You might think from the title of today’s episode that I had a drowsy Uber driver. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I didn’t have to wake him up – his story is full of lessons for those of us asleep in our careers. This is a shout out to my new friend, Chris […]

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A recent email from the General Manager at the operation where I worked reminded me of a key leadership challenge. When times are good, everyone is getting along, production is flowing, customer retention is strong, revenues are up and costs are down, and the team is all aligned and pulling in the same direction, you […]

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In this episode, I want to birth a new desire, a new curiosity, as we discuss some great questions that you should be asking. I’ll share some insights about how these questions open you up to possibility of revolutionary change and could quite literally alter your destiny. It’s a big promise, and I can deliver […]

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Have you ever stopped and wondered “How many questions does a child ask in one day?” Well, as I was considering this episode, I felt like it was pretty ironic that we spend so much of the early years of our lives asking great questions (they were foundational to our development and a key to […]

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This is part two of my interview with Brandon Bruce. Here’s the link so you can go listen to Part One if you missed it: LTL 078: Endurance, Entrepreneurship, And Patience: An Interview With Brandon Bruce Part One. Brandon grew up in a small California town of 800 people and had only one classmate in grade […]

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This is part one of my interview with Brandon Bruce. Brandon grew up in a small California town of 800 people and had only one classmate in grade school. Seven years ago, he co-founded Cirrus Insight and has helped grow the company to $12m in annual revenue, 58 employees, and #41 on the Inc. 500 […]

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The last two episodes have been on the topic of powering through discomfort to make authentic connections as the basis for EPIC conversations. If you missed those episodes, you can click the links in the show notes below. Hopefully, after listening in, you are convinced of your need to expand your connections, but not connection […]

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If you missed the last episode of the Leader to Leader podcast, stop right now and go listen to episode 75. I don’t do a lot of episodes that require you to listen to one before the other. In this instance, I believe there is value in listing to Powering Through Discomfort To Authentic Connection […]

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If you are like a majority of people, you probably feel a little apprehensive when you think about being in a room full of people you don’t know. What will you talk about? You might have spent lots of time debating whether you even want to go. The excuses pile up and there is something […]

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As many of you know, life has been anything but normal or predictable for me and my wife, Ginger, over the last several months. At the end of 2017, I knew that massive changes were going to impact my department at work. I would have to face an important career decision: I had to choose […]

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