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101: Built to Lead: Becoming a Top 10% Manager | with David Long
Did you know that of every 100 employees hired, only 6 or 7 will ever be promoted to their first management position? If you're a manager now, you're one of the 7% who made it! That's the good news. Now, here's the bad news. Statistically speaking, you...
100: Becoming the Boss: New Rules for Gen Y Leaders | with Lindsey Pollak
We are in the midst of a leadership revolution, as power passes from Baby Boomers and Gen X-ers to Millennials. All grown up, the highly educated Generation Y is moving into executive positions in corporations and government, as well as running their own...
099: Business Intuition: 7 Ways Leaders Apply the Science of Intuition | with Simone Wright
Intuition is the new buzz-word in business, and everyone from Branson to Buffet is touting its ability to guide and direct them to greater success and higher profits. However, the understanding of what intuition really is and how it can serve us in...
098: Overworked and Overwhelmed: 4 tools for leaders to reclaim their lives and boost productivity | with Scott Eblin
Many leaders today are chronically overworked and overwhelmed by the seemingly non-stop demands on their time and attention. If you feel like you're constantly outrunning burnout, resentment, and collapse, chances are you aren't performing up to your...
097: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow | with Mark Miller from Chick-fil-A
Are you a leader people want to follow? You can be—but first, you must understand what sets great leaders apart from all the rest. Certainly, leaders need people skills, execution skills, a deep knowledge of industry trends, the ability to articulate a...
096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer
Have you or your team ever come up with a big idea that you thought would be very cool, but didn't take any action because you thought it would be too risky? Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex...
095: 3 Things Leaders Should Learn from Rock-Orchestra Superstars
“At first, we didn’t believe him, that this highly accomplished star in our field was interested in not just teaching us but in learning from us,” my wife Erin said. “But then we saw by his actions that he really meant it.” Erin had just returned from her...
094: Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation | with Greg Brandeau
Are you a leader who builds teams that innovate again and again? Creating and sustaining an organization that is consistently innovative is extremely difficult (and rare). Conventional leaders see their role as conjuring up a vision and inspiring others...
093: The Pure-Hearted Leader: The Surprising Relevance of an Ancient Concept
Back in 2000, Jesse was helping an executive at one of the world's largest companies develop a communication plan. As they were working through the key messages, the executive got tripped up on one of the words Jesse was recommending. He thought the word...
092: 7 Keys to Clarity and Conciseness
Back in episode 89, about the Power of Brevity, we discussed why brevity works and provided four tips for being brief yet powerful. In these tips, clarity leads to brevity, and vice versa. Now, contrast that with most of the corporate-level communication...
091: Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change | with David Maxfield
All successful leaders have to be good at leading progress. And science has found that successful leaders, from CEOs to parents, have a common set of principles and skills that help create quick, profound, and lasting change in people and organizations....
090: How to Bridge the Workplace Generation Gap | with David Maxfield
Can people of different generations work together productively, or do their differences lead only to conflict? According to a new study from the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) and social scientist for organizational change David...