Meikles & Dimes

Bob Sutton is a Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He is co-founder of Stanford’s Center for Work, Technology and Organization, the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and the “the d school”. He’s a New York Times bestselling author and has published over 200 academic articles as well as 8 books, which have sold more than a million copies.

Bob has served as an advisor to McKinsey, Bain, and Microsoft, as faculty at the World Economic Forum, and as Fellow at IDEO, and he is currently a Senior Scientist at Gallup.

He has given keynote speeches to more than 200 groups in more than 20 countries, and has been a guest on numerous radio and television shows, including ABC, Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, Fox, NBC Today Show, PBS, NPR, Marketplace, and CNN.

I hope you enjoy learning from Bob Sutton today, because I always do.

Batia Wiesenfeld is a Professor of Management at New York Univeristy’s Stern School of Business. She’s an expert on managing organizational change, and she studies how technology changes the future of work and organizations. Batia earned her undergraduate degree in Economics and Sociology from Columbia College and her Ph.D. in Management and Organizational Behavior from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

I hope you enjoy learning from Batia Wiesenfeld today, because I always do.

Ryan Hawk is the host of The Learning Leader Show, and he has recorded more than 500 episodes over the past eight years. Forbes called The Learning Leader Show, “the most dynamic leadership podcast around.” Inc Magazine said, “it’s one of the 5 podcasts to make you a smarter leader” and Apple named it an “all-time best seller.”

Ryan is also the author of two books: Welcome to Management and The Pursuit of Excellence.

When Ryan isn’t podcasting or writing, he’s helping leaders be more effective through his Leadership Circles, one-on-one advising, and The Learning Leader Academy, the online school he created. 

Ryan has delivered hundreds of keynote speeches on leadership and performance excellence all over the world.

I hope you enjoy learning from Ryan Hawk today, because I always do. 

Stephen M.R. Covey is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The SPEED of Trust—The One Thing That Changes Everything. He is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his stewardship, became the largest leadership development company in the world. Stephen personally led the strategy that propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to become one of the two most influential business books of the 20th Century, according to CEO Magazine. 

As President and CEO of Covey Leadership Center, Stephen nearly doubled revenues while increasing profits by 12 times. During that period, the company expanded throughout the world into over 40 countries, greatly increasing the value of the brand and enterprise. The company was valued at $2.4 million when Stephen was named CEO, and, within three years, he had grown shareholder value to $160 million in a merger he orchestrated with Franklin Quest to form FranklinCovey.

Stephen received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and lives with his family in Provo, Utah.

I hope you enjoy learning from Stephen Covey today, because I always do. 

Paul Gustavson is an organizational design consultant who has worked with more than 60 high growth companies, in 42 countries, accruing more than 13 million frequent flyer miles, spending more than 3 years of his life on a plane. 

Some of his clients include American Express, AT&T, BHP, BP, Camp Health, Cherokee Nation, Colgate, eBay, Exxon, GE, Hills Pet Nutrition, HPE Financial Services, InTandem Capital Partners, InTek, NASA, National Semiconductor, Paradigm Oral Health, Sizzling Platter, Vivint Smart Home, and Zilog, among others, and for 40 years he has served as the president of Organization, Planning and Design, Inc. 

Paul is the author of three books: Running into the Wind, A Team of Leaders, and The Power of Living by Design, and more than 50 periodicals and books have referenced his work, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Fortune Magazine.

Since 1992, Paul has served on the advisory board of BYU’s Marriott School of Management. And in 1999 Paul won the "William G. Dyer Distinguished Alumni Award" which is the most prestigious award given by the Marriott School's OLS department. Other award recipients were Stephen Covey, Dave Ulrich, and Kerry Patterson.

I hope you enjoy learning from Paul Gustavson today, because I always do.

Nate Pettit is an award-winning professor at NYU in the Stern School of Business. Nate researches social hierarchies and underdogs and teaches classes on leadership. Nate was named to Poets & Quants “40 most outstanding MBA professors under 40," he received Stern’s Distinguished Teaching Award, which is Stern’s highest teaching honor, and has twice been voted “Professor of the Year” by MBA students.

In this episode, Nate shares what he believed was a near death experience and the lesson he learned from this experience. 

Bryan Kehl is a former NFL football player for the New York Giants, Washington Redskins, St. Louis Rams, and the Kansas City Chiefs. Bryan was also adopted, and at age 24 decided to try to track down his birth parents.

This episode is different from all previous episodes in several ways. First, I just wanted to hear Bryan’s story in detail, so this episode is significantly longer than a typical episode. And secondly, this is the first episode that has made me cry, let alone multiple times. Bryan’s story is emotional, funny, and devastating.

I hope you enjoy learning from Bryan Kehl today because I always do.

In this episode I discuss my research on amplification. Chris Riback and Dr. Alexandria White, who host the Call In Podcast, asked me to be on their podcast (to discuss my research on amplification) and they kindly allowed me to cross-post the episode here.

To read more about amplification, see this Harvard Business Review article.

And to learn more about the Call In Podcast, visit their website here. 

Greg McKeown is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, “Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less” and “Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most”. Together they have been published in 37 languages.

Greg is one of the most sought-after public speakers in the world and has spoken to more than 500 companies and traveled to more than 40 countries. His clients include Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Nike among others.

Greg is also the host of The Greg McKeown Podcast which has been ranked in the Top 5 of all Self Improvement podcasts and Top 10 in all Educational podcasts on Apple Podcasts.

His work has been covered in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time, Fast Company, Fortune, Politico, Inc., and The Harvard Business Review. It’s also been covered on NPR, NBC, FOX and many times on The Steve Harvey Show.

Josh Swade is a documentary filmmaker who has directed films for ESPN, Showtime, Rolling Stone Films, and Disney XD among others. He's also a self-described fanatically crazed, insane, nut-job for the Kansas Jayhawks. 

In this episode, Josh describes the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary he starred in and directed titled, "There's No Place Like Home" in which he tries to win at auction the original rules of basketball.