Lead with a Story Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Lessons in leadership, one story at a time – Based on interviews with 100 executives and leaders at dozens of successful companies around the world as they learned their most important leadership lessons – sometimes the hard way. Featuring stories from executives at Procter & Gamble, Dollar General, Hewlett Packard, Kellogg’s, Dun & Bradstreet, Saatchi & Saatchi, Verizon, and many more. Each episode brings you an important lesson through a single compelling story. 21 Leadership Challenges from Lead with a Story: vision, commitment, change, recommendations, customer service, culture, values, collaboration, diversity, policy, inspiration, courage, passion for work, teach lessons, coaching & feedback, problem solving, understand the customer, delegate, creativity, sales, and earn respect.
Tools for influencing up, down, and across the organization from Scott Mautz, author of Leading from the Middle
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Coaching experts Phil Renshaw and Jenny Robinson join me to share 3 tools to help develop better self-awareness in you and your people
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"Where are you going to sleep tonight?" Those words began Emily Chang's 25-year journey of generosity, offering a spare room to people when they needed it the most.
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Communications expert Gary Ross joins me this week to explain the difference between transparency and clarity and why one is critical for good leadership and the other is not.
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How Michael Brody-Waite went from a drug addict on the street to CEO and what you can learn about leadership from his journey.
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Humor Engineer, Drew Tarvin, starts new podcast with former Procter & Gamble executives called Learning from Leaders, open to public.
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“Hey Paul, I’m thinking about writing a book. Can we talk? I’d love to get some advice.”
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten that email since my first book came out eight years ago. I usually end up spending an hour explaining everything I’ve learned about the subject. And I’m always happy to do so.
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Jason Hartman has been earned a small fortune in real estate across 11 states and 17 cities. His office boasts pictures of him with Richard Branson, Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Forbes, Tony Robbins, and Brittany Spears, among others. But he didn’t start his most profitable business until he sold his real estate company and created a …
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IMAGINE CONDUCTING this experiment. Put five monkeys in a cage with a bunch of bananas hanging from the ceiling. Underneath the bananas, place a ladder just tall enough to reach them.
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Confession: I was a little disappointed when I started reading this book and realized it was fiction. I thought I was reading a serious, non-fiction business book. But then I couldn’t put it down. And by the time I was done, it was my favorite business book I’ve read in the last year. That was …
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