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Lead In 30 Podcast — 406 episodes

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The First Three Big Moves of Nestle's New CEO

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The End Of The People Manager?

3

The Scorecard That's Transforming Starbucks

4

Will AI Make Mid-Level Managers Extinct?

5

Leading Your New Employees: AI Agents

6

The Power that Comes From Seeking Solitude

7

Amazon Cutting Bureaucracy: What You Should Be Considering

8

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

9

The Annual State of Leadership Report: Three Realities for 2026

10

Commands vs Suggestions: My Two Terrible Experiences

11

The Transfer Portal Is Open - Leadership Lessons from College Football

12

So Many of You Are Missing This Critical Step!

13

The 12 Day Performance Test: Lessons from College Football

14

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

15

Three Ways to Communicate More Efficiently

16

Your Mindset Is Limiting Your Capacity

17

Stop Breaking Glass - How Effective Leaders Stay Calm

18

Sundance Summit: Top Priorities for Developing Leaders

19

Shift Your Team’s Mindset From Reactive To Proactive

20

Beyond Time Management: Weaponizing Your Schedule

21

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

22

Organizations Need Leaders Who Narrow The Focus

23

5 Ways to Use AI In Leading Your Team

24

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

25

Take A Stinkin' Position! Stop Being So Invisible!

26

The Memphis Plant & The Leader Who Transformed It

27

What AI is Teaching Us About Leadership

28

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

29

Discovering Your Personal Value In the Market

30

Why the Smartest Leaders Disappear Every Summer

31

The 10 Biggest Regrets in Leadership

32

Systems vs. Drifting: Stop Dreaming and Start Building Systems

33

Your Meetings Are Killing Productivity and Here's Why

34

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella On Becoming a 3rd Leader

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

Embracing Uncertainty: Three Truths for Your Next Chapter

39

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

40

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

41

Disrupting Your Organization: Why Stability Can Be Your Biggest Enemy

42

Division: The Killer of Team Performance

43

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

44

Say What You Think! How to Create Tight Feedback Loops

45

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

46

The Newest Leadership Innovation: Start Cutting!

47

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

48

Start Communicating Powerfully: Say Less!

49

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

50

What Happened In Dayton & How You Should Copy It

51

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

52

The Best Ways to Communicate with Your Team & Customers

53

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

54

How to Capture Your Thoughts & Share Them Powerfully

55

How Often Should You Meet With Your Team?

56

Strengthen Your Ability to Create Silence

57

Leadership Lessons From the 2024 Election

58

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

59

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

60

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

61

Choosing Growth Over Comfort: Did This Executive Surrender?

62

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

63

Questions Every Leader Should Answer

64

3 Things My Parents Did That Helped Me Become Successful

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Are You A Spectator Or A Participant?

66

Your Company's Leadership Training Approach Isn't Working

67

Do You Have Emotional Intelligence?

68

Massive Leadership Mistake by President Joe Biden

69

Answering the 5 Most Common Questions About Leadership

70

He Brought Dumbbells with Him - For Real!

71

A Remarkable Night Saying Goodbye

72

Your Summer Vacay Leadership Handbook

73

Billy Joel Talks Growth & Success

74

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

75

Are You Willing to Adapt?

76

What Are You Known For?

77

Please Stop Doing This In Meetings!

78

Spectator or Athlete? Which One Are You?

79

What Season Are You In Right Now

80

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

81

Learning to Manage This One Thing is Critical

82

Why You Resist Delegating & How to Fix That

83

Upgrade your leadership team!

84

Is It a Gain or Maintain Type of Day?

85

The 3 Principles of Success

86

The Choice That Generates Power

87

5 Leaders & Their Disastrous Mistakes

88

Ryan Holiday: Ego Is the Enemy

89

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

90

Why Your Opinions Are Wrong So Often

91

Overcoming the Holiday Hangover As You Return to Work

92

Leaders Who Think Small

93

Most of You Suck At This!

94

I Can't Stop Thinking About This Concept

95

How Badly Do You Want It?

96

The Leaders I'm Most Grateful For

97

He Couldn't Hide the Pressure He's Feeling

98

What's Your Personal Response Rate?

99

Success Is Impossible Without These 2 Things

100

Stop Complaining - They're Clones of You!

101

The Word of The Year Is....

102

3 Things to Do to Prepare for Next Year

103

The Speed of Transformation

104

People Who Help You Think Bigger

105

The First Step To Being Powerful

106

Choose to Be Powerful

107

Stop Isolating Yourself!

108

Preparing for Your Personal Board Meeting

109

How to Energize Your Team

110

Your Most Valuable Tool for Success

111

The Individual vs The Institution

112

Stand On Their Side of the Wall

113

This Framework Will Blow Your Mind

114

The People You Spend Time With

115

How I Adjusted My Calendar

116

What Successful Senior Executives Sound Like

117

Lessons Learned from Summer Camp 2023

118

Why You're Feeling Job Burnout

119

Two Things I Wish I Knew at 18

120

I Refuse to Choose Doom & Gloom

121

The Raging Debate about Back to Office Plans

122

Why I Chose to Disappear

123

You Must Be Willing to Pay the Price

124

When the Company is Headed the Wrong Direction

125

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

126

Stop Fighting Reality & Just Let It Be

127

Why Teams Struggle to Perform

128

Why People Stay Silent in Meetings

129

The Waves Hitting Our Boat

130

How Did We Fall Into This Trap?

131

How Do You View Losing?

132

Stop Stressing & Build A Plan

133

Go Back to the Factory!

134

My Rage Against Stupid Corporate Policies

135

Two Rich Guys, Our Daughter, & the Grand Canyon

136

What's Your Leadership Pattern?

137

Your Employees' Holiday Hangover

138

I Need You to Do This Right Now

139

Your Two Options Heading Into a New Year

140

What Are Your Top 5?

141

The Secret is the Long Term View

142

How Leaders Demonstrate Gratitude

143

3 Things Leaders Need to Start 2023

144

Two Questions to Ask Your Team

145

Become a Consultant Part 2

146

How to Become a Consultant

147

Who I'm Voting For

148

Your 4th Quarter Mindset

149

How I Evaluate a Team

150

Meet the Worst Leader Ever

151

Focus on What Matters Most

152

3 Words That Describe Great Leaders

153

Tim Cook & Johny Ive Discuss Creators

154

The Question Sales Leaders Asked Me

155

Stop Hiding Your Car In the Garage

156

What Happened in the Locker Room

157

My Problem with Younger Employees

158

Two Massive Shifts In How I Think

159

Who Are You Talking To?

160

Top 5 Leadership Books

161

Your Three Words

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You Are Not Your Company

163

You're Viewing Your Role Wrong

164

Comfort Is Your Enemy

165

Who Do You Need Access To?

166

Why I Put You on My Team

167

The Moment I Wanted to Hide

168

Are You Like Facebook?

169

My Formula for Success

170

The Woman At the Gym

171

Losing Absolutely Sucks

172

What I Learned in Mexico

173

Hitting the Wall at Summer Camp

174

Lessons at the Chiropractor

175

Where Did All the Employees Go?

176

What's Wrong With Us?

177

The Power of Creating

178

When Depression Strikes - What I Learned

179

Warren Buffett: 2 Tips for Storm That's Coming

180

Dennis Prager: Happiness is a Serious Problem

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4 Things I've Learned In Sales

182

Why You Need to Work in Sales

183

Microsoft: The 9 to 5 Workday is Dying

184

Amazon's Jeff Bezos Tells His Story

185

Stop Hesitating to Delegate

186

What's the Narrative on Your Team?

187

4 Tips to Connect with An Audience

188

The Golf Instructor Principle

189

Leadership Masterclass by Winston Churchill

190

Steve Jobs & Naval Ravikant: Beware Abundance!

191

You Don't Have a Staffing Problem

192

The Three Leader Profiles

193

Surrendering to Circumstances

194

What's Unique About You?

195

The Mindset of a New Team Member

196

I'm Leading a Team of Robots!

197

Inputs vs Outputs with Naval Ravikant

198

Stop Thinking Short Term!

199

5 Leadership Lessons from Ukraine President Zelensky

200

Change This to Get Promoted

201

The Danger of Seeking Validation

202

Shifting Your Identity with James Clear

203

We Have It So Incredibly Good

204

Have You Built Your Radar System?

205

Lessons from One Year of Being Unemployed

206

Simon Sinek: Why So Many Leaders Suck

207

Moments That Stand Out

208

The Danger of Distance

209

Why I Wouldn't Fire Harriett

210

He Asked Tony Robbins This Question

211

What I Witnessed In the Sauna

212

My Process For Studying Successful People

213

Avoiding the Funk that Surrounds Us

214

The Man in the Elevator

215

Lessons from an Arizona Entrepreneur

216

The Greatest Gift I've Ever Received

217

What I Realized About Dreaming

218

Did You Say Dolly Parton?

219

Who Are You Trying to Change?

220

Free Chapter from The Great Resignation

221

The Question I Asked On Stage

222

4 Lessons from a Fortune 10 Executive

223

7 Things I Do to Get People Talking

224

5 People I'm Grateful For

225

You're Using the Wrong Approach!

226

Steepen Your Growth Curve

227

Your Customer's Desired State

228

We Need Some Volunteers!

229

When Team Members Disagree

230

The Great Resignation: The Book is Out!

231

Three Big Announcements!

232

What's Your Story?

233

The Person I'm Listening to Most

234

Our New Company's Biggest Challenge

235

Disaster at the Convenience Store

236

Are You Really Listening?

237

The Trend I'm Worried About

238

The Value of Executing

239

The Anxiety Between Alternatives

240

The Rise of the Firm and the Individual

241

The Massive Employee Shortage

242

The People at My Gym

243

When Life Weighs You Down

244

The Massive Shift We're Witnessing

245

5 Essentials to Scale: Part Five

246

5 Essentials to Scale: Part Four

247

5 Essentials to Scale: Part Three

248

5 Essentials to Scale: Part Two

249

5 Essentials to Scale: Part One

250

Beware of Your Attention Span

251

Are You a Strategic Leader?

252

The Great Resignation

253

The Best Book of 2021 - So Far

254

Employee Expectations Have Shifted

255

How Is Your Identity Shifting?

256

The Value of Getting Off the Grid

257

Lessons from Summer Camp

258

Experience Decreases Judgment

259

Four Things That Create Affinity

260

Two Words I Keep Using

261

How We Learn Is Changing

262

The Three Ways To Get Unstuck

263

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

264

Redefining Wealth with Naval Ravikant

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No Salary, No Benefits, & Loving It

266

Start-Up Scrappy Destroys Perfect Execution

267

His Email Proves People Want Real Feedback

268

Why Trust Is Broken with Simon Sinek

269

Why You Feel Trapped

270

The People I Surround Myself With

271

How LinkedIn Changed My Career

272

Morning Routines Are Stupid

273

People Leaders vs Process Leaders

274

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

275

The Value of Sharing Your Wisdom

276

When Their Beliefs About You Aren't Accurate

277

The Power of Positive Leadership with Jon Gordon

278

Which of These Two Words Describe You?

279

Which of These 5 Leaders Are You?

280

Who Is Managing Your Culture?

281

What's Your Leader Identity?

282

Major Change in My Career

283

The Danger of Getting Stuck Mourning Change

284

The Despair of Being Unable to Help

285

Why Some Companies Lose Their Way

286

Launching Coaching for Leaders!

287

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

288

The Danger of Bitterness

289

Three Words to Start the New Year

290

My Favorite Things of 2020

291

The Leadership Quality We Celebrate at Christmas

292

Are You Driven by Fear or Anger?

293

The Greatest Speech by Tony Hsieh

294

The Value of Trusting Generously

295

The Word Most Leaders Struggle With

296

Free Chapter from My New Book: Decide to Lead!

297

5 Steps to Develop Other Leaders

298

You're Assigning Their Opinion Too Much Value

299

My First Book About to Be Published!

300

Creating a Courageous Culture with Karin Hurt

301

Unlocking the Zappos Culture with Robert Richman

302

Shifting the Bank's Culture with Siobhan McHale

303

He Learned to Innovate Fighting Terrorists with Chris Fussell

304

Your Top Priority in New Leadership Role with Russ Hill

305

Lessons From Being Homeless and TikTok with Maayan Gordon

306

Pursue Your Calling and Passion with Alex Judd

307

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

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Avoiding a Culture of Fear with Tim Clark

309

Leading with Gratitude with Chester Elton

310

You Are the Team with Michael Rogers

311

How To Be An Inclusive Leader with Jennifer Brown

312

How He Drove Innovation at NPR with Adam Davidson

313

Own Your Management Mess with Scott Miller

314

Fixing Uber's Culture with Fraces Frei

315

How Amazon Innovates with Steve Anderson

316

The Change to the Podcast Is Here!

317

The #1 Thing I've Learned Coaching Leaders

318

How Does Silence Impact You?

319

Four Things That Demonstrate Future Potential

320

He Was Dying and I Had to Help

321

Stop Pretending You Value Different Opinions!

322

My Decision To Stop Getting Annoyed

323

When Others Try to Silence You

324

Are You Seeing Yourself Clearly?

325

Does Loyalty At Work Matter Anymore?

326

What Regret Will We Have in 2021?

327

Have You Defined Your Purpose?

328

Why Change Sometimes Doesn't Lead to Growth

329

What Frameworks Are You Building As A Leader?

330

My 2-Step Process For Meeting New People

331

The Loneliness of Leadership: Gordon Hinckley

332

Frustrated By Your Team? Here's the Solution!

333

The Orphans Who Gave Me Perspective

334

3 Leadership Lessons from a Silicon Valley Giant

335

5 Tips to Maximize Your Vacation

336

Is Your Growth Curve Flatlining Right Now?

337

3 Steps to Becoming a Transformational Leader

338

Balancing Your Life Is Impossible

339

The Invisible Metrics of Life

340

What's the Biggest Value You Bring?

341

This Disruption Is Revealing a Lot About You

342

I've got a Major Announcement!

343

Reimagining How We Serve Customers

344

The Major Decisions and Pivots of My Career

345

The power of choosing optimism

346

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

347

We Must Lead the Change

348

Race & Riots: How I'm Processing This Moment

349

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

350

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

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Staying Motivated As a Leader When Uncertainty Looms

352

DTL 055: Is Being a Leader Worth It?

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DTL 054: How to Make Better Decisions

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DTL 053: What's Guiding Your Decisions?

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DTL 052: Preservation vs Transformation

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DTL 051: How bad will this disruption get?

357

DTL 050: 5 Essential Competencies During Disruption

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DTL 049: Focusing on What You Control

359

DTL 048: The Coronavirus Opportunity?

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DTL 047: How the Coronavirus Impacts Leaders

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DTL 046: Two questions every leader should ask

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DTL 045: Alignment, Radar, and Urgency

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DTL 044: What motivates employees to be high performers?

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DTL 043: The power of empathy

365

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

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DTL 041: How to manage the culture of your family

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

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DTL 039: Two Biggest Trends Going Into 2020

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DTL 038: Your Silence Is Diminishing Your Value

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DTL 037: The James Clear & Jeff Bezos Mashup

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

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DTL 035: Your Time Is Running Out

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DTL 034: How to Think Like Amazon

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

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DTL 032: The Liberating Power of Letting Go

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DTL 031: How do you help someone change?

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DTL 030: How Much Time Do You Spend Creating?

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DTL 029: Great Leaders Practice The Shocks Principle

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DTL 028: Some Advice My Dad Gave Me

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DTL 027: Are You Willing to Jump?

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DTL 026: My Best & Worst Bosses

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DTL 025: The Best Daily Routine

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DTL 024: The Power of Believing in Someone

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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

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DTL 021: Three Words from Apple Founder Steve Jobs

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

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

389

DTL 018: Group chat on leadership trends of 2019

390

DTL 017: Discoveries made and lessons learned in 2018

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

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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

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DTL 013: Conversations Worth Having

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

396

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

399

DTL 008: Your Questions, My Answers

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

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DTL 006: How do you escape the noise?

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DTL 005: Tell Me A Story

403

DTL 004: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Unlocks Dealing with Criticism

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

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

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