Meetings are meant to move the needle, not drain your day. But for most leaders, they’ve become far too often, far too long, and far too muddy. Sound familiar?

In this episode, we'll break down why most meetings fail, what they’re really costing you, and how to redesign them to drive ACTION - real, needle-moving action, not endless discussion.

Because sometimes, leading your company better starts with leading better meetings.

Our host, executive coach and leadership expert Antonio Garrido, will guide you through essential leadership principles to help you make that shift - from task-oriented management to strategic leadership. Subscribe to make a habit of leadership development, overcome common leadership challenges, and become the kind of leader your people and your business deserve.

What’s In This Episode:

00:00 Intro

02:10 Antonio’s Solutions-Oriented Leadership

04:53 What Is a Leader’s Job?

06:15 What a ‘Typical’ Meeting Looks Like

08:47 Agenda Items - Statements vs Questions

11:30 Changing Agenda Items to Questions

12:10 Examples of Good vs Bad Agenda Item

17:11 The Impact of Question-Based Agenda Items

19:42 Take the Leadership Insights Scorecard

23:03 William Kahn’s Employee Engagement Theory

26:40 Beck’s Cognitive Behavioral Triangle

28:00 Essential Questions for Productive Meetings

29:30 Your 30-Day Meeting Improvement Challenge

34:37 Outro

Leadership Resources For You:

Take our Leadership Insights Scorecard (size up your leadership skills with our simple scorecard for CEOs, executive leaders, and business owners): https://www.mydailyleadership.com/res...

Grab a copy of the My Daily Leadership book: https://www.mydailyleadership.com/book

Where To Go Next:

Antonio’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoniogarrido/

My Daily Leadership’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mydailyleadership

My Daily Leadership’s Website: https://www.mydailyleadership.com

My Daily Leadership’s TikTok:   / mydailyleadership  

Who We Are:

We're My Daily Leadership. Most leaders we work with aren’t short on ambition - they’re short on clarity. They know their business won’t grow unless they do, but figuring out how to grow - intentionally, sustainably, and in a way that actually fits their reality - is where things stall. That’s where we come in. We work with ambitious CEOs, executive leaders, and business owners to build the mindset, habits, clarity, and leadership capability they need to get out of their own way - so their business can finally move forward. Not once a year. Not once a quarter. But every day - in ways that actually move the needle for you, your people, and your business.

Creating the world’s best leaders one day at a time.

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Micromanaging doesn’t always look like control. Sometimes it looks like excess care. Leaders sitting in on meetings they don’t need to be in. Reviewing work that doesn’t need their input. Approving things that their team is more than capable of owning. It all feels helpful - until it isn’t.

In this episode of Stop Managing, Start Leading, I'm digging into what micromanagement really is, why it’s so common in high performers, and how to shift into a leadership style that builds trust without letting go of standards. I'll break down the quiet habits that kill productivity, the perfectionism that hides behind control, and the mindset shift that frees up your time and empowers your team to lead without you.

If you’re constantly stuck in the details and feel like your team can’t move without your involvement, I'm hoping that you'll find something here that will show you a better way to lead, one that actually makes room for strategy, clarity, and growth.

I’m Antonio and in this episode, I’ll be your leadership coach. I'll guide you through essential leadership models to help you understand the differences between leadership and management. Subscribe for weekly Stop Managing, Start Leading podcast episodes to make a habit of leadership development, overcome common leadership challenges, and become the kind of leader your people and your business deserve.

Insight isn’t about knowing more; it’s about seeing things for the way they are, not from a CEO's high horse.

If you want to lead your team to real results, stop chasing complexity. The biggest breakthroughs often come from the simplest shifts: in strategy, perspective, and execution.

In this episode of Stop Managing, Start Leading, I'll unpack how smart leaders use clarity and insight to cut through the noise. Drawing inspiration from the game of chess, we’ll explore how simplifying your approach can sharpen decision-making, improve workload management, and boost team performance.

Because having real insight - into your business, your people, and your blind spots - changes everything. From performance analysis and company projection to listening skills and meaningful recognition, this episode is packed with tools to help you lead with precision and power.

Forget doing more. Start seeing more. Then lead like it.

I’m Antonio and in this episode, I’ll be your leadership coach. I'll guide you through essential leadership models to help you understand the differences between leadership and management. Subscribe for weekly Stop Managing, Start Leading podcast episodes to make a habit of leadership development, overcome common leadership challenges, and become the kind of leader your people and your business deserve.

Motivate your team by fixing the one invisible issue that’s draining their energy: lack of visibility.

In this episode of Stop Managing, Start Leading, we unpack a mind-blowing LEGO Bionicle study from Dan Ariely that reveals why so much work feels pointless, and what great, gorgeous, grand, and gleaming leaders (like you) do differently.

If your team’s burning out, disengaging, or just going through the motions, it might not be a performance problem.

It might be a visibility problem.

You’ll learn six sharp, practical questions every leader should be asking, plus how to build motivation, momentum, and meaning back into the day-to-day.

Whether you’re running a startup or leading a global team, this is your cheat code to building commitment, chemistry, and a culture that lasts.

I’m Antonio and in this episode, I’ll be your leadership coach. I'll guide you through essential leadership models to help you understand the differences between leadership and management. Subscribe for weekly Stop Managing, Start Leading podcast episodes to make a habit of leadership development, overcome common leadership challenges, and become the kind of leader your people and your business deserve.

Leadership is a juggling act, but four activities keep the whole thing from crashing down: coaching, managing, training, and mentoring.

What do they actually look like in practice (outside of buzzwords and boardrooms)? This episode unpacks the messy, real-world version of those roles, and why getting them right is key to futureproofing your people, your leadership, and your business. Turns out, knowing when to lead, when to manage, and when to get out of the way might just be your most underrated skill.

I’m Antonio and in this episode, I’ll be your leadership coach. I'll guide you through essential leadership models to help you understand the differences between leadership and management. Subscribe for weekly Stop Managing, Start Leading podcast episodes to make a habit of leadership development, overcome common leadership challenges, and become the kind of leader your people and your business deserve.

Course correction. It sounds technical, maybe even like major damage control... but for great leaders, it’s just a typical Tuesday.

Every high-performing business veers off-track. It’s normal. It’s constant. And if you’re not adjusting course regularly, well, then you’re not leading.

In this episode of Stop Managing, Start Leading, we dive deep into the art (and science) of knowing when to pivot in business, how to navigate strategic changes without losing your team, and why a little turbulence doesn’t mean your business is broken, it just means you’re in motion.

We’ll steal a trick or two from pilots (turns out, they’re pretty good at not crashing), dig into a few painful-but-true business stories, and hand you the tools to make calm, confident course corrections long before you’re 35,000 feet in the air and wildly off track.

If you’re a CEO, founder, or just a really committed overachiever, we hope you'll find yourself in these stories. Because leading means knowing when to change direction, and how to navigate your people to do the same.

I’m Antonio and in this episode, I’ll be your leadership coach. I'll guide you through essential leadership models to help you understand the differences between leadership and management. Subscribe for weekly Stop Managing, Start Leading podcast episodes to make a habit of leadership development, overcome common leadership challenges, and become the kind of leader your people and your business deserve.

We’ve all been sold the same tired solution to our overloaded calendars and overflowing task lists: time management. Buy the planner. Download the app. Wake up earlier. Sleep less. Hustle harder.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth: no matter how many hacks you stack or schedules you tweak, you can’t manage something you don’t control. That's right... Time isn’t the problem. Your behaviors are.

In this episode of Stop Managing, Start Leading, we flip the productivity script on its head. Because most leaders don’t have a time management issue, they have a behavior issue. If you’re constantly racing the clock, drowning in short-term decisions, or struggling to make space for strategic thinking, this might just be your wake up call. We break down four specific, high-impact strategies to help you stop obsessing over how to manage time, and start mastering how you lead.

From ruthless prioritization and smart delegation to behavior-driven planning and eliminating the busy work that clogs your calendar, learn the mindset shifts needed for serious business leaders who want to stop surviving the day-to-day and start leading with intention.

Because managing time won’t make you a better leader. But mastering your behaviors? That just might.

I’m Antonio and in this episode, I’ll be your leadership coach. I'll guide you through essential leadership models to help you understand the differences between leadership and management. Subscribe for weekly Stop Managing, Start Leading podcast episodes to make a habit of leadership development, overcome common leadership challenges, and become the kind of leader your people and your business deserve.

Sales drives business growth. Obvious, right?

But here’s what’s not so obvious: most sales teams aren’t underperforming because they lack talent… they’re stuck because they lack clarity.

And that? That’s a leadership issue.

In this episode of Stop Managing, Start Leading, we’re pulling back the curtain on the real reason sales teams stall and what great leaders do differently. Spoiler alert: it has nothing to do with charisma, and everything to do with the process.

You’ll learn a simple but powerful 3-phase sales framework - pre-qualification, qualification, and post-qualification - that will get your team aligned, focused, and actually excited about closing deals (yes, really).

No jargon. No fluff. Just a clear system that helps your people stop spinning their wheels and start driving real results.

Because at the end of the day, the difference between managing a sales team and leading one is the difference between aimless activity and real business impact.

Let us help you make the switch.

I’m Antonio and in this episode, I’ll be your leadership coach. I'll guide you through essential leadership models to help you understand the differences between leadership and management. Subscribe for weekly Stop Managing, Start Leading podcast episodes to make a habit of leadership development, overcome common leadership challenges, and become the kind of leader your people and your business deserve.

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Business stories have a way of cutting through the noise. They reveal what textbooks miss, what leadership workshops skim over, and what even seasoned CEOs sometimes forget. In this episode of Stop Managing, Start Leading, we unpack deceptively simple leadership lessons told through unexpected stories about putting a shark in a tank, selling shoes where no-one else sells shoes, removing the color beige from a product collection, and more that you definitely won’t have heard before that.

These kinds of leadership case studies and examples show us that insight is at the heart of all great business decisions. Insight is the real differentiator between good leaders and great ones – many organizations stagnate due to a lack of it. If you’re a leader, entrepreneur, or executive trying to make better decisions, lead with more clarity, and avoid the most common business pitfalls, watching this episode is the first step for you to stop managing, and start leading.

I’m Antonio and in this episode, I’ll be your leadership coach. I'll guide you through essential leadership models to help you understand the differences between leadership and management. Subscribe for weekly Stop Managing, Start Leading podcast episodes to make a habit of leadership development, overcome common leadership challenges, and become the kind of leader your people and your business deserve.

Poor decision-making? Conflicting priorities? Sluggish productivity? Classic symptoms. The real problem? Your team, systems, and goals are pulling in different directions - and you’re too busy putting out fires to notice.

Most CEOs don’t lose because they’re not working hard enough. They lose because their business lacks alignment, and no amount of hustle will fix that (trust me). In this episode of Stop Managing, Start Leading, we break down the four brutal zones that, when lacking, trap even the smartest leaders: Comfort, Chaos, Confusion… and the elusive Clarity Zone.

Top CEOs know: alignment is a non-negotiable. It’s the difference between leading decisively and constantly second-guessing. Between scaling smoothly and spinning in circles.

If you’re ready to stop making avoidable business mistakes (happens to the best of us), this is where you start. Because let’s face it: leadership shouldn’t feel like you're herding cats. I’ll say it again it’s that important (we even have a tea towel with this printed on – yes, seriously): leadership should NEVER feel like you're herding cats.

I’m Antonio and in this episode, I’ll be your leadership coach. I'll guide you through essential leadership models to help you understand the differences between leadership and management. Subscribe for weekly Stop Managing, Start Leading podcast episodes to make a habit of leadership development, overcome common leadership challenges, and become the kind of leader your people and your business deserve.