The Manage Your Message Podcast

Timothy Lupfer: Tough Love for Leaders

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How can you best develop your leadership skills, as well as those of others in the business? Host Jim Karrh talks with Tim Lupfer, author of Leadership Tough Love: Examining Leaders Through the Lens of Reality. 

 

Among the topics that Tim and Jim discuss:

  • The two components of leadership – influence and authority – and how they interact
  • Leadership lessons to draw from how government officials have attempted to gain compliance during COVID-19
  • Why honesty is indispensable for leaders who want to drive action
  • A military-history lesson Tim shares from the U.S. Civil War—how the invention of the minié ball changed the practice of “leading from the front”
  • The 3 things effective leaders do
  • Why generalists tend to be more effective leaders than are specialists
  • Tim’s view of the importance of leadership-development programs in business—and his strong view of who should be running them

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    Links:

    Learn more about Tim, his book, and his work:

    https://timothytlupfer.com/

     

    Connect with Tim on LinkedIn:

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-t-lupfer/

     

    Learn more about Jim Karrh’s virtual and in-person speaking and training topics:

    https://jimkarrh.com/speaking

     

    Check out a sample of Jim’s new book, The Science of Customer Connections: Manage Your Message to Grow Your Business:

    https://jimkarrh.com/books 

     

    Follow Jim on Twitter:

    https://twitter.com/jimkarrh?lang=en

     

    Connect with Jim on LinkedIn:

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimkarrh

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    The Manage Your Message PodcastBy Jim Karrh, PhD
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