The Military Knows How to Lead MillennialsTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 572, Segment 6
Jun 13, 2017 • 17m
Guest: Colonel Robert Carr, U.S. Army Chief of Staff Senior Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Stereotypes about millennials are two-pronged. On one hand, today’s young people are considered entitled, impatient, and overly sensitive. On the other hand, they’re ambitious, inventive and bold.  They’re also a real challenge for managers tasked with recruiting and retaining a generation of workers with very different ideas about how things should happen on the job.  Those corporate managers might take some cues from the military, which has one of the largest millennial workforces around.

Bears Ears is Early Test of Trump's Approach to Public LandsJun 13, 201720mGuest: John Freemuth, PhD, Executive Director, Cecil D. Andrus Center for Public Policy, Professor of Environmental Policy, Boise State University Which of the many competing interests will get priority from the President when it comes to how millions of acres of publicly owned land in the West is managed? We have some indication now in a preliminary recommendation from Trump’s Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to shrink, but not eliminate, the Bears Ears National Monument in Southeastern Utah.  Bears Ears is one of 27 national monuments designated by previous presidents and currently under review by the Trump administration.
Guest: John Freemuth, PhD, Executive Director, Cecil D. Andrus Center for Public Policy, Professor of Environmental Policy, Boise State University Which of the many competing interests will get priority from the President when it comes to how millions of acres of publicly owned land in the West is managed? We have some indication now in a preliminary recommendation from Trump’s Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to shrink, but not eliminate, the Bears Ears National Monument in Southeastern Utah.  Bears Ears is one of 27 national monuments designated by previous presidents and currently under review by the Trump administration.
Rooting Out Human Trafficking in US IndustryJun 13, 201718mGuests: Jeff Smith, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Supply Chain and Analytics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University; David Berdish, Executive in Residence, Supply Chain and Analytics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University Slavery is illegal in every country, yet human trafficking earns profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers, according to the International Labour Organization. US companies are not immune: factories, hotels, fisheries and service industries can all rely, to some degree, on forced labor. Often they do so without realizing it. What responsibility do companies have to make sure they’re not profiting off human trafficking somewhere in their supply chain?
Guests: Jeff Smith, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Supply Chain and Analytics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University; David Berdish, Executive in Residence, Supply Chain and Analytics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University Slavery is illegal in every country, yet human trafficking earns profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers, according to the International Labour Organization. US companies are not immune: factories, hotels, fisheries and service industries can all rely, to some degree, on forced labor. Often they do so without realizing it. What responsibility do companies have to make sure they’re not profiting off human trafficking somewhere in their supply chain?
Who, or What, Really Picks Your Playlist?Jun 13, 201714mGuest: Brian Moon, PhD, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Arizona  The internet is significantly changing the way music popularity is tracked. It’s also changing the music itself and the way we listen to it. Computer algorithms now dictate much of what we hear.
Guest: Brian Moon, PhD, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Arizona  The internet is significantly changing the way music popularity is tracked. It’s also changing the music itself and the way we listen to it. Computer algorithms now dictate much of what we hear.
Man Therapy with Dr. Rich MahoganyJun 13, 201719mGuest: Joe Conrad, Founder and CEO of Cactus advertising agency In the US, men commit suicide three times more often than women. One contributing factor is the stigma still associated with men seeking help for their emotional wellbeing. The fictional Dr. Rich Mahogany offers “Man Therapy,” with a message for tough guys who think men shouldn’t talk about their feelings. It is a public service campaign developed with public health officials in Colorado with the mission to tackle mental illness in men.
Guest: Joe Conrad, Founder and CEO of Cactus advertising agency In the US, men commit suicide three times more often than women. One contributing factor is the stigma still associated with men seeking help for their emotional wellbeing. The fictional Dr. Rich Mahogany offers “Man Therapy,” with a message for tough guys who think men shouldn’t talk about their feelings. It is a public service campaign developed with public health officials in Colorado with the mission to tackle mental illness in men.
The Tsimane People: A Window on the PastJun 13, 201716mGuest: Michael Gurven, PhD, Co-founder and Co-director of the Tsimane Health and Life History Project, Anthropologist, University of California Santa Barbara, Chair of Integrative Anthropological Sciences, UCSB There’s a community in the Bolivian Amazon forest with the healthiest hearts of any population previously studied around the world. They’re also virtually free of allergies, asthma and adult-onset diabetes. But their villages have no running water or electricity. Studying the Tsimane people offers a window into the trade-offs that happen as a society modernizes.
Guest: Michael Gurven, PhD, Co-founder and Co-director of the Tsimane Health and Life History Project, Anthropologist, University of California Santa Barbara, Chair of Integrative Anthropological Sciences, UCSB There’s a community in the Bolivian Amazon forest with the healthiest hearts of any population previously studied around the world. They’re also virtually free of allergies, asthma and adult-onset diabetes. But their villages have no running water or electricity. Studying the Tsimane people offers a window into the trade-offs that happen as a society modernizes.
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