Dr. Julie Gurner
18 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 27, 2023 by Dr. Julie Gurner · said 8 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Jun 27, 2023
Gurner: Outliers do not burn boats because they trust their adaptability
“I don't think that they see themselves burning boats, because I think that they see that no matter what happens, they'll figure it out. I don't think that they're gonna say, like, oh, I'm gonna lose it all if this happens. I think they'll say, well, I'll figur…”
Jun 27, 2023 positive
Jun 27, 2023
Dr. Julie Gurner: The circle you seek validation from must be tiny
“I think that we should seek it from the right people in our lives, but we certainly don't want to be seeking it outside of that, and I guess I'm of the belief that that circle of seeking validation should be incredibly small. I mean, a few people you know, you…”
Jun 27, 2023 positive
Gurner: Not fitting in socially acts as a forcing function for outliers
“I think that they tend to be very quirky people as individuals, and I think it almost is a forcing function to pushing them where they end up going, right? Like if you're somebody who easily, I often wonder, and this is just my own theory, right? Like if you'r…”
Jun 27, 2023
Gurner: Being told 'you have changed' should be taken as a compliment
“So someone's saying, oh, you've changed, yes, consider that a compliment, right? Like, you want to change, you want to be different, you want to grow, and I always feel like when people say things like, don't forget where you come from, sometimes it's a way of…”
Jun 27, 2023
Gurner: Unchallenged 'imaginary rules' and peer echo chambers artificially limit personal ambition
“Unless you find ways to expand beyond yourself, these imaginary rules that you carry around often keep you very small, because you will limit what you feel you can do. You will limit how much you feel you can earn. You will limit what you feel you're capable o…”
Jun 27, 2023 negative
Jun 27, 2023
Gurner: High performers run on obsession, not prolonged forced discipline
“When we are at our best, we're not slogging through. And great People are obsessed and they're not slogging through either. They are driven. They are motivated. They are deeply, deeply engaged. And so I find that oftentimes when we over rely on discipline, tho…”
Jun 27, 2023 positive
Jun 27, 2023 negative
Dr. Julie Gurner rejects 'building in public' in favor of private execution
“I know everyone's a big fan of, like, building in public, and I'm not, I'm absolutely opposite of that, and I'm much more of the Sun Tzu, like, let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you fall, fall like a thunderbolt, right?”
Jul 25, 2023
Jul 25, 2023
Gurner: Post-interaction energy drain is the best relationship red flag
“I think your energy is probably the best flag, and it isn't always about something specific. So if you leave those interactions and You know, you find yourself not feeling great. To me, that's the, always the first flag. And then do you notice there's a patter…”
Jul 25, 2023 positive
Gurner: Framing feedback as "us versus the problem" reduces defensiveness
“You're forming a collaboration against the problem. So rather than me, and then you are the problem, it is, I'm pulling you to my side of the table, and it's us together versus this problem that we're going to talk about, and it is it's incredibly effective be…”
Jul 25, 2023
An executive acting defensive or brusque is a counterintuitive signal of trust
“You have to have a great relationship for someone to feel comfortable being able to be kind of not their best self with you, Right. To be able to give you some hard responses, to be able to be a little brusque with you. And I can take that. And to me, that's a…”
Jul 25, 2023
Gurner: A leader dismissing a topic signals it must be addressed
“If you have someone who comes to you and say, you know, I'm going to talk about everything but product. We could talk about everything but product. That's to me as a signal, like, we need to talk about product, right? Like, that's the flag.”
Jul 25, 2023
Gurner: Exceptional performers import ideas from outside their own domains
“People who are great will find ways of pulling in exceptional things from outside of their fields, outside of their way of thinking, outside of tradition, outside of, you know, what is common, and some ways we have to do that for ourselves, right, but we also …”
Jul 25, 2023
Gurner: Separating Identity From Work Prevents Skewed Decision-Making
“I think that it's very useful to see business or things that you care deeply about are the things that you do, not who you are. And I think it actually gives you an increased level of competence when you're able to do that, because you're able to, when you're …”
Jul 25, 2023 negative
Gurner: Leaders Should Not Bring Their Full Selves to Work
“And sometimes stepping into that role means that you leave a lot of other things on the side. It means that you don't bring your full self to work. Nobody cares. Nobody wants that. And like you bring your best work self to work and you lead from the front and …”