Book recommendations! We’ve got three leadership books to decode conflict, one to make you more calm and wise, one that inspires, plus a fun one and Netflix suggestions too.
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Podcasts
214 Nick Tebbey shares his leadership journey from lawyer to amplifier
With a leadership mindset rooted in optimism, National Executive Officer of Relationships Australia, Nick Tebbey, shares the experiences that have helped him evolve from solo performer to team player.
200 A great leadership mindset begins with meaning and purpose
What happens when you blend timeless leadership mindset philosophies of Auschwitz survivor Victor Frankl with the new neuroscience research of purpose and passion with Steven Kotler? You get a turbo charged recipe for energy that will sustain your leadership journey for the long term. Read on to learn the specifics of stacking meaning and neuroscience.
Read More149 Failure on the leadership journey with Chris Griffiths
Chris Griffiths was an unlikely leader, bullied as a kid, who went on to create a highly successful tech company, sell it, and then lose all his wealth on a bad investment. He reinvented himself and built a number of successful enterprises at the intersection of creativity and technology. Chris has a wealth of experience and practical advice on how to innovate better and avoid cognitive bias traps. A must listen for those interested in innovation and creativity, and leadership built out of the ashes of failure.
Why you should listen:
How traditional to-do lists are too linear and not effective for helping us prioritise - and how we can make them visual instead (hint: this is a game changer)
How he had the opportunity to run a brainstorming session with a group of Nobel Laureates at the invitation of his Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan at the Petra Nobel Conference and why it totally flopped! (turns out smart people have some significant cognitive biases)
4 definable steps to innovation that avoid cognitive bias traps
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Read More147 In leadership people skills are so important with Erik Johnson
Do you have fear of public speaking? How about a fear of failure? Do you lead a team of diverse personalities, and some big ones that are more like divas? Radio Host extraordinaire Erik Johnson shares his leadership nuggets in a career that celebrates the people stuff.
Why you should listen:
Learn how to deal with a diva
Discover how to wrestle well with the fear of failure
Learn how to avoid the classic Achiever trap that can lead to burnout and dissatisfaction
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Read More145 Leadership skills specific to NFPs with Toni Pergolin
Not-for-profits are too important to fail. They offer critical services to the most vulnerable. In robust economies, NFPs struggle with business resilience at the best of times. In crisis? The stakes can mean do or die, on all fronts. Toni Pergolin is CEO and President of Bancroft, one of the largest healthcare providers in New Jersey. She led a huge turnaround in an organisation that was facing significant financial difficulties. Ten years later, Bancroft is now thriving and has doubled in size. In our interview she shares her insights and priorities in leading through this turnaround, and what is practical and applicable to NFPs and leaders in any business today.
Why you should listen:
If you are a CEO shouldering responsibility for dealing with a crisis and how you can deal with the pressure
To learn lessons from those organisations who don’t make it and help you to make decisions faster
Help you decide what you can do right now, today, to help chart the course through uncertain times
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Read MoreCanberra based leadership expert Zoe Routh on leadership through COVID
Uncertainty, fear, and unprecedented circumstances. What can we do? There are things we can do right now to lead ourselves and help others. We can also start to navigate the ship through uncharted waters - we can craft a better future, now. We look at how to frame our challenge, how to look after ourselves, how to deal with amygdala hijack responses, confront the brutal truth of the pandemic, and then start to shape what’s next.
Why you should listen:
Tips to look after yourself: increase (or introduce) meditation, get fresh air and sunshine, stop doing stuff that affects your immune system, create connection and build interactions.
Be mindful of the uncertainty effect: survival mode and panic buying, distraction, short term memory suppression, irritability, adrenaline and getting hyped up.
How to look after your people: online collaboration tools, instigate virtual social interactions like online scrabble or virtual happy hour, support those who live alone the most - think plants and pets, share stories of generosity and appreciation, set up regular daily and weekly routines for remote teams
Confront the brutal truth: the future progress of the pandemic effect
Start creating a new normal: we aren’t going back to the way things were
Make a stand and a declaration: what kind of future do you want to create?
Lead with questions: Share interesting questions (not answers) to spark possibilities!
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Read More143 Productivity and leadership effectiveness with Ishan Galapahty
Do you have too much on your plate? Looking for ways to cut costs and boost productivity? Do you have 26 projects going at once? Ishan Galapathy shares his approach to solving these chronic workplace stressors.
Why you should listen:
Learn how to qualify your problems before you set about solving them
Learn how to identify the four types of problems and how to resolve them
Learn how to ask better questions to solve complex problems
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Read MoreCanberra based leadership expert Zoe Routh on playing games
How do you approach your work and life? Is it a serious endeavour? Or is it a game? I think we can choose really fun games to help us evolve as humans and leaders. There are games like Achieving, games like Freedom, games like Happiness. In this Thought Nugget we take a look at what kinds of games you can play, and some ideas to get started.
Why you should listen:
How to avoid the pitfalls of the Achiever game
Some fun games you can play to help focus your world for a more rewarding experience
Three questions to ask to make sure your game doesn’t derail you
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Read More141 Could you be a Changemaker? With leadership expert Digby Scott
Is there something that really gets your goat? Something that you can’t stop thinking about? Something you are longing to see different in the world? Then you might be a Changemaker. Find out what you can do to satisfy that itch.
Why you should listen:
Learn what a Changemaker actually is and if you’ve got the goods to be one (I hope so! We need you)
How to find your Big Question as a Changemaker, and how to wrestle it to the ground
How to design your world for inspiration - for those Big Ideas
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Read MoreCanberra leadership expert Zoë Routh on the leadership mindset for a new role
Are you moving into a new role? Are you taking on more responsibility? Is the scope of your work becoming more complex? Are you hoping to win new business, charge more for your services, or launch into a brand new project? Acclimatization is what is required. Key tips for you today.
Why you should listen:
What you need to adjust from a physiological point of view for new responsibilities
The big shift you need to make in your attitude
How perspective changes how you be
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Read More139 Leadership is a journey, not a destination with Nick Gross
Did you scope a career, focus on getting the skills, and hoped the lifestyle would work out? That’s how we were taught, back in the day. Gung-ho drummer extraordinaire Nick Gross is upending what it means to build a career, by helping students (and older folk like me) determine what lifestyle they want, what strengths they have, and THEN what career might work. Welcome to a new way of thinking about your passion and your work.
Why you should listen:
How to check if your lifestyle, strengths, and careers are aligned (or how they could become so)
Why the future belongs to the misfits, and why you want to be one
How to create communities that go beyond geographical location to a global bridge based on interests
136 Practical steps on how to embrace fearless leadership with Corrinne Armour
What can living in the jungle in a refugee camp teach us about leadership? Fearless Leadership expert Corrinne Armour shares wisdom and insights from the frontlines of guerilla warfare, through to the tough conversations leaders need to have. She shares tips based on neuroscience to help people be more accountable, how to get people to take initiative, and how to create psychological safety.
Why you should listen:
Practical approach that uses brain science to help people be more accountable
3 step coaching process to keep from being the leader who tells and be the leader who asks
How connection is the fundamental skill every leader needs to be successful
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Read More134 An incredible leadership journey from a trailblazing woman with Marene Allison
Marene Allison is the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Johnson & Johnson. Previously she was head of Global Security at Avaya where she secured the World Cup network in Korea and Japan in 2002. Before that she was an FBI Special gent, working on undercover drug operations, terrorist bombings, and a mock nucelar terrorism exercise. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Military academy at West Point in the first class to include women.
With a long list of firsts, in a stellar and remarkable career, Marene shares her insights and lessons on leadership and people.
Why you should listen:
Why moving from command and control style to collaboration is a key move to thriving as a leader in a corporate environment
Learn strategies of a highly successful leader who garners fierce loyalty and commitment from her teams
Secrets from FBI interrogation to tell when people are lying
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Read More133 The keys to leadership success are passion, perseverance and purpose according to Frank Fiume II
What does it take to build a wildly successful business? Author and entrepreneur Frank Fiume shares his deeply personal story on the highs and lows of creating a business based on passion. What looks like a linear journey is rarely that clearcut: Frank shares how he worked his way through each low and the lessons about life and leadership along the way.
Why you should listen:
Learn from Frank’s experience of turning adversity and a life in poverty to an advantage in shaping his ambitions.
Three strategies to make through the tough times: hire for your weakness, restructure to make sure you get the balance right and join a group of peers for sounding board and advice.
Anticipate the three stages of entrepreneurial growth: hunger, resilience, and fulfillment.
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Read More131 The importance of feedback for leadership success with Rob Evans
Owner of AllBids Rob Evans is a successful Canberra business owner. He’s been through many ups and downs and has now established the Fyshwick Business Association. He shares his struggles and insights.
Why you should listen:
Learn the specific steps Rob took to turn his workplace culture around that you can use too
Find out about the most important strategy that led to business improvement: results mapping
How the guiding force of “We’re all in this together” can help shape buy-in for employees and broader stakeholders by simply asking for feedback.
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Read More127 The importance of personal branding in your leadership toolkit with Jane Anderson
Author of 6 books (nearly 7), personal branding expert Jane Anderson gives us the nitty-gritty on how to manage people’s perspective of you, namely your brand and reputation.
Why you should listen:
Learn how to figure out exactly what kind of reputation you do have (and is that a good thing or not)
How to amplify your best facets and aspects of your personal brand
What you absolutely must do to avoid screwing up your reputation
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Read More126 The importance of wise and compassionate leadership with Cindy Wigglesworth
Cindy Wigglesworth is best selling author of SQ21: The Twenty-One Skills of Spiritual Intelligence. Her work has had an enormous impact on my own perspective of leadership. The need to develop wise and compassionate leaders is needed more than ever. This is one of the most important interviews for leadership I have done so far. A must listen for those aspiring to make a bigger difference.
We discuss:
How the experience of divorce and raising a daughter was a profound stimulus for reflection and the impetus to explore better leadership
Why ego-driven leadership and its poorest forms of narcissism and self absorption is exhausting to be around
How leadership from the more expanded point of view the Higher Self attracts people willingly to follow you
The work of advanced spiritual intelligence as a continual practice
The calling “to be a light onto the world” is within us all, and the work we do can be the candle that lights the way for others
Why Cindy is grateful for President Trump as he has been a catalyst for Americans to examine the profound truth of how much racial divide is still systemic, and why there is still much racial and political healing to do in the USA
How Obama created the conditions that brought Trump forward
How we are all called to growth
The lotus flower blooms in mud, just as we can bloom through the muck and mess of our own lives
The role of a new thought Church to foster Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha
Why you need to have your BS challenges (belief system, as well as the other B.S.)
How emotional intelligence is the first thing to address as leaders: name the emotion, identify what triggered, and practice inserting a PAUSE between stimulus and response
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Read More121 Alcoholism and Sobriety in the workplace with Rachel Hind
What do you do when your social drinking becomes a crippling habit in a downward spiral of destruction? We can admit defeat, we can surrender, we can ignore it, or we can own it. Rachel Hind chose complete responsibility. Her journey to sobriety is one of personal honesty, radical self healing, and personal transformation shows great courage.
We talk about how drinking for middle aged women has increased 85% in the last ten years, the warning signs for the start of liver cirrhosis, how the first stage of healing begins with honesty with oneself, why pain and suffering can be the biggest opportunity for self empowerment, is alcoholism an addiction or not, the two very different paths for recovery, Jack Canfield’s model of E + R = O (event plus response equals outcomes), the switch from success based on external markers to success based on living according to one’s values, and how one’s quality of life is directly related to how much uncertainty one can deal with.
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Read More119 The seven most important leadership values with James Surwillo
How do we make sense of chaos and lead through it? What can we expect from Generation Z / Generation Alpha as leaders? What is the antidote to the pessimism we experience through post-modernism? These are some of the robust questions James and I explore in our conversation about his book, Metamodern Leadership - A history of seven values that will change the world.
We travel through the historical periods of modernism, post-modernism, and metamodernism to look at how we see and operate in the world. We look at developmental models of human experience. We consider the 4 generational archetypes and how they have affected our leadership over the ages. We ask, Trump vs Obama, nationalism vs globalism - what will empower people and nations? How can we lead from behind in chaos? A very full and engaging conversation for those interested in leadership needed for our complex world.
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