David Burkus Presents

Helping leaders and teams do their best work ever. David Burkus is one of the world’s leading business thinkers and the author of five best-selling books about business and leadership. Episodes of the show include insights, strategies, tips and takeaways from David as well as in-depth conversations with other world renown experts to contribute ideas, opinions, and insights to help you level of your own leadership.

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Episodes

What Makes A Purpose-Driven Organization?

What makes a purpose driven organization? 4 Misconceptions about purpose-driven companies The last 10-15 years have seen a dramatic increase in talk about being purpose-driven organizations, mission-focused companies, and business that do good by doing good. But there's a lot of misconceptions around what it really means to be a purpose-driven organization. In the video, we cover 4 misconceptions about purpose-driven organizations and provide examples of companies that are truly purpose-driven. ...

Dec 07, 2020•11 min

Why Underdogs Win

Research reveals that underdogs, those who feel like they've been criticized and discounted, are more motivated than others to perform and more likely to develop innovative ways to win. Low expectations actually fuel high performance. If people underestimate you, and you believe they're estimating wrong, then your motivation to perform is stronger than if they'd believed in you to begin with. //ABOUT DAVID One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Burkus’ forward-thinking ideas and bes...

Dec 06, 2020•10 min

Personality Tests Are Useless

Personality Tests at work are widely used. Millions of people every year take personality tests given to them (or paid for) by their employers. But most of these personality tests, the ones that place you into a personality type, are useless. They're of dubious origin, and dubious methodology. And yet we fall for it time and time again. //ABOUT DAVID One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Burkus’ forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are helping leaders and teams do their bes...

Dec 06, 2020•14 min

Why Mission Statements Fail

Let's talk about your company mission statement. The goal of mission statements was noble. The intent of a mission statement is to inspire and motivate employees. But many of them fail. And for the same reasons. //ABOUT DAVID One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Burkus’ forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are helping leaders and teams do their best work ever. He is the best-selling author of four books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and ...

Dec 06, 2020•9 min

Extrinsic Vs Intrinsic Motivation

In this episode, we're going talk about extrinsic motivators, intrinsic motivators, when can you motivate people and when do you have to trust that they're motivating themselves. //ABOUT DAVID One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Burkus’ forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are helping leaders and teams do their best work ever. He is the best-selling author of four books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into dozens ...

Dec 06, 2020•12 min

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