Modern Mentor

Five moves to tell a better story in your year-end review

914. How do you get ready for your year-end review? And should you be starting now? Most of us reduce our professional story to the obvious stuff – titles, job descriptio

The unsexy fix for meetings, deadlines, and cross-team conflict

913. When something's broken at work, we reach for the big fix — the reorg, the new tool, the strategy overhaul. But ask people to describe their perfect coffee and they'

How to handle uncertainty at work when your boss doesn't have the answers

 912. Your boss used to have answers. Now they've got questions. It feels destabilizing - but Rachel makes the case that this is the opening of a lifetime. When certainty

How to build workplace community in a remote AI-driven world

911. You can spend an entire day on video calls and still not have one real conversation. The connection that used to come free with the office doesn't come free anymore.

Billy Eichner on why success comes from love not trauma

910. What do you do when there's no template for the career you want, no obvious next step, and no one waiting to hand you the opportunity? Comedian, actor, and writer Bi

Why your hard work isn't paying off and what's really slowing progress

909. Your strategy is sound. Your people are talented. Everyone's working harder than ever. So why aren't the results showing up? Rachel makes the case that when work bre

A fresh approach to managing burnout

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When it comes to managing, do I do it fast or right? (Reissue)

697. We get a lot of mixed messaging when it comes to managing the tension between speed and efficiency. We need to be sure—to have the data, to have done the research an

The awesome power of "No"

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How TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie recovered from depression

909. Blake Mycoskie built TOMS into a $600 million brand and gave away more than 100 million pairs of shoes — then fell into a seven-year battle with clinical depression

How to think positive to be more productive

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Be a goldfish...but only sometimes: when your team should reflect vs. move on

907. When should your team reflect on what went wrong, and when should you just move on? Rachel Cooke uses Ted Lasso's "be a goldfish" mantra to unpack the balance betwee

How to make your life effortless

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Why your team is exhausted and still missing targets

906. Leaders are frustrated that teams aren't delivering. Teams are exhausted and hitting walls. And the instinct is to pull harder. But the real work is finding the knot

How to increase your productivity by managing your energy

Summer Saturdays: Best of QDT Encore Episode: This episode originally aired January 2020. 581. Running all-out all the time is the sure path to burnout. Productivity h

Are you successmaxxing?

905. Everyone's maxxing something now. Their sleep, their skin, their fiber, even their jawline. But underneath the ring lights, each of these trends is quietly teaching

Maximize your productivity in uncertain times

904. Most of us define productivity as doing more, faster — but when budgets shrink and the path forward gets murky, speed turns into a liability. Rachel shares five ways

Your team needs recovery time — introducing the Breathing Room

903. Most teams have mastered pushing hard. Some are even getting better at rest. But there's a third thing — the active recovery phase — that almost no one is protecting

Never waste a good workplace crisis

902. We already know what's slowing us down at work — too many priorities, meetings that go nowhere, no space to experiment, and processes that create drag on everything.

Productive, happy, focused—How small habits bring big success

Can small habit changes really lead to a more productive, focused, and happy life? They can! Author and podcaster Jeff Sanders's shares his secrets to forming habits that