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SightShift with Chris McAlister
by Chris McAlister
Too many leaders lead for validation, not impact. And too many organizations are relying on overpriced seminars, gimmicky retreats, and leadership fads to develop their leaders. Are you ready to implement a transformational process to develop impact leaders who develop other leaders? www.SightShift.com
Episodes
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Lunch with Chris: Greatness Is Holding the Door | 7 Humilities That Make You Great
Most leaders picture greatness as kicking the door down. Others hide as a wallflower so they never risk being invalidated. Neither one is greatness. Greatness is holding the door. Chris McAlister goes live every Wednesday at noon Eastern. This episode opens a new series, 7 Humilities That Make…
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AI Outperforms 97% of Your Team. Not Because It's Smarter
AI will do better work than 97% of the people on your team. Not because it is smarter. Because it is not afraid. Fear is what keeps most leaders out of the 3%. Dr. Chris McAlister and co-host Mark Stanifer walk through nine fears that block the human edge, three for each capacity in The 3% Shift:...
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AI Is Replacing Managers. What Jack Dorsey’s Block Got Wrong
AI will not rescue your company. It will not ruin it either. It is going to reveal it, and the first thing it reveals is what a leader thinks a manager is for. Dr. Chris McAlister and co-host Mark Stanifer take on the two loudest moves in the market right now: Block stripping out its manager…
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Lunch with Chris: Your Shortcut Is False Control | 3 Truths from the In-Between
You're in a limbo moment — the in-between where the old hasn't ended and the new hasn't started. And without realizing it, you're about to pull for a shortcut. It feels decisive. It is not. Chris McAlister goes live every Wednesday at noon Eastern. This week is episode 4 of September's Limbo...
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Lunch with Chris: Life Doesn’t Owe You This | Breaking the Leadership Trap in a Limbo Moment
The arrangement you made with life was never signed. You did the work, built the discipline, pushed harder than most — and still found yourself in a circumstance you didn't choose. What happens in that gap determines everything about your leadership ceiling. Chris McAlister goes live every...
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Lunch with Chris: The One Move Leaders Miss Inside Every Limbo Moment
You're in a circumstance you didn't choose and can't control. The moment you hit it, a mental mechanism kicks in — and the story your mind tells you out of that moment is already leading your next move. Chris McAlister goes live every Wednesday at noon Eastern. This week is episode 2 of…
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Lunch with Chris: What the Limbo Moment Is Actually Teaching You
You're not done and you're not starting. Nothing's over, but nothing new has begun. That's the limbo moment — and the mistake you make inside it sets the ceiling for your entire team. Chris McAlister goes live every Wednesday at noon Eastern. This week opens September's new series: mastering the...
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Lunch with Chris: Your Mind Has a Filter — Most Leaders Never Know It’s There
Most leaders never think about their own thinking. They're reacting under pressure — driven by a mental filter they've never examined. The ones who see the filter lead at a completely different level. Chris McAlister goes live every Wednesday at noon Eastern. This week: the mental filter. You…
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AI Never Forgets. But It Can’t Forgive. That’s Your Job as a Leader
AI will remember every mistake your team ever makes. It will never forgive one. In that gap sits the whole future of leadership, and the third pillar of The 3% Shift: building the relationships and community AI cannot replace. Dr. Chris McAlister and co-host Mark Stanifer arrive at the point of…
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AI Is Killing the Career Path. 3 Things to Tell Your Team
The career path you were sold is on life support. AI is taking the entry level reps that used to build judgment, and the leaders caught in the middle are the ones who have to answer for it. This one is an audible. A listener wrote in after the last episode and pushed back on Dr. Chris McAlister…
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AI Will Make Most Leaders Dumber. Wisdom Is the 3% It Can’t Replace
AI will not make you a better leader. For most people it will make them dumber, by quietly taking over the one thing that made them worth following in the first place. Dr. Chris McAlister and co-host Mark Stanifer get into the human capacity AI can never replace: phronesis, the hard fought wisdom...
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Lunch with Chris: The 3% AI Can’t Replace
You can replace your human assistant with AI. What you can’t replace is the human who knows where to draw the line. Chris opens with his own swap — and a book that changes the calculus. Chris McAlister goes live every Wednesday at lunch. This week: the launch of ‘The 3% Shift: The Human Edge in…
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Lunch with Chris: AI Rescue Is Not a Plan
Your AI won't rescue you. It reveals you. Chris opens with a personal note, real stories of AI-obsessed bosses, and the question that defines your career: where does AI end and you begin? Chris McAlister goes live every Wednesday at lunch. This week, with The 3% Shift hitting shelves in six days:...
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If AI Can Do Your Work, What Are You For as a Leader?
If AI can do your work, what are you actually for? That is the question every knowledge worker is starting to feel, and this episode on AI and leadership sits right inside it. Dr. Chris McAlister and co-host Mark dig into the first of three human capacities AI can never replace: imagination. Not...
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AI Is Not a Rescue Plan | Lunch with Chris
You pulled into the garage. You paused: should I be doing this? When AI can out-converse 97% of humans, the question it raises isn't about productivity. It's about identity: what am I for?
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Your AI Prompts Are an X-Ray | Lunch with Chris
If your team had to guess which messages came from you and which came from AI — would they know? Every prompt you write is an X-ray. Here's what yours is revealing about your leadership.
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What 1,000 Leaders Revealed: 87% Hide Under Pressure | Lunch with Chris
We measured how over 1,000 leaders show up under pressure — and across 37 companies, one pattern kept repeating. At the C-suite level, 87% default to hiding. Not yelling. Not dominating. Hiding. And it doesn't look like fear — it looks like composure.
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AI Doesn't Fix Bad Leadership. It Amplifies It.
AI doesn't make you a better leader. It makes you a louder version of the leader you already are. In this episode, Chris and Mark walk through the framework at the heart of the new book The 3% Shift — the three human capacities AI can imitate but never replace: Imagination — AI optimizes what...
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The Data Nobody Has | Lunch with Chris
Most companies have data on revenue, retention, and engagement. Almost none have data on what their leaders actually do under pressure. SightShift® does — across over 1,000 leaders and 37+ organizations. Today on Lunch with Chris: the data nobody has on your leaders, and the #1 mistake it reveals.
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Why You Want Your Competitors Using AI
In episode 2 of the 3% Shift series, Chris and Mark go deeper than the identity gap they named in episode 1, into what happens when the most powerful technology ever built quietly trains itself to mirror your insecurities back at you. The higher up the org chart you sit, the faster the loop...
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New Series: 3% Shift | The AI Conversation Nobody Is Having Correctly
Everyone is talking about AI. Almost no one is talking about it correctly. In this kickoff to a new SightShift series, Chris and Mark argue that the AI conversation is stuck in two ditches, terror on one side, worship on the other, and the real story is something most leaders haven't named yet.…
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The Nine Stops Every Real Breakthrough Has to Hit
In the final episode of the Make Culture Your Edge series, Chris and Mark walk through the Culture Impact Script: the nine-stop framework SightShift uses to take teams through a real breakthrough. Using Michigan basketball's national championship as the running example, Chris breaks down what it...
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Outsourcing Your Thinking Is Not a Plan | Lunch with Chris
Your AI tool outperforms 97% of people. Alice knows that — and she's running every decision through the model. Here's why that's exactly backwards, and what the 3% do instead.
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Why Your Best People Are "Resisting"
In this episode of the Make Culture Your Edge series, Chris and Mark double-click on the second pillar of the SightShift culture model, Right Change, using the breaking of the Fellowship at Amon Hen as the running metaphor. The mission didn't change. The vision didn't change. But the structure…
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Burpees Are Not a Plan | Lunch with Chris
If you're the leader who pushes harder when the team feels heavy, doubles intensity when the metrics stall, and confuses urgency for transformation — there's a drill sergeant running your insides. Here's why white-knuckling doesn't actually drive change, and what does.
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Why Most "Open Dialogue" Is Actually Manipulation
Most leaders say they want open dialogue. What they actually want is conformity. Chris and Mark open the Conflict pillar of the culture model and reframe everything you've been taught about handling disagreement on a team.
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Why Your Team Resists Change
Most leaders treat resistance as a threat. The healthy ones treat it as data. In this episode, Chris and Mark double-click on the Change pillar of the culture model and break down the three risk factors that quietly sabotage every change effort.
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Calm Is Not a Plan | Lunch with Chris
Most leadership calm wears off the moment the hard conversation arrives. If you've been using morning rituals and mindfulness to feel steadier and nothing is actually moving — here's why, and what to do about it. Chris McAlister goes live every Wednesday at lunch. This week: Zen and the art of...
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Hype Is Not a Plan | Lunch with Chris
Most leadership hype wears off by the next Monday. If you've been chasing speakers, retreats, and motivation to move your team and nothing is sticking — here's why, and what to do about it. Hype is not a plan. Motivation isn't the problem. It's an outgrowth of something deeper. This week I walk...
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What a $500K Retreat Can't Fix (But Truth Can) | Lunch with Chris
Every retreat has a porcupine-through-the-shower-ceiling moment. What doesn't is a leader willing to go first with the truth. This is the Company Retreat series finale — Jury Duty Season 2 just dropped its finale, and I'm closing the loop on four weeks of diagnosing dumb theater with the one…
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We Ate Our Own Product Live | Lunch with Chris
We've been calling out dumb theater in everyone else's company for three weeks. This week, Chris turned the camera on himself. Chris read his own IFQ™ results live on the air — no prep, no filter. The same insecurity patterns we've been diagnosing in Company Theater? He was going to find out if...
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Lunch with Chris: Is Your Leadership Training Just Dumb Theater?
What if the meetings, trainings, and retreats at your company are just... performative theater? In this episode, Chris breaks down three moments from Amazon Prime's Company Theater (Season 2) that expose the real patterns destroying your team culture — proving, hiding, and leading for validation...
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Your Team's Complaints Are Data. Here's How to Read Them.
Your team is telling you what they need. You're solving the wrong problem. In this episode of the Make Culture Your Edge series, Chris McAlister and Mark Stanifer dig into the third pillar of the culture model: Right Connection. Most leaders either rush past what their people are actually feeling…
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Lunch with Chris: Why Smart Leaders Keep Investing in Dumb Theater
Why do smart leaders keep investing in retreats, team-building, and leadership development that doesn't actually change anything? In the very first Lunch with Chris, I tell the story of walking into a conference room 24 years ago and watching a leader create one of the most awkward moments I've...
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Your Team Doesn't Need a Slogan. They Need This.
Your team doesn't need another slogan. They need a leader who knows how to communicate vision that actually lands. In this episode, Chris and Mark break down the first pillar of the Impact Culture Model — right communication — using one of the most iconic scenes in storytelling: the Council of...
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The Anatomy of a Breakthrough (What Sports Movies Get Right About Leadership)
In this episode of the SightShift Podcast, Chris and Brett unpack the anatomy of a breakthrough, using iconic sports films like Rocky IV, Miracle, Remember the Titans, and more to explain how real transformation actually happens inside teams.
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The Silent Killer of Strong Cultures
Chris and Mark unpack one of the most dangerous—and overlooked—forces in leadership and culture: drift. The slow, quiet erosion that happens when leaders stop paying attention to what really shapes behavior, trust, and alignment. Drift doesn’t announce itself. It accumulates. Learn more about...
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This Is What Breaks Teams | Make Culture Your Edge
Conflict isn’t the enemy of culture. Unaddressed conflict is. In this episode of the SightShift Podcast, Chris and Mark go deeper into one of the most misunderstood tension points in leadership: conflict. Building on ideas from Make Culture Your Edge, they unpack why conflict is not something to...
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Why SightShift Finally Told the Full Story
In this episode, Chris sits down with Mark Stanifer for one of the most important conversations in SightShift’s history. What started years ago as a leadership framework has slowly revealed something deeper, a conviction that couldn’t stay implicit anymore. This is a conversation about identity...
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#10Years10Stories | Dave Vance | Story #10
In this episode, Dave Vance shares how a leader at the top of his game can still be drowning on the inside. Dave spent decades in pastoral ministry, leading a church of thousands, writing books, speaking at conferences, and launching campuses. From the outside, everything looked like momentum and...
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#10Years10Stories | Derek Janney | Story #9
In this episode, Derek Janney shares what happens when the “dream scenario” still leaves you asking who you are. After building a successful roofing company over 20 years and exiting with a strong financial win, Derek found himself in a season of transition, no longer running the business he’d...
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Chris McAlister Opens Up: Coming Out With the Truth Behind SightShift
Every leader has a part of their story they don’t tell. This is Chris’s. In this raw conversation with Daniel Juday, Chris shares the untold origin of SightShift and why now is the moment to bring his full story to the surface. If you’ve ever wondered: - What truly drives SightShift - Why…
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#10Years10Stories | Salla Alajoki | Story #8
Chris sits down with Salla Alajoki, Senior Manager at Vaisala, whose journey with Figure That Shift Out started in Finland with a podcast and grew into a decade of transformation. What began as two colleagues listening on repeat became a bold leap: traveling to Orlando to complete the full FTSO...
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The Shift Every Lawyer Needs
What happens when a criminal defense attorney starts asking deeper questions about meaning? In this episode of the C-Suite Series, Chris sits down with Matthew R. Bark, founder of The Law Office of Matthew R. Bark P.A., to explore what it looks like to build a business with purpose inside one of...
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#10Years10Stories | Jared Porpiglia | Story #7
In this special 10-year anniversary series celebrating Figure That Shift Out, we’re sharing ten stories of transformation, moments when leaders figured it out not by pushing harder, but by seeing more clearly. In this episode, Jared Porpiglia shares how leadership in his world looks like running...
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How Raymond Traendly Rebuilt His Firm from the Inside Out
In this episode of the C-Suite Series, Chris sits down with Raymond A. Traendly, Managing Partner at TK Law (formerly CPLS, P.A.), one of Central Florida’s most experienced and community-grounded family law practices. Ray shares how his drive to grow and win nearly cost him the very thing that…
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#10Years10Stories | Kenworth Reeves | Story #6
In this special 10-year anniversary series celebrating Figure That Shift Out, we’re sharing ten stories of transformation—moments when leaders figured it out not by pushing harder, but by seeing more clearly. In this episode, Kenworth Reeves shares how transformation doesn’t always start in...
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#10Years10Stories | Mike Clouse | Story #5
In this special 10-year anniversary series celebrating Figure That Shift Out, we’re sharing ten stories of transformation, moments when leaders figured it out not by pushing harder, but by seeing more clearly. In this episode, Mike shares what happens when a coach realizes he needs a coach. By…
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#10Years10Stories | Ryan Magada | Story #4
In this special 10-year anniversary series celebrating Figure That Shift Out, we’re sharing ten stories of transformation—moments when leaders figured it out not by pushing harder, but by seeing more clearly. In this episode, Ryan shares what it looks like to lead with clarity after seasons of...
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#10Years10Stories | David Sherry | Story #3
In this special 10-year anniversary series celebrating Figure That Shift Out, we’re sharing ten stories of transformation, moments when leaders figured it out not by pushing harder, but by seeing more clearly. In this episode, David shares what happens when growth outpaces identity. His company…
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Too many leaders lead for validation, not impact. And too many organizations are relying on overpriced seminars, gimmicky retreats, and leadership fads to develop their leaders. Are you ready to implement a transformational process to develop impact leaders who develop other leaders? www.SightShift.com
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