The Sydcast is all about intimate and informative conversations with fascinating people you may not know. Until now. Because everyone has a story.
Listen in as Syd talks to entrepreneurs, community leaders, professional athletes, politicians, academics, authors, musicians, and many more about who they are and how they got there.
Sydney Finkelstein is an award winning professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and a best-selling author of Superbosses and 25 other books. He’s written for the Harvard Business Review, the BBC, Fortune, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and more academic journals than you’d care to know about. He spends his time asking questions, and sometimes, even answering them.
What do an Iraqi prison camp leader, a Naval Officer, a McKinsey consultant, a Tuck Business School graduate, and a single mom by choice all have in common? Meet Jen Tietz.
By the time Jen Tietz was 13-years-old she knew what she wanted to do: Go to university at the United States Naval Academy and enter a life of service. Strong-willed, smart, and driven by a need to achieve at the highest level, Jen’s story is a classic one of not settling for good enough. For anyone whose gone down this path, or would like to know what it takes to do it, this episode of The Sydcast will provide the road map. Except, along the way, things sometimes change. Discoveries are made, failures are challenged, and people grow and change in ways they might never have thought possible. Jen’s story is all of this, a very human story, and as a result her story holds some key lessons for all of us.
