Out of the Comfort Zone

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Things go wrong – some of those are small in impact, some are huge. Many are outside of your control. Most require a shift in what you do and how you lead.

How ready are you to lead when things go wrong? What can we learn from leaders who have successfully, and unsuccessfully, led through a difficult time? Listen in for insight and practical ideas on how to develop your own capability to lead in a crisis.

Eric J. McNulty is a Harvard-affiliated writer, speaker and educator with a passion for work in leadership, social innovation, conflict resolution, and resilience that expands opportunity and breaks down barriers that keep people from finding those opportunities.

Eric is Associate Director and Program Faculty at Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative. His work centers on leadership in high-stakes, high-stress situations. He has delivered keynotes and workshops around the world and teaches in multiple executive education and graduate-level leadership programs at Harvard, MIT, and elsewhere.

He is the co-author of You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When it Matters Most and of the second edition of Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration. For more information, visit ericmcnulty.com.

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There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with not having all the information. Develop the skills and confidence to lead in a different way.

For female leaders, subject expertise is usually the source of their confidence. Learning to lead outside your comfort zone is one step for breaking through the glass ceiling. The show’s purpose is to give you tips on how can you develop the capability to lead – to get out of your comfort zone.

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In an age where AI will soon know “everything”, your greatest value comes from being able to lead. That means doing three things incredibly well: having wisdom in key decisions, developing inspiration for your team, and building resilience with your team. Listen in for tactics on how to develop your leadership intelligence in all three areas. 

Caroline Webb is a leadership coach, economist, and author of How to Have a Good Day and the latest, Leadership Intelligence. She has been named one of the top fifty executive coaches in the world by Thinkers50, and one of the top fifty leadership and management thinkers by Inc. magazine. She is a senior advisor to McKinsey & Company, where she was previously a partner. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, The Economist, The Guardian, and Fortune. She lives in New York.

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💡 About the show:
There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with not having all the information. Develop the skills and confidence to lead in a different way.

For female leaders, subject expertise is usually the source of their confidence. Learning to lead outside your comfort zone is one step for breaking through the glass ceiling. The show’s purpose is to give you tips on how can you develop the capability to lead – to get out of your comfort zone.

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You know the experience – something happens at work, you can’t stop thinking about it, you keep talking about it, the feelings are intense and you probably feel the tension in your body. You keep ruminating over and over. How can you stop the cycle? How can you take back control? Listen in for insight and tactics. 

Donna Jackson Nakazawa is the author of five books that explore the intersection of neuroscience, stress, and emotion, including Girls on the Brink, named one of the best health books of the year by The Washington Post, The Angel and the Assassin, named one of the best books of the year by Wired magazine, and Childhood Disrupted, a finalist for the Books for a Better Life Award. 

Her latest book is Mind Drama: The Science of Rumination and How to Outwit Your Inner Defeatist.  

Her work has appeared in Wired, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Health Affairs, Stat, Psychology Today, and Psychotherapy Networker. She has appeared on Today and NPR and is a regular speaker at universities and organizations, including Child Mind Institute, Harvard Science, UCLA Health, and Rutgers Health. 

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💡 About the show:
There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with not having all the information. Develop the skills and confidence to lead in a different way.

For female leaders, subject expertise is usually the source of their confidence. Learning to lead outside your comfort zone is one step for breaking through the glass ceiling. The show’s purpose is to give you tips on how can you develop the capability to lead – to get out of your comfort zone.

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We believe that experience is the great teacher and that what we do in a classroom or team room isn’t as powerful as learning by experience. I have seen people learn the wrong lessons from experience and I have seen people repeat the same mistakes over and over. Without reflection and a process for reflecting, performance is highly unlikely to improve. 

Finally someone has the same insight along with a solution for how to reflect in a way that doesn’t lead to blame. Listen in for solutions you can use now to improve your performance and your team’s performance.

Jeff “Bones” Bonner is a keynote speaker on human performance and the author of The Daily Debrief™. A Harvard-trained performance strategist, former combat fighter pilot and squadron commander, and current airline captain, Jeff works with leaders and teams to build systems for continuous improvement.

He is the creator of The Debrief Advantage™, a principle-centered system that turns everyday experience into measurable progress. His work is built on a simple idea: experience alone does not create improvement, reflection followed by adjustment does.

His book, The Daily Debrief™, teaches the foundational habit behind the system, helping individuals build a daily practice of reflection and improvement. A revised edition is set to release soon.

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💡 About the show:
There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with not having all the information. Develop the skills and confidence to lead in a different way.

For female leaders, subject expertise is usually the source of their confidence. Learning to lead outside your comfort zone is one step for breaking through the glass ceiling. The show’s purpose is to give you tips on how can you develop the capability to lead – to get out of your comfort zone.

#WandaWallace #OutoftheComfortZone #Podcast

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As leaders, all of us are capable of doing things for “the greater good” and all of us also have a shadow side that can cause stress in those we lead, maybe even harm at times. These two - the bright side and the shadow side - have been researched for years including in the well-known Hogan Assessment series. I see both in all the leaders I work with.

 However, we are not particularly brilliant at seeing how both sides co-exist in ourselves. To be the best leader you could be, it’s not about eliminating the shadow side, rather it’s about examining your shadow. How can you come to understand the impact of your shadow side?

Steven D’Souza is an international educator with experience in the fields of HR, leadership and talent management, diversity and organisational development. He has trained in Gestalt psychology for groups and individuals, ontological coaching and is an experienced executive coach, working frequently with senior teams including at the CEO level.

In his latest book, Shadows at Work, Steven examines the hidden patterns, blind spots, and unconscious forces that influence how we lead, collaborate, and make decisions.

He is a sought after speaker in many global companies and some of his clients included firms such as Accenture, AMEX, BT, Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Eurostar, Goldman Sachs, Financial Times and PwC. He has also delivered workshops or talks for the United Nations ILO.

Steven has held several roles, from training as a priest, to working in a start-up, an SME, an NGO, to top-tier banking firms. He has had a portfolio career including being an Associate Professor, educator, coordinator at several top ranked, international business schools.

Steven is the author of six books. Two bestselling books on Diversity and Networking, published by Prentice Hall. His first book co-authored with Patrick Clarke, Made in Britain featured role models from diverse communities in the UK and was sponsored free for schools. His second book is Brilliant Networking and his third book co-authored with Diana Renner is Not Knowing. He has also co-authored Not Doing: The Art of Effortless Action and Not Being: The Art of Self-Transformation.

Steven currently lives in the UAE. He enjoys table tennis, being in nature, coffee and conversation, and exploring the relationships between psychology, philosophy, leadership, management and spirituality alongside social justice.

Visit Steven here:
- http://www.leadingfromthedark.com
- http://www.stevendsouza.com

Related Content:
- The Wisdom of Not Knowing: https://youtu.be/Nshc-ay1p7A
- The Paradox of Not Doing: https://youtu.be/WZOPKbBKh4o

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💡 About the show:
There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with not having all the information. Develop the skills and confidence to lead in a different way.

For female leaders, subject expertise is usually the source of their confidence. Learning to lead outside your comfort zone is one step for breaking through the glass ceiling. The show’s purpose is to give you tips on how can you develop the capability to lead – to get out of your comfort zone.

#WandaWallace #OutoftheComfortZone #Podcast

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What if your company offered a sabbatical? How does a sabbatical help you be a better leader and help your company at the same time? What are best practices? Is a mini-sabbatical effective or not? Those are the questions we are talking about.

DJ DiDonna is a senior lecturer of business administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches MBA courses on entrepreneurship and building meaningful professional and personal lives. He has spent his career
translating social science research into real-world tools for positive change.
In 2019, DiDonna founded The Sabbatical Project to define, explore, and
research the role of sabbaticals in modern life. He has helped organizations
around the world—from nonprofits to Fortune 50 companies—design and
implement sabbatical policies. 

His work has been featured in The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, Time,
Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.
Previously, DiDonna cofounded EFL Global, a fintech company that enabled
more than $2 billion in capital to underbanked businesses and individuals across twenty countries before its acquisition in 2018. DiDonna earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. On his sabbatical, DiDonna walked nine hundred miles on pilgrimage in Shikoku, Japan, helped lead the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities at his undergraduate alma mater, Notre Dame, and unskillfully remodeled his kitchen. 

Outside work, you can find him plotting how to be in the Big Outdoors. Learn more at www.thesabbaticalproject.org and www.djdidonna.com. His book is Big Time Off.

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💡 About the show:
There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with not having all the information. Develop the skills and confidence to lead in a different way.

For female leaders, subject expertise is usually the source of their confidence. Learning to lead outside your comfort zone is one step for breaking through the glass ceiling. The show’s purpose is to give you tips on how can you develop the capability to lead – to get out of your comfort zone.

#WandaWallace #OutoftheComfortZone #Podcast

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Rarely do we talk about ways to boost our mood, build a sense of community and just plain feel good about ourselves. Doing good for others is one way of feeling good. How does this work? How can you think differently about your opportunities to do good? How can you engage your team and your organization in doing better good?

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💡 About the show:
There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with not having all the information. Develop the skills and confidence to lead in a different way.

For female leaders, subject expertise is usually the source of their confidence. Learning to lead outside your comfort zone is one step for breaking through the glass ceiling. The show’s purpose is to give you tips on how can you develop the capability to lead – to get out of your comfort zone.

#WandaWallace #OutoftheComfortZone #Podcast

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The pressure is on. Demands on your time and attention are unrelenting. The fears from AI abound. The team expects an incredible amount of your time and energy. Everything feels chaotic. Given that state of affairs, what can you do to make sure that you are being effective and delivering work that matters and has an impact? Listen in for practical tips.

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💡 About the show:
There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with not having all the information. Develop the skills and confidence to lead in a different way.

For female leaders, subject expertise is usually the source of their confidence. Learning to lead outside your comfort zone is one step for breaking through the glass ceiling. The show’s purpose is to give you tips on how can you develop the capability to lead – to get out of your comfort zone.

#WandaWallace #OutoftheComfortZone #Podcast

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There are two facts I would like you to consider:

1) If you are working in a role that matters, there will never be enough time. 

2) You waste more time than you realize. 

How do you carve back minutes and hours that are unproductive? We have tactics for you that will work.

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💡 About the show:
There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with not having all the information. Develop the skills and confidence to lead in a different way.

For female leaders, subject expertise is usually the source of their confidence. Learning to lead outside your comfort zone is one step for breaking through the glass ceiling. The show’s purpose is to give you tips on how can you develop the capability to lead – to get out of your comfort zone.

#WandaWallace #OutoftheComfortZone #Podcast

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The pace of everything today in every aspect of life takes a toll eventually. How do you know when enough is enough? What can we learn from athletes about pacing? What do you do without damaging your reputation?

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💡 About the show:
There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with not having all the information. Develop the skills and confidence to lead in a different way.

For female leaders, subject expertise is usually the source of their confidence. Learning to lead outside your comfort zone is one step for breaking through the glass ceiling. The show’s purpose is to give you tips on how can you develop the capability to lead – to get out of your comfort zone.

#WandaWallace #OutoftheComfortZone #Podcast