The Leadership Standard – 022 –Geoff Colvin - Fortune Magazine Senior Editor at Large, CBS Radio Daily Commentator, and Bestselling-author

EPISODE 22 Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a coveted Fortune 500 company? Look no further than this episode of The Leadership Standard podcast featuring award-winning thinker, author, broadcaster, Senior Editor at Large of Fortune Magazine, and speaker on today’s most significant trends in business – Geoff Colvin! As someone who is frequently surrounded by multi-billionaires and visionaries such as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson – Geoff Colvin’s conversation with host Gair Maxwell will bring you inside the mindsets of the world’s most influential business leaders, and reveal unconventional insights about the most valuable companies in the world. Throughout this episode, branding expert and TEC speaker Gair Maxwell and Geoff Colvin also discuss topics found within Geoff’s latest book, Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know that Brilliant Machines Never Will. Determined a “must-read” for every business leader in the post-pandemic reality, Geoff argues that as technology advances with increasing speed, the most valuable skills in the economy will be skills of deep human interaction – empathy, creative problem-solving in groups, storytelling – and reveals why developing these skills will be crucial to the futures of individuals, companies, and nations. Recognized as one the world’s sharpest and most respected commentators on leadership, globalization, wealth creation, the infotech revolution, and more, Geoff Colvin has analyzed companies and business leaders worldwide as they confront the largest issues of our time. Don’t miss this episode of The Leadership Standard podcast where Geoff Colvin shares his firsthand knowledge about what distinguishes the greats from everyone else – while reflecting on the business leaders and organizations that have prospered, the ones that have stumbled, and why.