Sunday Pick: Unlocking Your Power at Work: Kara Swisher on how to get what you want | from Fixable
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Sunday Pick: Unlocking Your Power at Work: Kara Swisher on how to get what you want | from Fixable

B1IntermediateOctober 25, 202635 min

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 path to...

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One of my greatest lessons of being a reporter over the many years, and I had lots of scoops and lots of like great stories I've written, the biggest lesson I learned was that I used to think, what are they lying to me about? And one of the things I learned, and I think it's really a profound difference in being the better reporter, was what are they lying to themselves about? And that's just that yields every single like, what what do they need to say every day to get through the day that isn't true?

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Happy Sunday, y'all. Elise Hugh here. Today we're bringing you a Sunday pick where we share an episode of another podcast from TED handpicked by us for you. No matter where you fall on the corporate food chain, you have power at work. You might just not know how to use it. So today we're sharing an episode from a new limited series on our

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podcast Fixable called Unlocking Your Power at Work. Hosts 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

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