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089: The Power of Brevity | with Bill Holston
Some of the most memorable speeches and documents have been much shorter than the norm. Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was only 2 or 3 minutes long, and we remember it much better than the other speaker that day, Edward Everett, who spoke for two...
088: Happy @ Work: Top Habits That Keep People Engaged and Successful | with Jim Donovan
A growing body of research in psychology and neuroscience is demonstrating that happiness is a secret ingredient to success at work. It turns out, our brains are more engaged, creative, productive, and resilient when in a positive state. What are the top...
087: Talk Like TED: 3 Secrets to Radically Improve Your Presentations | with Carmine Gallo
Ideas are the currency of the 21st century. You can have brilliant ideas—truly revolutionary ideas—but if you cannot persuade others to act, those ideas don’t matter. In 2006, the famous TED conference began streaming 18-minute presentations from the...
086: The 6 Principles (or C’s) of Workforce Health Engagement | with Terry Sherwood
In episode 1, Jesse and his colleague Terry Sherwood defined workforce health engagement as improving the knowledge, decision-making, and behaviors of employees, their families, and organizational leaders to optimize health outcomes, control medical...
085: A Leadership Course for the Rising Star | with Kevin Allen
You can buy a leadership book today for about $25. Or you can get an MBA for about $30,000. But learning about leadership from a few decades of everyday experience and mentors? That’s priceless. Kevin Allen was the pitchman for the “Priceless” ad campaign...
084: Scaling Up Excellence: Getting To More Without Settling For Less | with Bob Sutton
If you’ve created a great little coffeeshop, how do you expand and put your coffeeshops in cities around the world without watering down what makes your coffeeshop great? That’s a question that Starbucks certainly struggled to answer. Or, if you have a...
083: How to Sleep Better for Improved Leadership, Productivity, and Innovation
It happened again. Jesse recently had a stretch of several weeks where sleep problems caused him to get insufficient sleep … and the effect on his creativity, productivity, and influence was obvious. It’s a common problem that pops up from time to time...
082: Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability | with Faisal Hoque
In the 21st century, the businesses and leaders that succeed are a difficult mix of creativity and flexibility on the one hand, and long-burning value on the other hand. In their new book, Faisal Hoque and co-author Drake Baer explain how these seeming...
081: 18 More Ways to Engage Your Target Audience
Last week, Jesse and Marty discussed that when we have an opportunity to influence or lead people, we can’t assume that sharing information is enough. That’s simply table stakes. Once you know what you want to communicate, you need to think about how to...
080: 8 Ways to Engage Your Target Audience
When we have an opportunity to influence or lead people, we can’t assume that sharing information is enough. That’s simply table stakes. Once you know what you want to communicate, you need to think about how to engage your audience and keep them engaged...
079: How to Engage Cynical Employees | with Bob Kelleher, author of Employee Engagement for Dummies
How do you engage employees who are cynical or jaded? And what if your organization is trying to improve employee engagement, but employees and even managers are cynical about the engagement initiative itself? To help us address this issue, our guest is...
078: Leadership by Design: Rise of the DEO | with Maria Guidice & Christopher Ireland
In the 20th century, in casting the ideal CEO, we took our cues from MBAs and the military. But many of the most recent superstars, such as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Larry Page don’t seem to fit that model. So is it the most effective model for the 21st...