Presidential Transition, Millionaire Mystique, Jerks

Presidential Transition, Millionaire Mystique, Jerks

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 5, Episode 282

  • Nov 25, 2016 5:00 pm
  • 2:11:51 mins

Presidential Transition (9:54) Dr. Heath Brown, an assistant professor of public policy at John Jay College and author of the book New President: Interests in Transition. Although America is a fairly young country, one of the biggest successes of the US is its peaceful transfer of power from one executive leader to the next. While these transitions can be described as peaceful, they cannot necessarily be described as organized. Dr. Brown discusses presidential transition. Listen to this interview here: http://goo.gl/4ZLiSO The Millionaire Mystique (55:42) Dr. Jude Miller Burke has extensive corporate experience in management and leadership. During her tenures at Honeywell and UnitedHealth Group, she directed small and large work groups throughout the country. There is about three million people in the US who are million or multi-millionaires. About one-third of those millionaires are women. You may ask yourself, how did all these people become so rich? Dr. Burke had the same question, so she interviewed millionaires and made some interesting discoveries which she included in her book “Millionaire Mystique: How Working Women Become Wealthy - And How You Can, Too!” Dr. Jude Miller Burke discusses what she learned. Listen to this interview here: http://goo.gl/bUZ3XP Why Some People are Jerks (1:34:02) Dr. Dave Rand is an associate professor of Psychology, Economics, and Management at Yale University, he is also a member of the Yale Institute for Network Science, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and Cognitive Sciences Program, and the director of Yale University’s Human Cooperation Laboratory. A study at Yale University by Dave Rand and Adam Bear answers the question ‘why some people are jerks, yet others are nice even to strangers’. Dr. Rand explains. Listen to this interview here: http://goo.gl/2xeeFQ

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