Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future - Archive

S1-Ep8: What is the Organization of the Future?

Guests: Daryl Peterman & Mike Morrow-Fox
Abrasive Technology (AT) that has made the leap from traditional organization to an “agile”/nimble organization. This responsiveness pervades the people, the culture, and the processes like hiring and employee evaluation. Responsiveness is something that is “crafted”. Daryl and Mike Morrow-Fox will discuss characteristics of the organization of the future and discuss the evolution of Abrasive Technologies. They will answer the following: 1. What does the organization of the future look like? 2. What specific in AT that represent an organizational evolution? 3. Tell us about the transformation process This will be an interactive discussion exploring why AT selected many of the approaches they did and Daryl's underlying beliefs that fueled the transformation.

S1-Ep7: Emotional Intelligence - A Success Accelerator

Guest: Jim Vaive
Emotional Intelligence is a key differentiator in organizational life - it is a major accelerator for smart people who want to improve their impact and for organizations to improve their success. Jim discusses his experience at CEO of Varment Guard and how building that business connected him to Emotional Intelligence. He will discuss: 1. His personal story and insights on how emotional intelligence (EI) impacted his business success 2. What is Emotional Intelligence (EI) 3. As a leader what is the value you get from building EI? 4. How would you go about building EI? 5. How do you work with leaders?

S1-Ep6: Leading Analytics to Drive Business Results

Guest: James Brenza
Business Analytics is a hot topic for many organizations. Analytics programs can be a significant differentiator for organizational success when implemented successfully When done poorly they waste money, time and good will. James Brenza talks about: 1. Which is more important – technology or leadership? 2. How much does leadership capability impact outcomes? 3. What are “leadership maturity levels” and how do they impact implementation success? 4. How do you use your understanding of leadership maturity to increase your program success and ROI? 5. What are the most important leadership traits to successfully implement analytics programs and why? 6. What are some warning signs you look for when leading an implementation? 7. What resources do you recommend to support implementation success?

S1-Ep5: Creating Vibrant Organizations to Drive Performance: Ecosynomics

Guests: Jim Ritchie-Dunham, Christoph Hinske & James Drinkwater
Jim Ritchie-Dunham and team developed a quantitative framework based on extensive data collected across 93 countries to identify the factors that make an organization vibrant. Jim Ritchie-Dunham, Christoph Hinske and James Drinkwater discuss how this framework drives organizational abundance by improving an organization’s ability to innovate out of key problems and create strategic advantage. The agreements (often unconscious) serve as the differentiator between organizations that consistently transcend the constraints of our daily organizational lives and those who don’t. By creating conscious agreements that enable participants to identify creative solutions, they can determine how to implement innovation and execute for results. Organizations that can’t do these three tasks will be outpaced by those who can. We will discuss: 1. What is vibrancy and ecosynomics? 2. How has the framework been used in the World Green Building Council? 3. What early results are you seeing? 3. How can you learn more?

S1-Ep4: Authentic Persuasion as a Key to Success

Guests: Brian Ahearn & Steve Hunkler
Authentic persuasion is a critical skill for leaders moving their organizations into the future. They need to see a vision and enroll the organization in moving toward that vision. We would like you to leave today with a clear understanding of why applying persuasion is so important for your professional success and personal happiness and a few ideas about how you might improve your skills. Discuss will include: 1. What exactly is persuasion? 2. How does persuasion differ from manipulation? 3. What are the "principles of persuasion" you teach? 4. Is there one principle that stands out as more effective than others? 5. Can you give me an example of how you used something you teach at work that lead to a big success? 6. Please provide an example of the business value your process has provided.

S1-Ep3: CEO Perspective: Driving Growth

Gary and Jodi talk about their experience driving successful company growth and exit across multiple software companies. Gary is very high energy and enthusiastic and shares his personal story. He answers the following questions: 1. Who are you in addition to being a CEO? 2. How did you grew Astute Solutions and orchestrated an exit? 3. What is a growth cube and how does it inform how you work as a CEO? 4. What do you believe are top qualities of successful senior executives 5. How do you prepare a company to be ready to attract investors? 6. What accomplishment are you most proud of personally? Professionally? 7. What fundamentals have you put in place in your organizations - to successfully transform your organizations to higher valuation and growth? 6. How do you create raving customers and associates? How does this drive business value? 7. What sets you apart from other leaders? What can our listeners learn from you that they could emulate?

S5-Ep41: Boring Retail is Dead. Long Live the Customer Experience Industry

Guest: Dave Cherry
Retail, and all other industry segments as we know them, are dead. The only industry that remains is the “Customer Experience Industry” and everyone is a part of it unless you do not have customers and then you have bigger problems. Customer expectations are raised with every interaction and the only way to stay competitive is to combine content with context to build lasting connections with your customers. In this show, with Dave Cherry of Cherry Advisory, he and Maureen will discuss how to do that in today’s customer experience industry.

S5-Ep43: Difficult Times Can Build Leadership Skills

Guest: Aleksandra Scepanovic
Aleksandra Scepanovic joins the show with her inspiring story. How she first moved to New York City in the early 2000 is after starting her career as a journalist covering the Bosnian war, from the war zones of the Balkans. When she came to New York City, she was enamored by the beauty in the architecture in the different neighborhoods, which led her to begin a career in real estate. Aleksandra felt a special connection to the brownstone neighborhoods of Brooklyn, and after spending more time in the borough, she and her partner co founded Ideal Properties Group there in 2007. Aleksandra shares how the difficulties influenced her leadership skills and what she learned that allowed her to become a better leader.

S5-Ep44: Connect First: Ways to Ignite Success, Meaning and Joy at Work

Guest: Melanie Katzman
In this episode Maureen interviews Dr. Melanie Katzman, author of the new book, CONNECT FIRST: 52 Simple Ways to Ignite Success, Meaning, and Joy at Work. Melanie gives actionable advice for restoring joy and amplifying success at work through the power of human connection. In her dual roles as a therapist and a consultant to companies on six continents, she found that connecting first as humans—and then as colleagues, coworkers and community members—is the solution to almost any conflict encountered by both her clinical patients and her corporate clients.

S5-Ep44: How Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters

Guest: Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
The biggest falsehood in business leadership and career advice may also be the most repeated: go with your gut. Gleb Tsipursky joins Maureen to explain why that is terrible advice because going with your gut leads to dangerous judgment errors that behavioral economics and cognitive neuroscience scholars call cognitive biases, which lead to disastrous decisions that devastate highly profitable companies, top-notch careers, and great business relationships. By combining practical case studies with cutting-edge research, Glebs new book Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters helps business leaders make the best decisions and prevent these business disasters.