Arianna Huffington
Founder & CEO, Thrive Global. On 2 shows, 3 appearances, plus 1 compilation re-air not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Arianna Huffington co-founded the digital media outlet The Huffington Post and served on Uber's board of directors. She currently leads Thrive Global and has authored 15 books.
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9said about them ↓ Everything Arianna Huffington said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Huffington: Employee attrition costs Amazon $8 billion
“Attrition is costing Amazon eight billion dollars.”
Huffington: Work and life are not opposing trade-offs but rise together
“Right now we still talk about work-life balance, which I think is just not the right way to address this problem, because it's not like work and life are at opposing ends, that in fact they rise or fall in tandem.”
Huffington: For human productivity, downtime is a feature, not a bug
“But for the human operating system, downtime is not a bug, it's a feature. So when we recognize that, we realize that productivity and well-being are on the same side of the ledger.”
Huffington: Jack Ma urged her to leave HuffPost and found Thrive
“That night, Jack had a speaker's dinner, and during that dinner, he said to me, you know, if I were you, I would leave the Huffington Post and launch a new company around Thrive, because he said there is no market leader, and the biggest crisis going on in Chi…”
Arianna Huffington: 75% of healthcare costs are stress-related and preventable
“75% of healthcare costs and healthcare problems are stress-related and preventable.”
Huffington: Thrive has a rule that nobody should interview while tired
“So what we're doing now at Thrive, having learned from my mistakes, we have this rule that nobody should interview while tired.”
Huffington: Daily work expectations, not occasional crunches, drive employee burnout
“People never have a problem with what they do occasionally. It's what's expected of you every day that's the problem.”
Huffington: Neuroscience proves resetting acute stress takes under 60 seconds
“Neuroscience tells us it takes under 60 seconds to course correct. From stress.”
Huffington: Managing incomplete work requires declaring an arbitrary end to the workday
“Our whole B to B is based on a behavior change platform, broken down into science-based micro steps for change, and the most important micro step in learning to live with incompletions is declaring an arbitrary end to your day. You have to declare it. You have…”
Arianna Huffington: Directness is the most important and hardest-to-teach cultural trait
“And the most important, ironically, and the one that I have realized the hardest to teach is directness. So our number one cultural value at Thrive is compassionate directness, which means being able to have tough conversations, being able to disagree, includi…”
Huffington: 72% of people sleep with their phones
“We check them 344 times a day. 72% of the world go to bed with their phones, either on their nightstand or cuddled up with them.”
Huffington: Microsoft study shows 60-90 second breaks prevent cumulative stress
“And there is an amazing new study that Microsoft put out that shows that if we can have little breaks in between things, and when I say little, I mean, 60 to 90 seconds.”
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Statements about Arianna Huffington, by other people (3)
Huffington: Sleep deprivation costs companies 11 days of productivity per employee
“The data is conclusive that we are working longer hours than ever, but we lose 11 days of productivity a year per employee.”
Huffington: Society should pay night shift workers more and restrict hours
“Well, first of all, I think night shifts are a big problem, and I think as a society, we should be paying people who do night shifts more than we would pay them if they were doing the same work during the day. Just based on all the medical understanding of the…”
Huffington: Sleep trackers build awareness but aren't permanently necessary
“Sleep monitoring, like step monitoring or any exercise monitoring can be helpful in terms of helping us see where we are in terms of our sleep compared to our energy level the next day. It makes us more self-aware. But frankly, at some point, we can become sel…”
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER | Founder & CEO, Thrive Global | 3 +1 | 13 | 40% 2/5 | full record on Masters of Scale → |
| a16zLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Thrive Global | 0 | 0 | 75% 3/4 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |