Episodes

Dec. 13, 2017

006: Jim Harshaw junior, Conversation 1

Jim and I have become friends since I did his podcast, Success Through Failure, twice. He's as friendly and approachable as anyone you'll meet, despite or maybe because of his reaching the top levels of one of our most deman…
Dec. 13, 2017

005: Tanner Gers, Conversation 1

Tanner Gers has been through more than you have, almost surely. If you want a role model for taking on challenges that you know will improve your life but you aren't sure how, listen and learn from Tanner. I wanted his conve…
Dec. 1, 2017

003 Elizabeth Kolbert, Conversation 1

Reading Elizabeth Kolbert's haunting The Sixth Extinction was difficult but enlightening. She presents what most people fear facing but is happening around us. We are causing the loss of almost unbelievably large parts of th…
Nov. 30, 2017

001: Dan Pink, Conversation 1

Everyone in leadership knows Dan Pink, his books and his TED talks. If you want to lead, influence, or motivate people, it's a matter of time until you read or watch something of his. I started with Drive: the Surprising Tru…
Nov. 30, 2017

004 Michael Bungay Stanier, Conversation 1

Michael is a coach's coach. Our conversation became a two-way interview on leadership, values, and acting on them. I was pleasantly surprised that though he wasn't sure what to do specifically, he had thought about acting on…
Nov. 28, 2017

002 Marshall Goldsmith, Conversation 1

I first heard of Marshall Goldsmith when business school leadership class assigned reading the New Yorker article about him in 2005. He became one of my most influential mentors since I met him in person shortly after. His i…