About this episode

The episode challenges the assumption that success leads to happiness, featuring insights from leadership researcher Anthony Silard.

What if the promotion, the praise, and the “big win” you’re chasing isn’t actually the thing you’re looking for? We sit down with Anthony (a professor and leadership researcher focused on relationships, loneliness, and sustainable leadership) to challenge a stubborn assumption in modern work culture: that success and outcomes are the path to happiness. We dig into why leaders get trapped by results, even though results live outside our control. Anthony offers a practical shift: focus on the ...

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Host: Mick Spiers

Guest: Anthony Silard

Topics covered

• leadership
• happiness
• success
• work culture
• relationships

Keywords

• leadership
• happiness
• success
• work culture
• relationships
• loneliness
• sustainable leadership

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