Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott J. Allen, Ph.D.

Send us a textProfessor Mike Hardy is founding Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations at Coventry University. He also serves as the board chair of the International Leadership Association. Following overseas postings in the Arab world and Asia, Mike's work focused on working with difference and with inter- and intra-community relations. His particular interest was with disconnected and underemployed young people. Mike has been twice awarded the Order of the British Empire for his peace-building work in the Middle East, and appointed a Companion of Honour of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Queen's Birthday Honours June 2010 for his work internationally in Intercultural Dialogue.Learn More About the International Leadership Association (ILA)2020 Conference - November 5-9, 2020RegistrationQuotes From This Episode"What sort of world do we want to emerge into?""So in order to answer the question - what sort of world do you want? - you have to be clear about the nature of the world we've got. How many of your politicians talk about how quickly they want to return to normal? 'Wouldn't it be nice if we got back to normal?' I don't, because the normal I experienced in 2019 was not a good place. So we hope we could define a future which was slightly different, slightly recast recalibrated for the needs of ordinary people.""I'm now in a community that cares about change for the better. And that's a good community to be in."(On the ILA Staff) - "We have a tiny staff for the amount of noise they make. And I just always want to take the opportunity to celebrate the fact that we have them. And it's their work that is going to lead to the amazing conference next month."Articles/Books by Dr. HardyHardy, M. (forthcoming 2021) Leadership, dialogue and disconnections. Cambridge University Press. Hardy, M., and Hussain. S., (2019) Dialogue in a Rapidly Changing World: Practitioner Assessments of the Potency of Intercultural Dialogue for Improving Social Cohesion, Journal of Dialogue Studies (7), 9-26. Hardy, M., and McIlhatton, D. (2019). Decision-Theoretic Behavioural Analytics: Risk Management and Terrorist Intensity Behavioural Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression (RIRT).Hardy, M.  (2017). Muslim Identity in a Turbulent Age: Islamic Fundamentalism and Western Islamaphobia. Jessica Kingsley. (Independent Authors’ Bronze Award for Social Sciences)   Resources Mentioned In This EpisodePolitical Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nat♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textDr. Jay Conger holds the Henry R. Kravis Chaired Professor of Leadership Studies at Claremont McKenna College. As an executive educator, coach, and program designer, he has worked with over five hundred organizations in his twenty-five year career. An outstanding teacher, Financial Times and other business periodicals ranked him as one of the world’s top management educators. He works with individuals and organizations to create unique learning environments that accelerate and celebrate the potential of leaders.Quotes From This Episode“Situation setting is your ability to be very observant and read your boss quickly.”“There are going to be two or three high-visibility projects that the boss will be assessed on. So the subordinate (i.e., the potentially high potential) makes certain to contribute in a significant way to those two or three outcomes.”“Bosses have a couple of stylistic imperatives which they may not articulate to you.”“So in the first 30 to 90 days, your new boss has already assessed you - 'are you meeting my style?'"Books By Jay CongerThe High Potential’s Advantage: Get Noticed, Impress Your Bosses, and Become a Top Leader by Jay A. Conger and Allan Church The Necessary Art of Persuasion by Jay A. Conger Learning to Lead: The Art of Transforming Managers Into Leaders by Jay A. CongerCharismatic Leadership: The Elusive Factor in Organizational Effectiveness by Jay A. Conger and Rabindra N. Kanungo Growing Your Company’s Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage Hardcover by Robert M. Fulmer and Jay A. Conger Books Mentioned in This EpisodeEntangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake  ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textDr. Kathy L. Guthrie is an Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Florida State University. In addition to teaching, Dr. Guthrie also serves as the director of the Leadership Learning Research Center and coordinates the Undergraduate Certificate in Leadership Studies.  Dr. Guthrie has authored and co-authored more than 30 refereed journal articles, six book chapters, two books, and co-edited three monographs and an additional book. The winner of multiple awards and honors, Kathy is an editorial board member of the Journal of Leadership Education and Journal of College and Character. Books and Publications by Dr. Kathy GuthrieTransforming Learning  and The Role of Leadership Educators: Transforming Learning by Kathy Guthrie and Dan JenkinsMarvelous & Kind Kloey, Marvelous & Kind Kloey: Feels Thankful, Marvelous & Kind Kloey: Learns About Leadership by Kathy Guthrie and Danielle N. Seago New Directions for Student LeadershipChanging the Narrative: Socially Just Leadership Education by Kathy L. Guthrie and Vivechkanand S. Chunoo Thinking to Transform and Thinking to Transform Companion Manuel by Jillian M. Volpe White, Kathy L. Guthrie, and Maritza TorresAuthors and Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeLeadership on the Line and ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textDr. Eric Guthey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Society, and Communication. He has a background in humanities and cultural history which fosters an interdisciplinary perspective on leadership, management, and cultural dynamics. His primary areas of research include leadership, organization studies, leadership development, and management. His current research explores “the ebb and flow of fashionable leadership concepts."Review These Resources Before/After Listening!Prominent restaurants and CBS team up to learn from each other Copenhagen Restaurant Industry’s Response to COVID19Quotes From This Episode“What you have to understand about leadership studies in Europe is that it’s sprung out of sociology.”“There are many countries in Europe where there was no word for leadership before the leadership industries arrived.”“All management fashions introduce themselves by saying, 'now is a time of unprecedented change.' Everything’s completely different than was before, and so we need a new idea."“When you talk to these chefs, they’re amazing people who have amazing self-knowledge of what they do. And so we’re figuring out ways to develop vocabularies and literacies that we can use to both help them and figure out how they can help other industries.”Resources/People Mentioned In This EpisodeThe International Leadership Association ConferenceScholar: Mary Uhl-Bien - Complexity TheoryScholar: Mats Alvesson - Critical Management TheoryScholar: Eric Gordon - EconomistArticle: Performing Leadership: Observations from the World of Music by Ralph Bathurst and Donna LadkinRestaurant: Noma Chef: Matt OrlandoPodcast: Hit ParadeOther Podcast Guests Mentioned In This EpisodeSteve KempsterBarbara Kellerman♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textDr. John P. Dugan is the Executive Director of Youth Leadership Programs at The Aspen Institute. He oversees a portfolio of programs designed to (1) cultivate youth and educator capacities for values-based leadership, (2) improve pathways to degree completion, career readiness, and job placement, and (3) invest in local communities to transfer capital and enrich pipelines of talent across sectors. John co-founded and is the principal investigator of the Multi–Institutional Study of Leadership (MSL), the largest international study of leadership outcomes.  John’s research has generated more than 50 publications and 100 presentations at national and international conferences. His research is cited by more than 4,000 scholars and his work honored for its contribution to knowledge in his field by ACPA: College Educator’s International. John’s most recent book is Leadership Theory: Cultivating Critical Perspectives. He is a proud resident of Chicago, IL.John Dugan's Books and ResearchBook: Leadership Theory: Cultivating Critical Perspectives Book: Leadership Theory: Facilitator's Guide for Cultivating Critical Perspectives by John P. Dugan, Natasha T. Turman, Amy C. BarnesResearch: John P. Dugan at Google ScholarQuotes from this Episode“So it’s agency, how to navigate pathways, social generativity, leadership, efficacy, resilience, and social perspective-taking. We really build a robust high potency program around those outcomes.”“You can’t build all of these leadership values, knowledge and skills without also building the protective factors so that when someone gets in the arena, they know when to step out, they know when to step forth, they know when to fight, they know when to play. You’ve got to build the protective factors and not just resilience but that internal belief set.”On curriculum: “Distilling it down to get to the simplicity on the other side of complexity allows us to then see what is it that actually moves the needle.” Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeResearch: Multi–Institutional Study of Leadership (MSL)Book: ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textDr. Diane L. Dixon is a facilitator of learning, author, consultant, adviser, and speaker.  She has dedicated her career to human and organizational learning, focusing on leadership and organizational development for more than 30 years. Her experience includes designing and facilitating leadership development programs and processes; developing change management and transition strategies; facilitating strategic planning meetings; and team development.  Diane’s work in healthcare organizations and research on hospital CEOs inspired her interest in minority executive leadership.Diane's Website & Her Latest BookWebsite - Diane Dixon & AssociatesBook - Diversity on the Executive Path: Wisdom and Insights for Navigating to the Highest Levels of Healthcare Leadership Quotes From this Episode“I think the thread that ran through all of the stories were the positions that sponsors put them in. And so often they were positions that they had not had experience in before, and having to work through the inner emotion of saying, “Can I do this? I’ve never done this before. Am I going to fail? Should I take this on?”“A sponsor will actually put you in that position and suggest that you be on a high visibility board, task force, or committee or team. They are introducing you to other executive leaders and, most importantly, to leadership opportunities that help you to grow.”On the CEOs in her study - “...everything pointed to their ability to learn quickly and to adapt.”Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeArticle - The 70-20-10 Rule for Leadership DevelopmentBook - 88 Assignments for Development in Place Book - Inclusify by Stefanie Johnson Book - Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools by Glenn E. SingletonBook - Women and Leadership: Transforming Visions and Diverse Voices by Jean Lau ChinBook - Diversity and Leadership ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textMike Walker is an entrepreneur, futurist, speaker, and author with more than 25 years of experience in emerging technologies, innovation management, and business strategy. At Microsoft, he leads the cross-industry digital ecosystems, innovation team. Previously, he worked at Gartner, as a Vice President of Technology Innovation research where his thought leadership was reflected in more than 150 published research notes and 5,000 client engagements.Mike is the host of the innovation podcast V-Next, has published articles in Forbes, and been interviewed in publications like Wired, CNN, FOX Business, Nekkei Systems Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.Connect with Mike on Social MediaMike's WebsiteV-Next PodcastTwitterLinkedInQuotes From This Episode“Just as a growth mindset is foundational to organizational success, the Golden Trifecta is foundational to the next world of digital platforms…there are these three technologies that have very synergistic qualities.”"A platform business model is essentially where I'm breaking down the two-sided relationship of a buyer/seller...essentially what things are shifting towards is an assetless model.""And now these digital ecosystems...we now have to think about a world where everything's connected.""Tech intensity is a philosophy that we've (Microsoft) implemented across the company, where you could be a finance person, you can be an HR person, you could be a salesperson...but what we strongly encourage is a level of technology literacy across all these roles."Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeThe Signals Are Talking: Why Todays Fringe Is Tomorrows Mainstream by Amy WebbAdditional ResourcesMIT Technology Review NewslettersFutureloop News♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textTony Middlebrooks, Ph.D. teaches at the intersection of leadership, innovation, creativity, and design as Associate Professor and Director of the Siegfried Leadership Initiative for Horn Entrepreneurship at the University of Delaware. Dr. Middlebrooks has created and taught more than 35 different courses for all collegiate levels, and numerous experiential abroad programs. He received the University of Delaware Excellence in Teaching and Excellence and is the lead author of the textbook Discovering Leadership: Designing Your Success.Learn More About Tony's WorkDiscovering Leadership: Designing Your Success by Middlebrooks, Allen, McNutt, and MorrisonQuotes From This Episode"I don't know better, I know different.""One of the things that I have been long fascinated with, as someone who studies creativity, is this notion of metaphorical thinking and how ideas from one world map onto another in ways that allow you to see those worlds in uniquely different ways...to see other perspectives and, and to see the spaces where innovation can really happen.""The Von Restorff effect basically says that anything that is done that is significantly different from the norm from the ordinary is going to be more highly retained, more highly noticed, and more likely to be engaged.""The design principle of balance...I love the notion of balance for leadership because there are so many things, and many of them paradoxical that you have to balance as a leader.""A lot of folks use design thinking as a process, but in reality, it’s a set of mindsets." "With this definition of entrepreneurship, you know, you’ve got a whole bunch of different skill sets, mindsets, and activities built into the notion of creating value." Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeBad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters by Barbara Kellerman (Leader, Followers, Contexts)Television Series - The CrownIf You Enjoyed This Episode, Check Out...Dr. Barbara Kellerman - Leader, Followers, & ContextsDr. Kathy Allen - Leading From the Roots♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textDr. Stefanie K. Johnson is an associate professor of Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics. She is a fellow in the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychologists (SIOP) and the American Psychological Society (APS). She has published more than 60 journal articles and book chapters and she has presented her work at over 170 meetings around the world including the White House. Media outlets featuring Stefanie’s work include The Economist, Newsweek, Time, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, HuffPost, Washington Post, Quartz, Discover, CNN, ABC, NBC, CNBC. She has appeared on Fox, ABC, NBC, CNN, and CNN International.Learn More About Dr. Johnson's WorkDr. Stefanie K. Johnson - Leeds School of Business - University of Colorado, BoulderPersonal Website Book - InclusifyInclusify Leadership Matrix - Self-AssessmentQuotes From This Episode"The data used to derive most leadership theories and recommendations was collected by male researchers from male leaders, and it was analyzed and interpreted by mostly male scientists.""And even in terms of effectiveness, men and women are pretty similar. At least the most recent meta-analysis on the topic says, there's not a difference in effectiveness. And if there is a small difference in recent years, it actually favors women - that women are somewhat more effective than men.""Women's motivation for leadership doesn't tend to be one that's about having power over other people."Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeBook: What's Wrong With Leadership? by Ron Riggio (Ed.)Optimal Distinctiveness Theory - Brewer, M. B. (2003). "Optimal Distinctiveness, Social Identity, and the Self". In M. Leary and J. Tangney (Eds.), Handbook of Self and Identity. (pp 480–491).TV Show: The Morning ShowBook: Catch and Kill by Ronan FarrowTV Show: Athlete A (Documentary on USA Gymnastics)♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Dr. David Day, a Psychology Professor, discusses the importance of leader development, identity, and investing in personal growth. He explores the dynamic relationship between leaders and followers, contextual approaches to leadership, and shares leadership lessons from 'The Black Jacobins' book. The podcast emphasizes the need for individuals to view themselves as leaders and the continual dedication to growth.