This Is Working with Daniel Roth

Updated: 27 Mar 2025 • 161 episodes
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This is Working has a new format! This podcast is a companion to LinkedIn Editor-in-Chief Dan Roth's This is Working video series, which features Dan's live conversations with today's top leaders. Each podcast episode will now bring you interview excerpts alongside post-interview insights from Dan and his new co-host, Senior Producer Nina Melendez. They’ll look at top takeaways, reflect on big questions, and even share a bit of behind-the-scenes trivia. Nina and Dan will offer their own opinions - and we’re eager to hear yours as well.

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When Justin McLeod decided he had to reboot Hinge, three years after he had founded the dating app service, he had his doubts. It took a member of his team to remind him: "You're the CEO. What's stopping you?" At the same time — and for many the same reasons — McLeod decided he needed to reboot his company: to create a

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This is Quick — the lightning round of This is Working. Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod speaks to LinkedIn Editor in Chief Daniel Roth. Among the reveals: The unusual requirement for McLeod's first job — and why he got fired The "dramatically different" thing he'd be doing if he wasn't running the #1 downloaded dat

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"You would not replace a person with a robot, but a piece of the work a person does."  Roland Busch has a remarkable perch as CEO of Siemens, a massive multinational whose hardware and software touch nearly everything. In this second part of LinkedIn Editor-in-Chief Dan Roth's wide-ranging conversation Busch laid out h

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"We were never going to miss one again … We were never going to deny a transition was happening." Cisco is one of the handful of companies from the dawn of the digital age that is still going strong. But as Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins told LinkedIn Editor in Chief Dan Roth, it isn't Cisco's many successes that propels

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It could be that the best person for a tough job is the one who thinks she isn't. That's what people like Google CEO Eric Schmidt and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki thought when they prodded their founding EMEA marketing head, Lorraine Twohill, to be a big fish in a big pond: Cross the pond to become Chief Marketing Office

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On this week's rapid fire Q&A, Google CMO Lorraine Twohill shares about career paths and what she’s learned from Gen Z colleagues — and what they should learn from her, the importance of trying a few roles on for size — “Life and places like Google are more like a jungle gym than a career ladder" — and why it really is

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