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Lead In 30 Podcast — 405 episodes

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The End Of The People Manager?

2

The Scorecard That's Transforming Starbucks

3

Will AI Make Mid-Level Managers Extinct?

4

Leading Your New Employees: AI Agents

5

The Power that Comes From Seeking Solitude

6

Amazon Cutting Bureaucracy: What You Should Be Considering

7

Who You Spend Time With: Evaluating Your 1st and 2nd Connections

8

The Annual State of Leadership Report: Three Realities for 2026

9

Commands vs Suggestions: My Two Terrible Experiences

10

The Transfer Portal Is Open - Leadership Lessons from College Football

11

So Many of You Are Missing This Critical Step!

12

The 12 Day Performance Test: Lessons from College Football

13

Stop Surrendering to Obstacles, How to Keep Your Team Moving!

14

Three Ways to Communicate More Efficiently

15

Your Mindset Is Limiting Your Capacity

16

Stop Breaking Glass - How Effective Leaders Stay Calm

17

Sundance Summit: Top Priorities for Developing Leaders

18

Shift Your Team’s Mindset From Reactive To Proactive

19

Beyond Time Management: Weaponizing Your Schedule

20

How We Must Adjust to Lead Through This Era of Deep Division

21

Organizations Need Leaders Who Narrow The Focus

22

5 Ways to Use AI In Leading Your Team

23

Critics And Coaches: Who You Listen To And How It Impacts You

24

Take A Stinkin' Position! Stop Being So Invisible!

25

The Memphis Plant & The Leader Who Transformed It

26

What AI is Teaching Us About Leadership

27

How Do You Get Your Team's Emotional Buy-In?

28

Discovering Your Personal Value In the Market

29

Why the Smartest Leaders Disappear Every Summer

30

The 10 Biggest Regrets in Leadership

31

Systems vs. Drifting: Stop Dreaming and Start Building Systems

32

Your Meetings Are Killing Productivity and Here's Why

33

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella On Becoming a 3rd Leader

34

Want to Play on a Bigger Stage? Three Critical Moves to Scale Your Leadership

35

The Validation Trap: Where Do You Look to Determine Your Value?

36

Vision Vs Execution: Which One Is More Valuable in a Leader?

37

Embracing Uncertainty: Three Truths for Your Next Chapter

38

4 Restaurant Companies: How Change Crushed Two & Propelled Two Forward

39

What's Your Strategy to Lead Through All This Change?

40

Disrupting Your Organization: Why Stability Can Be Your Biggest Enemy

41

Division: The Killer of Team Performance

42

The AI Robots are Coming! These Managers Should Be Scared...

43

Say What You Think! How to Create Tight Feedback Loops

44

How do you rate your day? Good to Great Author Jim Collins Shares System

45

The Newest Leadership Innovation: Start Cutting!

46

Your Team Moves Way Too Slow: How To Fix It!

47

Start Communicating Powerfully: Say Less!

48

The Power of Adapting to Change: Chick-fil-A Revenue Stunning!

49

What Happened In Dayton & How You Should Copy It

50

Henry Ford vs Thomas Edison: The Birth of Two Leadership Styles

51

The Best Ways to Communicate with Your Team & Customers

52

What's Your Vision for Your Team for Next Year?

53

How to Capture Your Thoughts & Share Them Powerfully

54

How Often Should You Meet With Your Team?

55

Strengthen Your Ability to Create Silence

56

Leadership Lessons From the 2024 Election

57

Leadership Lessons from Gettysburg: What I Saw & Learned Walking the Battlefield

58

The Power of Curiosity in Leadership: Conversations with Chick-fil-A and a Base Jumper

59

The Battle Between the Comfort Culture & Performance Culture with All In Podcast Hosts

60

Choosing Growth Over Comfort: Did This Executive Surrender?

61

Balancing Leadership and Life: Insights from a Fortune 20 Executive's Sabbatical

62

Questions Every Leader Should Answer

63

3 Things My Parents Did That Helped Me Become Successful

64

Are You A Spectator Or A Participant?

65

Your Company's Leadership Training Approach Isn't Working

66

Do You Have Emotional Intelligence?

67

Massive Leadership Mistake by President Joe Biden

68

Answering the 5 Most Common Questions About Leadership

69

He Brought Dumbbells with Him - For Real!

70

A Remarkable Night Saying Goodbye

71

Your Summer Vacay Leadership Handbook

72

Billy Joel Talks Growth & Success

73

It's Time to Innovate - We Changed It Up!

74

Are You Willing to Adapt?

75

What Are You Known For?

76

Please Stop Doing This In Meetings!

77

Spectator or Athlete? Which One Are You?

78

What Season Are You In Right Now

79

They Asked Me to Speak at Church - Should I Say This?

80

Learning to Manage This One Thing is Critical

81

Why You Resist Delegating & How to Fix That

82

Upgrade your leadership team!

83

Is It a Gain or Maintain Type of Day?

84

The 3 Principles of Success

85

The Choice That Generates Power

86

5 Leaders & Their Disastrous Mistakes

87

Ryan Holiday: Ego Is the Enemy

88

Are you The Pleaser, The General, or The Creator?

89

Why Your Opinions Are Wrong So Often

90

Overcoming the Holiday Hangover As You Return to Work

91

Leaders Who Think Small

92

Most of You Suck At This!

93

I Can't Stop Thinking About This Concept

94

How Badly Do You Want It?

95

The Leaders I'm Most Grateful For

96

He Couldn't Hide the Pressure He's Feeling

97

What's Your Personal Response Rate?

98

Success Is Impossible Without These 2 Things

99

Stop Complaining - They're Clones of You!

100

The Word of The Year Is....

101

3 Things to Do to Prepare for Next Year

102

The Speed of Transformation

103

People Who Help You Think Bigger

104

The First Step To Being Powerful

105

Choose to Be Powerful

106

Stop Isolating Yourself!

107

Preparing for Your Personal Board Meeting

108

How to Energize Your Team

109

Your Most Valuable Tool for Success

110

The Individual vs The Institution

111

Stand On Their Side of the Wall

112

This Framework Will Blow Your Mind

113

The People You Spend Time With

114

How I Adjusted My Calendar

115

What Successful Senior Executives Sound Like

116

Lessons Learned from Summer Camp 2023

117

Why You're Feeling Job Burnout

118

Two Things I Wish I Knew at 18

119

I Refuse to Choose Doom & Gloom

120

The Raging Debate about Back to Office Plans

121

Why I Chose to Disappear

122

You Must Be Willing to Pay the Price

123

When the Company is Headed the Wrong Direction

124

Are you Growing or Stuck? How to know...

125

Stop Fighting Reality & Just Let It Be

126

Why Teams Struggle to Perform

127

Why People Stay Silent in Meetings

128

The Waves Hitting Our Boat

129

How Did We Fall Into This Trap?

130

How Do You View Losing?

131

Stop Stressing & Build A Plan

132

Go Back to the Factory!

133

My Rage Against Stupid Corporate Policies

134

Two Rich Guys, Our Daughter, & the Grand Canyon

135

What's Your Leadership Pattern?

136

Your Employees' Holiday Hangover

137

I Need You to Do This Right Now

138

Your Two Options Heading Into a New Year

139

What Are Your Top 5?

140

The Secret is the Long Term View

141

How Leaders Demonstrate Gratitude

142

3 Things Leaders Need to Start 2023

143

Two Questions to Ask Your Team

144

Become a Consultant Part 2

145

How to Become a Consultant

146

Who I'm Voting For

147

Your 4th Quarter Mindset

148

How I Evaluate a Team

149

Meet the Worst Leader Ever

150

Focus on What Matters Most

151

3 Words That Describe Great Leaders

152

Tim Cook & Johny Ive Discuss Creators

153

The Question Sales Leaders Asked Me

154

Stop Hiding Your Car In the Garage

155

What Happened in the Locker Room

156

My Problem with Younger Employees

157

Two Massive Shifts In How I Think

158

Who Are You Talking To?

159

Top 5 Leadership Books

160

Your Three Words

161

You Are Not Your Company

162

You're Viewing Your Role Wrong

163

Comfort Is Your Enemy

164

Who Do You Need Access To?

165

Why I Put You on My Team

166

The Moment I Wanted to Hide

167

Are You Like Facebook?

168

My Formula for Success

169

The Woman At the Gym

170

Losing Absolutely Sucks

171

What I Learned in Mexico

172

Hitting the Wall at Summer Camp

173

Lessons at the Chiropractor

174

Where Did All the Employees Go?

175

What's Wrong With Us?

176

The Power of Creating

177

When Depression Strikes - What I Learned

178

Warren Buffett: 2 Tips for Storm That's Coming

179

Dennis Prager: Happiness is a Serious Problem

180

4 Things I've Learned In Sales

181

Why You Need to Work in Sales

182

Microsoft: The 9 to 5 Workday is Dying

183

Amazon's Jeff Bezos Tells His Story

184

Stop Hesitating to Delegate

185

What's the Narrative on Your Team?

186

4 Tips to Connect with An Audience

187

The Golf Instructor Principle

188

Leadership Masterclass by Winston Churchill

189

Steve Jobs & Naval Ravikant: Beware Abundance!

190

You Don't Have a Staffing Problem

191

The Three Leader Profiles

192

Surrendering to Circumstances

193

What's Unique About You?

194

The Mindset of a New Team Member

195

I'm Leading a Team of Robots!

196

Inputs vs Outputs with Naval Ravikant

197

Stop Thinking Short Term!

198

5 Leadership Lessons from Ukraine President Zelensky

199

Change This to Get Promoted

200

The Danger of Seeking Validation

201

Shifting Your Identity with James Clear

202

We Have It So Incredibly Good

203

Have You Built Your Radar System?

204

Lessons from One Year of Being Unemployed

205

Simon Sinek: Why So Many Leaders Suck

206

Moments That Stand Out

207

The Danger of Distance

208

Why I Wouldn't Fire Harriett

209

He Asked Tony Robbins This Question

210

What I Witnessed In the Sauna

211

My Process For Studying Successful People

212

Avoiding the Funk that Surrounds Us

213

The Man in the Elevator

214

Lessons from an Arizona Entrepreneur

215

The Greatest Gift I've Ever Received

216

What I Realized About Dreaming

217

Did You Say Dolly Parton?

218

Who Are You Trying to Change?

219

Free Chapter from The Great Resignation

220

The Question I Asked On Stage

221

4 Lessons from a Fortune 10 Executive

222

7 Things I Do to Get People Talking

223

5 People I'm Grateful For

224

You're Using the Wrong Approach!

225

Steepen Your Growth Curve

226

Your Customer's Desired State

227

We Need Some Volunteers!

228

When Team Members Disagree

229

The Great Resignation: The Book is Out!

230

Three Big Announcements!

231

What's Your Story?

232

The Person I'm Listening to Most

233

Our New Company's Biggest Challenge

234

Disaster at the Convenience Store

235

Are You Really Listening?

236

The Trend I'm Worried About

237

The Value of Executing

238

The Anxiety Between Alternatives

239

The Rise of the Firm and the Individual

240

The Massive Employee Shortage

241

The People at My Gym

242

When Life Weighs You Down

243

The Massive Shift We're Witnessing

244

5 Essentials to Scale: Part Five

245

5 Essentials to Scale: Part Four

246

5 Essentials to Scale: Part Three

247

5 Essentials to Scale: Part Two

248

5 Essentials to Scale: Part One

249

Beware of Your Attention Span

250

Are You a Strategic Leader?

251

The Great Resignation

252

The Best Book of 2021 - So Far

253

Employee Expectations Have Shifted

254

How Is Your Identity Shifting?

255

The Value of Getting Off the Grid

256

Lessons from Summer Camp

257

Experience Decreases Judgment

258

Four Things That Create Affinity

259

Two Words I Keep Using

260

How We Learn Is Changing

261

The Three Ways To Get Unstuck

262

The 45-Year-Old You vs the 25-Year-Old You

263

Redefining Wealth with Naval Ravikant

264

No Salary, No Benefits, & Loving It

265

Start-Up Scrappy Destroys Perfect Execution

266

His Email Proves People Want Real Feedback

267

Why Trust Is Broken with Simon Sinek

268

Why You Feel Trapped

269

The People I Surround Myself With

270

How LinkedIn Changed My Career

271

Morning Routines Are Stupid

272

People Leaders vs Process Leaders

273

Leading Talent at Chick-fil-A with Dee Ann Turner

274

The Value of Sharing Your Wisdom

275

When Their Beliefs About You Aren't Accurate

276

The Power of Positive Leadership with Jon Gordon

277

Which of These Two Words Describe You?

278

Which of These 5 Leaders Are You?

279

Who Is Managing Your Culture?

280

What's Your Leader Identity?

281

Major Change in My Career

282

The Danger of Getting Stuck Mourning Change

283

The Despair of Being Unable to Help

284

Why Some Companies Lose Their Way

285

Launching Coaching for Leaders!

286

Chick-fil-A's Long-Time CEO Reacts To My Post

287

The Danger of Bitterness

288

Three Words to Start the New Year

289

My Favorite Things of 2020

290

The Leadership Quality We Celebrate at Christmas

291

Are You Driven by Fear or Anger?

292

The Greatest Speech by Tony Hsieh

293

The Value of Trusting Generously

294

The Word Most Leaders Struggle With

295

Free Chapter from My New Book: Decide to Lead!

296

5 Steps to Develop Other Leaders

297

You're Assigning Their Opinion Too Much Value

298

My First Book About to Be Published!

299

Creating a Courageous Culture with Karin Hurt

300

Unlocking the Zappos Culture with Robert Richman

301

Shifting the Bank's Culture with Siobhan McHale

302

He Learned to Innovate Fighting Terrorists with Chris Fussell

303

Your Top Priority in New Leadership Role with Russ Hill

304

Lessons From Being Homeless and TikTok with Maayan Gordon

305

Pursue Your Calling and Passion with Alex Judd

306

Episode 100: 5 Things I've Learned Along the Way

307

Avoiding a Culture of Fear with Tim Clark

308

Leading with Gratitude with Chester Elton

309

You Are the Team with Michael Rogers

310

How To Be An Inclusive Leader with Jennifer Brown

311

How He Drove Innovation at NPR with Adam Davidson

312

Own Your Management Mess with Scott Miller

313

Fixing Uber's Culture with Fraces Frei

314

How Amazon Innovates with Steve Anderson

315

The Change to the Podcast Is Here!

316

The #1 Thing I've Learned Coaching Leaders

317

How Does Silence Impact You?

318

Four Things That Demonstrate Future Potential

319

He Was Dying and I Had to Help

320

Stop Pretending You Value Different Opinions!

321

My Decision To Stop Getting Annoyed

322

When Others Try to Silence You

323

Are You Seeing Yourself Clearly?

324

Does Loyalty At Work Matter Anymore?

325

What Regret Will We Have in 2021?

326

Have You Defined Your Purpose?

327

Why Change Sometimes Doesn't Lead to Growth

328

What Frameworks Are You Building As A Leader?

329

My 2-Step Process For Meeting New People

330

The Loneliness of Leadership: Gordon Hinckley

331

Frustrated By Your Team? Here's the Solution!

332

The Orphans Who Gave Me Perspective

333

3 Leadership Lessons from a Silicon Valley Giant

334

5 Tips to Maximize Your Vacation

335

Is Your Growth Curve Flatlining Right Now?

336

3 Steps to Becoming a Transformational Leader

337

Balancing Your Life Is Impossible

338

The Invisible Metrics of Life

339

What's the Biggest Value You Bring?

340

This Disruption Is Revealing a Lot About You

341

I've got a Major Announcement!

342

Reimagining How We Serve Customers

343

The Major Decisions and Pivots of My Career

344

The power of choosing optimism

345

Why Aren't You Sharing What You're Learning?

346

We Must Lead the Change

347

Race & Riots: How I'm Processing This Moment

348

The Ten People I'm Listening to Most (Part 2)

349

The Ten People I'm Listening to Most (Part 1)

350

Staying Motivated As a Leader When Uncertainty Looms

351

DTL 055: Is Being a Leader Worth It?

352

DTL 054: How to Make Better Decisions

353

DTL 053: What's Guiding Your Decisions?

354

DTL 052: Preservation vs Transformation

355

DTL 051: How bad will this disruption get?

356

DTL 050: 5 Essential Competencies During Disruption

357

DTL 049: Focusing on What You Control

358

DTL 048: The Coronavirus Opportunity?

359

DTL 047: How the Coronavirus Impacts Leaders

360

DTL 046: Two questions every leader should ask

361

DTL 045: Alignment, Radar, and Urgency

362

DTL 044: What motivates employees to be high performers?

363

DTL 043: The power of empathy

364

DTL 042: What's your personal brand and how are you managing it?

365

DTL 041: How to manage the culture of your family

366

DTL 040: Getting clear on your Key Results w John Doerr

367

DTL 039: Two Biggest Trends Going Into 2020

368

DTL 038: Your Silence Is Diminishing Your Value

369

DTL 037: The James Clear & Jeff Bezos Mashup

370

DTL 036: What's the Most Important Quality in a Leader?

371

DTL 035: Your Time Is Running Out

372

DTL 034: How to Think Like Amazon

373

DTL 033: Talking leadership with former Netflix Chief Talent Officer Patty McCord

374

DTL 032: The Liberating Power of Letting Go

375

DTL 031: How do you help someone change?

376

DTL 030: How Much Time Do You Spend Creating?

377

DTL 029: Great Leaders Practice The Shocks Principle

378

DTL 028: Some Advice My Dad Gave Me

379

DTL 027: Are You Willing to Jump?

380

DTL 026: My Best & Worst Bosses

381

DTL 025: The Best Daily Routine

382

DTL 024: The Power of Believing in Someone

383

DTL 023: He Studied the Highest Performing Teams in the World

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DTL 022: 2 Leaders, 1 Choice, 2 Very Different Outcomes

385

DTL 021: Three Words from Apple Founder Steve Jobs

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DTL 020: Behind the scenes of Russ's new book!

387

DTL 019: Trying to Do Too Much Almost Got Me Fired

388

DTL 018: Group chat on leadership trends of 2019

389

DTL 017: Discoveries made and lessons learned in 2018

390

DTL 016: Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less with Greg McKeown

391

DTL 015: An hour w/ Amazon Founder & CEO Jeff Bezos

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DTL 014: How to Become the Leader Your Team is Waiting For

393

DTL 013: Conversations Worth Having

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DTL 012: How the beliefs you hold are affecting what you see

395

DTL 011: From poor bricklayer to hanging with Elon Musk, Richard Branson, & Elton John: Interview with Steve Sims

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DTL 010: How to become a better listener; interview with Julian Treasure

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DTL 009: How to lead using influence rather than authority

398

DTL 008: Your Questions, My Answers

399

DTL 007: Steve Jobs & Howard Schultz preach management by walking around

400

DTL 006: How do you escape the noise?

401

DTL 005: Tell Me A Story

402

DTL 004: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Unlocks Dealing with Criticism

403

DTL 003: From Laid Off To Crushing It As An Entrepreneur

404

DTL 002: Do Your Employees or Family Members Feel Heard?

405

DTL 001: Do You Live In the Past, Present, or Future?