Category: Lead with a Story

http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/LWAS_116.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Android | RSSI normally don’t pull a bait-and-switch on my podcast guests. But this week I did. I was scheduled to interview Jacob Morgan about his new book The Future Leader: 9 Skills and Mindsets to Succeed in the Next Decade. But Jacob is a futurist,…

http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/LWAS_114.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Android | RSS It wasn’t until Bobby Herrera was eighteen, in the Army and three weeks into boot camp, polishing his boots by flashlight at 11:30 p.m., that he began to re-evaluate the value of struggle in making him the leader he is today as the…

http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/LWAS_113.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Android | RSSJohn Mattone is one of the world’s top executive coaches, along side other legendary names like Tony Robbins, or Marshall Goldsmith, or John Maxwell. He’s coached some of the most admired CEOs in the world including Steve Jobs and former Pepsi CEO Roger Enrico.…

http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/LWAS_112.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Android | RSS “People get more done when they enjoy their work. So, humor in the workplace isn’t about making work funny, or being the funniest person in the office. It’s about making work fun, and getting better results.”  That’s according to my podcast guest this…

http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/LWAS_111.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Android | RSSMost company founding stories are boring. And that’s a shame. Because nobody ever quit their job and risked everything to start a new business for a boring reason. But if you read the company website for most companies, their founding stories sound like this:…

http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/LWAS_110.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Android | RSSI got a surprising email in April of last year. It was from a woman named Meg Gibbons at a publishing company called Sourcebooks. She basically said she liked my work, and that she’d be interested in publishing one of my next books. But…

http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/LWAS_109.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Android | RSS Joshua Spodek has five Ivy League degrees, including a Ph.D. in physics and an MBA from Columbia, is a bestselling author, and a professor at NYU. So, of course he had to try his hand at entrepreneurship as well. And one of his…

When you’re trying to help your employees be more innovative, getting them to leave their office and do their work somewhere else might not be the first idea that comes to mind. But that’s exactly what Yann Toutant recommends, and with good reason — it works. Yann explains, “Having the same habits every day is…

I’ve interviewed a number of people who’ve run multi-billion dollar companies. But this might be the first time I’ve interviewed someone who’s LOST a multi-billion dollar business. At the age of 26, and fresh out of Harvard Business School, Warwick Fairfax made a successful play to privatize one of the largest public media conglomerates in…