All Episodes

Lead Better - Separating a Decision From the Emotion Connected to It

Lead Better - How a Focus on Results and Compassion Reinforce Each Other

Lead Better - Buy Back an Hour Each Week

Lead Better - Unspoken Expectations are the Costliest Thing a Leader Never Says

Lead Better - The Consequences of More Words But Less Reading

Lead Better - What Don't We Know That We Need to Know?

Lead Better - Good Leaders Explain How Failure Will Be Judged Before It Happens

Lead Better - Trust Is Contagious, or Why Trust Exercises at Offsites Are So Important

Lead Better - Why Asking for Advice Makes Leaders More Trusted

Lead Better - The Qualities of a Great Teammate

Lead Better - Do You Feel Guilty When Taking Time Off?

Lead Better - On the Best Teams, Accountability Comes From Peers, Not Leaders

Lead Better - Closing the Gratitude Gap

Lead Better - The Hidden Cost of Task-Switching

Lead Better - Leaders Draw Starting Lines, Not Finish Lines

Lead Better - Renoir’s Hands and the Agonizing Cost of Beauty

Lead Better - When Seeking Feedback, Distinguish Between Coaching and Judging

Lead Better - Gaining the Attention of Someone Who Repeatedly Rejects Your Advocacy

Lead Better - My Leader Only Gets Sound Bites About My Performance

Lead Better - Leaders Learn by Changing What They Notice

Lead Better - Getting Ready for a Better Conversation and a Deeper Relationship

Lead Better - The Downside of Using Exclusion to Create Group Cohesion

Lead Better - Bob Iger’s Translation of Thinking, Fast and Slow

Lead Better - Are You a Narcissistic Leader?

Lead Better - What? So What? Now What?

Lead Better - How the Best Performers Show Up When They Aren’t Playing

Lead Better - Redesigning Meetings So That Everyone Gets Heard

Lead Better - Leaders Who Are Difficult to Shock

Lead Better - Lloyd Blankfein and the Importance of Self-Acceptance

Lead Better - Less Time Often Means Better Work

Lead Better - Hindsight Bias: The Leadership Trap Hiding in Plain Sight

Lead Better - "I Already Know That"

Lead Better - Creating the Home-Field Advantage

Lead Better - Why Am I Getting This Feedback?

Lead Better - The Half-Life of Purpose

Lead Better - People Can’t Always Define Quality, But They Know It Instantly When It’s Missing

Lead Better - When Does a First Impression Carry Too Much Weight?

Lead Better - I Can Do What I Do Because of You

Lead Better - Overcoming Animosity Toward a Team Member

Lead Better - Designing a Predictive Talent Index Based on Your Best People

Lead Better - Nonexperts Use the Wrong Criteria to Make Selections of Quality

Lead Better - All Cultures Are Local

Lead Better - The Story Is Not Always Yours to Write

Lead Better - When Intractable Conflicts Require Separation, Not Repair

Lead Better - The Leadership Dilemma of Knowing the Details

Lead Better - When Should a Leader Be Directive?

Lead Better - Leading Team Members Who Start Out Strong But Fizzle Out Over Time

Lead Better - Strategy Is the Art of Sacrifice

Lead Better - Experience Doesn’t Always Translate Into Expertise

Lead Better - Proof Over Persuasion: NASA’s Unlikely Path to Organizational Transformation

Lead Better Presents "At the Intersection of AI, Leadership and Communication"

Lead Better - Leading the Coin-Operated Team Member

Lead Better - The Need to Separate Criticism From Authority

Lead Better - Steal the Principle, Not the Playbook

Lead Better - People Often Resist a Decision Solely Because of How It Was Made

Lead Better - Leaders Can Go High or Go Low When Supporting a Team Member

Lead Better - Avoiding the Second Wave of Hardship

Lead Better - The Executive Team's Orientation Toward Risk Can Make a World of Difference in an Organization's Performance

Lead Better - Admiration May Be the Most Underrated Leadership Tool

Lead Better - The Discipline of Using Transitions to Revisit Expectations

Lead Better - Fighting the Anchoring Bias in Negotiations

Lead Better - Do You Nag People?

Lead Better - AI Tools Have Can Widen the Performance Gap Between High and Low Performers

Lead Better - There’s No Better Feeling Than Knowing You’re Getting Better

Lead Better - People Anticipate a Negative Response in New Conversations

Lead Better - Making It Easier for People to Ask for Help

Lead Better - Staying on Message When Confronted by Tough Questions

Lead Better - Why the Questions You Ask Yourself May Matter the Most

Lead Better - Game Selection Is the Strategy Before the Strategy

Lead Better - Why Do Team Members Stay?

Lead Better - Fredkin’s Paradox of Similar Options

Lead Better - Creating a Team Glossary of Core Concepts

Lead Better - The Uncomfortable Reason Personality Assessments Are So Popular in Leadership Development

Lead Better - Fast Versus Timely

Lead Better - Does Your Organization Track a Proprietary Metric?

Lead Better - Good Leaders Presume Team Members Feel Undervalued and Underappreciated

Lead Better - Knowing Yourself Is Not the Same Thing as Changing Yourself

Lead Better - Do My Teammates Trust Me?

Lead Better - The Leadership Perception Gap

Lead Better - Leaders Who Listen to Disagree

Lead Better - The Silent Career Derailer of Defensiveness

Lead Better - In the Face of Adversity, Leaders Must Redefine Success

Lead Better - The Philosophy of Breaking People Down Before Building Them Up

Lead Better - Team Members Who Wait to Be Told What to Do

Lead Better - Do You Ask and Answer Your Own Questions?

Lead Better - The Anticlimax of Achieving a Big Goal

Lead Better - The Art of Indirect Confrontation

Lead Better - Why Do Leaders Tolerate Poor Performers?

Lead Better - Revisiting the Johari Window

Lead Better - High Performers Must Manage the Expectations of Others or Be Judged Unfairly

Lead Better - Giving Feedback to Team Members Who Overcorrect

Lead Better - People Who Didn’t Receive Praise as Children

Lead Better - It Takes a Team to Break a Record

Lead Better - Credible Leaders Don’t Rely on AI to Compose Their Writing

Lead Better - The Best Decision-Makers Are Value-Driven But Not Ideologically Committed

Lead Better - The Downside of Emotional Intelligence

Lead Better - What If Meetings Were Voluntary?

Lead Better - The Leader’s Antidote for Worry

Lead Better - Unconscious Competence or Why the Best Leaders and Performers Are Sometimes the Worst Teachers

Lead Better - How Candor Keeps the Blue Angels Safe

Lead Better - When Peers Strongly Disagree About a Decision

Lead Better - The Case for Seeking Early Commitment

Lead Better - Leaders Who Ask for Your Opinion But Really Don’t Want It

Lead Better - How to Disappoint People Without Demotivating Them

Lead Better - The Illusion of Deep Professional Relationships

Lead Better - The Libero Leader

Lead Better - Do You Weaken Your Endorsements Without Knowing It?

Lead Better - How Smart Leaders Use Language to Create Clarity

Lead Better - Team Members Who Hide the Ball

Lead Better - True Leaders Seek Honorable Closure

Lead Better - Investing in Why People Stay Instead of Worrying About Why They Might Leave