Episodes
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Strategic Leadership Champions
In this episode of the Leadership Genius Podcast, Jason Diamond Arnold, Director of Leadership Solutions at Inspire Software, explores one of the most persistent challenges in modern organizations: why strategy execution fails. Drawing on insights from Inspire’s State of Strategy Execution 2025...
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The Strategic Leadership Disconnect
In this conversation, Jason Diamond Arnold discusses the alarming statistics regarding employee access to and understanding of their company's strategic plans. He emphasizes the importance of aligning individual and team objectives with the overall strategy to enhance employee engagement and...
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The State of Strategic Leadership 2025
In this episode, Jason Diamond Arnold explores Inspire Software’s 2025 research on why most strategies fail during execution—and what leaders can do to fix this. Using survey data from multiple industries, he points out the three main barriers to strategic leadership: Underused AI, Outdated...
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The Leadership Genius of Dr. Drea Zigarmi
In this special episode of the Leadership Genius Podcast, we honor the life and legacy of Dr. Drea Zigarmi—scholar, practitioner, mentor, and friend. Best known as coauthor of the Situational Leadership II® model and Achieve Leadership Genius, Drea shaped modern leadership by blending rigorous...
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Leadership Coaching
In this episode of the Leadership Genius Podcast, Jason Diamond Arnold unpacks the power of leadership coaching — and why it’s one of the most overlooked drivers of business success. From the C-suite to self-leadership, Jason breaks down common misconceptions, explains what coaching truly is (and...
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The Leadership Analysis of Elon Musk's Ultimatum to Federal Employees
In this episode of the Leadership Genius podcast, JasonDiamond Arnold discusses the ultimatum given to federal employees on February 22, 2025, when Elon Musk demanded that all employees list five things they had completed the previous week or face the threat of losing their jobs. This bold move...
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The Leadership Genius of Andy Reid
In this episode of The Leadership Genius Podcast, Jason Diamond Arnold explores the leadership genius of Andy Reid, head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, who is attempting to make history this week by becoming the first coach in the modern era to win three consecutive world championships in...
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The Most Fundamental Skill of Leadership
One of the most significant leadership challenges is to influence others toward a common objective. The practical skill of effectively setting and pursuing goals is one of the most overlooked leadership practices. Too often leaders assume everyone knows the goal and what it will take to get to…
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The Leadership Dilemma of Executive Orders vs. Collaboration
In this episode of the Leadership Genius podcast, we compare and contrast the power to make and implement "executive decisions" versus the challenges of collaborating and achieving consensus to inspire and influence people toward a vision or objective.
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Why We Are Passionate About Leadership!
In this episode, Jason Diamond Arnold reveals the crucial significance of pursuing a career in leadership - a skill that has become increasingly valuable in today's fast-paced world. Explore how to learn about the immense benefits of honing your leadership abilities and how they can help you...
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The Golden Age of Leadership
The Golden Age of Leadership with Dr. Drea Zigarmi | The Leadership Genius Podcast Summary: Welcome to another enriching episode of The Leadership Genius Podcast, your premier destination for leadership insights and transformative ideas. This compelling segment delves into the Golden Age of...
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Exploring the Origins of Leadership Theory
Overview Dive deep into the annals of leadership theory in this inaugural episode of our series dedicated to Situational Leadership Theory. Leadership, often considered an art and a science, has captured human imagination and scholarly attention for centuries. From the early emergence of the...
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The Four Tragedies of Leadership
In this episode of The Leadership Genius podcast, we explore the four tragedies of leadership that plague organizations and communities. For more information on the Leadership Genius curriculum, check out how we have built the world's first, Leadership as a Subscription at Inspire Software.
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Connectedness to Leaders
In this episode of The Leadership Genius podcast, we review some resent research we've done around the impact of how connected individuals are with leaders within organizations. It's one of the key indicators of employee engagement, or what we call "Employee Work Passion", and is having a...
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The Science of Executive Leadership
In this episode of the Leadership Genius, we take a deep dive into Leadership in an Organizational context. There are many misconceptions about how to be an effective "Executive Leader." Too often executive leadership is seen as an high level endeavor for only for an elite few. While leading an...
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The New Psychology of Leadership
In this episode of The Leadership Genius podcast we are reviewing the book, The New Psychology of Leadership. Leadership is evolving and to be an effective leader in today's Knowledge Workforce, you need to evolve with these changes. Please feel to reach out to me, Jason Diamond Arnold, Director…
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The Leadership Genius of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In the first episode of Season 3 of the Leadership Genius podcast, we honor the leadership legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King was a monumental leader in American and Global history. In this episode we analyze three core leadership traits that Dr. King demonstrated as he influenced the...
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The Leadership Genius of Santa Claus
Today's special episode of the Leadership Genius focuses on the Leadership Genius of Santa Claus, with special guest, 9 Year Old YouTuber, and future leader, Crazy Colt Diamond. I interview him on some of the ways that the Jolly Old Elf, St. Nick, prepares for the big night, December 24th. How…
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The Leadership Skill of Motivation
In this special Leadership Genius podcast, we interview best-selling business author, Susan Fowler, discussing her expertise on Motivation Science and the positive it is having on the world of work and beyond. This is part one of a two part series on the topic of motivation science and its impact...
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Master Your Own Motivation as a Leader
In this special Leadership Genius podcast, we interview best-selling business author, Susan Fowler, discussing her expertise on Motivation Science and the positive it is having on the world of work and beyond. This is part one of a two part series on the topic of motivation science and its impact...
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How Do You Measure Leadership Performance?
We often promote the importance of developing leadership skills within organizations and communities, but have little to no evidence to quantify the value of leadership development programs or the performance of leaders who have been developed. In this episode of the Leadership Genius podcast we...
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Challenging Entrenched Leadership Mindsets
Becoming a more effective leader often requires behavioral change in a leader. But many leaders and organizations have entrenched mindsets about what leadership is. They doubt that you can actually develop leaders or become a better leader yourself. Underestimating these mindsets, and the…
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Leading with Objectives and Key Results (Part Two)
In this special episode of the Leadership Genius podcast we experience Part Two of our interview Strategic Execution and OKR expert, Paul Niven on the art of leading through setting specific and clear Objectives and Key Results. Paul is the President of OKRstraining.com and is a best-selling...
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Leading with Objectives and Key Results (Part One)
In this special episode of the Leadership Genius podcast we interview Strategic Execution and OKR expert, Paul Niven on the art of leading through setting specific and clear Objectives and Key Results. He is the President of OKRstraining.com and is a best-selling business author, OKR coach,...
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Developing Leaders through Real Work
This week's Leadership Genius podcasts focusing on addressing the problem of developing leaders through stand alone classroom on online learning programs. Episode 3 of a 5 part series on Why Leadership Development Programs Fail, is based on a watershed article published by McKinsey. Learn how we...
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Leadership in Context
Many organizations take a one-size-fits-all approach to developing leaders. But leadership happens in the context of which you are trying to lead others in. This week's episode of the Leadership Podcast explores what it means to lead in context and how you and your organization can develop…
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The Problem with Leadership Development
In Episode One of Season Two of the Leadership Genius podcast, we explore the challenges facing leadership development programs in organizations today. Based on a watershed article by McKinsey Quarterly, Why Leadership Development Programs Fail, we overview a four part podcast series on the...
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The Leadership Practice of Recognition
Catching people doing things right is one of the most important practices a leader can engage in when influencing others toward a common goal. Too many employees feel like the only time they get feedback is when something gets wrong. The leadership practice of Continuous Recognition isn't about...
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Effective Feedback Insights for Leaders
Feedback shouldn't be delivered only when things go sideways. It also shouldn't be delivered only once a year during a performance review. When leaders effectively give continuous feedback, they build a culture of continual growth and development toward critical business strategy. Leaders can…
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Leading with Quality Conversations
In this episode of The Leadership Genius podcast we take a deeper dive into the positive impact regular, one to one, leadership conversations have on individuals, organizations, and communities. We explore important concepts from our latest eBook through Inspire Software on how to have quality...
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The Silver Bullet of Leadership
Leadership is difficult. But Gallup has found one critical practice that sets great leaders apart from other leaders--and it's pretty simple. Discover what Gallup calls, The Silver Bullet of Leadership practice in this week's episode of the Leadership Genius podcast.
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Developing Leadership in the Flow of Work
Leadership Development programs were broken before the chaos of 2020; now they have been shattered. How do you effectively develop leaders throughout your entire organization without taking them away from the pursuit of their objectives to learn a leadership theory? You don't! Today, leadership...
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Leadership is a Verb
Leadership is often thought of as a noun. When you think of leadership, who or what comes to mind? Often we think about a particular leader that has influenced or shaped history or an organization though her or his time in a leadership role. You may think of leadership as a title, such as an...
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The Definition of Leadership
In this episode of the Leadership Genius podcast we explore our definition of leadership, which sets the foundation for our approach to leadership. We explore the art & science of leadership as well as leading yourself and others toward a common purpose. We encourage you to reach out to us and...
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The Leadership Genius of Ferris Bueller
In the words of 80s icon, Ferris Bueller, "Life moves pretty fast." This week, the Leadership Genius podcast attempts to glean wisdom from this mischievous, but clever character by identifying four critical leadership traits leaders need to consider in the fast paced, rapidly changing world of…
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The Great Leadership Challenge of Turning Strategy Into Action
One of the greatest leadership challenges, throughout history, and particularly in our world of uncertainty today, is turning strategy into action. How do great leaders move out of a strategic mindset and into an operational mindset where you and your people are fluidly and effectively executing...
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Leading a Work Experience; Not a Workplace
How are leaders dealing with employee and organizational burnout in a pandemic/post-pandemic world. Today's leaders need to think about work as a process; not a place, in order to effectively engage and retain employees throughout the organization.
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Are Leaders Born, or Are Leaders Made?
One of the questions we most often get when supporting organizations in the leadership development initiatives is, "aren't leaders just born leaders?" So we often pose the question back to those in our workshops, webinars, and coaching services, "Are leaders born, or are they made." Join us on…
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The Leadership Advantage--The Key to Continuous Performance
This episode explores the premise of Jason Diamond Arnold's Latest eBook, The Leadership Advantage, and how leadership is impacting evolving performance practices in organizations.
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The Leadership Genius of George Washington
Today's special Leadership Genius podcast focuses on the Leadership Genius of George Washington. Washington practiced leadership genius when he developed powerful positions in the new nation of The United States of America, giving up that power for a greater good and demonstrating that great...
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Leadership Genius is a podcast designed to generate and facilitate ongoing conversations about the evolution of leadership practices in the rapidly evolving 21st century workforce and global society.
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