Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

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Ever wish you had a pal who could break down the biggest ideas of the new world of work and distill them into actionable insights you could apply to your own life, right away? Meet LinkedIn's Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel! Each week, Jessi explores the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us. Jessi welcomes big thinkers to share their best ideas: everyone from game-changing entrepreneurs like Aurora James, to research-based experts like Daniel Pink, to notable figures like Megan Rapinoe and Bozoma Saint John. Start your week by joining us every Monday for a dose of fresh ideas, then join us in community and conversation on LinkedIn. New episodes weekly.

  1. 1d ago

    A Video Game Designer on What Keeps People Coming Back

    Bing Gordon spent a decade as chief creative officer of Electronic Arts, the publisher behind many of your favorite video games, like The Sims, Need for Speed, FIFA and Battlefield. His daughter Chloe grew up gaming before doing her homework, and landed her first job at age four testing gameplay for EA.  Together they wrote Everybody Wins: What Games Teach Us About Making Products People Love, and they join Jessi in the studio to talk about what great games know about human motivation: why people come back tomorrow, how to build a “wow” moment and why the number one driver of engagement is the people you play with.  In this episode, Jessi, Bing and Chloe discuss: Why people fall in love with some products and not others, and how you can tell The two things that bring players back tomorrow: social connection and personal mastery Art vs. craft: how to iterate until a wow moment lands the way you intended The one-to-ten test: how to count your good days and design for more of them Social loops: why five small exchanges a day dramatically increase the odds someone returns Magic numbers: the thresholds, like 15 friends on Facebook or a 30-day streak on Duolingo, where people stick around Why “quantify everything” only works if you’re measuring the right thing, and what SNL’s music slot has to do with it Why short-term metrics are poor long-term predictors, and how to build a “golden gut” Growing up in a house where video games came before homework A game designer’s playbook for the AI future: build your guild, open closed doors and find quick wins Follow Bing Gordon, Chloe Gordon and Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn. Join us for Office Hours this week, live on Jessi’s LinkedIn page, on Wednesday at 3pm EST.

  2. Oct 19

    Building a Career for a 100-Year Life

    We plan our careers like life is short. Go to school, climb the career ladder, retire. But as we live longer, the model doesn’t hold up.  London Business School professor Lynda Gratton joins Jessi to offer a model for the arc of a long career. After selling a million copies of The 100-Year Life, which makes the economic case for longer lives, Lynda found readers were hungry for an actionable plan. Her new book, Living the 100-Year Life, is the answer. In this episode, Jessi and Lynda discuss: Why the career ladder is disappearing, and what to replace it with The weave vs. the ladder: how thinking of your life as something you’re actively crafting changes everything The eight threads that hold a long life together: four for staying productive, four for nurturing yourself Why your employer is not your parent, and what it means to move to an adult-to-adult relationship with work The three questions to ask yourself during any transition: who am I, where am I now and what promises can I make to my future self? Why understanding your heritage is one of the most useful things you can do for your career How a seven-minute conversation can begin to strengthen the thread of friendship What’s worth mastering in an age of AI, and why finding an adjacency is almost always smarter than starting over Why identity is the hardest part of reinvention, and how to explore your possible selves without losing yourself Why pessimism is a bad psychological place to be right now, and how to choose optimism as an act of agency Follow Lynda Gratton and Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn. Continue the conversation with us at Hello Monday Office Hours! Join us Wednesday at 3 PM ET, live on Jessi’s page

  3. Oct 12

    Brené Brown on Leading with Courage and Vulnerability

    After more than two decades exploring courage, vulnerability and leadership, Brené Brown’s work has helped millions of people and changed how we talk about shame and belonging. In her latest book, Strong Ground, Brené introduces the idea of “grounded confidence,” a practice of leading with consistency, clarity and courage instead of bravado.  In this episode from the Hello Monday archives, Jessi Hempel sits down with Brené to talk about what it really takes to lead today and why developing human skills like courage and empathy matters more than ever. Jessi and Brené discuss: Why we’ve been “building on dysfunction” at work, and how to stop How to embrace paradox instead of rushing toward certainty Why grounded confidence is a stronger foundation than bravado What leaders get wrong about vulnerability How values clarify choices and protect against resentment Practical ways to set boundaries and build trust Why human skills are the real core muscles of work today Follow Brené Brown and Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn Continue the conversation with us at Hello Monday Office Hours! Join us Wednesday at 3 PM ET, live on Jessi’s page Want more? LinkedIn Premium members can watch an extended version of this interview.

  4. Oct 5

    When Perseverance Becomes Self-Sabotage

    How do you know when it’s time to stop? Most high achievers would say never. We keep going because quitting feels like failure. But Lindsay Crouse argues that sometimes the bigger failure is continuing past the point you should have. The four-time Emmy Award winner, four-time Oscar nominee and author of the new book The Case for Quitting spent 15 years at the New York Times covering endurance sports before walking away. This week she joins Jessi in the studio to make the case that sometimes stopping is the most courageous thing you can do, and that knowing when to quit is an essential skill. In this episode, Jessi and Lindsay discuss: Why quitting on time almost always feels too early The moment when perseverance flips into self-sabotage, and how to catch it before you crash Why the decision to continue always has costs, we just can't see them as clearly as the costs of quitting What Lindsay's own running career taught her about the difference between stopping and giving up Why women in particular are conditioned to override their instincts and keep going, and what it costs us The spotlight illusion: why we overestimate how much anyone notices when we leave Jessi on quitting Wired too late, and what it took from her before she finally walked away The five-to-ten year question: a simple way to know whether it's time to start building an off-ramp What Lindsay's 15 years at the New York Times taught her about identity, and why leaving felt like both nothing and everything How writing a book about quitting transformed her What’s next for Lindsay Crouse Follow Lindsay Crouse and Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn.

  5. Sep 28

    What Four Decades of Building Great Restaurants Taught Danny Meyer About Culture

    Danny Meyer has built some of the most beloved and enduring restaurants in the US. The “secret sauce” behind Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, The Modern, Shake Shack, and more? How diners feel when they walk in the door.  His new book, What Could Possibly Go Right, is about a common obstacle in business. How do you grow without losing the thing that made people love you in the first place? Danny joins Jessi in the studio to talk about everything he’s learned in four decades of building businesses around hospitality, including how to scale a feeling. In this episode, Jessi and Danny discuss: The assumption Danny held at 30 that he has since debunked Why culture is what happens when you're not in the room, and how to build it so it endures The 49/51 rule: why the job is only half of what Danny is actually hiring for The six emotional skills that make up a high HQ (hospitality quotient), and why "soft skills" is one of Danny's least favorite phrases The interview questions Danny uses to reveal character, including one that stops almost everyone cold The jigsaw puzzle theory: why the worst hiring mistakes happen when you keep jiggling a piece that doesn't fit Why Danny's biggest leadership mistakes came from hanging on too long: to people, to businesses, to deals How to get to "no" faster, and why a quick, honest no is kinder than a slow one The five-year, no-tipping experiment at Union Square Hospitality Group: what worked, what didn't, why the pandemic ended it and what Danny replaced it with What Danny is still learning, and why he looks to younger people to teach it to him Follow Danny Meyer and Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn. RSVP here for a special edition of Office Hours this Wednesday at 3pm EST. We’ll be discussing how we might be able to get what we need from work if jobs disappear, inspired by this micro-documentary from the Hello Monday team.

  6. Sep 21

    Angela Duckworth on Why Grit Isn’t Always Enough

    Ten years ago, Angela Duckworth wrote the book on grit. Now she's back with the advice you need to keep moving forward. The MacArthur genius fellow, University of Pennsylvania professor and bestselling author joins Jessi in the studio to make the case that individual effort only takes you as far as your situation allows and that changing your situation is one of the most powerful tools you have. Her new book is called Situated: Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best.  In this episode, Jessi and Angela discuss: Why grit isn't enough and what Angela has learned in the decade since she wrote her first book The three-box model: how your situation shapes your thoughts, and your thoughts shape your behavior Why changing your situation feels like giving up and why Angela calls it an act of heroism instead Status quo bias: the psychological reason we cling to circumstances we know aren't working The difference between quitting and job crafting and how to make smaller career moves before the big one What Taylor Swift moving to Nashville at 14 has to do with your next career decision Microfriction: the surprisingly small physical changes that do what willpower can't The Pygmalion Effect: why so much of what we believe about ourselves is borrowed from the people around us Three kinds of mentors everyone needs: mentors for a reason, a season and a lifetime The curiosity conversation: how Oprah got Maya Angelou to be her mentor, and how you can apply the same approach Why Y Combinator funds in batches and what that tells us about trying to go it alone Follow Angela Duckworth and Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn. This conversation was recorded live and broadcast to LinkedIn Premium members. Premium members can watch the extended version here.

  7. Sep 14

    Where You’re Losing Time and How to Get It Back

    Laura Vanderkam tracks her time in 30-minute increments and has been for over a decade. That’s 336 half-hour blocks over the course of a week. After reviewing thousands of people’s schedules, she finds, again and again, that most of us are sitting on more time than we think. We just have to shift our mindset to believe it. The time management expert and author of the new book Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance returns to Hello Monday to talk about what it actually takes to move from time scarcity to abundance. In this episode, Jessi and Laura discuss: Why "I don't have enough time" is not just inaccurate, it's actively making things worse The math that surprises everyone: what a full-time worker actually has left after work and sleep each week Why we're bad narrators of our own experience and how to get better data The biggest blind spots in a week: weekday evenings and weekends How email and digital communication expand to fill all available space and what to do about it The one-hour a week experiment that could change how you feel about your job Why tiny tweaks beat lifestyle overhauls every time How to carve out "play and possibility time" The right way to think about learning something new at work, including AI How to recast ambition when climbing the ladder no longer feels like enough Laura's September time-tracking challenge and why she's been doing it every year since 2015 Follow Laura Vanderkam and Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn. Join Laura’s time-tracking challenge here Join us for Office Hours, Wednesday at 3pm EST

  8. Sep 7

    We’re Terrible at Fighting. Here’s How to Get Better.

    Most of us try to avoid conflict. But done right, fighting can be a path to stronger teams and healthier communities. On this episode of Hello Monday, Priya Parker makes the case for embracing “healthy heat” and learning how to navigate conflict with care. Priya Parker is a conflict resolution facilitator and author of The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict. Drawing on her work with teams, organizations, communities and groups, she shares practical ways to face conflict effectively. Jessi and Priya discuss: Why conflict is often a sign of relevance, and why we tend to fight with the people and groups we care about most The difference between healthy heat, unhealthy peace and destructive conflict How healthy conflict can create connection, clarity, better decisions and stronger teams Why our “fighting muscles” have atrophied, particularly after the pandemic How digital communication can flatten or exacerbate conflict rather than help us hold productive tension How to become an artful fighter by approaching conflict with curiosity instead of immediately trying to shut it down How to identify “hairline fractures” before they grow into larger rifts within teams and communities How to determine whether a conflict is worth facing The role of an outside facilitator in helping teams navigate conflict and develop practical conflict-resolution skills Why preparing your body for conflict matters, including breathing, grounding and learning to stay physically relaxed under pressure How listening can transform conflict and why staying in the heat long enough to hear each other can create breakthroughs A lesson from the Canlis restaurant team: how treating feedback as “an investment in you” can help people listen without becoming defensive What the Seattle Seahawks can teach us about culture and hairline fractures Why learning to gather and fight well is increasingly important as AI reshapes the workplace Follow Jessi Hempel and Priya Parker on LinkedIn Join us for Office Hours, Wednesday at 3pm EST

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Ever wish you had a pal who could break down the biggest ideas of the new world of work and distill them into actionable insights you could apply to your own life, right away? Meet LinkedIn's Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel! Each week, Jessi explores the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us. Jessi welcomes big thinkers to share their best ideas: everyone from game-changing entrepreneurs like Aurora James, to research-based experts like Daniel Pink, to notable figures like Megan Rapinoe and Bozoma Saint John. Start your week by joining us every Monday for a dose of fresh ideas, then join us in community and conversation on LinkedIn. New episodes weekly.

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