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The Great Conversation
by The Great Conversation
The Great Conversation works with its community of leaders to source people who are bringing ideas to life. If ideas matter, actionable results also matter. Work can be purpose-driven and intentionally missional in empowering our path to value.
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The Future of Human Leadership with AI
In a world where intelligence is becoming increasingly abundant, the defining challenge for leaders is no longer capability but stewardship. In this podcast, futurist and author Kevin Benedict explores how human judgment, machine intelligence, and ecological wisdom must work together to create a...
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The Trust Circle
If you are walking in a garden, and you can see, you will note the interconnections between land, air, water, and seed. It is an ecosystem. In your garden, if you pay attention, you have circles of influencers in your life all around you potentially interconnecting with each other in powerful…
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The People Who Build Pyramids Have a Purpose, a Mission, and a Path to Value
Across every civilization, from the Nile to Wall Street, humans have built pyramids. Some were carved from stone, others from policy, process, and PowerPoint. But the shape persists. Why? Perhaps it is because the pyramid is more than a structure—it’s a belief system. It’s how we make sense of...
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The Spy Within Us
“People don’t need a spreadsheet of reasons to trust you. They don’t want another pitch deck. Another promise. Another polished lie. They are waiting for a signal. And what is the most powerful signal: "I see you. I hear you. You matter." Jack Barsky, a former KGB spy, did not learn this in…
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The Maestro and The Sage on Path to Value™
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts… Shakespeare And so it goes with our professional lives as well. The way we enter the business world and how we exit has an “In-between” that...
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Humanizing the Path to More
A “Washing Machine” sits in each company ready to toss you into a cycle of doing. If you let yourself and others enter it, you have shut the door on the full potential of the humans who have come alongside you to create something of value. These people have a conscious or unconscious need for...
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"I need an AI Path to Value"
The world spins off wheels (models used by any human organization to achieve success in the market). But what if the wheel begins to slow or suddenly stops? In this great conversation we face the existential question: Are we ready for the change that is upon us? This change is multi-faceted. The...
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Breaking Through the Illusion of Communication to Create Unstoppable Teams
‘The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.’ — Attributed to George Bernard Shaw “Isn’t it time to stop holding people accountable?” You are a leader. You take on a role called owner, executive, or manager. Or you are part of a team. You are trying to get...
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The Map to Better
In this Great Conversation podcast we excavate the human and organizational need for better. For organizations that employ people, this is about the alignment of people, purpose, and organization. We turn to one of the former leaders responsible for learning and development at Microsoft. We learn...
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Reading Our Times: A Conversation with an Artist and a Macroeconomic Thought Leader
Most of us have experienced the gnawing doubt of our purpose. Few have leaned into that doubt and set out on a journey of exploration, knowing they are seafarers navigating the risks and opportunities of the voyage. This Great Conversation is with a woman who pursued formal education in business...
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The Key Performance Indicator (KPI) We Don't Measure...But Should
If you are a data driven organization and measures of performance are important to you, it might be helpful to understand the measure that influences all other measures…. This great conversation is about cracking the code in creating a persistent measure of organizational trust that impacts the...
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Upgrade: The Birth of an Investor
I have often said that worldview is a predictor of behavior. What is a worldview? A worldview is the narrative you absorbed through your family, education, and experience that act as a toolbox of beliefs, assumptions, and values elements. by which you interact with the world. It is the story of…
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Saving Our Children from the Presumption of College
In 2022, 39% of 18- to 24-year-olds in the United States were enrolled in college or graduate school. The total cost of attendance for a four-year degree includes tuition and fees, room and board, books, supplies, and other expenses. In 2022-2023, the average annual cost of attendance for...
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The Gentle Art of Navigating Risk and Opportunity
Your team is in the room. It is a strategic moment. High risk, high reward. And you are the team leader. How do you help them navigate this moment of risk and opportunity? This is happening in board rooms, executive management team meetings, and in organizational teams throughout your company. Do...
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Why No Demand for Your Products and Services?
We had a great conversation with the Founder and CEO of The Demand Creation Institute, Sean Stormes. Sean had the good fortune of leading a Continuous Quality Improvement initiative within a Fortune 500 company. This led him to the world’s authority Dr. William Edwards Deming, the father of the...
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A Story Can Save You and Your Company
I have seen it before. So have you. A disconnect: with your people with your stakeholders in your market with your prospects and customers with your board And most important of all, you have compartments within you that are silos of excellence but are not integrated into a highly compelling story...
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Access is Leverage
Markets are ecosystems. They are unique to geographies, economies, and weather (seasons of change). Market participants later find they need to be represented as a single voice in representing their needs to the government or to coalesce around industry standards to uplift the quality of their...
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The Business of Before
In the security industry, the ideal posture is to be proactive. To do this, requires a relationship with people, processes, tools, and the core values of the client. And ideally, the client is now able to identify risk, analyze and assess that risk, and then mitigate the risk down to an…
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MIndStuck: Mastering the Art of Changing Minds (Your and others)
When you have conversations with others, are you trying to win? Trying to defend a position? Then, perhaps, you might be stuck. In this Great Conversation with social researcher and author Michael McQueen, we learn what is is to be Mind Stuck, and how we might discover a new way to see and be…
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The Greatest Threat to Humans: It is not AI
We create tools. The tools help us off load burdensome tasks as well as act as highly leveraged fulcrums to expand our energy and minds. These tools have helped us create. They have helped us build. They have helped us cure disease. They have helped us mitigate threats, from both human and…
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Accepting the Paradox of Leadership
We are all on the journey of becoming. And we hope and pray, that at the end of the journey we are whole. For all of us that means being loved for who we are. And to get there, we need to establish trust in ourselves and in others. Trust. Could it be the foundation of everything we touch? Are we...
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Leadership Language
Words are an attempt to articulate reality. The reality that was yesterday. The reality that is today. And the reality that is tomorrow. Words can be a weapon. They can bully, demonize, and destroy. Words can embrace, energize, and elevate. If these bookends are true, then what is the area...
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Desperate for Impact
Lives of quiet desperation. We have been pulling on the quote from Thoreau for awhile in our great conversations. Our great conversation on the Future of Work with this dynamic and inspirational leader may provide you the nudge to seize this moment to recognize your impact on others and help…
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The Challenge of Industry: Creating a Bridge between Old and New
Whenever you attempt to capture knowledge it is useful to understand that it is a snapshot in time. Very little of what we learn will survive as true given the unique nature of change. However, it is a platform for growth as long as you have access to the real time experiences of change that are...
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The Great5: The Language of Leadership
Imagine being tasked to develop a first class talent and organizational management platform for one of the most respected companies in the Fortune 100. A company with a vision, mission, values, and goals that is highly respected in the industry, with a CEO who looked to his leaders to articulate...
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The Path to Value™
What does it look like to create a path to value? What does that really mean? I have been having great conversations for over 20 years that have informed my physical leadership events and my podcasts. I have pursued people who have ideas that might change their market and perhaps change their...
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Burn Out or Burn In?
I would quickly describe “burn out” as exhaustion. But that is too simple. How did you become exhausted? It seems that there is this incredible stage we go through while heading toward exhaustion and part of it is being actively disengaged from our purpose and settling for a frantic and numbing...
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You are not Invisible
I was visiting a prospective client the other day. We went out to lunch at one of their favorite restaurants. The waitress came up to the table and, as always, I asked what her name was. She replied and I shared mine. I thanked her and asked about her day and then we continued the ritual of...
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The Holy Grail: Aligning Your Business to Your People
Love it or hate it, the term “Holy Grail” is often used in life and business to describe something that has always been unobtainable. The pursuit of the “unobtainable” takes patience and indomitable faith. The pursuit of a leadership development program that can crack the code of an…
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Learning, Seeing, and theThree Turns of a Leader
Who am I? We answer this question through different stages of our lives. And much of our life is in the business world. It is natural, therefore, that a great deal of our quest becomes learning a craft. And this is where many of us remain the rest of our working lives. This is not a bad thing.…
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Who Dares Shares
“Who dares wins” is a motto made popular in the English-speaking world by the British Special Air Service. The motto has also been used by twelve elite special forces units around the world that in some way have historical ties to the British SAS. But the title of this blog and this Great...
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The - Between -
“It is said that what matters most is not your date of birth or your date of death but the hyphen that signifies the life that is between the two. We live in the - Between - a mysterious place to be, full of grace and surprise and unknowns.” So goes the introduction to Love Songs from the…
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Water of Life
“Serve Honorably. Drink Honorably™” Inspired by a previous Great Conversation with author Michael Trott (The Art of Protecting the Leader), we caught up with his latest venture: Four Branches Bourbon. Imagine the heart, mind, and fortitude in launching a new company, and a new bourbon. It would...
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Yes’s are Good. No’s are Good. Maybe’s will Kill You!
You can learn a lot about life by studying how you and others make decisions. If you think about it, our life is a series of transactions of value. In a transaction, there is the possibility of a yes, a no, and the ever so dangerous maybe. Why dangerous? Because a “maybe” can indicate a problem...
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Hungry for Service
We are largely motivated by self-interest. If we are acting as a buyer, we want the best product at the lowest price. But we also know that lowest price may not be the answer to our needs. If we are acting as a seller, we may be motivated to “win”. But how do we define this term? Now let’s pull...
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The Manifesto: A Declaration of Whole Leadership
In our Great Conversation Podcast, we begin with a statement: “Welcome to The Great Conversation where Ideas Matter. Ideas shape markets. Ideas can change the world.” I originally decided to open with this to reinforce my passion for pursuing people and ideas that ultimately impact our lives. But...
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The Future of Security is the Future of Business
Mark Ledlow is the Founder and CEO of Ledlow Security Group, that provides Physical Security, Site Security, Supply Chain Security, Disaster Response Teams, Executive Protection for High Networth Families and Executives. General Counsel support, and Risk Management He also founded the Fearless...
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What does it mean to be a Time Traveler?
Humans created constructs that represent time. Consider it the canvas in which they have painted their origin stories as well as their stories of the future. As this pendulum swings, we also are exploring the depths of our understanding of the who and why of our being. We believe “truth” is in…
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Sacrificial Leaders Galvanize an Industry Supporting Children and Families
Many executives are asked by their boards to retain the services of a professional risk, resilience, and security firm that specializes in executive protection. The best ones find a way to become a part of the value proposition of the executive’s personal and professional space. Many do this by...
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Augmenting the Machine: AI and the Future of Work
What is the future of human and machine? We all know. We sense it. We are on the edge of something that will reset the economy. Reset how we work and play. Reset our notion of what is true And the center of it all is the emerging cognitive capability of the machine (Artificial Intelligence - AI)....
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The Power of Business=The Power of Diversity. The Power of Equity. And the Power of Inclusion
The care and feeding of a company creates a highly leveraged vehicle to optimize its path to value: personally, professionally, and within the context of a team known as a business. Great leaders know how to leverage different points of view that originate from disparate cultural backgrounds.…
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Time Held Me Green and Dying, Though I Sang in My Chains Like the Sea
Dylan Thomas's famous poem, Fern Hill, is based on his childhood experiences on a farm in Wales. The poem is a celebration of the wonder, magic, and joy of this world that many of us experienced and have a hard time remembering as we grow older. This conversation is about that young child growing...
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Sourcing Intelligence to Navigate Risk and Opportunity
If you were entering a new market in a foreign country, where do you acquire the boots on the ground intelligence to navigate your risks and opportunities? And how would you consume the information quickly enough to make an impact on your strategies and plans? We reached out to a CEO who has...
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Single Source of Truth: In Security, in Business, and in Life
“It is hard to breathe, and my heart is palpitating like a drum. I am feeling weak – I want to lie on the ground so the world stops spinning for a minute and I can catch my breath. A thousand thoughts cross my mind. What if this goes wrong? What if I can’t deliver that? What if I can no longer...
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The New Value Proposition of Policing
As a strategic advisor to CEOs, helping to create the story that drives their organization and helping them achieve the promise of that story, I created The Path to Value. It was my way of learning. It was my way of teaching. And learning. And teaching. I have been able to see and feel…
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The Future belongs to the Data Driven Organization
We are data driven. As leaders, we need the right data to make effective decisions. But most of the data that is provided to us only shows what happened. We are making decisions based by staring in a rear-view mirror. But what if we could forecast the future? What if the data we have collected…
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The Stories that Influence Leaders
History can teach us a lot about the repercussions of change. The impact of change is accelerated by the confluence of events, crisis upon crisis. Imagine if you were able to imagine it before it happened thereby providing the white space to adapt and innovate mitigating the impact of the change....
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Learning the Art of Credibility
If you were known to be trustworthy. If you engendered trust from others, how would it change your life and your world? Our great conversation with a global credibility expert, Mitchell Levy, is really about saving our humanity and changing the trajectory of our lives. Mitchell is an…
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Security Executives Defined by Their Value, Not by Their Title
Words are real things. When conveyed through the written word or articulated in a speech, they have the power to direct and shape individual behavior and markets. With this mind, I would like to discuss what it means to be a professional. I believe we can agree that it infers a ranking conferred…
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Great Leaders Ask Great Questions
Are you a diminisher or a multiplier? Do you bring all the answers to the table, or do you help others solve problems? Do you believe you are the best voice in the room? Our guest learned the hard way, that he was a diminisher. He would take a great idea from his staff, acknowledge it, and then...
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