Warriors at Work

Followership, An Executive Summary with Dave Falter

In today’s episode, Jeanie and Dave Falter dive into an exciting conversation about the CEO series from the last four weeks. Together, they review their favorite soundbites, surprises and moments from the CEO conversations. Jeanie and Dave discuss common themes and guiding principles from each of the 4 CEOs and summarize their own experiences that give their insight to the series. Consider this episode the cliff notes of the CEO’s perspective followership series.

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3:58 Jeanie and Dave recap the CEOs that were on the show this month

5:09 What Jeanie and Dave have learned from this series

11:00 Surprises from the CEO conversations

18:12 A common guiding principle between all CEOs in the series

20:16 Dave shares about the transition into a C Suite role

25:50 Jeanie & Dave’s favorite CEO sound bites

30:33 Tangible takeaways from the series



Resources Mentioned:
A CEO’s Perspective, Followership with Dave Falter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydQ8Pw9tWz4

A CEO’s Perspective, Followership with Jenica Myskowski:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRRLW-2fb3Y

A CEO’s Perspective, Followership with Dr. Richard Dool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGFP6Vh0wtE

A CEO’s Perspective, Followership with Priya Narasimhan:
https://youtu.be/4vk7zPpsfz8



Connect with Dave Falter:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidafalter/
Blog: https://mushermanagement.com


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A CEO's Perspective, Followership with Priya Narasimhan

This week, in the continuation of the CEO followership series, Jeanie is joined by CEO, Priya Narasimhan, the founder and CEO of Yinzcam. Priya shares her perspective of followership as not only an executive within her organization, but she also shares how she integrates the idea of followership in the classroom with her students at Carnegie Mellon University. Priya’s energy and conviction around followership is one that is sure to inspire anyone who listens to this episode.

Priya Narasimhan is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests lie in the fields of dependable distributed systems, fault-tolerance, embedded systems, mobile systems and sports technology. She serves as the academic lead of the Intel Science and Technology Center in Embedded Computing (ISTC-EC) that comprises Carnegie Mellon, Penn State, UIUC, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, UC Berkeley and Georgia Tech. Priya Narasimhan is the CEO and Founder of YinzCam, Inc., a company focused on mobile live streaming and scalable video technologies to provide the ultimate mobile fan experience to 40+ professional sports teams/venues.

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3:12 Introduction to Priya

3:48 How Priya describes herself as a CEO and a professor

5:44 Priya shares what it looks like for her to operate at her best as a CEO and a professor

7:12 Priya defines followership

10:21 The concept of silent coaching

12:05 Generational differences around followership

13:55 How having the awareness of what you love and what you’re good at can change the trajectory of your future.

15:43 Priya shares the impact the pandemic has had on her organization

21:46 Attributes that fueled Priya’s motivation to keep her business alive during its most difficult times

24:57 An executive leadership perspective on the future of work during the pandemic

27:39 The importance of supporting employees who want to pivot and evolve as the company evolves

29:15 Priya shares her experience of teaching and implementing followership within the classroom

32:28 How Priya’s students describe her teaching style

33:59 Grading by the size of ambition vs perfecting solutions

38:00 Priya talks about how she creates a culture of ambition at Yinzcam

40:14 Who Priya is following and why



Connect with Priya Narasimhan:
https://priyanarasimhan.com/about-me-new/

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


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A CEO's Perspective, Followership with Jenica Myszkowski

In today’s episode, Jeanie is joined by the CEO of Paper Source, Jenica Myszkowski. Jenica leads a diverse team that has grown to 136 successful brick and mortar locations nationwide, as well as a thriving e-commerce platform. In today’s episode Jeanie and Jenica discuss how authenticity and transparency impact the workplace, the importance of always assuming the best in every situation, and how being willing to have the tough yet heartfelt conversations will birth trust within an organization. Jenica’s capacity to be very heartfelt without losing her ability to be assertive and drive for results will be sure to inspire you!

Jenica Myszkowski, CEO of Paper Source headquartered in Chicago, leads a diverse team that has grown to 136 successful brick and mortar locations nationwide and a thriving e-commerce platform. Jenica’s role is focused on innovating and optimizing the Paper Source retail experience & store fleet with a focus on the customer and the teams and processes that serve them. Jenica works to build a world-class team through effective recruiting, onboarding, learning and development, performance management, and retention, as well as building a highly inclusive culture, ensuring personnel thrive. Prior to Paper Source, Jenica led stores & operations for Kate Spade New York in North America and Europe through an exceptionally high growth period.

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3:51 Introduction to Jenica

5:04 Jenica’s strongest attributes

8:27 Jenica describes what followership means to her

10:26 Is followership learned or is it innate?

13:53 The differences within C-Suite roles Jenica has experienced

17:54 How Jenica infuses her organization with trust and authenticity

20:46 Jenica describes how COVID has affected her as a COO and CEO

27:25 Generational differences that Jenica has noticed within her organization

29:03 Becoming the best version of yourself within the workplace

32:57 Who Jenica is following and why

35:11 Key takeaways from this conversation


Connect with Guest Name:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenicapastalaniec/

https://www.papersource.com/


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A CEO's Perspective, Followership with Dr. Richard Dool

Our 2nd episode of our 4 part followership series continues with CEO Dr. Richard Dool. Dr. Richard Dool is a former executive leader of organizations such as AT&T and General Electric and has also served as CEO of both public and private companies. In this episode, Richard explains his perspective on leadership and shares personal stories running global organizations. Richard breaks down the importance of followership, how it’s shown up, what he’s done when he hasn’t had followership and how he now implements the idea of followership in the classroom with his graduate students at Rutgers University.

Dr. Richard is currently serving as teaching professor and director of the MCM and MHCI masters programs at Rutgers University and runs a management consulting company. Richard is also an author of multiple books on leadership.

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3:30 Jeanie introduces Richard.

3:56 Richard’s shares how he started in leadership and shares the top attributes that have helped him in his career.

5:45 What Richard thinks followership really means.

7:19 How Richard shares the concept of followership with his graduate students at Rutgers University.

9:03 Richard shares how he’s embraced change in his upbringing as he moved many times as a military child and how that experience has helped his career.

10:48 The relationship between followership and leadership.

12:41 Richard’s point of view on where followership is showing up and why.

14:01 The workplace mindset generational differences Richard has noticed.

16:13 A personal story of when Richard didn’t have followership in his career and how he handled it.

18:12 How to create workplace relationships with the new remote workplace.

20:09 How leaders are usually chosen vs how to develop effective leaders.

23:06 Discussions Richard has had with his students at Rutgers about the current cross-cultural workplace.

27:44 How followership plays a part from a peer perspective.

31:22 The top people Richard is currently following.

33:18 Richard’s final thoughts on creating a foundation for followership.



Resources Mentioned:
How Generation Z Wants to be Led: A Guide to the Minds of Tomorrow's Leaders by Dr. Richard Dool: https://www.amazon.com/How-Generation-Wants-Led-Tomorrows/dp/1089330545

Leading in Difficult Times & Circumstances by Dr. Richard Dool:
https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Difficult-Times-Circumstances-Richard/dp/B08XLGGBLN


Connect with Dr. Richard Dool:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-dool/


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CEO Perspective, Followership with Dave Falter

In the first episode of 4 part series on Followership, we kick off the month with a conversation with a six-time CEO and returning guest, Dave Falter.
In this episode, Dave shares his personal leadership philosophy and connects us to what he feels is a crucial skill that all leaders must
embody, followership. Dave breaks down what followership is and is not, how to identify it in others and what’s at stake for leaders who don’t encourage followership in their organizations.

Dave is a six-time CEO and Board Director who has successfully led companies ranging from $25 million to more than $1 billion across numerous industries – including electronic travel distribution, business services, systems integration and software development, and cloud-based storage. Dave sees himself as a coach and realizes he is reliant on his employees, as they are on him. Dave’s personal mission to inspire and guide teams to become high performing, loyal and dedicated.

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4:04 Jeanie welcomes Dave to the show.

4:28 Dave describes the best and worst leaders he’s seen and the characteristics each exudes.

8:09 The value of having bad leaders and what can be learned from them.

11:51 What is followership and why it’s important.

15:41 Why you need to identify successful leaders within your organization and empower them to lead.

16:32 The difference between the workplace and the navy.

19:47 Dave’s thoughts on why businesses aren’t investing in leadership training.

24:47 A reflection of Dave’s personal followership journey.

33:02 Examples of business with good followership within their organization.






Connect with Dave Falter:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidafalter/
Blog: https://mushermanagement.com


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We hear a lot of stories of layoff's, furloughs and the real struggles people are experiencing from the wild ride of 2020. What we don't hear enough about are the stories of leaders who have used the layoff experience to reflect and step forward into their lives with more purpose and power.

Marissa Fernandez is a former Chief Marketing Officer who stepped into a layoff experience with fear, uncertainty and an unexpected sense of relief. She used the time away from a demanding career to reflect and align with her gifts and step forward into a new career that connects her with her superpower attributes as a Coach, Consultant and a marketing executive. If you have been laid off, furloughed or find yourself asking the bigger life questions, this conversation will inspire and motivate you!

Lead Like a Musher with Dave Falter

Dave Falter walks his talk. Dave is not just a six-time CEO and Board Director who has successfully lead companies ranging from $1 billion to more than $25 billion across numerous industries, Dave sees himself as a coach and realizes he is reliant on his employees, as they are on him.

Dave has a personal mission to inspire and guide teams to become high performing, loyal and dedicated. In this podcast, Dave’s shares his personal philosophy of what it means to be a leader and the critical responsibility an Executive has to people within the organization. Dave was particularly inspired by the art and skill of dog sled Mushing and offers his perspective on the relationship between Mushing and Leading. You might wonder what does Leading and Mushing have in common? A lot! Mushers have to be driven, team oriented and inclusive. Mushers care about the welfare of the team. Most importantly, they see the team’s success as more important than personal success. Whether you are a hugely successful Executive or an aspiring leader, this conversation is full of great insights and inspiration.
For more information on Dave Falter go to:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidafalter/
Blog: https://mushermanagement.com

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"Tonight's restart is a testament to a league unwilling to surrender."

A quote I read as the NBA began its quest in July 2020 to make the impossible, possible. A key figure in the middle of that quest was Kelly Flatow, Executive Vice President, Global Head of Events at the NBA. Kelly and her team put their lives on hold for 4 months, moved to Disney World and together they brought teams back to the court and showcased the principles of community, connection and camaraderie.

In this very candid interview, Kelly takes us through her story and shares insight into what it was like to lead in the middle of an extraordinary crisis, live and work in a bubble and most notably, Kelly offers a look into some of the poignant moments of her career. This is an incredibly uplifting and fascinating conversation that will remind you of the power of team work and having a shared purpose!

Understanding Energy and Its Impact on Leadership with Nina Crist

Have you ever heard the saying “Emotions are energy in motion”? On today’s episode, I chat with Nina Crist as we unpack the energy within the body and discuss how it can be transformed into a positive impact on family members, teammates and clients.

With her 20+ years of experience in martial arts, Nina takes a different approach to leadership. She taps into the feelings and thoughts throughout each interaction both in the workplace and her personal life to show up as an authentic, impactful and effective leader. The awareness she brings to her team and clients is both inspiring and life changing.

Nina Crist is the co director of the Jaguar Path School of Yoga and Shamanism. She is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and black-belt martial arts instructor with 20 years of experience. Her deep knowledge of Shaolin kung fu, tai chi, and qigong shine through her teachings. Her dedicated years of practice show up in her yoga as she shares the essence of movement, breathing, and being. Nina offers workshops, trainings, and retreats throughout the world.


3:04 Introduction to Nina

4:35 Nina describes herself

5:55 The parallel between martial arts and executive leadership

8:23 Transforming the feelings inhibiting your body

14:42 Navigating frustrations and negativity in and out of the workplace

17:35 The art of war and warriorship

22:35 The 4 Leadership Styles & how to apply them

26:06 Common Themes Nina sees most when working with her leadership clients

29:07 The relationship between emotions and energy

32:38 How do I deal with the toxic person in the room?

37:23 Creating Boundaries & “Moving Your Feet”

Connect with Nina: https://kripalu.org/about/kripalu/faculty/nina-crist


Resources Mentioned:
The Art of War by Sun Tzu: https://www.amazon.com/Art-War-Sun-Tzu/dp/1599869772/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+art+of+war&qid=1621851891&sr=8-1


The Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Peace-Teachings-Founder-Aikido/dp/0877738513/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+art+of+peace&qid=1621852132&sr=8-1


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We are in the middle of an extraordinary period of time and we have a lot of questions and emotions. Many of us have feelings of anxiety, fear and uncertainty and are seeing the same emotions in our children. Thankfully, we have help! Family Therapist Rose LaPiere has been helping families for over 20 years manage anxiety. Her practice offers various therapeutic modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Contextual Family Therapy,Therapeutic Powers of Play and Synergetic Play Therapy. Rose shares great examples of healthy conversation with our children and tells us why regulation is the key ingredient we need to navigate a very uncertain world. It’s a timely and insightful conversation that you don’t want to miss! www.roselapiere.com