675: Tom Hardin (Tipper X) - The Largest Insider Trading Case, How Ambiguous Leadership Destroys Culture, Resume vs. Eulogy Virtues, Bad Decisions vs. Mistakes, and Building Psychological Safety

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Now on to tonight's featured leader. Tom Harden is a former hedge fund analyst who became FBI informant Tipper X, wearing a wire more than 40 times to help convict 81 people in Operation Perfect Edge, the largest insider trading case in United States history. He's the author of Wired. on Wall Street, the rise and fall of Tipper X, one of the FBI's most prolific informants, pokes, crazy. During our conversation, we discuss how pressure can create blind spots and what we as leaders can do to help prevent our people from making poor decisions.

And then you'll hear about how Tom's story taps into a deeper truth, and that is, we are all more susceptible to moral drift than we like to admit. And then we talked about living for your eulogy virtues instead of your resume virtues and how to do that while still making a great living. Ladies and gentlemen, this one is Different than most of the conversations I have on the Learning Leader Show.

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