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Lead In 30 Podcast — 407 episodes
The Wall: Accountability or Surrender?
The First Three Big Moves of Nestle's New CEO
The End Of The People Manager?
The Scorecard That's Transforming Starbucks
Will AI Make Mid-Level Managers Extinct?
Leading Your New Employees: AI Agents
The Power that Comes From Seeking Solitude
Amazon Cutting Bureaucracy: What You Should Be Considering
Who You Spend Time With: Evaluating Your 1st and 2nd Connections
The Annual State of Leadership Report: Three Realities for 2026
Commands vs Suggestions: My Two Terrible Experiences
The Transfer Portal Is Open - Leadership Lessons from College Football
So Many of You Are Missing This Critical Step!
The 12 Day Performance Test: Lessons from College Football
Stop Surrendering to Obstacles, How to Keep Your Team Moving!
Three Ways to Communicate More Efficiently
Your Mindset Is Limiting Your Capacity
Stop Breaking Glass - How Effective Leaders Stay Calm
Sundance Summit: Top Priorities for Developing Leaders
Shift Your Team’s Mindset From Reactive To Proactive
Beyond Time Management: Weaponizing Your Schedule
How We Must Adjust to Lead Through This Era of Deep Division
Organizations Need Leaders Who Narrow The Focus
5 Ways to Use AI In Leading Your Team
Critics And Coaches: Who You Listen To And How It Impacts You
Take A Stinkin' Position! Stop Being So Invisible!
The Memphis Plant & The Leader Who Transformed It
What AI is Teaching Us About Leadership
How Do You Get Your Team's Emotional Buy-In?
Discovering Your Personal Value In the Market
Why the Smartest Leaders Disappear Every Summer
The 10 Biggest Regrets in Leadership
Systems vs. Drifting: Stop Dreaming and Start Building Systems
Your Meetings Are Killing Productivity and Here's Why
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella On Becoming a 3rd Leader
Want to Play on a Bigger Stage? Three Critical Moves to Scale Your Leadership
The Validation Trap: Where Do You Look to Determine Your Value?
Vision Vs Execution: Which One Is More Valuable in a Leader?
Embracing Uncertainty: Three Truths for Your Next Chapter
4 Restaurant Companies: How Change Crushed Two & Propelled Two Forward
What's Your Strategy to Lead Through All This Change?
Disrupting Your Organization: Why Stability Can Be Your Biggest Enemy
Division: The Killer of Team Performance
The AI Robots are Coming! These Managers Should Be Scared...
Say What You Think! How to Create Tight Feedback Loops
How do you rate your day? Good to Great Author Jim Collins Shares System
The Newest Leadership Innovation: Start Cutting!
Your Team Moves Way Too Slow: How To Fix It!
Start Communicating Powerfully: Say Less!
The Power of Adapting to Change: Chick-fil-A Revenue Stunning!
What Happened In Dayton & How You Should Copy It
Henry Ford vs Thomas Edison: The Birth of Two Leadership Styles
The Best Ways to Communicate with Your Team & Customers
What's Your Vision for Your Team for Next Year?
How to Capture Your Thoughts & Share Them Powerfully
How Often Should You Meet With Your Team?
Strengthen Your Ability to Create Silence
Leadership Lessons From the 2024 Election
Leadership Lessons from Gettysburg: What I Saw & Learned Walking the Battlefield
The Power of Curiosity in Leadership: Conversations with Chick-fil-A and a Base Jumper
The Battle Between the Comfort Culture & Performance Culture with All In Podcast Hosts
Choosing Growth Over Comfort: Did This Executive Surrender?
Balancing Leadership and Life: Insights from a Fortune 20 Executive's Sabbatical
Questions Every Leader Should Answer
3 Things My Parents Did That Helped Me Become Successful
Are You A Spectator Or A Participant?
Your Company's Leadership Training Approach Isn't Working
Do You Have Emotional Intelligence?
Massive Leadership Mistake by President Joe Biden
Answering the 5 Most Common Questions About Leadership
He Brought Dumbbells with Him - For Real!
A Remarkable Night Saying Goodbye
Your Summer Vacay Leadership Handbook
Billy Joel Talks Growth & Success
It's Time to Innovate - We Changed It Up!
Are You Willing to Adapt?
What Are You Known For?
Please Stop Doing This In Meetings!
Spectator or Athlete? Which One Are You?
What Season Are You In Right Now
They Asked Me to Speak at Church - Should I Say This?
Learning to Manage This One Thing is Critical
Why You Resist Delegating & How to Fix That
Upgrade your leadership team!
Is It a Gain or Maintain Type of Day?
The 3 Principles of Success
The Choice That Generates Power
5 Leaders & Their Disastrous Mistakes
Ryan Holiday: Ego Is the Enemy
Are you The Pleaser, The General, or The Creator?
Why Your Opinions Are Wrong So Often
Overcoming the Holiday Hangover As You Return to Work
Leaders Who Think Small
Most of You Suck At This!
I Can't Stop Thinking About This Concept
How Badly Do You Want It?
The Leaders I'm Most Grateful For
He Couldn't Hide the Pressure He's Feeling
What's Your Personal Response Rate?
Success Is Impossible Without These 2 Things
Stop Complaining - They're Clones of You!
The Word of The Year Is....
3 Things to Do to Prepare for Next Year
The Speed of Transformation
People Who Help You Think Bigger
The First Step To Being Powerful
Choose to Be Powerful
Stop Isolating Yourself!
Preparing for Your Personal Board Meeting
How to Energize Your Team
Your Most Valuable Tool for Success
The Individual vs The Institution
Stand On Their Side of the Wall
This Framework Will Blow Your Mind
The People You Spend Time With
How I Adjusted My Calendar
What Successful Senior Executives Sound Like
Lessons Learned from Summer Camp 2023
Why You're Feeling Job Burnout
Two Things I Wish I Knew at 18
I Refuse to Choose Doom & Gloom
The Raging Debate about Back to Office Plans
Why I Chose to Disappear
You Must Be Willing to Pay the Price
When the Company is Headed the Wrong Direction
Are you Growing or Stuck? How to know...
Stop Fighting Reality & Just Let It Be
Why Teams Struggle to Perform
Why People Stay Silent in Meetings
The Waves Hitting Our Boat
How Did We Fall Into This Trap?
How Do You View Losing?
Stop Stressing & Build A Plan
Go Back to the Factory!
My Rage Against Stupid Corporate Policies
Two Rich Guys, Our Daughter, & the Grand Canyon
What's Your Leadership Pattern?
Your Employees' Holiday Hangover
I Need You to Do This Right Now
Your Two Options Heading Into a New Year
What Are Your Top 5?
The Secret is the Long Term View
How Leaders Demonstrate Gratitude
3 Things Leaders Need to Start 2023
Two Questions to Ask Your Team
Become a Consultant Part 2
How to Become a Consultant
Who I'm Voting For
Your 4th Quarter Mindset
How I Evaluate a Team
Meet the Worst Leader Ever
Focus on What Matters Most
3 Words That Describe Great Leaders
Tim Cook & Johny Ive Discuss Creators
The Question Sales Leaders Asked Me
Stop Hiding Your Car In the Garage
What Happened in the Locker Room
My Problem with Younger Employees
Two Massive Shifts In How I Think
Who Are You Talking To?
Top 5 Leadership Books
Your Three Words
You Are Not Your Company
You're Viewing Your Role Wrong
Comfort Is Your Enemy
Who Do You Need Access To?
Why I Put You on My Team
The Moment I Wanted to Hide
Are You Like Facebook?
My Formula for Success
The Woman At the Gym
Losing Absolutely Sucks
What I Learned in Mexico
Hitting the Wall at Summer Camp
Lessons at the Chiropractor
Where Did All the Employees Go?
What's Wrong With Us?
The Power of Creating
When Depression Strikes - What I Learned
Warren Buffett: 2 Tips for Storm That's Coming
Dennis Prager: Happiness is a Serious Problem
4 Things I've Learned In Sales
Why You Need to Work in Sales
Microsoft: The 9 to 5 Workday is Dying
Amazon's Jeff Bezos Tells His Story
Stop Hesitating to Delegate
What's the Narrative on Your Team?
4 Tips to Connect with An Audience
The Golf Instructor Principle
Leadership Masterclass by Winston Churchill
Steve Jobs & Naval Ravikant: Beware Abundance!
You Don't Have a Staffing Problem
The Three Leader Profiles
Surrendering to Circumstances
What's Unique About You?
The Mindset of a New Team Member
I'm Leading a Team of Robots!
Inputs vs Outputs with Naval Ravikant
Stop Thinking Short Term!
5 Leadership Lessons from Ukraine President Zelensky
Change This to Get Promoted
The Danger of Seeking Validation
Shifting Your Identity with James Clear
We Have It So Incredibly Good
Have You Built Your Radar System?
Lessons from One Year of Being Unemployed
Simon Sinek: Why So Many Leaders Suck
Moments That Stand Out
The Danger of Distance
Why I Wouldn't Fire Harriett
He Asked Tony Robbins This Question
What I Witnessed In the Sauna
My Process For Studying Successful People
Avoiding the Funk that Surrounds Us
The Man in the Elevator
Lessons from an Arizona Entrepreneur
The Greatest Gift I've Ever Received
What I Realized About Dreaming
Did You Say Dolly Parton?
Who Are You Trying to Change?
Free Chapter from The Great Resignation
The Question I Asked On Stage
4 Lessons from a Fortune 10 Executive
7 Things I Do to Get People Talking
5 People I'm Grateful For
You're Using the Wrong Approach!
Steepen Your Growth Curve
Your Customer's Desired State
We Need Some Volunteers!
When Team Members Disagree
The Great Resignation: The Book is Out!
Three Big Announcements!
What's Your Story?
The Person I'm Listening to Most
Our New Company's Biggest Challenge
Disaster at the Convenience Store
Are You Really Listening?
The Trend I'm Worried About
The Value of Executing
The Anxiety Between Alternatives
The Rise of the Firm and the Individual
The Massive Employee Shortage
The People at My Gym
When Life Weighs You Down
The Massive Shift We're Witnessing
5 Essentials to Scale: Part Five
5 Essentials to Scale: Part Four
5 Essentials to Scale: Part Three
5 Essentials to Scale: Part Two
5 Essentials to Scale: Part One
Beware of Your Attention Span
Are You a Strategic Leader?
The Great Resignation
The Best Book of 2021 - So Far
Employee Expectations Have Shifted
How Is Your Identity Shifting?
The Value of Getting Off the Grid
Lessons from Summer Camp
Experience Decreases Judgment
Four Things That Create Affinity
Two Words I Keep Using
How We Learn Is Changing
The Three Ways To Get Unstuck
The 45-Year-Old You vs the 25-Year-Old You
Redefining Wealth with Naval Ravikant
No Salary, No Benefits, & Loving It
Start-Up Scrappy Destroys Perfect Execution
His Email Proves People Want Real Feedback
Why Trust Is Broken with Simon Sinek
Why You Feel Trapped
The People I Surround Myself With
How LinkedIn Changed My Career
Morning Routines Are Stupid
People Leaders vs Process Leaders
Leading Talent at Chick-fil-A with Dee Ann Turner
The Value of Sharing Your Wisdom
When Their Beliefs About You Aren't Accurate
The Power of Positive Leadership with Jon Gordon
Which of These Two Words Describe You?
Which of These 5 Leaders Are You?
Who Is Managing Your Culture?
What's Your Leader Identity?
Major Change in My Career
The Danger of Getting Stuck Mourning Change
The Despair of Being Unable to Help
Why Some Companies Lose Their Way
Launching Coaching for Leaders!
Chick-fil-A's Long-Time CEO Reacts To My Post
The Danger of Bitterness
Three Words to Start the New Year
My Favorite Things of 2020
The Leadership Quality We Celebrate at Christmas
Are You Driven by Fear or Anger?
The Greatest Speech by Tony Hsieh
The Value of Trusting Generously
The Word Most Leaders Struggle With
Free Chapter from My New Book: Decide to Lead!
5 Steps to Develop Other Leaders
You're Assigning Their Opinion Too Much Value
My First Book About to Be Published!
Creating a Courageous Culture with Karin Hurt
Unlocking the Zappos Culture with Robert Richman
Shifting the Bank's Culture with Siobhan McHale
He Learned to Innovate Fighting Terrorists with Chris Fussell
Your Top Priority in New Leadership Role with Russ Hill
Lessons From Being Homeless and TikTok with Maayan Gordon
Pursue Your Calling and Passion with Alex Judd
Episode 100: 5 Things I've Learned Along the Way
Avoiding a Culture of Fear with Tim Clark
Leading with Gratitude with Chester Elton
You Are the Team with Michael Rogers
How To Be An Inclusive Leader with Jennifer Brown
How He Drove Innovation at NPR with Adam Davidson
Own Your Management Mess with Scott Miller
Fixing Uber's Culture with Fraces Frei
How Amazon Innovates with Steve Anderson
The Change to the Podcast Is Here!
The #1 Thing I've Learned Coaching Leaders
How Does Silence Impact You?
Four Things That Demonstrate Future Potential
He Was Dying and I Had to Help
Stop Pretending You Value Different Opinions!
My Decision To Stop Getting Annoyed
When Others Try to Silence You
Are You Seeing Yourself Clearly?
Does Loyalty At Work Matter Anymore?
What Regret Will We Have in 2021?
Have You Defined Your Purpose?
Why Change Sometimes Doesn't Lead to Growth
What Frameworks Are You Building As A Leader?
My 2-Step Process For Meeting New People
The Loneliness of Leadership: Gordon Hinckley
Frustrated By Your Team? Here's the Solution!
The Orphans Who Gave Me Perspective
3 Leadership Lessons from a Silicon Valley Giant
5 Tips to Maximize Your Vacation
Is Your Growth Curve Flatlining Right Now?
3 Steps to Becoming a Transformational Leader
Balancing Your Life Is Impossible
The Invisible Metrics of Life
What's the Biggest Value You Bring?
This Disruption Is Revealing a Lot About You
I've got a Major Announcement!
Reimagining How We Serve Customers
The Major Decisions and Pivots of My Career
The power of choosing optimism
Why Aren't You Sharing What You're Learning?
We Must Lead the Change
Race & Riots: How I'm Processing This Moment
The Ten People I'm Listening to Most (Part 2)
The Ten People I'm Listening to Most (Part 1)
Staying Motivated As a Leader When Uncertainty Looms
DTL 055: Is Being a Leader Worth It?
DTL 054: How to Make Better Decisions
DTL 053: What's Guiding Your Decisions?
DTL 052: Preservation vs Transformation
DTL 051: How bad will this disruption get?
DTL 050: 5 Essential Competencies During Disruption
DTL 049: Focusing on What You Control
DTL 048: The Coronavirus Opportunity?
DTL 047: How the Coronavirus Impacts Leaders
DTL 046: Two questions every leader should ask
DTL 045: Alignment, Radar, and Urgency
DTL 044: What motivates employees to be high performers?
DTL 043: The power of empathy
DTL 042: What's your personal brand and how are you managing it?
DTL 041: How to manage the culture of your family
DTL 040: Getting clear on your Key Results w John Doerr
DTL 039: Two Biggest Trends Going Into 2020
DTL 038: Your Silence Is Diminishing Your Value
DTL 037: The James Clear & Jeff Bezos Mashup
DTL 036: What's the Most Important Quality in a Leader?
DTL 035: Your Time Is Running Out
DTL 034: How to Think Like Amazon
DTL 033: Talking leadership with former Netflix Chief Talent Officer Patty McCord
DTL 032: The Liberating Power of Letting Go
DTL 031: How do you help someone change?
DTL 030: How Much Time Do You Spend Creating?
DTL 029: Great Leaders Practice The Shocks Principle
DTL 028: Some Advice My Dad Gave Me
DTL 027: Are You Willing to Jump?
DTL 026: My Best & Worst Bosses
DTL 025: The Best Daily Routine
DTL 024: The Power of Believing in Someone
DTL 023: He Studied the Highest Performing Teams in the World
DTL 022: 2 Leaders, 1 Choice, 2 Very Different Outcomes
DTL 021: Three Words from Apple Founder Steve Jobs
DTL 020: Behind the scenes of Russ's new book!
DTL 019: Trying to Do Too Much Almost Got Me Fired
DTL 018: Group chat on leadership trends of 2019
DTL 017: Discoveries made and lessons learned in 2018
DTL 016: Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less with Greg McKeown
DTL 015: An hour w/ Amazon Founder & CEO Jeff Bezos
DTL 014: How to Become the Leader Your Team is Waiting For
DTL 013: Conversations Worth Having
DTL 012: How the beliefs you hold are affecting what you see
DTL 011: From poor bricklayer to hanging with Elon Musk, Richard Branson, & Elton John: Interview with Steve Sims
DTL 010: How to become a better listener; interview with Julian Treasure
DTL 009: How to lead using influence rather than authority
DTL 008: Your Questions, My Answers
DTL 007: Steve Jobs & Howard Schultz preach management by walking around
DTL 006: How do you escape the noise?
DTL 005: Tell Me A Story
DTL 004: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Unlocks Dealing with Criticism
DTL 003: From Laid Off To Crushing It As An Entrepreneur
DTL 002: Do Your Employees or Family Members Feel Heard?
DTL 001: Do You Live In the Past, Present, or Future?