This episode is a riddle, wrapped in an NBA championship, wrapped in a chance encounter, wrapped in privilege, wrapped in mashed potatoes, washed over by the ocean, and inside of a critical message for our world about humility.
Our journey starts with a celebration and a question, and ends with a celebration and a question. In between we hear from two TedX speakers, an American playwright, a psychologist, and have in depth conversation with Ed Hess, author of Humility is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age.
The purpose of Ed’s book is to help people learn how to think better, listen better, manage our ego and our fears, and how to relate, collaborate and engage with other human beings so they can be better at doing the skills that smart technology is not going to be able to do.
Through this exploration with Ed, we delve into impact of humility (or the lack of it) on each of us, and all of us.
Professor Ed Hess spent more than 20 years in the business world as a senior executive at Warburg Paribas Becker, Boettcher & Company, the Robert M. Bass Group and Arthur Andersen. He joined academia in 2002 as an Adjunct Professor of Organization and Management at the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University where he was the Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Growth and of The Values-Based Leadership Institute. In 2007, he joined the faculty of the Darden Graduate School of Business as Professor of Business Administration and the first Batten Executive-in- Residence. He teaches in the MBA & EMBA Programs; has taught in over 21 Executive Education programs at Darden, IESE (Barcelona), the Indian School of Business, Georgia Tech and AVT Denmark and consults with businesses and governmental agencies. He is the author of 13 books and over 140 practitioner articles and over 60 Darden cases, etc. dealing with growth, innovation and learning cultures, systems and processes. The common theme of his work is high individual and organizational performance. His book Smart Growth was named a Top 25 business book in 2010 for business owners by Inc. Magazine and was awarded the Wachovia Award for Research Excellence. His book Learn or Die was an Amazon best seller and was awarded the Well Fargo Award for Research Excellence. His recent best-selling book is Hess & Ludwig, Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age (Berrett-Koehler, 2017). Hess's work has appeared in Fortune magazine, European Business Review, HBR, SHRM, Fast Company, WIRED, Forbes, INC., Huffington Post, Washington Post, Business Week, the Financial Times, in more than 400 other global media publications as well as on CNBC Squawk Box, Fox Business News with Maria Bartiroma, Big Think, WSJ Radio, Bloomberg Radio with Kathleen Hayes, Dow Jones Radio, MSNBC Radio, Business Insider, and Wharton Radio. His current research focuses on Hyper-Learning mindsets, behaviors and processes integrating neuroscience, psychology, and elite performance research with the learnings of the great Eastern and Western philosophies. His new book Hyper-Learning:How to Adapt to the Speed of Change will be published by Berrett-Koehler in August of 2020. Professor of Business Administration Batten Faculty Fellow Batten Executive-in-Residence Darden Graduate School of Business University of Virginia Education: J.D., University of Virginia; L.L.M., New York University
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