Future Proof Your Strategic Leadership: Recent Episodes
Rick Mann
Most organizations and companies have a shortage of strategic leadership. Every week, we will seek to build your strategic leadership.
Our last lesson from Daniel is on how our leadership can impact organizations for decades.
Credentials are not the only thing that matters, but they can add value and access for different roles.
Today's leaders need more creativity than ever before. Daniel demonstrates creativity in the midst of significant constraints.
Leadership isn't for cowards. While courage is not common today, it is essential for effective leadership.
Would someone want you on their team? Daniel, even as an outsider, became a transformational team member.
Character is foundational to healthy and effective leadership. Daniel provides a lesson on this important topic.
Healthy leadership starts with a centered identity. Daniel lived this out for over 80 years.
The first chapter of the Book of Daniel provides 9 key principles that are needed by today's best strategic leaders.
More insights on how you can lead well in your first 90 days. Also, reference to his follow-up book, Your Next Move.
1 on Amazon books in the area of management skills, this books can help you as you begin a new job.
Getting an offer is just the halfway point. Negotiating this offer can get you to a better place.
A good job search takes work. Here, we talk through some strategies for moving your search forward.
A time may come when you need to find that next job. This series can help with that search.
There are several good things that happen on your journey to a 100-page book, even if you don't finish it.
Avoid the temptation to do your own editing and design work. Go with professionals instead.
The next step in your 100-page book is the writing of your full manuscript. Here are some suggestions.
A white paper can help move your book project forward and can also be an invaluable resource.
Brainstorming on your big ideas and working title come before you ever write that first paragraph.
Before you start writing, you need to clarify your audience and your purpose for the book.
What are the finances associated with writing a 100-page book? This episode will discuss both revenue and expenses.
A 100-page book can serve you and your organization well. Here is an overview of how it works.
This best-selling book is full of insights that can change your life, one small step at a time.
Weight management strategies need to start on the inside. Here are some insights that can help.
Dealing with weight issues is important for many of us. Here are some strategies that can help.
Getting started with data sets doesn't have to be difficult. Here we discuss how you can use Excel and Google Sheets.
While we may not like it at times, Data sets can give us a clearer picture of what is going on around us.
To future-proof your strategic leadership, you need to get more comfortable with data sets and the numbers. It is the future!
OKRs have been used at Google, Intel, and YouTube, as well as at nonprofits like The Gates Foundation and Bono's ONE Campaign in Africa.
A simple way to move strategic planning forward for you and your organization is starting with an OMI.
One of the most important roles of a strategic leader is the allocation of TEMP resources. Let's get started.
Advancing what you care about starts with clarifying your priorities for this year and next.
Leading healthy strategic teams starts with caring about people but then extends to strategic outcomes.
Are you committed to developing the people on your team? If so, many good things will follow.
Everywhere, there is a shortage of leaders who can lead healthy strategic teams. These leaders care about both people and outcomes.
In so many areas of life, you want 10 things but you only get 7. This is at the heart of strategic tradeoffs.
Academic Learning is not enough for leadership development but can be accelerated through coaching and experience.
You might be surprised how a one-foot fence can help you reach your goals, improve your parenting, and help with direct reports.
This best-seller on leadership and organizational life can still impact your life and leadership today.
Volunteer leadership can be a win-win relationship for you, your church, and your community.
Self-leadership and relational level 2 leadership are the foundations for all effective leadership. "If it doesn't work at home, it doesn't work."
Effective leadership at any level begins with ourselves. Let's talk about Level 1 leadership which is about leading yourself well.
Whether is it putting these MBA tools to use today or studying further, they can help you to future-proof your strategic leadership.
You don't need to be a lawyer, but you do need to grow your awareness of the legal issues around you and your organization.
While accounting tends to look back, finance looks forward to a higher Return on Investment (ROI).
This episode features accounting professor, Dr. Phl Rickard, as he provides an overview of this strategic topic.
Leading organizations is both an art and a science. Learn more about how leadership and organizations work.
Does everyone need an MBA? Maybe not, but everyone can learn a lot from these 7-minute episodes.
Are you dealing with your dark side? Who you are on the inside is as important as who you are on the outside.
Strategic planning can be complex. Simplify it by using objectives, measures, and initiatives (OMI).
Interviewing involves working through your long list of candidates down to four finalists.
Board members, nonprofit CEOs, staff, and donors can all use these tools to improve their organization.
It is imperative to market and communicate well with your external and internal stakeholders.
Managing finance operations well builds confidence and engagement with your many stakeholders.
If you want it to go well with your people, your HR operations need to function effectively.
Fund-raising is about effectively connecting people, their financial resources, and your cause.
The nonprofit board and senior leadership team are the two most important factors in helping a nonprofit to thrive.
Developing a positive awareness of your startup can keep you from being the best-kept secret.
Learn how an inside-out approach along with an outside-in approach can help you in developing a good idea.
Moving up in your leadership can be a dangerous journey. Using these five tools can increase your success.
Academic credentials are a part of the leadership journey. What do you need to move forward?
Experience is more than just time on the clock. Getting the right experience at the right time is critical.
Leadership is about bringing a deep toolbox to your role. See what you can add this week.
Strong character is the starting point of the leadership journey. Without it, what do you have?
The leadership journey has several features. This episode covers five which can build your leadership future.
How to be more relational, responsible, resourceful, resilient, and realistic for 2022. Getting traction with all five success tools.
People who are realistic are more successful than those who are more optimistic or pessimistic.
The research is clear: Resilience matters. See how you can build your resilience starting today.
Being resourceful is a foundational tool for success for all of life, work, and leadership.
If being relational is Part 1, being responsible is Part 2. Delivering on agreed-upon commitments is foundational for success in school, life, work, and leadership.
Relationships are the most critical element of a happy life. That's why being relational is our first tool for success in life and work.
There are some foundational basics that we all need at 8, 18, 28, and 80 for life and leadership. Here are five of them.
Take your enterprise leadership to the next level by putting these five FIELD tools to work.
Starting new things is a part of what enterprise leaders do. Look at how you can be more entrepreneurial.
Understanding the FOCUS of your strategic narrative and your strategic clarity is the first tool for enterprise leadership.
Enterprise Leadership is at a more elite level than strategic leadership. See how you can advance these five FIELD tools.
Creatively collaborating with questions is a core coaching competency and the engine of good coaching.
Coaching unlike other conversations has a focused goal. This part of the coaching session seeks to bring clarity to that goal.
Top-down leadership is out. This podcast session provides an overview of coaching tools that can get you up and going.
To wrap up this strategic finance series, this interview reviews all five tools and how you can you can put them into action today.
Strategic leadership in finance means that you don't look to one solution to solve all your organizational finance issues. It takes of collection of strategies.
Budgeting is a process that most of us do each year. This interview with David Tarrant discusses how you can make this process more streamlined and less painful.
Deciding what you and your team will do and not do is at the heart of strategic leadership.
Every strategic leader has to deal with the bottom line of their budget, team, department, or organization. Listen to this interview with Rick Mann and David Tarrant.
Cash is critical for every organization. Without it, you cannot survive. Finance expert, David Tarrant, will talk through the key topics on cash.
Every strategic leader needs to know some finance fundamentals. This podcast is an interview with Rick Mann and David Tarrant who together authored Strategic Finance for Strategic Leaders: The First Five Tools.
In this episode, we will look at how you can get traction with these five time management tools.
Strategic and enterprise leaders demonstrate more focus and discipline than their peers. See how you can use these in time management.
These practical 5Ds (do it, delete it, delay it, delegate it, and double it up with something else) can help you to open up strategic minutes each week.
Keeping track of your tasks and your time requires the good use of good tools. BONUS MATERIAL: Checklists
Let's talk about two things you care about most: Your time and your highest priorities.
Time is the most important of our strategic TEMP (time, energy, money, and people) resources.
OKR is a commonly used strategy tool that provides a simple way to do better strategy work in your personal and professional life.
Your most important resources are your TEMP (time, energy, money, and people) resources. The key is aligning your TEMP resources with your strategy both personally and professionally.
How strategy changed my life and what Intel, Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation learned about strategic objectives and OKRs.
At the highest visionary level, you want strategic clarity on why you exist, a picture of your preferred future, your values, and your value propositions.
This new Building Strategic Organizations (BSO) series focuses on five tools that can help you to build more strategic lives, teams, and organizations.
Do you ever wonder why it seems like you are being pulled in so many different directions?
Self-awareness is at the heart of maximizing the value you create for those around you.
This episode helps strategic leaders to increase the value they create for those around them.
This segment introduces listeners to this new podcast series: Future Proof Your Strategic Leadership.