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End of Season 2 Update
An end of Season 2 update from Kate Arms.
Humanocracy
In Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini explore why top-down governance and rule-bound management ar...
Bittersweet
Rick Andrews, Corporate Trainer and Improvisation Teacher, joins us for a discussion of Susan Cain's latest book, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole. We...
Drive
In Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel H. Pink presents research on effective motivation and the importance of autonomy, mastery, and purpose. ...
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
In Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (And How to Fix It), Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic discusses why so many organizations equate leadership potential with de...
Rebel Talent
In Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life, Francesca Gino discusses the importance of defying the status quo for both personal life satisfact...
Real Change
Sharon Salzberg is a prominent meditation teacher with a specialization in loving-kindness meditation. In Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World, she...
Lead From The Outside feat. Christine Gautreaux
In Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change, Stacey Abrams shares her story and the tools she has used to build a movement for change as a ...
The Power Of Us
Nitya Shekar leads a discussion of The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony by Jay J....
Unleashed
In Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You, Anne Morriss and Frances X. Frei discuss not only how to have leadership impact when y...
The Coaching Habit & The Advice Trap
A double-feature discussion of Michael Bungay Stanier's books, The Coaching Habit and The Advice Trap. Two books on leading better through talking less.Michael Bungay ...
Look Back, Look Ahead
Alyssa Dickman, Kate Arms, and Nitya Shekar discuss themes from the books we read for Season 1 and give a preview of what's coming in Season 2.Hear us discuss themes t...
Living With A SEAL feat. Carmen Ekdahl
In the final episode of Season 1, Nitya Shekar and Alyssa Dickman are joined by special guest Carmen Ekdahl of Cop Coach and the non-profit Transformational Leadership...
Emotional Agility
Alyssa Dickman leads a discussion of Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David. We look at how to engage effectively w...
Reboot
Kate Arms leads a discussion of Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up by Jerry Colonna. We look at what it means as a leader to embrace your demons in service o...
Think Again
What would change if you celebrated learning you were wrong about something in service of being right? Nitya Shekar leads a discussion of Think Again by Adam Grant. We...
The Truth About Leadership
If you only remembered 10 things about leadership, what should they be?Alyssa Dickman leads a discussion of The Truth About Leadership by Barry Posner and James M. Kou...
The First 90 Days
What do you need to do in the first few months in a new leadership role to set yourself up for success?Kate Arms leads a discussion of The First 90 Days by Michael D. ...
The Four Agreements feat. Margaret Leahy
What does it mean to take seriously the idea that words matter?Nitya Shekar leads a discussion of The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. We look at why words matter a...
The Outward Mindset
How would you like to have more influence in your organization or in the world?Alyssa Dickman leads a discussion of The Outward Mindset by The Arbinger Institute. We d...
Who Do We Choose To Be?
What is required of leaders when the world feels like it is falling apart? How can facing reality and claiming leadership equip everyone to face the complex problems o...
No Hard Feelings
What goes wrong when we think that having emotions is unprofessional? How can embracing emotions at work make us more effective at our jobs and drive better business r...
Managing Transitions
Alyssa Dickman leads a discussion of Managing Transitions by William Bridges and Susan Bridges. We discuss how changing processes and systems is different from leading...
Say What You Mean
Have you ever struggled to get your point across in a conversation? Kate Arms leads a discussion of Say What You Mean by Oren Jay Sofer. We discuss how mindfulness and...
The Untethered Soul
How does spiritual wisdom about the self and the soul turn into real-world leadership advice? Nitya Shekar leads a discussion of The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Sing...
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Nitya Shekar leads a discussion of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Nitya, Alyssa Dickman, and Kate Arms talk about the power of intuition, how it fails, a...
The 15 Commitments Of Conscious Leadership
Alyssa Dickman, Kate Arms, and Nitya Shekar talk about trust-based leadership, the power of taking responsibility for everything that happens to us, the stories we mak...
Dare To Lead
In this discussion of Brené Brown's Dare to Lead, Alyssa, Kate, and Nitya talk about the myths that persist around vulnerability, how leaders can show up wholehearted...