The 90th Percentile: An Unconventional Leadership Podcast

Details Is there someone on your team who seems unusually productive? Someone who gets a huge amount done — without working longer hours? How do they do it? That’s what their coworkers usually wonder. We wanted to know too. In this episode, we share the results from a study with 7,000 showing which skills define these super … Continued The post Episode 35: 7 Traits of Super-Productive People first appeared on ZENGER FOLKMAN.

Details You can’t make every worker happy, surely, and should a business even try? Evidence from our recent research suggests, actually, that the answer is yes. Or rather, our evidence shows that managers are giving up far too soon on their disgruntled employees, making them less productive than they could be, exposing their companies to … Continued The post Episode 34: Are You Creating Disgruntled Employees? first appeared on ZENGER FOLKMAN.

Chip Conley, the author of Emotional Equations and former Head of Global Hospitality & Strategy at Airbnb, joins Dr. Jack Zenger and Dr. Joe Folkman in this edition of the Zenger Folkman podcast series to discuss the role of an elder in offering advice and direction to a younger generation. He draws from personal experiences … Continued The post Bonus Episode: Our Roles in Modern Business, with Chip Conley first appeared on ZENGER FOLKMAN.

Expecting to change the culture of any size organization is quite realistic. It starts with strong and sustained leadership rippling out from the senior leadership team. After all taking responsibility is the highest mark of great leaders. In this episode, we are diving into the struggles of developing a company culture with the founder of The … Continued The post Episode 33: 5 Steps to Shift Your Company Culture first appeared on ZENGER FOLKMAN.

Details Do you ever feel pressure and urgency to generate fresh, new ideas or make time to be innovative? Our economy is driven by innovation– new products, new ways to deliver, and new methods to serve. All of these require creativity.  A 2015 study on Global Innovation reported that U.S. companies spend $145 billion dollars on … Continued The post Episode 32: Innovation– The Forgotten Leadership Competency first appeared on ZENGER FOLKMAN.

Details: Coaching conversations are worth planning. They take up valuable time for both parties, so that time should be put to its most efficient use. A good coaching conversation can improve relationships, performance, motivation, and results. In this episode, we discuss a proven framework for coaching conversations to guide leaders effectively through the process. Guest … Continued The post Episode 30: FUEL– A Proven Framework For Coaching first appeared on ZENGER FOLKMAN.

Details Chances are you’ve known or read about great leaders and learned that often they have weaknesses.  From that, you have probably concluded that you don’t have to be perfect to be a great leader. But there are some weaknesses that cannot be overlooked. In this episode, we are going to talk about serious weaknesses- some would … Continued The post Episode 31: 6 Fatal Flaws That Kill a Leader’s Effectiveness first appeared on ZENGER FOLKMAN.

Ryan Smith, Founder and Executive Chairman of Qualtrics, joins Dr. Jack Zenger and Dr. Joe Folkman in this past edition (2016) of the Zenger Folkman podcast series to discuss the story of Qualtrics, a company started in his dad’s basement with a valuation of $2.5 billion 15 years later. Ryan tells the story of Qualtrics, … Continued The post Bonus Episode- Ryan Smith, Founder/Executive Chairman of Qualtrics first appeared on ZENGER FOLKMAN.

Details There are many things competing for your attention every minute of the day. Attention, not money, is the most valuable commodity there is.  Solving a complex problem is an exciting experience, but what happens when people don’t accept your solution? It’s true that one big hurdle with problem-solving is knowing how to sell the … Continued The post Episode 29: The Best Problem Solvers Are Solution Sellers first appeared on ZENGER FOLKMAN.

Details: There are many things competing for your attention every minute of the day. Human attention is the ultimate scarce resource. One of the characteristics that organizations value most in a leader is the ability to consistently produce good results—in short, leaders are valued in large part for how productive they are. What gets in … Continued The post Episode 28: Controlling The Disease of Distractions first appeared on ZENGER FOLKMAN.