The Cave, The Road, The Table, The Fire: Stories from the Book Launch

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Dec 10, 2024

In this engaging conversation, Paula Stringer, Head of Production and Business for BBC News, shares insights from her dynamic leadership journey. She discusses the challenges of burnout and the overload of priorities in fast-paced environments. Paula imparts wisdom on building trust through credibility and relatability, and how embracing failure fosters growth. She emphasizes the importance of personal health in leadership and how cadence can restore clarity in teams. Their chat offers refreshing perspectives on nurturing one's identity and purpose for effective leadership.

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INSIGHT

Leadership Starts With You

Leadership is a personal project: you must attend to who you are before leading others.
True, brave, kind, and curious are core qualities that transform leaders and their spheres of influence.

ANECDOTE

Wilberforce As A Leadership Model

Karl recounts William Wilberforce's long fight against slavery as a model of persistent leadership.
Wilberforce 'fixed the character of his times' through sustained moral courage and effort.

INSIGHT

Character Fixes Culture

Character is the mechanism that 'fixes' the character of an era; leading well shapes culture.
Focusing on personal character creates lasting, indelible impact in society.

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In this episode of Arable Leader, we bring you the audio recording from Karl Martin's book launch earlier this year. Karl launched his book "The Cave, the Road, the Table, and the Fire: Leading from a Deeper Place", and had a conversation with Paula Stringer, BBC News's Head of Business and Production.

Karl and Paula reflect on some of their personal leadership and growth stories, discussing understanding one's identity, aligning actions with personal strengths, and achieving balance through cadence. They also take audience questions, diving into burnout and the significance of credibility, reliability, and relatability in leadership.

Karl also invites you to start a book club discussion around his new book. The first five groups of 6-8 (or more) people that start a book club discussion around the "The Cave, The Road, The Table, The Fire" will will a free 30 minute session with Karl. Details are in the episode!

Learn more: www.arableco.com

This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qyzqbtj4sIQ

The Arable Leader Podcast features conversations with incredible leaders. We discuss what it really takes to lead from your soul...to be True, Brave, Kind, and Curious. In a world where leadership is, at best, untrusted, and, at worst, in abject crisis, we're working to equip people with the greatest of human skills: leadership. This is leadership of a different kind.

Host Karl Martin is the Founder and CEO of Arable, a Leadership house that coaches top-tier leaders, specializing in cultural health. He has 25 years of experience leading teams to new levels of growth and coaching individuals to break through personal obstacles, enabling them to lead in a healthy way. Blending ancient wisdom and cutting-edge behavioral science in coaching and leadership development, Arable is changing the way global businesses and individuals develop through their True, Brave, Kind, and Curious model of healthy growth.

Learn more: www.arableco.com