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Productivity for Mortals

Everywhere we turn, we’re surrounded by polished images of how life should look, and even though we know perfection isn’t real, this can leave us feeling stuck. In this class, Oliver Burkeman invites us to see through that illusion and embrace our limitations, revealing a more grounded path to productivity that actually works for real, imperfect people.
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Productivity for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
Author, “Meditations for Mortals”
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Kim Scott
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No-Nonsense Leadership
Ben Horowitz
Founding Partner, Andreessen Horowitz and Author, The Hard Thing About Hard Things
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C.H. Candler Professor Emeritus at EMORY University, Atlanta, GA
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Computer Scientist and Author, Slow Productivity
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Connection Creator, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, Author & CEO
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Robert Cialdini
Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing, Arizona State University, and Author
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Andrew Bustamante
Former CIA Operative and Founder, Everyday Spy
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Michele Gelfand
John H. Scully Professor of Cross-Cultural Management Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford
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Angie McArthur
President, Bleeker
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Multiple Instructors
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Angie McArthur
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Former Director, White House United States National Economic Council
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Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Oakland University
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Jon Acuff
Leadership Speaker and New York Times Bestselling Author
Strengthen Your Mental Health and Wellbeing
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Tal Ben-Shahar
Positive Psychologist and Author, “Happier, No Matter What”
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Multiple Instructors
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Susan David
Psychologist, Harvard Medical School, and Author, “Emotional Agility”
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Deepak Chopra
Founder, The Chopra Foundation, Author “Abundance”
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Rasmus Hougaard
Author, Speaker and Managing Partner, Potential Project
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Multiple Instructors
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Sharon Salzberg
Bestselling Author and Co-Founder of the Insight Meditation Society
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Jesse Eisenberg
Actor, Writer, Director
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Rethinking Achievement in a Burnout Culture
Arianna Huffington
Founder and CEO at Thrive
Create a Culture of Mutual Respect
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Ruchika Malhotra
Author of “Inclusion on Purpose”, Candour, LLC
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Nilofer Merchant
Marketing Expert and Author
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Valerie Purdie (Vaughns) Greenaway, PhD
Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at Columbia University
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Michael Kaufman
Advocate, activist, speaker, writer
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Fostering Mutual Understanding
Valerie Purdie (Vaughns) Greenaway, PhD
Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at Columbia University
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Re-envisioning Inclusion
Kenji Yoshino
Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, NYU School of Law
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Rethinking Work for Working Parents
Lauren Smith Brody
Founder, The Fifth Trimester Movement; Author, “The Fifth Trimester”
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Empower Women and Strengthen Teams
Sallie Krawcheck
CEO and Co-Founder, Ellevest
Master the AI Advantage
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How to Adapt and Thrive in the Age of AI
Michael Watkins
Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change, IMD Business School, and Author, “The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking”
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How to Work Smarter with AI
Ethan Mollick
Professor of Management, The Wharton School, and Author, Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
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AI and the Future of Civilization
Yuval Noah Harari
Historian and Philosopher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Best-Selling Author
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8 videos
Launch Machine Learning Projects That Work
Eric Siegel
Co-Founder & CEO, Gooder AI, and Author, The AI Playbook
Manage Teams Like a Psychology Master
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Suzy Welch
Professor of Management Practice, NYU Stern School of Business
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Michael Watkins
Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change, IMD Business School, and Author, “The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking”
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Multiple Instructors
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Brent Gleeson
Founder and CEO of TakingPoint Leadership, Navy SEAL combat veteran
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Natalie Nixon
Creativity Strategist & CEO at Figure 8 Thinking, LLC
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Cal Newport
Computer Scientist and Author, Slow Productivity
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Linda Hill
Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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Multiple Instructors
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Multiple Instructors
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Andrew Bustamante
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Multiple Instructors
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Multiple Instructors
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Multiple Instructors
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Derek Thompson
Staff writer at The Atlantic, Host of “Plain English” podcast
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Multiple Instructors
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Todd Davis
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Multiple Instructors
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Andrew Bustamante
Former CIA Operative and Founder, Everyday Spy
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Multiple Instructors
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Connection Creator, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, Author & CEO
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Angie McArthur
President, Bleeker
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Angie McArthur
President, Bleeker
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Michelle Tillis Lederman
Connection Creator, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, Author & CEO
Unlock C-Suite Thinking
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Serial Entrepreneur and Chairman of VaynerX
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Cass Sunstein
Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard Law School
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Tiffani Bova
Executive Advisor, Keynote Speaker, and Author
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Will Guidara
Restaurateur and Author, Unreasonable Hospitality
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Ian Bremmer
President of Eurasia Group and Author of “The Power of Crisis”
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How to Think Like an Innovator
Lisa Bodell
CEO | Futurist | Global Speaker on Innovation | Author, FutureThink
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Rita McGrath
Professor, Columbia Business School, Author
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How Great Leaders Listen, Share, and Engage
Charlene Li
Senior Fellow at Altimeter
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Earn the Right to Lead
Bill McDermott
CEO, ServiceNow
Build Your Confidence and Presence
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The Confidence Equation
Multiple Instructors
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Alisa Cohn
Author From Start-up to Grown-up; Executive Coach, Alisa Cohn & Associates, Inc
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Cultivate Resilience in the Face of Failure
Multiple Instructors
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Embody Executive Presence
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Author, Economist and Entrepreneur
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Mastering The Confidence Code
Claire Shipman
Senior national correspondent for ABC’s Good Morning America
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Multiple Instructors
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Multiple Instructors
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Multiple Instructors
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Strengthen Your Emotional Agility
Susan David
Psychologist, Harvard Medical School, and Author, “Emotional Agility”
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Foundations in Self-Awareness
Multiple Instructors
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Michael Watkins
Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change, IMD Business School, and Author, “The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking”
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The Power of Being Real
Multiple Instructors
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The Art of Self-Actualization
Multiple Instructors
Level-Up Your Productivity
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The Science of Productivity
Charles Duhigg
Writer, The New Yorker Magazine
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Multiple Instructors
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Slow Productivity
Cal Newport
Computer Scientist and Author, Slow Productivity
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Carson Tate
Employee Engagement Expert, Founder of Working Simply, Inc.,
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Gretchen Rubin
Author, Columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine
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Multiple Instructors
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How to Rewire Your Brain for Learning
Barbara Oakley
Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Oakland University
Become a World-Class Leader
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9 videos
How to Become a Changemaker
Beth Comstock
Former Vice Chair, GE, and Author, “Imagine It Forward”
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No-Nonsense Leadership
Ben Horowitz
Founding Partner, Andreessen Horowitz and Author, The Hard Thing About Hard Things
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Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Author, Economist and Entrepreneur
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The 6 Disciplines of Strategic Thinking
Michael Watkins
Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change, IMD Business School, and Author, “The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking”
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Jesse Eisenberg
Actor, Writer, Director
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Alisa Cohn
Author From Start-up to Grown-up; Executive Coach, Alisa Cohn & Associates, Inc
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How to Lead with Generosity and Purpose
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