Summary:
Harvard professor and author Laura Huang shares insights on overcoming adversity in challenging times, drawing from her book “Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage.” Focused on leveraging personal strengths, known as one’s “edge,” Huang explores strategies for navigating obstacles strategically. Through understanding individual uniqueness, she guides listeners on sharpening their edge to thrive in the face of adversity, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Laura Huang, author of the new book Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage, is a professor at Harvard Business School. She spends her academic career studying interpersonal relationships and implicit bias in entrepreneurship and in the workplace. Here she talks about how success is founded in knowing who you are, your “edge”, and using that knowledge unapologetically and strategically. We discuss how to find that unique edge and keep it sharp. Listen and learn how we can all deal with the adversity of the new normal caused by Coronavirus.
