All Episodes

Lead Better - How to Recognize When You Have Stopped Growing

Lead Better - Most Business Problems Are First and Foremost People Problems

Lead Better - What Am I Missing?

Lead Better - Leaders Notice the Smallest Changes in People

Lead Better - What Makes Leadership So Complex?

Lead Better - What Does ‘Meets Expectations’ Mean, Anyway?

Lead Better - How Leaders Can Build Judgment, Not Just Expertise

Lead Better - Setting Multiple Priorities Lets Leaders Off the Hook

Lead Better - Why Preparation Is So Important for Decisions Involving Significant Risk

Lead Better - Creating Performance Metrics for Roles More About Quality

Lead Better - Diagnose the Performance Problem Before Prescribing the Cure

Lead Better - How Prideful Is Your Team?

Lead Better: A Note on Leadership Style: Consistency Is Not Sameness

Lead Better - Criticism From a Leader Who Doesn’t Believe in You

Lead Better - Before Elevating Leaders, Give Them an Inside View of Different Experiences

Lead Better - The Fastest Way to Lose Credibility With a New Leader

Lead Better - Now That I Have Reiterated Your Opinion, Can You Summarize Mine?

Lead Better - The First Job of Every Newly Promoted Leader and Successor

Lead Better - When Leaders Set Unrealistic Goals

Lead Better - Does Your Team Agree on Performance Standards?

Lead Better - Why Great Teams Question Themselves

Lead Better - What Outcomes Will Make Your Day Successful?

Lead Better - What Bad Leadership Can Teach Good Leaders

Lead Better - Stop Trying to Read Your Leader’s Preferences

Lead Better - Leaders Who Criticize Character

Lead Better - Does Your Team Need a Charter?

Lead Better - How Many Communication Platforms Are in Use in Your Organization?

Lead Better - Wildfire Prevention and Decision-Making Gridlock

Lead Better - A Master Class in Succession Planning

Lead Better - Decision-Making by Hierarchy Rather Than Evidence

Lead Better - The Flaw of Optimism and Overpromising

Lead Better - When Your Leader Tells You to Part Ways With One of Your Direct Reports

Lead Better - Reading the Meeting Room

Lead Better - Now That You Mention It

Lead Better - When Candor Is Kind

Lead Better - The Biscuit Story: A Lesson in Leadership From the Antarctic

Lead Better - Always Honor the Past Before Explaining What’s Next

Lead Better - Don’t Confuse Role Design With Job Design

Lead Better - A Leader’s Guide to Waiting Well

Lead Better - What Does It Mean to Lead an AI Agent?

Lead Better - Making the Audience the Hero in Your Presentations

Lead Better - The Discipline of Speaking to Team Members

Lead Better - When Team Members Face Personal Crisis, How Fast Do Their Challenges Become Yours?

Lead Better - The Workplace Refrigerator

Lead Better - Do You Know What Your Team Needs From You Right Now?

Lead Better - Promoting Organizational Values With a Side Dish of Distaste

Lead Better - Making People Better by Designing Constraint

Lead Better - Experts Shape Meaning

Lead Better - Gaining Buy-In Without Inviting the Unwanted Influence of Heavy-Handed Leaders

Lead Better - Organizations That Must Look for Talent From the Outside

Lead Better - The Strategic Benefits of Delay

Lead Better - Intensity Versus Persistence in Upward Advocacy

Lead Better - What Launches an Organization or Initiative Isn’t What Sustains It

Lead Better - How to Become Exceptional at Saying ‘No’ to Weak Ideas

Lead Better - Having a Decision Rule for a 100-Mile-Per-Hour Fastball

Lead Better - Make the Conflict Smaller Before Trying to Resolve It

Lead Better - When a Leader Becomes a Target for Haters

Lead Better - Leaders Usually Get the Team They Deserve

Lead Better - Agree to Disagree More Often

Lead Better - The Spillover Effect of Sharing Customer Success Stories

Lead Better - How Do You Spend Your Status?

Lead Better - Carrying On the Good Work of Others

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