Ron Friedman

The research points the same way.

In 2002, James Shaw, Ron Friedman, and Ari Kruglansky published six studies under a title that says it all, Forgetting All Else.

Their lab work suggests that when you're committed to a goal and it's active in your mind, competing goals become harder to reach, and the stronger the commitment, the stronger the effect.

These were reaction time experiments, so treat them as a clue rather than the final word.

So that, that, that's important.

Also, um, very supportive of some of the research that Ron Friedman actually published in his new book called "Super Teams," right? I mean, all this stuff is aligned.

It's out there, but it's in disparate sources.

And again, one of the things that I try to find balance is, is to share this with everybody so they can see, hey, these are, these are real impacts.

So in the book, you talk about relationships, again, another soft thing.

Yeah.

But when you start looking at even the research that Ron Friedman has conducted, and it goes on, you can even talk about Gallup's 80-plus years of doing workplace research, is relationships are crucial.

And talk a little bit about really what we're talking about is, you know, the values, connecting everything, and building the relationships that will allow us to persevere the turbulence.

I'm not talking about capital or technology, but the people sitting next to each other and how well they work together.

Our guest today is Ron Friedman, an award-winning social psychologist and best-selling author of both The Best Place to Work and Super Teams, which I cannot recommend enough, whose work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, among many other prestigious publications and news.

Ron, welcome to the Leadership Exchange.

It's really fantastic to have you here.

I'm Kim Scott.

And while the rest of the Radical Candor podcast team is on sabbatical, I am talking to the authors of some books that I have read and loved, and am thrilled today to have with me Ron Friedman.

Ron, PhD, is an award-winning psychologist who helps leaders build high-performing teams.

He is the bestselling author of The Best Place to Work and Decoding Greatness.