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Your Team Doesn’t Need You to Predict the Future

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Widen Your Span: Why Rock-Star Individual Contributors Fail as Leaders

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What Can Weather Forecasters Teach Us About Executive Presence?

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Can You Engineer Unicorn Feedback?

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5 Tools to Expand Influence and Drain Your Workplace Swamp

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Energy Security or Corn Dog?

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Are you energy dense...or energy dense?

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Are You Being Gaslit?

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Have You Unwittingly Become the Cracker Barrel of Energy Leadership?

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How Can 40 Years of Pee-wee's Big Adventure Give Your Energy Career a Tune-Up?

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How Can Leadership Mercaptan Help You Catch Communication Problems Before They Explode?

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90 Billion Reasons You Should Start an Energy Leadership ‘Shop Class’

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Are You a Hub Leader or an Origin & Destination Leader?

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Should Expand Energy Join the Thunder at the White House?

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How does the 'via negativa' lead to positive energy?

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That's Leadership!

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In a Forest Full of Energy Leaders, How Do You Stand Out?

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50 Days of Feedback to Strengthen Your Energy Leadership Core

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What Wild Things Can You Do to Build a Dominant Energy Team?

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Are You Polishing a Cannonball?

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Is Your Trusty Networking GPS Leading You Astray?

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Is Your Leadership Toolbox as Limited as a Bagpiper's Playlist?

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Strive for Mediocrity

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Recruit Like a Champion Today: How Unconventional Talent Game Plans Can Give Your Team an Edge

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How Could qWitting Charge Up Your Team?

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It's a bird...It's a drone...It's Santa Claus!

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Are You a Turkey Day Chicken or a Conscious Leader?

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100 Episodes, 20 Years, and 2 Energy (and Election) Detox Tools

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How Do Frac Fears, Election Ads, and Haunted Houses Fuel Sustainable Leaders?

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Pioneer or Pretender: Are Semantics Unwittingly Fracturing Your Credibility?

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20 Marcellus-Inspired Ways to Be a Question-Able Leader

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Oil & Gas Leadership: Roller Coaster or Ferris Wheel?

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What Do People Think When They Hear Your Name?

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How Do We Make Nat Gas Stickier?

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What Do Maple Syrup, Natural Gas, and Energy Leadership Have in Common?

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Unleash (U)nconventional, (S)ustainable (L)eaders...(N)ot (G)amblers

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World Shale Winners: Leading Rock-Solid Teams Who Make the Planet Green With Envy

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Winning the Wright Way: Avoiding Overtime When Your Team is Already on a Path to Energy Royalty

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What can Madonna teach us about mature oil & gas pros "living in a millennial world?"

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Liquified Natural Groundhog: A Pragmatic Perspective on the Presidential Permitting Pause and the Power of Predictability

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Is this "negative" leadership pet peeve freezing your team's progress?

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Finding and Fixing the Fossil Fuel Fear Factors Fracturing Your Organization

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Decoding the Leadership Lessons of S.H.A.L.E. I.N.S.I.G.H.T. 2023

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How to Avoid the Hidden Costs of Self-Serve Leadership Fueling

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Squashing Lantern Flies & Energy Lies

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Are You Unwittingly Dumping Toxic Waste Into Corporate Waterways?

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Pitch Framing Principles to Keep Your Leadership Performance Above the Mendoza Line

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Only YOU Can Prevent Corporate Wildfires

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Energy & Environment: The Yin and Yang of MVP-Level Leadership

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Steal like a Pirate. Lead like a champ.

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Fueling Sustainable Leaders One ShaleRock Shake™ at a Time

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Fern Hollow Framework: Demolish & Dispose vs. Preserve & Protect

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Are You Following a Leadership TIL Procedure?

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BOOMerang Leadership Lessons From a BUSTed Succession Plan

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Is "Sunk Cost Leadership" Unwittingly Sinking Your Team?

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Green Smoke & Mirrors: Unsustainable Leadership Lessons from Irish Energy and Football Failures

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(Shale) Insight to (Leadership) Action

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Are You Throwing the Baby Out With the Frac Water?

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Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?

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Should Assist King John Stockton be Named US LNG Ambassador?

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"Leaders are Chickens"

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A Two-riffic Question to Fuel Sustainable Connections

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Why Bus-tainable Leadership Produces Hall of Fame Worthy Results

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See Something, Say Something

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What do a Hydrogen Hub, an Olympic Village, and a Sustainable Leader have in common?

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A Sustainable Diet of Meat Loaf & American Pie

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Punxsutawney Phil and the Problem with Petroleum Prognosticators

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Energy Capacity 101: The size of your plate doesn't determine the calories it contains

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Are you a Leadership Divestor or Investor?

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Danny Tanner, the Pittsburgh Steelers, Elizabeth Warren, and the Value of Leadership Humility

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Episode 57: Big Ben, Heinz Ketchup, & Unwitting Bias Against “Seasoned” Energy Leaders

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Now & Later: A Tale of Two "Bold" Leaders

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Free Rapid At-Home (Toxic Leadership) Test

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Tapping the Stra-cheese-ic Reserve for Stinky Employee Christmas Presents

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Are you a “thought leader” or a “get actual stuff done” leader?

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A Well(ness) Workover for the Darkest Day

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Sustainable Leadership 101: Prevention vs. Treatment

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Why are you banning fuel sources that could re-energize your organization?

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Will net-zero AIMs be killed before they reach age 20?

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By George, You're a Liar!

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Pragmatic Pittsburgh People and a New Twist on the Triple Bottom Line

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"Regret is an appalling waste of energy"

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Is your "arbitrage leadership" producing a "triage culture?"

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Have you unwittingly become a "Keep it in the Ground" leader?

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Is Run-of-the-Mill Coaching Marching Your Team Onward to Mediocrity?

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Episode 42: The Leader's Guide to the (Energy) Galaxy

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SARDINE LEADERS: High Oil Content, Low Toxicity, Natural Sustainability

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S.P.R.A.Y. T.A.N. 2 Sustain Success

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Is your leadership approach de-lighting your stakeholders?

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How might a bit of simplicity avoid a lot of stupidity?

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"A goal without a plan is just hot air"

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Is "leading by numbers" leading you to failure?

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"The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them."

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Are you unwittingly fueling a culture dependent on "voluntoldism?"

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Shut It Down! How empty (communication) pipelines and a healthy dose of silence can boost your executive presence

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Are your frustrated stakeholders accusing you of running out the clock?

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Is your leadership development program full of manure?

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Are you unwittingly brewing a flat company culture?

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Do you really catch more flies with honey than vinegar?

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Are you unwittingly confusing employee participation with employee engagement?