Lessons from New York Times & Stanford: Glenn Kramon

In this episode, I speak with Stanford Lecturer, Glenn Kramon. Glenn was an editor at the New York Times for 37 years and now teaches a flagship class at Stanford Business School called Winning Writing — students say it’s one of their most useful and favorite classes at Stanford. Glenn shares his tips on how to become a one in a million writer. Glenn’s career story is fascinating. He was admitted to Stanford for his MBA program in the 70s and dropped out after 3 days to pursue his journalism career. He shares his decision and how he has no regrets. He has such an interesting perspective on life and the long horizon of our careers and I’m so excited to share his story with you.

In this episode, I experienced some video technical difficulties in the middle of the podcast which I didn’t realize until after the recording. I would recommend listening to this episode rather than watching the full video due to the frame moving in and out of focus. Truthfully, I was going back and forth on whether to even publish this episode because of the poor video quality, but Glenn has such thoughtful insights, I definitely wanted to get this out there for people to learn from. Thanks for your patience and I will try to do better because this video and sound is not up to my quality bar, yet Glenn’s advice is spectacular. I hope you enjoy this episode.

Glenn’s most recent publication in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/op...

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⌚️Timestamps:
00:00 Cold open
01:09 Intro
03:12 Podcast starts
03:47 How can we utilize LinkedIn?
08:04 The importance of LinkedIn Learning
10:00 Which high school activity would Cherie choose again?
13:52 Why LinkedIn is valuable
14:52 Glenn introduction
16:42 What motivated Glenn to move out West?
17:44 Glenn’s Stanford graduate experience
22:37 Was it hard to drop out of Stanford?
24:24 Glenn’s journalism career
26:40 What has Glenn learned from the NYT?
29:12 What was Glenn doing at 28?
33:51 Why is “Winning Writing” an important class at GSB?
36:25 How do other schools at Stanford benefit from writing?
38:18 The importance of standing out
42:20 LinkedIn “stalking”
44:48 How to become a better writer?
46:20 Glenn’s thoughts on ChatGPT
52:10 Glenn’s thoughts on emojis in writing
53:25 What Glenn has learned about himself recently
57:41 How to learn to move on
59:59 The next 5 years for Glenn
01:06:14 Closing thoughts

ABOUT ME
Hello friends, thanks for watching! My name is Cherie and I'm a content creator, Stanford MBA student, & former LinkedIn senior product manager 👋🏻 I share personal career stories on Cherie's Corner Podcast via YouTube and Instagram, so you can learn from my friends and our successes and failures, all while owning our authentic selves and living happier lives.

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