Leadership Voyage

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Just a heads up to everyone that the season premiere of the podcast comes this Wednesday, March 27. I can't wait to share the insights of my first guest with you!

Leadership Voyage
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Jason shares recommendations for 14 leadership books you can grab for yourself or someone you care about this holiday season. These books cover a wide range of topics, from business acumen to culture, teams, personality & personal development, and personal stories.

Business Acumen

• The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter by Michael D. Watkins
• Negotiation Simplified by Jim Reiman
• Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact by Liz Wiseman
• Right Leader, Right Time: Discover Your Leadership Style for a Winning Career and Company by Robert Jordan and Olivia Wagner

Culture

• How to Work With and Lead People Not Like You: Practical Solutions for Today's Diverse Workplace by Kelly McDonald
• The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose by Zach Mercurio
• Cohesion Culture by Dr. Troy Hall
• The Great Revitalization: How Activating Meaning and Purpose Can Radically Enliven Your Business by Alise Cortez

Teams

• Creating Effective Teams by Susan A. Wheelan, Maria Åkerlund, and Christian Jacobbson
• Lead Without Blame: Building Resilient Learning Teams by Diana Larsen and Tricia Broderick

Personality & Personal Development

• Quiet Voice Fearless Leader: 10 Principles for Introverts to Awaken the Leader Inside by Terrance Lee
• Unleash Your Potential: How Artificial Intelligence Wants to Upgrade YOU! by Don Schmincke

Personal Stories

• Acceptance: A Memoir by Emi Nietfeld
• Cleared Hot: Lessons Learned About Life, Love, and Leadership While Flying the Apache Gunship in Afghanistan and Why I Believe a Prepared Mind Can Help Minimize PTSD by Brian L. Slade

Leadership Voyage
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linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonallenwick/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadershipVoyage
music: by Napoleon (napbak)
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voice: by Ayanna Gallant
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If you've objectively identified a problem your team is having, try the COOP framework for cooperatively fixing it!
 
C - Challenge: Identify the Challenge
O - Opportunity: Reframe it as an Opportunity
O - Options/Optimize: List the Options and choose what to Optimize for
P - Progress/Progress: Decide to Progress and measure Progress

Leadership Voyage
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linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonallenwick/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadershipVoyage
music: by Napoleon (napbak)
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voice: by Ayanna Gallant
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Mahzarin Banaji and Frank Dobbin wrote "Why DEI Training Doesn’t Work—and How to Fix It" in the Wall Street Journal.

Key Takeaways

• Over the last 50 years in America, conscious prejudice has improved significantly but implicit bias has not.
• DEI training fails when they 1) use implicit-bias education to shame trainees for holding stereotypes and 2) seek to solve the problem of bias by invoking the law to scare people about the risk of letting bias go unchecked.
• "Making people feel ashamed can lead them to reject the message. Thus people often leave diversity training feeling angry and with greater animosity toward other groups (“There’s no way I’m biased!”). And threats of punishment, by the law in this case, typically lead to psychological “reactance” whereby people reject the desired behavior (“Nobody’s telling me what I can’t say!”). This kind of training can turn off even supporters of equal-opportunity programs."
• Training programs should empower managers to counter biases.
• "DEI training can’t squelch implicit bias; nothing short of changing people’s life experiences can do that. But when done right, implicit-bias education can alert students to the fact that people committed to equality nonetheless hold biases. And that knowledge can, in turn, motivate them to reshape their workplaces to counter discrimination by democratizing key parts of the career system."

Leadership Voyage
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linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonallenwick/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadershipVoyage
music: by Napoleon (napbak)
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Kelly McDonald is an acclaimed speaker who specializes in consumer trends and changing demographics. She is the president of McDonald Marketing and has authored four bestselling books on the customer experience, leadership, and marketing -- all from the standpoint of working with people "not like you".  Her book, How to Work With and Lead People Not Like You has been on two bestseller lists.  You can learn more about the book and McDonald's work by visiting www.kellycmcdonald.com.
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Diversity Fatigue

• often from a bad training experience
• media driven
• sometimes people aren’t clear on value of diversity
• afraid of the topic and don’t want to say the wrong thing
• social injustice training sometimes left people feeling overwhelmed

Fraternities/Sororities Murder Mystery

• when groups of 3 had an “outsider” added to their group they were more than twice as effective
• but their feelings about the experience were that it was more difficult with an outsider
• working with people not like you is difficult but produces better outcomes
  • if you’re “bickering,” that’s also part of the process!
• companies that tend to hire people of the same background don’t grow as much as organizations with diverse team members, especially if the company is already pretty successful

The Biggest Challenges

• it’s hard when we don’t understand someone else’s perspectives
• when we’re focused on the differences, the mountain feels too high
• there’s a lot of sameness, though, we want similar things

How do we start making progress?

• find ways to naturally interact more with those who are different from us
• usually we default to withdrawal and avoidance
• “tell me about yourself”
  • they focus on what they think is important
  • find common ground
  • seek first to understand

What do leaders do to help a welcoming and inclusive workplace?

• Be sincere about wanting to make progress
• Work to eliminate the fear around this conversation
• Get the right training to help people, such as dos/don’t

Leadership Voyage
email: [email protected]
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonallenwick/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadershipVoyage
music: by Napoleon (napbak)
https://www.fiverr.com/napbak
voice: by Ayanna Gallant
www.ayannagallantVO.com
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Amanda Swim wrote a great Medium article called "What’s the value of a manager?" It's a solid blueprint for how a manager brings the most value to an organization and its people. I break down the article's main points and integrate them with insights from past guests Maria Åkerlund, Michael Watkins, and Liz Wiseman.

Build the team

• Define mission
• Hire well
• Create team artifacts
• Develop culture
• Create connections

Develop the team

• Review key deliverables
• Be a practice audience
• Role-play difficult conversations

Evolve the team

• Feedback, growth planning, and challenging work for individuals
• Reinvention, capability expansion, and skill deepening for the whole

Leadership Voyage
email: [email protected]
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonallenwick/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadershipVoyage
music: by Napoleon (napbak)
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voice: by Ayanna Gallant
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Robert Jordan is CEO of the Association of Interim Executives. He has been launching and growing companies and helping other entrepreneurs do the same for 20 years. His first company, Online Access, put him on Inc. magazine’s Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies. Online Access, the first Internet-coverage magazine in the world, ran for 10 years and after its sale Jordan launched RedFlash, an interim management team that specializes in corporate development work.

Robert Jordan is the author of How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America (www.HowTheyDidIt.com). He lives in Illinois.

https://www.rightleader.com/ is the site for the book  "Right Leader Right Time" that we discuss in this episode.
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4 Winning  FABS Leadership Styles

• Fixers need crisis and turn things around
• Artists see the world as a piece of clay to be molded
• Builders want to scale and dominate markets
• Strategists lead in complex organizations beyond their personal span of control

Reaching High Leadership Performance

• After looking at thousands of executives, their main challenge is trying to be all things to all people.
• The best leaders reject what is not for their best use.
•  Especially early in a career, it’s hard for people to reject work.
• The best leaders double down on what they do best.
• There is a lane for you!

Knowing Your Leadership Style

• Apply your style to the right situation
• https://www.rightleader.com/ has a self-assessment
• Share your wiring with your colleagues to increase the odds of successful collaboration!
• You’re not pigeonholed, though
• “Use every color” you have available
• And integrity underlies it all

Leadership Voyage
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linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonallenwick/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadershipVoyage
music: by Napoleon (napbak)
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voice: by Ayanna Gallant
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Sarah Jackson had a Business Insider story called "Nearly 1 in 5 workers are 'loud quitting' their jobs, a new Gallup poll says — and it's way more extreme than 'quiet quitting'."

• What is loud quitting?
• What's the difference between quiet quitting and loud quitting?
• Which is better?
• What could we do about it?

Leadership Voyage
email: [email protected]
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonallenwick/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadershipVoyage
music: by Napoleon (napbak)
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voice: by Ayanna Gallant
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Carol Rossi has led research teams at NerdWallet, Kelley Blue Book, and Edmunds, where she started the research function from scratch. Carol has more than 25 years of experience in user experience, including a stint as the sole researcher at GeoCities in the late 90s. After 14 years leading teams in-house, Carol returned to consulting in 2022, this time focused on research leadership for orgs that have or want a research function but have no internal research leadership.

Carol holds Master's degrees in both Human Factors and Dance Ethnology. She has deep experience as an educator and loves to give back by regularly mentoring people interested in UX careers. She has taught both UX Research and yoga at community colleges and universities across Los Angeles.

www.carolrossi.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/crossiux/
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Impactful research

• provides insights that change business outcomes
• serves the needs of a customer
• leads organizational culture change
• adds operational efficiency 

Value of research

• scrappy not crappy
  • rigorous but smart and situationally aware 
  • researchers need business acumen
    • help make the business successful by giving customers what they need
• in tech, researchers have faced a disproportionate number of layoffs
• researchers perhaps haven’t done a great job of highlighting its value
• research is meant to inform good decisions
• in academia we’re looking for ultimate truth and in industry we’re trying to get to good decisions

Decision making

• what’s usually missing is measuring the impact of decisions
• evaluating decisions informs future decisions
• what’s the thing we need to know?
  • what do we already know about that?
• identify the different sources of information you have
• bias
  • HiPPO (highest paid person’s opinion)
  • high value client’s need
  • ask question to mitigate 
  • it’s hard to see if insights are tainted and biased
  • people unintentionally introduce bias
    • asking leading questions, carrying assumptions, talking to wrong people
  • decisions are often based on biased information
    
    

Crafting good questions

• go in with learning mindset and sense of curiosity
• what are we trying to learn and what’s the best way to learn that?
• open-ended, non-leading
• we can introduce bias inadvertently by how we ask a question
• “tell me more” is a powerful question
• sometimes it may not be a questions, it may be observing what someone’s doing
• Listen, Observe, Wait and See

Leadership Voyage
email: [email protected]
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonallenwick/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadershipVoyage
music: by Napoleon (napbak)
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voice: by Ayanna Gallant
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Don Schmincke has been accused by a NY press agency of providing “the most provocative and sensational view of business than any other speaker today.”

What else would you expect from an MIT and Johns Hopkins researcher who was nearly arrested as a capitalist spy in the Soviet Bloc, got shot off an aircraft carrier, survived in the Kurdish capital as the Ayatollah held hostages in Tehran, and developed missile inertial guidance systems while his frat brothers took Vegas (later portrayed in the movie “21”)?

Don Schmincke’s irreverent humor and unconventional methods provide audiences such a refreshing change to other status-quo topics that he’s been called the world’s “management renegade.” His patent-pending offerings transcend typical programs via refreshing alternatives to trendy theories, unproven methods, and phony “experts.” The industry agrees.

Don's latest book "Unleash Your Potential" is available on Amazon here.

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Artificial Intelligence 

• why hadn’t we asked “artificial intelligence how to humanize us?”
• latest book was a humorous experiment
• ChatGPT came up with title and defined the chapters
• it took ChatGPT 30-40 minutes to write the book
• ChatGPT is “still an infant” but could see us and tell us how to improve ourselves
  

AI's view on improving ourselves

• the answers were primarily a representation of what's been written, such as understand yourself, build goals, and build habits
• but it added two interesting ideas: improve your mental health and build strong relationships

How to use AI

• use it as a tool for speed
• it’s not too different from when the calculator was invented
• gather information efficiently as a research source
• but it’s not infallible and makes mistakes

Don't abdicate your thinking

• it doesn’t provide insights
• it’s an efficient algorithm 
• humans provide insight on what they see or how they ask
• the danger comes when we allow AI to be autonomous with other machines

Have fun with it!

• experiment
• people use it for things like constructing workout programs
• don’t be afraid of it
• it’s still learning as well
  

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Leadership Voyage
email: [email protected]
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonallenwick/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadershipVoyage
music: by Napoleon (napbak)
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voice: by Ayanna Gallant
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