Innovating Leadership: Shorts
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Get the latest leadership insights in just a couple of minutes!This series features a new interview every week. Host Maureen Metcalf interviews world leaders, global business and NPO executives, thought leaders, and researchers in a wide range of industries. It’s a breadth of perspectives unavailable anywhere else.Become an innovative leader in your own right! Download the latest episode each Wednesday on your favorite podcast platform.
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The Three Ways Companies React to DEI
The advantages – and disadvantages – of a DEI program depend largely on a business’ board of directors…how they implement it, and react to it. The CEO of Competent Boards, Helle Bank Jorgensen, explains. Learn more in our full interview with Helle on Podbean at https://bit.ly/YourFutureBoard…
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How to Disagree with Your Leader
We won’t like absolutely everything our favorite leader says. When we disagree with them, it’s important to let them know; that’s actually an expression of loyalty. Our guest, author Ira Chaleff, explains why that simple act makes you a courageous follower. Listen to our full interview with Ira...
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How This Exec Signed 525 Companies to Amazon’s Climate Pledge
Kara Hurst leads Amazon’s sustainability work, and is on track for the company to be net-zero carbon by 2040. She brought 525 other companies on board, too. Here’s how she did it. Hear our full interview with Kara on Podbean at https://bit.ly/BeyondRetail , on YouTube at...
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The 5 Tech Trends Changing Your Shopping Experience
Change comes fast these days...and it'll come 4x faster soon. How can your business handle it? Ken Moore, Mastercard's Chief Innovation Officer, uncovers the three things you'll need. Hear our full interview with Ken on Podbean at https://bit.ly/MCInnovations2, or watch on YouTube at...
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The End of Competition? How Collaboration Makes Mastercard a Winner
Massive amounts of money move across the globe every day. Mastercard soon realized that they could improve that system for consumers if they focused on collaboration and partnership, rather than competition. The result: improved choice, convenience, and security for your payments. Hear the full...
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Why We Say No to Women Leaders
There's still a huge gender gap in the C-suite, and in the 2024 US Presidential election, some voters admit they're "not ready for a female President." What gives? Tall Poppy Syndrome, for one thing. Guest Betsy Myers, a former White House advisor, talks about that, the stats, and other reasons...
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What Ancestry’s CEO Looks for in a Leader
Deb Liu, president & CEO of Ancestry, sees how rapidly the world is changing -- so wants people who can change with it. That will keep the company relevant for Ancestry's customers. In this video, she reveals the qualities she looks for when people want to join her team, including thinking out of...
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The Future Is Coming Faster than You Think: Defining VUCA
Change is happening faster and faster -- exponentially so. Leaders who fight the change instead of preparing for it will increasingly be left behind. The first step in preparing is recognizing why change is happening. Guests Chris Nolan and Mike Schindler provide an explanation of what the...
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Three Keys for Leadership Success
Hilton has over a century of success; their leader culture is a big reason why. Shruti Gandhi Buckley, SVP of Hampton by Hilton & Spark by Hilton, explains her three areas of focus leading to her team's success: - Put people first - Be inclusive & empowering - Inspire change. Get the details in...
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The Chick-fil-A Operator Model
Guest: Steve Robinson, former Chick-fil-A CMO "There's a great leader in every Chick-fil-A restaurant." Former Chick-fil-A CMO Steve Robinson explains the origins of the company's philosophy for leadership in individual restaurants. After opening the first two stores, founder Truett Cathy saw...
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The Benefits of AI Coming True
Dave Levy shares the promise of AI -- and the ways those benefits are coming true now, including: - Empowering decision-makers with better data - Speeding up research - Personalizing services (and making them more convenient), especially in dealing with government, and - Converting ideas into...
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AI Isn't Ready for HR Prime Time
Although Artificial Intelligence is making fast inroads into business, HR departments are often lagging behind. Sander van 't Noorende, the CEO of multinational HR firm Randstad, says it's for good reason: AI still doesn't understand human nuance, which is vital in the hiring process. Learn more…
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When Leaders Dare to Fail
When was the last time you heard a senior executive say, “I screwed up?” It’s exceedingly rare – and it’s holding organizations back. Why? Because, as guest Tammy Alvarez – the CEO of Career Winners Circle – points out, you can’t succeed without failure. In fact, you’re likely to learn more from...
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The Leadership Trap -- and a Solution
We’ve seen the leadership trap a lot in CEOs post-COVID: they’re too set in their old status quo. Being static or stagnant in your beliefs traps you in the past, unable to respond successfully to new issues. But our guest, Shaan Patel (CEO of Prep Expert), says the solution is simple: adopt a...
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The Four Principles of Trauma-Informed Leaders
Guest: Stephanie Lemek, Founder: The Wounded Workforce Up to 70% of your workforce faced at least one trauma and its aftermath. That affects their work...but leaders aren't equipped to be therapists. What can you do? In this video, Stephanie Lemek, founder of The Wounded Workforce, highlights the...
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Up and Out: Defining How Leaders Grow
Guest: Mike Morrow-Fox, Organizational Development Consultant Teachers want their students to have horizontal and vertical development. But leaders need to grow like this, too. So what are they? In this clip from our interview with Michael Morrow-Fox, he explains the basics. Check out the full...
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Cali Sober's Appeal to Leaders
Have you heard of Cali Sober? It’s gaining popularity with leaders, although it’s been around for years. As health – mental and physical – becomes a bigger priority in C-suites, leaders are looking for less toxic ways to destress than drinking alcohol. With Cali Sober, execs are turning to...
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How to Pause a Heated Conversation
Arguments at work seem inevitable -- but you can easily defuse them by cooling down a heated discussion before it explodes. The key? Take a pause. In this video, elite executive coach Amiel Handelsman offers three very distinct ways you can smoothly take that pause. It's part of our longer...
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How to Make Your Team Future Ready
If your employees aren't ready for the future, your organization isn't, either. Tech companies like Amazon can't afford that -- so they create their future by preparing their employees. Steve Armato, Amazon's VP of Middle Mile and Tech, explains a few of the ways their teams get ready for the...
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Omaha Steaks' Secret Sauce: Make It Your Competitive Advantage
GUEST: Nate Rempe, Omaha Steaks CEO Omaha Steaks has led their market for over a century. CEO Nate Rempe says maintaining that lead for the next century requires several ingredients in their secret sauce for success...especially horizontal leadership. It creates cohesive leadership teams,...
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Global Hunger vs Malnutrition: A Solution
Dr. Reza Soltanzadeh points out that, while 828 million people go hungry every night worldwide, 1.2 billion are malnourished. And he feels that can be solved using American manufacturing excellence, producing high quality foods at low price points to feed those in need. Our full interview with…
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Questionable Ethics? Question Your Board!
As businesses adopt AI, ethical questions arise about its use: generating misinformation and disinformation are only the beginning! What do you do in the gray zone, where the ethics aren't obvious? Competent Boards CEO Helle Bank Jorgensen says one solution is to take it to your board of…
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Leadership by the Slice: Managing Successful Change
Change is scary — especially in the restaurant business, where routine and consistency are often the root of success. But Donatos Pizza CEO Tom Krouse explains the key roles of a leader to smoothly incorporate innovation. Number one: communicate! When your people understand WHY change is needed,...
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Leading by Listening: How Judges Rule
Beverley McLachlin -- former Chief Justice of Canada's Supreme Court -- points out that leadership requires more of judges. Their decisions change people's lives. Their leadership principles are solid behaviors for ALL leaders: chiefly, leading by listening carefully to all present, but also...
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From Intern to VP: A Journey of Learning
Physicist Julius Sumner Miller used to say failure doesn't exist in science because you learn from EVERY outcome. As guest Beryl Tomay reveals, the culture at Amazon is similar. She started there as an intern, and rose to Vice President. We all make mistakes, and she had her share of stumbles --...
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From Fear to Joy: How People Experience AI at Work
Watching AI anxiety turn into excitement is one of the things Suchi Srinivasan of Boston Consulting Group loves about her work. Despite the doomsayers, AI (usually!) makes work more positive; salespeople, for example, can work more on relationships instead of paperwork. For more on Suchi's...
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Are CEOs Coping? The Statistics Say...
Futurist Matthew Griffin ponders what CEOs should be thinking about in light of the facts that they have less direct control of their companies, many believe their organizations will be in bad shape within a decade, and the average CEO tenure is only about half of what it used to be! This is but…
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How AI Changed the Game for Robots
Robots are coming into their own. From the narrowly programmed industrial 'bots a generation ago, today's robots can perceive the world around them and change how they react. The key, according to Tye Brady -- the Chief Technologist of Amazon Robotics -- is AI. And human safety is improving in…
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Innovation’s Like Cement: Amazon’s Key Questions to Set an Innovation Culture in Your Organization
If there's one key quality behind Amazon's success, it's a deep culture of innovation. Prime Air is one division with innovation at its very core -- and VP David Carbon reveals the questions he asks through any new project to ensure his team's innovative edge stays razor sharp. This is an excerpt...
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Who Are You, Really? Leadership & Vulnerability
Being vulnerable is really another way of being honest with yourself: not just being aware of your emotions, but WHY you're feeling them. Knowing you're angry is one thing, but knowing why you're angry leads to solutions...and better leadership. In this excerpt from our interview, Jacob Morgan...
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Keep Your Staff Dissatisfied (and Other Surprising Leadership Lessons)
As a leader, your main title is really CDO - Chief Dissatisfaction Officer. Not in a disgruntled way, but in a motivated way. Being content with the status quo leads to stagnation, so set new visions, new goals, and encourage curiosity and exploration. In short, guest Mansour Javidan says…
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Three Myths of the Western World (Killing Your Innovation)
We say we want innovation in our companies, our governments, and our daily lives. But we fear it, too! Three myths help perpetuate that fear, but guest Karen Tilstra also has four actions you can take to make everyone comfortable with innovation! Learn more in our full interview with Karen on...
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Does Work Make You Sick -- or Well?
You spend over half of your waking hours each weekday at work. It only makes sense that the workplace has a major affect on your mental health and general well-being! Cameron Stockdale, from Vancouver-based Work Wellness Institute, shares some basic tips on making a healthy workplace. One basic...
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Burnout at Work
The world has changed. So what happens at work when the status quo doesn't work any more? The speed of change and uncertainty keeps you busy and running...but it's running on a treadmill. If your leaders are reactive, instead of making decisions grounded in your purpose, you're going nowhere…
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Lead Like a Human - and Survive!
Still having staffing problems? The Great Resignation isn't over; it's just settled in as the new normal. People continue leaving jobs that don't match their values -- including being treated like a human being, not a cog. What's at stake if you don't lead human? Your company's very survival. The...
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Ignite Your Goals with Structure
When we fall short of goals, we often blame a lack of discipline: "Oh, if only I were more disciplined, I'd be CEO by now." But, Dre Baldwin points out, we're missing the real key: structure. It's the template we follow, and discipline arises out of that. Forget the structure, and discipline…
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Building Up Women-Owned Businesses in West Africa
While women-owned businesses account for 40% of small- to medium-sized businesses in Africa, the owners aren't always trained to be investment-ready. Through the Sheba program, Pauline Koelbl and ShEquity are changing that! Learn more in this excerpt from our full interview with Pauline. You can...
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EQ: Boosting Engagement Boosts Productivity
Emotions drive people, and people drive your profitability. It's pretty simple, really -- but most bosses ignore the role of emotion in the workplace. In fact, EQ (emotional intelligence) is going down. Joshua Freedman of Six Seconds gives the details. To learn more about boosting your leadership...
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The Competitive Edge in Psychological Safety
Psychological safety gets eye rolls from old-school leaders. Sure, it means making sure your team members feel good and can bring their best selves to work. But innovative leaders know the material benefit: your team feels safe to experiment, to try out new ideas -- and that gives your…
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Everybody Says the Customer Rules -- But WHICH Customer???
Customers can have conflicting needs from your company. So when your CEO says the customer is always right, which customer do they mean? Rini Das of RD Management Consulting breaks down the three priorities of customer expectations: Must-Haves, Satisfiers, and Delighters, along with the impact…
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Anxiety Kept Us Alive (within Reason)
Anxiety is one of most ancient emotions. Back in the epoch, it kept our ancestors alive -- as a way of anticipating threats. But today, anxiety can get in the way: we can feel like we're in a constant state of threat. Morra Aarons-Mele has lived with and researched anxiety; in this excerpt from…
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Is Joy Part of Your Boss’ Job?
Leaders have a lot of responsibility...but is forging a workplace with joy part of that? YES! That's the short answer from Dr. Pamela Larde, who studies joy in the workplace and in our personal lives. The bottom line of her research: joy is good for your business' bottom line! She says more in…
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Caring and the Code
Being on code means a lot of things: bringing others along as you climb the leadership ladder, authentically walking your talk, and most critically, doing the right thing, for example. In many ways, being on code means caring. Guests Keith Powell and Ricky Robinson of C-Crets give the details in...
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The PATH to Understanding Your Customer
Do you know what your customers want? What your employees want? Small organizations may have an innate feel for it, but there's a tipping point when a company is too big for leaders to know customer or staff needs. Gathering and processing data is critical to understand those needs -- and thus in...
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Boost Yourself with Hybrid Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence gets such a bad rap -- but AI tools are NOT meant to replace us. They're here to augment us, to help us do more of the things that are human strengths. Guest Neil Sahota, an IBM Master Inventor, calls it Hybrid Intelligence: adding artificial intelligence to our own…
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When DEI Is Part of Your DNA
LinkedIn takes DEI to a new level with their DIBs programs: Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging. They've been wildly successful with it. Chief People Officer Teuila Hanson explains one of the core reasons behind that success: DIBs is supported right up to the CEO, so it's part of LinkedIn's DNA....
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Does Your Boss Think Remote Work Reduces Productivity? Myth Busted!
One reason many CEOs want staff back in the office full time: they claim remote work is less productive. But the hard data shows that simply isn't the case. As Dr. Gleb Tsipursky points out, part of the CEOs' disconnect is that leaders often don't understand the nature of work. He explains more…
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Every Employee Has a Story
Laura Fuentes, SVP and CHRO of Hilton, talks about the importance of leading with character and values. Why? It boils down to the fact that every team member is a person with a story...often, a very deep and moving story. And it is the leader's sacred responsibility to steward that! Learn more…
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How Does High Tech Hit Goals? They Go Old School
Kvon Tucker trained leaders at hugely successful high tech giants, including Netflix and Amazon. And he discovered one key secret behind their way-above average hit rate on new initiatives: writing. When something stumbles, they'll do a root cause analysis, asking the Five Whys to burrow down to...
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When Will AI Be More than Human?
Robots may be on the threshold of being sentient -- and more intelligent than humans. Or maybe not: the problem is, we don't really know how to tell. Our guest, Greg Moran, asks how we can recognize when AI reaches that tipping point. Already, robots are better than people at specific tasks....
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Get the latest leadership insights in just a couple of minutes!This series features a new interview every week. Host Maureen Metcalf interviews world leaders, global business and NPO executives, thought leaders, and researchers in a wide range of industries. It’s a breadth of perspectives unavailable anywhere else.Become an innovative leader in your own right! Download the latest episode each Wednesday on your favorite podcast platform.
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