Boss Class: Trailer

Few people in your life are more important to your well being than your boss. They can make your day, or they can make your life miserable. But I never understood just how hard it is to be a good boss until I started writing about them. Because making an office tick requires handling the most baffling substance on earth. People I'm Andrew Palmer. I've been a journalist at the economist for 16 years. I of all the things I've written about, nothing catches our readers interest like Bartleby, my weekly column on management. For a new podcast, I've tried to find the secrets to being a better manager and squeeze them into seven episodes. It's called Boss Class from the Economist. You could spend your time memorising motivational quotes or practicing trust falls, or you could listen to practical advice from people who actually run things. So somebody once told me that when you're a CEO, the mindset you have to have is what really difficult, intractable problems people are going to bring me today. I do not believe you can be a leader and not be accessible to your people. You do what we did at the beginning of the year and like you throw away 12,000 meetings right? Whether you manage people now or want to in the future, whether you're in charge of a company or you dream of founding one, whether you want to build a culture or just run a meeting properly, Boss Class is for you. Episodes are out weekly starting later in October. If you're not already a subscriber to the Economist, you'll need to sign up for our new podcast subscription, Economist Podcasts. Plus. You'll get unlimited access to Boss Class as well as all our podcasts and special series like this one. Register before October 17th to get all that half price, just a couple of dollars a month. Sign up@exter.com podcastsplus or click the link in the Notes.