. You’ll get top takeaways from today’s leaders, direct to your inbox.
Transcribe →This is Quick: Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates on AI's impact and his favorite bad work experience
Dec 12, 202400:12:28Tap to summarizeOn this week's rapid fire Q&A, Bridgewater Founder and Chief Investment Officer Ray Dalio advises starters in the finance industry to just dive in — "know what you don't know" — wants Gen Z to know that pain plus reflection equals progress (and why everyone should meditate), the gigantic early career error that made him stronger, and much more.
Transcribe →Turning Mattel around was not child's play for CEO Ynon Kreiz
Dec 5, 202400:19:25Tap to summarizeWhen Ynon Kreiz took over as CEO of Mattel, he became the company's fourth chief executive in four years. His three predecessors had all resigned. The storied, 80-year-old toy company was still a top brand, but it was fraying at the edges and it needed a fresh start, some new ideas, and someone who was willing to take some risks.Already a board member and a three-time CEO "drawn to perhaps maybe more complicated, more challenging situations," Kreiz had a brainstorm: Customers aren't really customers — they're fans. If you have enough of them, you have an audience. And playing to an audience is very different from manufacturing widgets. So he took his big gamble. "The company should transition from being a toy manufacturing company that was making items and become an IP company that is managing franchises," Kreiz told Dan Roth on the latest edition of This is Working.Perhaps the Barbie movie is the most visible manifestation of Kreiz's vision for Mattel. But there is so much more in Dan Roth's interview for This is Working: How he hires, fires and reassigns, and his three chief management principles: collaboration, innovation, and execution
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