Episodes
Sept. 15, 2020
383: Sports, competition, and beating pandemics
Are you fatigued from pandemic defenses like wearing masks and washing your hands? Is your community, like New York City, doing well? Do you feel since we're doing well, we can let up at last? Do you know what happens when c…
Sept. 10, 2020
382: Kelly Allan, part 1: Deming 101, community, and beyond
Kelly is experienced in theory, practice, and community of W. Edwards Deming. If you don't know Deming, you'll hear from this conversation, but for context, growing up my top role models were Gandhi, King, and Mandela. As I …
Sept. 8, 2020
381: Kevin Edwards Cahill, part 1: The Deming Legacy
Kevin Cahill's grandfather, W. Edwards Deming, changed nations. An emperor awarded him a medal. If you don't know either, listen to the first few minutes when I describe him. Deming has become one of my top role models. He t…
Sept. 3, 2020
380: Matthew Stevenson, part 1: Why Befriend a White Nationalist?
Matthew is friends with the guy who built the white nationalist online community, Stormfront . He is also an observant orthodox Jew. You may have heard about him because the pair made headlines and appeared on the Daily Show…
Sept. 1, 2020
379: Dan McPherson, part 1: A Heart Attack Last Week at Age 46
Do you have friends that you talk to once or twice a month---someone you can talk about important things beyond the day to day? Dan is one of those friends for me. The week before recording this conversation he told me he ha…
Aug. 27, 2020
378: Libba and Gifford Pinchot III, part 1: Redefining business education
Rarely do you meet someone who created a word that became common. My guests today, Gifford and Libba Pinchot, created the term intrapraneurship . In the world of leadership and entrepreneurship, they created a discipline. Af…
Aug. 24, 2020
377: Chris Manhertz, part 2: Tough times don't last. Tough people do.
Our last episode ended with two subjects either of which I'd love to cover---an NFL tight end picking up other people's garbage and stoicism. We had covered life for a professional team athlete under a pandemic. Then George …
Aug. 24, 2020
376: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Stewardship
I'm continuing my practice of bringing leadership to sustainability, following my bringing speeches and messages by Patton, Frankl, JFK, King, Mandela, Henry V, and others. Today I bring President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysbur…
Aug. 23, 2020
375: Vertical farms belie the false hope of fusion
For years I thought fusion could solve our environmental problems. Serious consideration betrays that false promise, illustrating it would only continue the the pattern creating the problems we're trying to solve. Even if it…
Aug. 22, 2020
374: Andreas Larsson, part 1: Leadership and the Environment Sweden
Andreas and I go back five or ten years. He hired me as a coach when he was selling his share of a business he cofounded. He appears in my book Initiative about that experience and what he's done since. I invited him as a gu…
Aug. 18, 2020
373: Jaeden Graham, Atlanta Falcon: Reaching beyond your potential
I love talking with people who strive to reach their potential and beyond, and who elevate people around them---their teammates. People like that exist everywhere, especially in professional sports. Jaeden plays for the Atla…
Aug. 13, 2020
372: JFK, the moon, and missing leadership today
You've heard people calling for moonshots---challenges so great we take them on as a nation. But regarding sustainability we also ask people to do as little as they can, "here's one little thing you can do for the environmen…
Aug. 12, 2020
371: Margaret Klein Salamon, part 1: Become the Hero Humanity Needs
Margaret is the Executive Director at The Climate Mobilization. Writing Facing the Climate Emergency brought her to me. Her psychology background leads her to approach the climate psychologically, which I appreciate and cons…
Aug. 11, 2020
370: Viktor Frankl on the pandemic
Many people are looking to return to something they can call normal since the pandemic undid their earlier normal. In the meantime they struggle. Almost everyone I know knows Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning . I don'…
Aug. 8, 2020
369: Another Decision From My Past I Feel Ashamed Of
I shared a story with a client the other day that he found deeply meaningful. I'd never shared it with anyone before because it felt so shameful. Enough time has passed that I can talk about it, so I'm sharing it here, but I…
Aug. 4, 2020
368: Chester Elton, part 1: Asking and listening across color lines
You're about to hear a conversation post-George Floyd by two leadership writers. Normally we write for mostly business audiences. this conversation felt more personal. Normally when a friend introduces a potential podcast gu…
Aug. 3, 2020
367: The Surprising Mantle of Leadership
Here are the notes I read from for this episode: Stand up comedians Growing up in 70s I thought everyone would want to lead, to give I Have A Dream speech of their generation Felt so natural, though universal So until recent…
Aug. 2, 2020
366: The Cops, Jocko Willink, and Joe Rogan
Here are the notes I wrote and read this podcast from: It's no secret the tension between police and protesters in this country. I've talked to a lot of protesters in my day, having protested myself many times, especially in…
July 30, 2020
365: Assaulted again and scammed
Here are the notes I read from (maybe better just to listen): Yesterday two things, I'll start with second because more poignant. Ran into old friend a few weeks ago, clubbing, Submedia. Met at bar, first time since March, r…
July 29, 2020
364: Joe De Sena, part 1: The Spartan Race: Resilience from effort
Joe DeSena founded the Spartan Race and hosts the Spartan Up podcast. For those who know about me and my burpees, cold showers, rowing a marathon, picking up garbage daily, and so on, you can imagine I love what he does. Joe…
July 27, 2020
363: General George Patton's Speech to the Third Army
Here are the notes I read from for this episode. Following pattern of effective speeches and leadership to lead people to love doing things not obviously personally benefiting. If you've seen movie Patton, George C Scott del…
July 25, 2020
362: Nelson Mandela: "it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
The actions we can take to preserve the environment are so simple anyone can do them. They improve our lives, connecting us to each other, freeing us from distraction of craving and separation. Role models help. Nelson Mande…
July 22, 2020
361: George Chmiel, part 1: Why run 3,000 miles? Why challenge yourself?
George and I talked about three big topics George Floyd demonstrations and riots from the view of a man watching his businesses and his communities' businesses vandalized and destroyed. You'll also hear him reflect as a man …
July 21, 2020
360: Sparta could make history
Here are the notes I read from on recounting the potential I saw for the Spartan Race community and its founder, Joe De Sena, if they chose to prioritize environmental stewardship. Context: Joe: carries chain up 1,000-foot h…