2025 GREATS: 1020: The Three Keys to Being Inspirational with Adam Galinsky

Hello, Pete here. As 2025 heads into the holidays and end of year, we are taking a look back at some of the all-time finest episodes of the year and representing them to make sure you don't miss them because they were oh so good. And there's about a hundred episodes to choose from, and so we're surfacing a few of the most excellent. Starting up, we got Adam Galinsky talking about three keys to being inspirational, and I still think to this day frequently about his pro tip to make your language simple. and visualizable.

So here we go. The inspiring leader and the inferning leader are really mirror images of each other and we exist on this enduring continuum that's made up of how are you behaving today? We worked with a Swiss employment agency and we did a little experiment. 15-minute intervention for half of these people.

Reflect on your values, why they matter, how you demonstrate them. Two months later, they were twice as likely to have found a job. In fact, the effect was so strong, we stopped the experiment and gave everybody the values intervention. And so when we reflect on our values, it has two things that I think are incredibly important. One is it helps us see the big picture, what really matters.

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