Erica Dhawan is an internationally recognized leading authority, author and advisor on 21st century teamwork, collaboration and innovation. Named by Thinkers50 as the “Oprah of Management Thinkers”, she is the author of two books Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence and Digital Body Language. This week on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People, Guy talks with Erica about how to be more thoughtful and communicate better in the digital age. You'll be communicating better in tone, message, and emojis after this podcast.
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The Resignation of Andrew Cuomo
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York announced yesterday that he would resign from office, exactly one week after a searing report found that he sexually harassed 11 women.
What convinced him to step aside, how did the scandal bring about such a rapid and astonishing reversal of...
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The fall of Andrew Cuomo
The resignation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. And, as American troops withdraw, the U.S. response to a surge of Taliban control in Afghanistan.
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Today, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation after a state investigation found he sexually harassed 11 wo...
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The Taliban’s Advance
The Taliban have made big moves in the last few days in their bid to take control of Afghanistan.
This weekend, they seized several cities and suddenly claimed a lot of the north. On Monday, they took another provincial capital.
What is the Taliban’s strategy, wh...
Norm Ornstein on What's Next For Authoritarianism in America
On this special episode, Joe and Alex are joined by Norm Ornstein, Contributing Editor at the Atlantic and emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Norm gives his take on the rise of authoritarianism in mainstream Republicans, and how this time feels different e...
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‘A code red for humanity’
A landmark United Nations report finds that humans have pushed the climate into ‘unprecedented’ territory. Plus, what we can learn from the Tokyo Olympics with the Winter Games in Beijing just around the corner.
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On Monday, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Cli...
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Back to School Amid the Delta Variant
To ensure students’ safe return to in-person learning amid a surge in the Delta variant of the coronavirus, some school districts plan to institute mask mandates.
Yet that move isn’t necessarily straightforward — several of the country’s hardest-hit states have banned such m...
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The Sunday Read: ‘The Man Who Filed More Than 180 Disability Lawsuits’
For much of America’s history, a person with a disability had few civil rights related to their disability. That began to change when, in the 1980s, a group of lawmakers started to agitate for sweeping civil rights legislation.
The result of their efforts was the Americans W...
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The people left out of the infrastructure deal
The infrastructure bill making its way through the Senate doesn’t include money for caregivers. Today, we dive into what it’s like to take care of a partner who has a disability and to often not get compensated for that labor.
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Earlier this week, the much anticip...
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Voices of the Unvaccinated
Don, a 38-year-old single father from Pittsburgh, doesn’t want to be lumped into the “crazy anti-vax crowd.”
Jeannie, a middle school teacher, has never vaccinated her teenage son and says she won’t start now.
Lyndsey, from Florida, regrets having not had her late grandmothe...
Tucker Carlson Flirts With Hungarian Dictator, Special Elections Results in OH
Tucker Carlson is fighting for democracy ... in Hungary. Tucker met with Hungary's Prime Minister to discuss, among other things, how he built a wall, changed the judiciary, and rode anti-immigrant and anti-democracy waves to change the trajectory of a nation in short order. ...
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Back-to-school struggles
Florida school districts defy the governor’s ban on mask mandates. An elementary school that welcomed its students back in the spring is still struggling to make a full return to normal. Plus, why you should rid your vocabulary of “corporate-isms.”
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Sustainable Web Design, An Excerpt
In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible to run a mile in less than four minutes. Runners had been attempting it since the late 19th century and were beginning to draw the conclusion that the human body simply wasn’t built for...
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The End of Andrew Cuomo?
This episode contains descriptions of sexual harassment.
After accusations of sexual harassment against Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York surfaced early this year, an independent investigation was begun.
And while people around the governor — and his critics — expected the ensui...
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The brothers Cuomo
As New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo faces an impeachment effort and calls for his resignation, his brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, avoids mentioning the scandal on his show. Plus, your questions on the delta variant — and is NBC ruining the Olympics?
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Will New York...
Cody Keenan: Speech Writer and Former Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama
You'll be blown away with this interview with speechwriter Cody Keenan, former Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama. President Obama said he relied “on Cody not just to share my vision, but to help tell America’s story.”
“He’s a brilliant writer," Mr. Obama added. “He’s relentless.” Listen in as Guy Kawasaki talks to Cody about his years working at The White House this week on the Remarkable People Podcast.
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Trouble in Tunisia
Tunisia was supposed to be the success story of the Arab Spring — the only democracy to last in the decade since revolutions swept the region.
Recently, after mass protests, President Kais Saied appears to be taking the reins of power for himself.
What happened? We hear from...
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‘Broke again’
The Biden administration is expected to announce a new action to limit evictions as a federal eviction moratorium expires. But it’s unclear how many people that will help. And, why the expanded child tax credit may not be a silver bullet against poverty.
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Stories From the Great American Labor Shortage
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Bartenders, sous chefs, wait staff — at the moment, managers in the U.S. hospitality industry are struggling to fill a range of roles at their establishments.
Managers blame pandemic unemployment benefits for the dearth of talent....
Jackie Calmes on the Weaponization of the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court's reputation as an apolitical body has been permanently changed. How did we get here?
Jackie Calmes from the LA Times has studied the changes in Supreme Court politics that hit a new low during the Trump presidency. Despite two impeachments and a single term...