Podcasts by Radio Free Leader
Radio Free Leader is a podcast dedicated to helping you lead smarter by tearing down the walls between the ivory tower and the corner office. Each week, host David Burkus interviews outstanding thinkers and doers in leadership, innovation, and strategy like Daniel Pink, Marcus Buckingham, Tom Rath, Adam Grant, and more.
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1000 | A Special Announcement from David Burkus on Radio Free Leader from 2017-09-26T20:15:49
A special announcement for everyone subscribed to Radio Free Leader. Listen to this announcement, then stay connected for updates on future projects at http://davidburkus.com/join
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0827 | How the Science of Mental Preparation Can Help You Succeed with Dan McGinn from 2017-09-11T16:58:43
Daniel McGinn is the author of "Psyched Up: How the Science of Mental Preparation Can Help You Succeed." McGinn works as a senior editor at Harvard Business Review, where he edits the IdeaWatch and...
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0826 | The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams with Sam Walker from 2017-09-05T13:54:58
Sam Walker is The Wall Street Journal’s deputy editor for enterprise, the unit that directs the paper’s in-depth page-one features and investigative reporting projects. A former reporter, sports co...
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0825 | How to Unlock The Power of an Unfocused Mind with Srini Pillay from 2017-08-29T18:44:40
Dr. Srini Pillay is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Part-Time) at Harvard Medical School. He is known for combining “head and heart” (figuratively and literally) in an approach to personal devel...
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0824 | How to Find and Work With a Mentor with Claire Diaz-Ortiz from 2017-08-21T16:13:13
Claire Díaz-Ortiz is an author, speaker, and technology innovator who has been named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company. Claire was an early employee at Twitter, where ...
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0823 | How to be Known for Something with Andrew Davis from 2017-08-14T14:04:35
Andrew Davis is a bestselling author and internationally acclaimed keynote speaker. Before co-founding, building and selling a thriving digital marketing agency, Andrew Davis created programming fo...
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0822 | Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age with Jeff Goins from 2017-08-08T20:27:24
Jeff Goins is the author of four books, including the national best seller, The Art of Work. He is also a full-time blogger, speaker, and entrepreneur. Jeff’s award-winning blog, GoinsWriter.com, h...
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0821 | How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done with Jocelyn Glei from 2017-07-24T20:46:27
Jocelyn K. Glei is obsessed with how we can find more creativity and meaning in our daily work. Her latest book is Unsubscribe, a modern guide to killing email anxiety, avoiding distraction, and ge...
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0820 | How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter with Liz Wiseman from 2017-07-17T14:22:20
0820 | How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter with Liz Wiseman by David Burkus
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0819 | How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen Within Organizations with Jim Kouzes from 2017-07-05T20:21:42
Jim Kouzes is a bestselling author, an award-winning speaker and, according to the Wall Street Journal, one of the twelve best executive educators in the United States.
Currently Jim is D...
0818 | Finding, Creating, and Using Thresholds to Create Change with David Gray from 2017-06-28T13:47:35
Having been involved in a lot of well-intentioned innovation and change initiatives in industry, government and small businesses, Dave Gray noticed that people have an astonishing ability to miscom...
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0817 | Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong with Eric Barker from 2017-05-23T23:17:53
Eric Barker’s humorous, practical blog, "Barking Up the Wrong Tree", and book of the same name, presents science-based answers and expert insight on how to be awesome at life. Over 290,000 people s...
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0816 | The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking with Judah Pollack from 2017-05-16T13:58:40
Judah Pollack is an author and speaker. He has worked with everyone from US Army Generals and Special Forces to non-profit founders and social good pioneers. A regular speaker at Berkeley’s Haas Sc...
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0815 | Why Innovation Needs Liberal Arts with Scott Hartley from 2017-05-08T20:22:57
SCOTT HARTLEY is a venture capitalist and startup advisor. He has served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the White House, a partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, and a venture partner at Metamor...
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0814 | Unleash Your Team's Productive Power with Michael Mankins from 2017-04-25T19:30:04
Michael C. Mankins is a partner in Bain & Company's San Francisco office and a leader in the firm's Organization practice. He is also a senior member of Bain's Strategy and Industrial Goods & Servi...
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0813 | Outsmart Yor Instincts with Adam Hansen from 2017-04-20T15:25:51
As a new product professional, Adam has always believed in the power of possibility—accepting new approaches, questioning conventional wisdom, and being open to anything. This impulse led him to a ...
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0812 | How To Lead In A Crisis with Melissa Agnes from 2017-04-13T19:04:11
Melissa Agnes is a sought-after, international crisis management keynote speaker. She delivers powerful talks that help today’s organizations understand the realities that loom when crisis strikes....
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0811 | The Vision Of Art with Erik Wahl from 2017-04-06T14:36:54
Erik Wahl is an internationally recognized graffiti artist, # 1 best-selling author and entrepreneur. Erik redefines the term “keynote speaker.” Pulling from his history as both a businessman and a...
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0810 | Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone with Andy Molinsky from 2017-03-29T21:11:17
Andy Molinsky is a Professor at Brandeis University’s International Business School. Andy helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort ...
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0809 | Becoming The Person Others Follow with Joshua Spodek from 2017-03-22T17:03:27
Joshua Spodek, bestselling author of Leadership Step by Step, is an Adjunct Professor at NYU, leadership coach and workshop leader for Columbia Business School, columnist for Inc., and founder of S...
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0808 | The Science of Creating High Performance Companies with Paul Zak from 2017-03-16T17:15:11
Paul Zak is the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies and Professor of Economics, Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. Pauls’s two decades of research ha...
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0807 | How Successful Organizations Respond to Customers with Josh Seidan from 2017-03-07T16:49:11
Josh Seiden is a designer who has spent most of his career working on the design of complex software applications and integrating design into the product development process. Over the course of 25 ...
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0806 | How Leaders Succeed By Breaking Down Silos from 2017-02-14T14:22:47
Heidi K. Gardner, PhD, is a Distinguished Fellow in the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. Her research focuses on leadership and collaboration in professional service firms. Ga...
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0805 | Why Creativity Gets Rejected...And How To Accept It with Jennifer Mueller from 2017-01-31T19:46:54
Jennifer earned her PhD in Social and Developmental Psychology at Brandeis University, and has been on the faculty of many top business schools including the Wharton School, Yale School of Manageme...
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0804 | How to Create Meaning with Scott Mautz from 2017-01-26T15:53:59
0804 | How to Create Meaning with Scott Mautz by David Burkus
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0803 | How to Create a Culture of Innovation with Soren Kaplan from 2017-01-19T16:41:38
Soren Kaplan is the author of the best-selling and award-winning book "Leapfrogging," an affiliated professor at the Center for Effective Organizations at USC's Marshall School of Business, a contr...
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0802 | How To Lead In Multiple Sectors with Laura Gassner Otting from 2017-01-10T22:27:21
Laura Gassner Otting has spent the last 20 years working to strengthen organizations that weave our social and civic fabric. Through "Limitless Possibility," Laura collaborates with entrepreneurs a...
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0801 | How To Work With Millennials with Brad Szollose from 2017-01-05T16:08:51
Brad Szollose is the foremost expert on cross-generational leadership development strategies and the award-winning author of "Liquid Leadership: From Woodstock to Wikipedia." Brad is a former C-lev...
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0740 | How To Fail Properly with Justin Brady from 2016-12-13T20:29:51
Justin Brady is the founder of the Creativity Cultivator podcast, a in-demand designer, and a consultant/speaker to companies large and small who want to help their people enhance their creative po...
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0739 | How The World Sees You with Sally Hogshead from 2016-11-29T14:35:05
Sally Hogshead is an American author, professional speaker, chief executive officer of Fascinate, Inc and a former advertising executive. She is the author of Fascinate and How the World Sees You. ...
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0738 | Why Should Anyone Work Here with Gareth Jones from 2016-11-15T17:29:43
Gareth Jones is a Fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School. He is co-author (with Rib Goffee) of “Why Should Anyone Be Led By You?” and the new book “Why Should Any...
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0737 | The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less with Greg McKeown from 2016-11-03T15:58:21
Greg McKeown writes, teaches, and speaks around the world on the importance of living and leading as an Essentialist. He has spoken at companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Salesfo...
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0736 | Innovating The Future with Seth Stone from 2016-10-25T19:28:35
Dr. Seth Stone is an organizational consultant focused on helping leaders uncover latent potential and thrive in the global marketplace using the components of innovation. He’s also the host of the...
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0735 | How To Focus In A Distracted World with Cal Newport from 2016-10-18T14:23:18
Cal Newport is a writer and an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University. He also runs the popular website Study Hacks: Decoding Patterns of Success. He is the author of "Dee...
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0734 | How to Bring Innovation to Life with Thomas Wedel-Wedellsborg from 2016-10-11T15:10:19
Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg is a partner at The Innovation Architects, a management consulting firm in New York City. He is co-author of "Innovation as Usual." He is a frequent speaker at corporate e...
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0733 | Why Only Is Better Than Best with Srinivas Rao from 2016-10-04T14:04:24
Srinivas Rao uses the internet to make things, and leads a creativity and innovation revolution while he does. Rao is the author of “Unmistakeable” and the founder of the Unmistakeable Creative pod...
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0732 | Designing A Better Future with Lisa Kay Solomon from 2016-09-27T15:22:16
Lisa Kay Solomon is co-author of "Design a Better Business." She is a well-known thought leader in design innovation with a focus on building the leadership skills required to ignite change and cre...
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0731 | Why Leaders Need Visual Intelligence with Amy Herman from 2016-08-30T14:46:27
Amy E. Herman is the author of Visual Intelligence and the creator of The Art of Perception course, where she uses works of art to train police officers, medical professions, and everyone else how ...
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0730 | The Power of Now with Max McKeown from 2016-08-15T16:09:43
Dr. Max McKeown is the author of 7 books, including the new book #Now, as well as The Strategy Book, winner of the Commuter Read at the Chartered Management Institute Book of the Year 2013 and Amaz...
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0729 | Managing for Happiness with Jurgen Appelo from 2016-07-26T19:17:58
Jurgen Appelo is a pioneering management consultant who helps creative organizations survive and thrive in the twenty-first century. He is the author of Managing for Happiness, andd the CEO of the ...
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0728 | The Art of Strategic Gifting with John Ruhlin from 2016-07-20T19:22:05
John Ruhlin is the founder of The Ruhlin Group, a gift logistics company that helps clients like the Chicago Cubs, Wells Fargo, Caesar s Entertainment, Miami Dolphins, Morgan Stanley, and The John ...
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0727 | How to Get Momentum When You're Stuck with Jason and Jodi Womack from 2016-07-13T22:26:22
ason and Jodi Womack are the wife and husband team behind the Get Momentum Leadership Academy, a coaching program designed to help people realize their full potential. They are also the co-authors ...
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0726 | How Happiness Accelerates Success with Emma Seppälä from 2016-06-29T01:35:43
Emma Seppälä is Science Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University and a leading expert on health psychology, well-being, and resilience. Her r...
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0725 | How Markets Shape Us with Tim Sullivan from 2016-06-21T20:18:34
Tim Sullivan is the co-author of The Inner Lives of Markets. He is editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press and has worked at Basic Books, Portfolio, and Princeton University Press, wher...
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0724 | How The Work Place Affects Work with Leigh Stringer from 2016-06-14T00:41:47
Leigh Stringer is a workplace strategist who blends her master's in architecture with her MBA and a passion for research with practical application. She works for EYP, an architecture, engineering ...
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0723 | Why Learning Beats Knowing with Liz Wiseman from 2016-06-08T18:29:50
Liz Wiseman teaches leadership to executives around the world. She is president of The Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development center headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. Her n...
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0722 | How to Speak and Change the World with Nancy Duarte from 2016-06-02T13:30:22
Nancy Duarte is a communication expert and he of Duarte, Inc. Her firm has created more than a quarter of a million presentations for the world’s most influential businesses, institutions, causes, ...
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0721 | The Truth About The 10,000 Hour Rule with Anders Ericsson from 2016-05-25T16:13:51
Anders Ericsson is the world's foremost expert on expertise and the author of "Peak: Secrets From The New Science of Expertise." He is a Conradi Eminent Scholar and professor or psychology at Flori...
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0720 | What Millennials Want at Work with Bruce Pfau from 2016-05-20T18:50:22
Bruce N. Pfau is KPMG’s Vice Chair of Human Resources and Communications. He holds a PhD in Psychology from Loyola University of Chicago. He is also co-author of "The Human Capital Edge: 21 People ...
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0719 | Fixing the Fatal Flaws of Thinking with Matthew E May from 2016-05-10T17:19:05
Matthew E. May is an award-winning author and noted thought leader on strategy and innovation. A popular speaker, facilitator, and coach, he works with individuals and organizations all over the wo...
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0718 | Leading in the Social Age with Mark Babbitt from 2016-05-03T14:21:03
Mark Babbitt is President of SwitchandShift.com, a site and consultancy dedicated to leadership in the Social Age. He is co-author of "A World Gone Social." In this interview, we talk about how the...
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0717 | The Journey of Exceptional Leaders with Ron Carucci from 2016-04-26T01:22:36
Ron Carucci is a principal at Navalent, an organizational consulting and leadership consulting firm, and former Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior. He is co-author (with Eric Hansen) of...
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0716 | The Market Value of Leaders with Dave Ulrich from 2016-04-19T15:10:52
Dave Ulrich is the Rensis Likert Collegiate Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and a partner at the RBL Group consulting firm. He is the au...
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0715 | When to Compete and When to Cooperate with Maurice Schweitzer from 2016-04-12T15:18:26
Maurice Schweitzer is the Cecilia Yen Koo Professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School. He is co-auhor, with Adam Galinksy, or th...
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0714 | How Superbosses Master The Flow Of Talent with Sydney Finkelstein from 2016-04-06T11:44:06
Sydney Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and the director of Tuck’s Center for Leadership. He is consistently voted one of...
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0713 | How Tiny Clues Yield Huge Insights with Martin Lindstrom from 2016-03-30T17:19:42
Martin Lindstrom is the bestselling author of "Buyology" and one of the world's foremost marketing consulting. His new book, "Small Data," argues that it's the tiny clues (not the big data conclusi...
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0712 | How to Build a High Performing Culture from 2016-03-22T20:14
Need Doshi and Lindsay McGregor are partners in life, work, and writing. The are the founders of the consulting firm Vega Factor and authors of "Primed to Perform." In this interview, we dive deep ...
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0711 | The World of Work with Michael Bungay Stainer from 2016-03-16T16:16:43
Michael Bungay Stanier is the author of The Coaching Habit, whose new book touches on similar themes as my new release, Under New Management. So in this special joint venture episode, Michael and I...
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0710 | Writing the Org Chart in Pencil with Liann Eden from 2016-03-09T16:46:44
Liann Eden is the co-founder of Eden McCallum, a consultant firm with no consultants. Using an innovative organizational design, Eden is able to bring the brightest consultants to client projects b...
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0709 | The Power of Transparency with Dane Atkinson from 2016-03-01T19:17:37
Dane Atkinson is the founder and CEO of SumAll, a company that made headlines for committing to salary transparency and sharing with employees what every other employee gets paid. In this interview...
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0708 | Leading Team Genius with Tim Sanders from 2016-02-23T20:42:04
Tim Sanders is the former Yahoo! Chief Solutions Officer and the author of four books, including the new book "Dealstorming." He is a co-founder of the research consultancy Deeper Media, Inc. and a...
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0707 | The Power of Reciprocal Loyalty with Daniel Korschun from 2016-02-16T18:36:53
Daniel Korschun is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business and the author of "We Are Market Basket." In this interview, we discuss how the uniqueness of...
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0706 | How Transformation Works with Roger Martin & Sally Osberg from 2016-02-09T18:34:16
Strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R. Osberg are co-authors of "Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works." In this interview, they describe h...
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0705 | Creating an Environment That Energizes Everyone with Shawn Murphy from 2016-02-02T15:46:32
Shawn Murphy is CEO and founder of Switch & Shift, an organization dedicated to the advancement of human-centered organizational practices and leadership. He is the author of The Optimistic Workpl...
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0704 | Correcting Leadership BS with Jeffrey Pfeffer from 2016-01-26T16:43:16
Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, where he has taught since 1979. In this interview, we take a ha...
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0703 | Becoming An Authentic Leader with Bill George from 2016-01-19T15:24:13
Bill George is professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, where he has taught leadership since 2004. Mr. George is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic. He...
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0702 | Energizing Your Work and Life with Tom Rath from 2016-01-12T21:45:36
Tom Rath is a researcher, author, and filmmaker who studies the role of human behavior in business, health, and well-being. He has been described by business leaders and the media as one of the gre...
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0701 | Career Advice for Leaders with Daniel Pink from 2016-01-04T15:27:52
Daniel H. Pink is the author of five provocative books — including three long-running New York Times bestsellers, A Whole New Mind, Drive, and To Sell is Human. Dan’s books have been translated int...
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0700 | David Burkus from 2015-12-24T16:35:37
A new year's announcement from David Burkus, host of LDRLB....or...wait....host of Radio Free Leader.
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0625 | Whitney Johnson from 2015-12-15T18:53:37
Whitney Johnson is the leading thinker on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption. She cofounded Rose Park Advisors, a boutique investment firm, with Clayton Christensen, and was a...
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0624 | Aaron Olson & BK Simerson from 2015-12-01T16:02:02
Aaron Olson and BK Simerson are the authors of Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results. In this interview, we discuss why leadership...
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0623 | Fred Kiel from 2015-11-17T15:09:12
Fred Kiel is the author of "Return on Character." He is is a founding partner of the leadership development and strategic analytics firm KRW International and a pioneer in the field of executive co...
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0622 | Mike Figliuolo from 2015-10-27T14:56:54
Mike Figliuolo is the Founder and Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC - a leadership development and training firm. He's also the author of "Lead Inside the Box" and "One Piece of Paper." Mike...
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0621 | Josh Davis from 2015-10-13T14:17:17
Josh Davis, Ph.D., is the director of research and lead professor at the NeuroLeadership Institute, a global institute dedicated to synthesizing scientific research and guiding its use in the busin...
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0620 | Susan Fowler from 2015-09-28T11:45:35
Susan Fowler is the author of "Why Motivating People Doesn't Work...And What Does." She is the lead developer of The Ken Blanchard Company's Optimal Motivation program, which has been implemented w...
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0619 | Jean-Philippe Vergne from 2015-09-14T16:29:07
Jean-Philippe Vergne is the author of "The Pirate Organization." He is an assistant professor of strategy at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. His ongoing re...
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0618 | Ryan T Hartwig from 2015-09-01T20:51:20
Ryan Hartwig is Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies at Asuza Pacific University, where he teaches courses on Group Communication and Leadership. He is co-author of "T...
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0617 | Todd Henry from 2015-08-18T20:57:36
Todd Henry is the founder of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams be prolific, brilliant and healthy. He regularly speaks and consults with companies about how to dev...
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0616 | Donald Sull & Kathleen Eisenhardt from 2015-08-04T14:12:43
Donald Sull is a global expert on strategy and execution in turbulent markets. He is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Kathleen Eisenhardt is the S. W. Ascherman Professor of...
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0615 | Lee Cockerell from 2015-07-20T13:43:37
Lee Cockerell is the former Executive Vice President of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resort. As the Senior Operating Executive for ten years Lee led a team of 40,000 Cast Members and was re...
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0614 | Heidi Grant Halvorson from 2015-07-06T14:13:43
Heidi Grant Halvorson is a social psychologist and Associate Director of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia Business School. She is the author of four bestselling books, including "Nine Thin...
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0613 | Dan Ariely from 2015-06-22T14:05:06
Dan Ariely is a behavioral economist and triple New York Times bestselling author. His most recent projects include Timeful, a calendar app aimed at using behavioral science to maximize productivit...
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0612 | Nilofer Merchant from 2015-06-08T13:45
Nilofer Merchant is the Jane Bond of Innovation. From working with Steve Jobs at Apple, to defeating Microsoft in an epic industry battle, to advising the C-Suites of GE, IBM, Logitech and more, Me...
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0611 | Michael Lee Stallard from 2015-05-25T15:18:43
Michael Lee Stallard is the author of "Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy, and Understanding at Work." He is co-founder and president of E Pluribus Partners a...
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0610 | Tom Rath from 2015-05-11T14:00:53
Tom Rath is the author of several best-selling books, including Strengths Finder 2.0, Strengths-Based Leadership and Eat Move Sleep. His latest book, Are You Fully Charged?, focuses on the small ac...
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0609 | Dorie Clark from 2015-04-27T14:04:03
Dorie Clark is the author of "Reinventing You" and "Stand Out." A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, she is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Entrepreneur, a...
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0608 | Chris White from 2015-04-13T13:56:16
Christopher J. White is Managing Director of the Center for Positive Organizations and adjunct faculty in Management & Organizations at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He is t...
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0607 | Ray Fisman & Tim Sullivan from 2015-03-31T01:14:09
Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan are the authors of newly updated and paperback edition of "The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office." Fisman is the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise at C...
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0606 | Herminia Ibarra from 2015-03-16T17:00:12
Herminia Ibarra is an expert on professional and leadership development. She is the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning at INSEAD, the founding director of The Leadership Transition e...
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0605 | L. David Marquet from 2015-03-02T16:52:08
L. David Marquet is the author of Turn The Ship Around and the new workbook Turn YOUR Ship Around. He is a former submarine captain in the US Navy and sought-after leadership authority. In this int...
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0604 | John Richard Bell from 2015-02-16T20:17:50
John Richard Bell is a retired CEO, a strategy consultant, and author of "Do Less Better." In this interview, we discuss the power of strategic sacrifice in complex world.
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0603 | Ron Friedman from 2015-02-02T22:25:15
Ron Friedman, Ph.D. is an award-winning psychologist and founder of ignite80, a consulting firm that helps smart leaders build extraordinary workplaces. He is the author of The Best Place to Work. ...
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0602 | Edward Hess from 2015-01-19T16:10:18
Ed Hess is the author of "Learn or Die" and a host of other great books. He is professor of business administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden Graduate School of Business. His ...
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0601 | Joshua Wolf Shenk from 2015-01-05T22:17
Joshua Wolf Shenk is a curator, essayist, and author, most recently, of "Powers of Two." His magazine pieces include cover stories in Harper’s, Time, and The Atlantic, where his essay "What Makes U...
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0526 | Max McKeown from 2014-12-22T23:27:11
Max McKeown is the author of "The Innovation Book." Max holds a PhD and MBA with a speciality in strategic change and an MSc in Psychology. He teaches at Warwick Business School and consults with c...
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0525 | Chris Taylor from 2014-12-08T17:23:01
Chris Taylor is the founder of actionablebooks.com, a training and development company that spreads actionable insights from business books in the form of summaries and workshops. In this interview...
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0524 | Warren Berger from 2014-11-23T22:20:09
Warren Berger is the author of "A More Beautiful Question." He is a journalist and book author who has spent his career profiling a wide range of highly creative people and companies, sharing best ...
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0523 | S. Chris Edmonds from 2014-11-10T12:22:33
S. Chris Edmonds is the author of "The Culture Engine." He is a S. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker, thought leader, and executive consultant. Chris has been a senior consultant with the Ken...
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0522 | Tanveer Naseer from 2014-10-27T16:22:06
Tanveer Naseer is the co-author of "Leadership Vertigo." He is also the Principal and Founder of Tanveer Naseer Leadership, a leadership coaching firm that works with executives and managers to hel...
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0521 | Scott Eblin from 2014-10-13T15:26:40
Scott Eblin is the the author of "Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative," and founder of the Eblin Group, a professional development firm committed to helping executives and manag...
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0520 | Dorie Clark from 2014-09-29T14:04:07
Dorie Clark is the author of "Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future." She is a former presidential campaign spokeswoman, a former divinity student, a faculty member at Duke Univer...
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0519 | Rich Horwath from 2014-09-16T16:24:11
Rich Horwath is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author on strategy, including his new book "Elevate." In this interview, we discuss the three disciplines of advanced...
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0518 | Rajiv Narang from 2014-09-01T12:07:34
Rajiv Narang is the author of "Orbit-Shifting Innovation" and founder of Erehwon, a 20 year old pioneering Innovation firm, where he has helmed the redefining and recasting of Innovation. Recognize...
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0517 | Henry Evans from 2014-08-18T01:21:01
Henry is co-author (with Colm Foster) of "Step Up: Lead in Six Moments that Matter." He is the founder and Managing Partner for Dynamic Results, LLC, providing coaching and consulting solutions to ...
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0516 | Edward Slingerland from 2014-08-04T17:32:03
Edward Slingerland is the author of "Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity." He is Professor of Asian Studies and Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition at ...
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0515 | Dean Schroeder from 2014-07-20T22:01:49
Dean Schroeder is co-author (with Alan Robinson) of "The Idea-Driven Organization.” As an educator, Dean is the Herbert and Agnes Schulz Professor of Management at Valparaiso University. As a consu...
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0514 | Christoph Lueneburger from 2014-07-06T23:34:47
Christoph Lueneburger is the author of "A Culture of Purpose: How to Choose the Right People and Make the Right People Choose You." He is a partner at Egon Zehnder, where he founded the firm's Sust...
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0513 | David Craig from 2014-06-22T23:00:30
David Craig is a Senior Vice President at CannonDesign in New York, where he leads the firm’s Workplace Strategy Practice globally. Craig is a recognized expert and leader in developing, implementi...
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0512 | Aubrey Daniels from 2014-06-09T14:29:37
Aubrey C. Daniels is the author of the bestselling management classic Performance Management: Changing Behavior that Drives Organizational Effectiveness, recently re-released in a fifth addition. H...
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0511 | Larry Downes from 2014-06-02T18:00:12
Larry Downes is co-author of Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. He is an Internet industry analyst and author on the impact of disruptive technologies on business a...
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0510 | Les McKeown from 2014-05-31T21:50:20
Les McKeown is the author of Do Lead: Share your vision. Inspire others. Achieve the Impossible. Les McKeown is the President and CEO of Predictable Success, a leading advisor on leadership and org...
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0509 | Kathy Cramer from 2014-05-31T21:49:35
Dr. Kathy Cramer is the author of Lead Positive: What Highly Effective Leaders See, Say, and Do. A psychologist by training, she created and has dedicated her life to asset-based thinking (ABT), a ...
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0508 | Orly Lobel from 2014-05-31T21:49:03
Orly Lobel is the author of Talent Wants to Be Free: Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding. Lobel is the Herzog Professor of Law at University of San Diego. Her work has been fe...
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0507 | Denise Brosseau from 2014-05-31T21:47:53
Denise Brosseau is the author of Ready to be a Thought Leader. Denise is an award winning author, thought leadership consultant and keynote speaker with a long track record of results with an inter...
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0506 | Shawn Hunter from 2014-05-31T21:46:51
Shawn Hunter is the author of Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes. Shawn is Executive Producer & Vice President for Leadership Development Channel at Skillsoft. For over a ...
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0505 | George Bradt from 2014-05-31T21:45:58
George Bradt is the co-author of First Time Leader: Foundational Tools for Inspiring and Enabling Your New Team. George has a unique perspective on transformational leadership based on his combined...
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0504 | William Cohen from 2014-05-31T21:45:14
Dr. William Cohen is the president of the California Institute of Advanced Management and the first graduate of Peter Drucker’s executive PhD program. He is the author of The Practical Drucker: App...
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0503 | Julian Birkinshaw from 2014-05-31T21:44:33
Julian Birkinshaw is Professor and Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School. Julian is a recognised expert on innovation, entrepreneurship and renewal in large corporati...
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0502 | Alan Gregerman from 2014-05-31T21:43:53
Alan Gregerman is the President and Chief Innovation Officer of VENTURE WORKS Inc. He is the author of The Necessity of Strangers: The Intriguing Truth About Insight, Innovation, and Success. An ex...
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0501 | Andrew King from 2014-05-31T21:43:02
Andrew King is co-author (with Jeanne Liedtka and Kevin Bennett) of Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works. He is a research associate for the Batten Institute inside the ...
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0426 | Gianfranco Zaccai from 2014-05-31T21:42:13
As part of the pre-order campaign for my new book, I interviewed two individuals profiled in The Myths of Creativity as part of special, advance episodes of LDRLB. Today, we’re releasing the second...
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0425 | Ray Fisman & Tim Sullivan from 2014-05-31T21:41:12
Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan are the authors of The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office. Fisman is the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and co-director of the Social Enterprise Prog...
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0424 | Jennifer Anastasoff from 2014-05-31T21:40:26
As part of the pre-order campaign for my new book, I interviewed two individuals profiled in The Myths of Creativity as part of special, advance episodes of LDRLB. Today, we’re releasing the first ...
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0423 | Todd Henry from 2014-05-31T21:36:48
Todd is the founder of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas. Todd’s work has been featured by Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, HBR.org, US News...
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0422 | David Burkus from 2014-05-31T21:35:36
To celebrate the launch of his new book, David Burkus has turned over his microphone to friend and LDRLB contributor Soren Kaplan. In this interview, David and Soren discuss why brainstorming isn’t...
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0421 | Patrick J Murphy from 2014-05-31T21:33:21
Patrick J. Murphy is professor of management at DePaul University. He has consulted to or advised more than 100 entrepreneurial ventures and is he is chair of the management history division of the...
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0420 | Larry Keeley from 2014-05-31T21:32:44
Larry Keeley is a strategist who has worked for over three decades to develop more effective innovation methods. Larry is President and co-founder of Doblin Inc, an innovation strategy firm known f...
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0419 | Scott Barry Kaufman from 2014-05-31T21:21:18
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. is the author of Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined. He is a cognitive psychologist specializing in the development of intelligence, creativity, and personality in educatio...
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0418 | Judah Pollack from 2014-05-31T21:20:18
Judah is the co-author (with Ori Brafman) of The Choas Imperative: How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success. He is an expert in the art of leadership in a rapidly c...
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0417 | Rita Gunther McGrath from 2014-05-31T21:12:46
Rita Gunther McGrath, a Professor at Columbia Business School, is a globally recognized expert on strategy in uncertain and volatile environments. Her thinking is highly regarded by readers and cli...
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0416 | Michael Raynor from 2014-05-31T21:12:08
Michael E. Raynor is a Director at Deloitte Services LP and the Innovation Theme Leader in the firm’s Eminence function. In addition, Raynor is an advisor to senior executives in many of the world’...
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0415 | Eric Lowitt from 2014-05-31T21:10:56
Eric Lowitt is a globally recognized expert in the fields of competitive strategy, growth, and sustainability. He is the author of The Collaboration Economy: How to Meet Business, Social, and Envir...
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0414 | Adam Grant from 2014-05-31T21:05:13
Adam Grant is the youngest tenured professor and single highest-rated teacher at The Wharton School. He is a former record-setting advertising director, junior Olympic springboard diver, and profes...
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0413 | Michael Roberto from 2014-05-31T21:03:50
Michael Roberto is the Trustee Professor of Management at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. He has served on the faculty at Harvard Business School and as a visiting professor at NYU’s...
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0412 | Heidi Grant Halvorson from 2014-05-31T06:39:55
Heidi Grant Halvorson is Associate Director of the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia Business School. She is co-author (with E. Tory Higgins) of Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the Worl...
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0411 | How Less Is Often More With Teams from 2014-05-31T06:18:17
Sometimes adding to the number of people on a team can actually subtract from the quality of the teams output. This isn’t a rare occurrence, it’s a well researched phenomenon. In this episode, we r...
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0410 | Alexander Osterwalder from 2014-05-31T06:17:23
Alexander Osterwalder is an entrepreneur, speaker, and business model innovator. In their book, Business Model Generation, he and Professor Yves Pigneur revealed the Business Model Canvas, a practi...
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0409 | Two Strategy Questions That Matter from 2014-05-31T06:16:19
Strategy is a heavy topic. Either it requires a seemingly infinite time commitment, or it is easily mistaken for an organizational vision or (perhaps worse) a short-term operational plan. If you’re...
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0408 | Keith Sawyer from 2014-05-31T06:15:27
Dr. Keith Sawyer is the author of the new book Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity.
He is one of the world’s leading scientific experts on creativity and innovation. In his ...
0407 | Francesca Gino from 2014-05-31T06:14:06
Francesca Gino is Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations, & Markets Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on judgment and decision maki...
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0406 | Jody Thompson from 2014-05-31T06:07:30
Jody Thompson is the co-creator of the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) and co-author of the new book Why Managing Sucks And How to Fix It. In this interview, we discuss ROWE, crab-in-the-baske...
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0405 | Saul Kaplan from 2014-05-31T06:05:11
Saul Kaplan is the Founder and Chief Catalyst of Business Innovation Factory and the author of Business Model Innovation Factory. In this interview, we discuss why the landscape of business is chan...
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0404 | Do IPOs Hurt Innovation? from 2014-05-31T06:03:55
Interesting new research from Shai Bernstein at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business suggests that companies that go public experience a significant decline in innovation post-IPO. Top...
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0403 | Daniel Pink from 2014-05-31T06:03:16
Daniel Pink is the author of the New York Times Bestseller To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others. In this interview, we talk about the new ABCs of influencing others, the power...
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0402 | Karen Martin from 2014-05-31T06:02:17
Karen Martin is the author of The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence and an experienced consultant and thou...
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0401 | Potential Trumps Proven Achievement from 2014-05-31T06:01:34
For the premiere of season four we talk about potential. Not our potential, but some recent research demonstrating that potential has significantly more allure than accomplishment. It turns out, we...
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0312 | Matthew May from 2014-05-31T06:00:04
Matthew May is is the author of The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything, as well as three previous, award-winning books. A popular speaker, creativity co...
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0311 | Soren Kaplan from 2014-05-31T05:58:57
Soren Kaplan is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power the of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. Through his book and his consulting, he helps inn...
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0310 | John Baldoni from 2014-05-31T05:58:05
John Baldoni is an internationally recognized leadership consultant, coach, author and speaker. He is the president of Baldoni Consulting LLC, an executive coaching and leadership development firm....
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0309 | Talent Anarchy from 2014-05-31T05:57
Talent Anarchy is the dynamic speaking duo of Jason Lauritsen and Joe Gerstandt. These Talent Anarchists use their collective experiences, common beliefs and different perspectives to deliver thoug...
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0308 | Todd Henry from 2014-05-31T05:52:15
Innovation requires creativity. And Todd Henry knows something about creativity.
Todd is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate...
0307 | Cynthia Montgomery from 2014-05-31T05:51:11
Cynthia A. Montgomery is the Timken Professor of Business Administration and immediate past head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where she’s taught for over twenty years. For six y...
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0306 | Max McKeown from 2014-05-31T05:50:16
Max McKeown is a a new breed of business guru. He works consultant, researcher and writer focused on innovation and strategy. He is the author of two recently published books: The Strategy Book and...
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0305 | Scott Eblin from 2014-05-31T05:48:59
Scott Eblin is the co-founder and president of The Eblin Group, Inc., a leadership development and strategy firm that supports organizations in ensuring the success of their executive level leaders...
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0304 | Bob Frisch from 2014-05-31T05:46:37
Bob Frisch, managing partner of The Strategic Offsites Group, has worked with organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to German mittelstand family businesses to the U.S. Department of Stat...
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0303 | David Owens from 2014-05-31T05:42:32
David A. Owens is professor of the practice of management at Vanderbilt’s Graduate School of Management, where he also directs the Executive Development Institute. Specializing in innovation and ne...
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0302 | Marcus Buckingham from 2014-05-31T05:38:29
Marcus Buckingham is a key soloist in the strengths movement choir. He is a best-selling author, popular keynote speaker and business consultant who champions the idea that people and organizations...
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0301 | Robert Hurley from 2014-05-31T05:36:28
Dr. Hurley is a Professor at Fordham University and President of Hurley Associates. Dr. Hurley consults with organizations on leadership development, top team development, coaching, managing transf...
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0212 | Les McKeown from 2014-05-31T05:32:54
Les McKeown (not the one from the Bay City Rollers) is is the President & CEO of Predictable Success. He has has started over 40 companies in his own right, and was the founding partner of an incub...
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0211 | Kevin Oakes from 2014-05-31T05:30:28
Kevin Oakes is co-author of The Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management. He is the CEO and founder of the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), the fastest growing and largest corpor...
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0210 | Mike Figliuolo from 2014-05-31T05:28:13
Mike is the Founder and Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a professional training firm focused on leadership development.
He graduated from the United States Military Academy at W...
0209 | Teresa Amabile from 2014-05-31T05:25:04
Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and a Director of Research at Harvard Business School. Originally educated as a chemist, Teresa received her doctorate i...
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0208 | Pam Fox Rollin from 2014-05-31T05:22:38
Pam Fox Rollin is an executive coach and the head of IdeaShape, a coaching and consulting firm for senior executives. Pam is an experienced consultant who has worked with leading organizations such...
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0207 | Jesse Lyn Stoner from 2014-05-31T05:20:16
Jesse Lyn Stoner has worked closely with leaders for over twenty-five years, helping them create collaborative, engaged organizations that make a powerful and positive impact on the world. A busine...
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0206 | Mitchell Kusy from 2014-05-31T05:15:38
Dr. Mitchell Kusy, an international consultant, has worked internally in several organizations including American Express Financial Advisors as head of leadership development. He is a full professo...
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0205 | Tim Harford from 2014-05-31T05:12:04
Tim Harford is a senior columnist for the Financial Times. His column, “The Undercover Economist,” reveals the economic ideas behind everyday experiences. He is also the author of Adapt: Why Succes...
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0204 | Todd Dewett from 2014-05-31T05:11:14
Todd Dewett, Ph.D., is a tenured Professor of Management in the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University. He is also a noted speaker and consultant on leadership and management. In t...
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0203 | Guy Kawasaki from 2014-05-31T05:10:21
Guy Kawasaki is the former Chief Evangelist of Apple and current head of Alltop. He is the author of the new book Enchantment and, in this interview, talks about what it takes for leaders to enchan...
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0202 | Guy Harris from 2014-05-31T05:08:13
Guy Harris describes himself as a Recovering Engineer. He has served as an officer aboard a US Navy Submarine, and he has held leadership positions in both major multi-national and small businesses...
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0201 | US Naval Academy from 2014-05-31T05:07:23
Siddhartha Herdegen is the Assistant Chair of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. In this podcast, we discuss the methods and challenges of develop...
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0112 | Les McKeown from 2014-05-31T05:06:29
Les McKeown is the President & CEO of Predictable Success. He has started over 40 companies in his own right, and was the founding partner of an incubation consulting company that advised on the cr...
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0111 | Jim Kouzes from 2014-05-31T05:05:15
Jim Kouzes has been a fixture in the world of leadership studies for over 30 years. He is co-author, with Barry Posner, of the seminal The Leadership Challenge and the duo have just released a new ...
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0110 | Diana Whitney from 2014-05-31T04:57:15
Diana Whitney Ph.D. is the President of Corporation for Positive Change, an international consulting firm specializing in the application of Appreciative Inquiry – the revolutionary process she hel...
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0109 | Bob Sutton from 2014-05-31T04:44:14
Robert Sutton is Professor of Management science at the Stanford Engineering School and researcher in the field of Evidence-based management. He is an IDEO Fellow and a Professor of Organizational ...
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0108 | Liz Wiseman from 2014-05-31T04:41:26
Liz Wiseman is president of The Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development center headquartered in Silicon Valley. She advises senior executives and leads strategy and leadership forums f...
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0107 | Michael Lee Stallard from 2014-05-31T04:37:30
Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau are co-founders of E Pluribus Partners. They are also co-authors of Fired Up or Burned Out. In this podcast, they make a compelling case for why the next compe...
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0106 | Becky Robinson from 2014-05-31T04:36:40
Becky Robinson is the blogger behind LeaderTalk, a recent addition but a staple in the blogging community. In addition she serves as an adjunct at Mountain State University’s School of Leadership a...
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0105 | Steve Farber from 2014-05-31T04:35:21
Steve Farber is the president of Extreme Leadership, Incorporated—an organization devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders in the business community. His latest book,Greater Th...
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0104 | Marshall Goldsmith from 2014-05-31T04:33:56
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders get even better by achieving positive, lasting change in behavior for themselves, their people and their teams. Marshall is...
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0103 | Michael Petty from 2014-05-31T04:31:35
Michael Petty is the managing partner of North Star Partners, a firm that assists companies in the areas of leadership development, strategic thought and application, and financial stewardship.
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0102 | Daniel Pink from 2014-05-31T04:26:17
Daniel Pink is the author of several New York Times best-selling books including his new release, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. In Drive, Dan explores new research that sugge...
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0101 | Bret Simmons from 2014-05-31T04:23:48
This inaugural episode’s guest is Bret Simmons, PhD. Dr. Simmons is a professor of organizational behavior and leadership at the University of Nevada, Reno. His interests include leadership, follow...
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