Timeless Leadership

Leaders are lifelong learners. Without curiosity and a desire for self-awareness, we stagnate.

Being insatiable learners, leaders also become teachers of others, passing down the traits and skills to help the next generation of leaders achieve their potential.

But it all starts with committing to learning more, every day. In this episode, we’ll identify nine characteristics of lifelong learners, ask you questions about five facets of the agile learner, and leave you with four tips to help you on a journey of lifelong learning.

This wraps up Season 4. I’ll be back with some changes in Season 5 — you won’t want to miss it.

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Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

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* Leaders are Readers

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Quotes from this episode

“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1917

“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.” — Laurence Sterne, 1760

“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.” — Thomas Hobbes, 1651

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Most leadership books are written by one expert, intended for an audience of many. UnLeadership: Make Building Relationships Your Business flips that concept on its head.

Scott Stratten and Alison Stratten set out to capture the wisdom and insights of more than 50 leaders, highlighting their stories and their lessons for the benefit of all of us.

The book is filled with stories from leaders of all kinds, from small mom and pop shops to corporate executives, across almost every industry, and spanning B2B and B2C.

And Scott Stratten has a few choice stories of his own to share…

Timeless Leadership is part of the Timeless & Timely family of publications. Your support is the only thing that makes this possible.

Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

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* UnLeadership by Scott & Alison Stratten

* UnMarketing website

* Connect with Scott Stratten on LinkedIn

* Timeless & Timely newsletter

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Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source:   http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com

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Get in touch with Scott to discuss a speaking engagement or to find out about his executive coaching and business advisory services.

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This is the third in our series of core leadership skills. In this episode, you’ll learn how influence is a key element of leadership.

We’ll cover four key influencing skills that transcend every level of the organization and three tactics for influencing others that you can apply when appropriate with different groups.

And here’s your chance to influence someone else:

Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

Links

* Previous entries in our series:

* Core Leadership Skill: Self Awareness

* Core Leadership Skill: Communication

* The Best Leadership Advice of All Time

* Bonus episode: Influence with Jason Falls

* Timeless & Timely newsletter

* Contact Scott

Find all of the books featured on Timeless Leadership.

Music

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source:   http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com

Contact

Get in touch with Scott to discuss a speaking engagement or to find out about his executive coaching and business advisory services.

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Joe Pulizzi knows content. He also knows how to think about the business of content.

As if hosting the podcasts This Old Marketing and Content Inc. aren’t enough, he established Content Marketing Institute and Content Marketing World.

And now, Joe has a new book and a new business model, The Content Entrepreneur, to help you make a business out of your content.

Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

Links

* The Content Entrepreneur by Joe Pulizzi

* The Tilt newsletter

* Tilt Publishing

* Joe’s podcasts: This Old Marketing and Content Inc.

* Timeless & Timely newsletter

Find all of the books featured on Timeless Leadership.

Music

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source:   http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com

Contact

Get in touch with Scott to discuss a speaking engagement or to find out about his executive coaching and business advisory services.

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If you want to build accountability in other people, you need to start with yourself.

What’s the best way to begin? With a process.

In this episode, we’ll talk bout consistency, transparency, and trust — and how they lead to accountability in yourself and others.

Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

Links

* The Secret to Changing a Habit

* Episode 75: Of Rule and Office with Melissa Lane

* The Ampersand Guild

* Timeless & Timely newsletter

* Contact Scott

Find all of the books featured on Timeless Leadership.

Quotes from this episode

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu

Music

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source:   http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com

Contact

Get in touch with Scott to discuss a speaking engagement or to find out about his executive coaching and business advisory services.

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Leadership requires care. Care that extends to the people around you, for whom leaders are responsible. But also care for the practice of leadership itself.

Ideas about this extend back to Plato, who engaged in many conversations about the responsibilities of leaders, the dangers of too much power, and considering the good of others.

Princeton professor Melissa Lane, whose book Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political, joins us to explore the impact of Plato's ideas today, as we struggle with concepts of accountability and servant leadership.

Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

Links

* Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political

* What the Ancient Greeks Understood About Democracy (Los Angeles Times)

* Melissa Lane

* Gresham College Lectures

Find all of the books featured on Timeless Leadership.

Music

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com

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Life is filled with busyness. When something or someone comes along to smooth the way and make life a little easier, we’re more than willing to give them our attention and our money.

In an attention-starved world, we look for people who make it easier for us to consume information and make decisions.

Pay attention to these curators. They care.

Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

Links

* Episode 73: The Fediverse with Mike McCue

* The Ampersand Guild

* The Good Stuff in the Back Room

* Timeless & Timely newsletter

* Contact me

Quotes from this episode

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?” — George Eliot, 1871

Music

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com

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The web can be a complicated place. And for almost as long as it has existed, Mike McCue’s mission has been to make the content of the internet more easily accessible.

From Netscape in the 1990s to TellMe in the 2000s to Flipboard in the 2010s, Mike’s entrepreneurial spirit has guided him, and society has been the beneficiary.

And now, with the advent of the Fediverse, Mike is at it again, helping creators move their content from walled gardens to a system that lets them share content with all audiences, regardless of platform.

There’s a lot to learn. Fortunately, Mike is an excellent teacher.

Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

Links

* Flipboard Federates 11,000 Magazines by 400 Creators and Enthusiasts

* Flipboard

* Dot Social podcast

* Mike McCue on the Fediverse: flipboard.social/@mike

* Mike McCue on Flipboard: flipboard.com/@mike

* Episode 61: The Societal Role of Advertising with Lou Paskalis

* Me on the Fediverse: flipboard.social/@[email protected]

* Click only in case of emergency

Music

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com

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Often in our careers, we’re focused on our destinations — the job title, the salary, the external symbols that notch our success, and the associated reputational wealth in the eyes of those who see us.

We’re fixated on being when we should be intent on becoming. What are we doing, enjoying, and sharing that inform who we are?

Whether it’s personal or professional, learning is the key to our growth. And in this episode, there’s a short letter I reread to help remind me about the power of growth.

Please learn and grow with me! This timeless content is yours for free, and there’s even more for our paid subscribers.

Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

Links

* Episode 71: Do What You Love with Kate Volman

* Episode 64: Read to Lead

* The History of the MGM Lions (Logo Design Love)

* Contact me

Quotes from this episode

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” ― Christopher Morley

Music

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com

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At times, work can dominate our lives, taking up our thoughts and energy, making any outside activities seem impossible. But Kate Volman believes in the power of outside passions to help make us better at what we do and who we are.

As the CEO of Floyd Consulting and author of Do What You Love: A Guide to Living Your Creative Life without Leaving Your Job, Kate's mission is to help people become better versions of themselves, and that’s partially done by helping them embrace their passions.

Kate talks with us about choosing curiosity to combat fear, shares her secret formula for helping people discover their passions, and gets blindsided by a surprise request in this episode.

Links

* Do What You Love: A Guide to Living Your Creative Life without Leaving Your Job

* KateVolman.com

* Floyd Consulting

* Lead with Culture podcast

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Contact

To reach Scott to discuss a public speaking engagement or to talk about his executive coaching services, please get in touch here.

Music

Theme music: Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source:   http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com

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