Clint concludes his conversation with the author of “The Miracle Manager: Why True Leaders Rarely Make Great Managers”, Kevin G. Armstrong.  Kevin leads a group of advisors at the Interdependent Training Group which advises business leaders on creating clear vision and implementing strategies to hold their management teams accountable. In part two, Kevin explains the two key rules of attitude, why you can't be powerful without being vulnerable, the major drawbacks of electronic communications, and why it's not good enough to be efficient you have to be effective.

This week Clint has a conversation with speaker and business advisor Kevin G. Armstrong, the author of “The Miracle Manager: Why True Leaders Rarely Make Great Managers.” For the past 20+ years, Kevin has studied the important differences between the roles of ‘leader’ and ‘manager’ in business. In part one, Kevin talks about why leaders and top sales people typically do not make good managers, why he's so obsessed in challenging the definitions of the words we use on a daily basis and why successful managers connect with people. We also discuss why it’s so hard to describe “culture” and the reason the greatest professional athletes make the worst coaches.

Clint wraps up his conversation with Chester Elton, the co-founder of The Culture Works professional training and coaching and co-author of The Best Team Wins: The New Science of High Performance. In part two, Chester talks about the importance of ongoing communication and gratitude, how aspirational conversations can cut turnover and enhance engagement and why highly engaged employees have a best friend at work.

This week, Clint has a conversation with Chester Elton, the bestselling leadership author and co-founder of The Culture Works professional training and coaching. In part one, Chester talks about the ways to improve your company’s collaboration in the workplace, the importance of ‘soft skills’, why the best team leaders ‘manage to the one’ to increase employee engagement, and how job sculpting can increase your chances of retaining and engaging talented people.

Clint concludes his conversation with Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres, the co-authors of Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement. In part two, Jackie and Cheri rundown the five principles that govern our conversations, the science behind using powerful questions and appreciative inquiry, and why they're on a mission to change our world of conversations.

This week, Clint has a conversation with Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres, the co-authors of Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement. Jackie and Cheri have a combined 50 years of experience in practicing and teaching Appreciative Inquiry. In part one, Jackie and Cheri explain the meaning of Appreciative Inquiry, how generative questions open the door to allow space for new possibilities, and how we can tell we're having a conversation worth having.

Clint concludes his conversation with Sherry Turkle, the New York Times bestselling author and professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT. In part two, Clint and Sherry talk about some of the wrong lessons that could be learned from the pandemic, the impact of emotions expressed via text versus in person, and the difference between being pro-conversation as opposed to being anti-technology.

This week, Clint is pleased to have a conversation with Sherry Turkle. The New York Times called Sherry's new memoir The Empathy Diaries "a beautiful memoir about the life of the mind and the life of the senses." Sherry is also a professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and the author of the best seller, Reclaiming Conversation. In part one, Clint and Sherry discuss the reasons we truly can't connect on a Zoom call, how she defines empathy, and why the "capacity to be alone is the capacity to know enough about yourself and who you are, and be comfortable enough with that."

Clint wraps up his conversation with Cliff Oxford, a New York Times blogger, Forbes columnist, founder of the CliffCo. Think Tank. In part two, Cliff discusses why he thinks management by commitment is more important than BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals), the problem he has with politics, and why he loves Zoom video chats but thinks water-cooler conversations are underrated.

This week Clint has a conversation with Cliff Oxford, a New York Times blogger, Forbes columnist, founder of the CliffCo. Think Tank and author of “A Redneck Reverie: The Rationale for the Trump Phenomenon.” In part one, Cliff discusses how his career as a visionary entrepreneur began by loading trucks at UPS, how he discovered the importance of customer relationship management (CRM), and why he thinks Jim Casey is one of the few company founders who made the right decision every time.