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A weekly show interviewing leaders in their fields, authors, renowned professors, inventors, innovators, change-makers and mavericks to inspire, educate and inform the business world and the curious. This Global show speaks of something greater beyond innovation, disruption and technology. It speaks to the human need to learn: how to adapt and love a changing world. It embraces the spirit of constant change, of staying receptive, of always learning. The show exists to enable people to be fully informed to lead better lives, lives packed with meaning.

EP 144: “Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect Is Tearing Us Apart” with Howard J. Ross

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Howard Ross Innovation Show

“If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.” — James Baldwin

We are living in a time of mounting political segregation that threatens to tear us apart as a unified society. The result is that we are becoming increasingly tribal, and the narratives of life that we get exposed to on a daily basis have become echo chambers in which we hear our beliefs reinforced and others’ beliefs demonised. 

At the core of tribalism exists a paradox: as humans, we are hardwired with the need to belong, which ends up making us deeply connected with some yet deeply divided from others. 

When these tribes are formed out of fear of the “other,” on topics such as race, immigration status, religion, or partisan politics, we resort to an “us versus them” attitude. 

Especially in the digital age, when we are all interconnected in one way or another, these tensions seep into our daily lives and we become secluded with our self-identified tribes. 

Todays guest explores how our human need to belong is the driving force behind the increasing division of our world. 

Drawing upon decades of leadership experience, he probes the depth of tribalism, examines the role of social media in exacerbating it, and offers tactics for how to combat it. 

Filled with tested practices for opening safe and honest dialogue in the workplace and challenges to confront our own tendencies to bond with those who are like us, his book “Our Search for Belonging” is a powerful statement of hope in a disquieting time.

We welcome diversity and inclusion expert and author of “Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect Is Tearing Us Apart” Howard J. Ross

We talk:

Bias

Polarisation

Why we tend to form tribes

Race and Gender

Politics

The brain

White Privilege

Empathy

Media

The Toilet Assumption

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More about Howard here:

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Episode 10 – Kieran Harte, MD, Uber Ireland and N.I. John Dennehy, CEO & Founder, Zartis. Fergal O’Connor, CEO & Founder Happy Marketing and Media

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Kieran Harte, MD, Uber Ireland and N.I. John Dennehy, CEO & Founder, Zartis. Fergal O’Connor, CEO & Founder Happy Marketing and Media and buymedia.ie

We talk about driverless cars, maps, innovation, empowering workforces, fostering innovation, skills gaps, working locations, digital marketing, new selling and media buying.

Filed Under: #DigitalMarketing, #Innovation, Context, Corporate Culture, Government Funding, Podcasts, Startup Funding, Startups Tagged With: CEO, Fergal O'Connor, founder, Happy Marketing and Media, John Dennehy, Kieran Harte, Marketing, Media, Uber, Zartis

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