Unlocking Your Power at Work: Kara Swisher on how to get what you want
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Unlocking Your Power at Work: Kara Swisher on how to get what you want

B1IntermediateSeptember 14, 202633 min
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No matter where you fall on the corporate food chain, you have power at work—you just might not know how to use it. In this new series on Unlocking Your Power at Work, Anne and Frances dig into how to discover, build, and use your power, explore common power dynamics in the workplace, and learn from people who use their full power with honesty and swagger. Kara Swisher is one of the most influential voices in media and has built a career holding the powerful accountable. In this episode, she reflects with Anne and Frances on her own pa...

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You should tell the people who we are and what our new show is. I'm Robert Smith, and this is Jacob Goldstein, and we used to host a show called Planet Money.

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And now we're back making this new podcast about the best ideas and people and businesses in history. And some of the worst people, horrible ideas, and destructive companies in the history of business.

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We struggled to come up with a name, decided to call it Business History. You know why? Why?

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