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WorkLab podcast host Elise Hu checked in with Gervais to find out about the secret power of cultivating mindsets to drive real impact on any team. What’s his particular formula for business leaders, as many companies rethink their longstanding practices and explore new, more flexible models of where and when people work?

Three memorable moments from the conversation:

To delve deeper into the theme of how mindsets affect performance, we check in at the end of the episode with Kayla Woputz, a paratriathlon racer who is also a Microsoft data research scientist.

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