Brené with Adam Grant and Simon Sinek on What's Happening at Work, Part 1 of 2

What It Covers

Brené Brown, Adam Grant, and Simon Sinek examine workplace challenges post-pandemic, including the great resignation, employee mental health gaps, toxic high performers, and the disconnect between human-centered leadership values and traditional performance systems.

Key Questions Answered

• •Leadership perception gap: Deloitte research shows 84% of C-suite executives believe employee mental well-being is excellent or good, while only 60% of employees report this, revealing leaders significantly underestimate how much their teams are struggling post-pandemic.
• •Toxic genius problem: High-performing employees who undermine others require immediate assessment for coachability. Organizations must redefine performance to include impact on teammates, not just individual metrics. Keeping uncoachable toxic performers creates systemic damage regardless of their individual output numbers.
• •Values operationalization failure: Only 11% of companies translate their stated values into observable behaviors, and zero percent include these behaviors in performance evaluations. Without measuring collaborative behaviors like knowledge sharing and mentoring alongside individual results, organizations cannot build true team performance.
• •Navy SEAL selection principle: The military rejects star athletes and preening leaders who prioritize individual achievement. Those who succeed can dig deep when exhausted to help the person beside them. Businesses misapply high-performing team stories by trying to create individual superstars instead.