Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan

Marshall Goldsmith, the world's #1 Executive and CEO Coach, shares 10 harmful leadership behaviors that sabotage success. Learn about behaviors like needing to win at all costs and not giving recognition that can damage relationships and hold teams back. Discover practical tips on breaking these bad habits for a more positive work environment.

Dr. Peter Cappelli discusses the balance between psychological safety and accountability in the workplace, touching on how positive psychology can hinder performance, tools to measure psychological safety, historical insights like McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y, and improving team performance while maintaining engagement and accountability.

Discover how to shift from being an unnoticed background player to a main character in the workplace by showing up, leading with vulnerability, building relationships, and speaking up. Learn strategies to make a real difference in your career.

Mike Federle, CEO of Forbes, discusses transforming the company into a digital powerhouse with 140 million users. Topics include tech evolution, revamping newsroom model, balancing politics with media objectivity, leadership changes, capitalism's value to younger generations, and Word of the Year for 2024.

Discover the harmful leadership stereotypes that could be undermining your career, such as the idea that leaders should never apologize or show emotions. Learn how vulnerability and admitting mistakes can actually strengthen your leadership and improve team trust and performance.

Maurice Ashley, the first African-American Chess Grandmaster, shares insights on strategizing like a Grandmaster, embracing

Learn how to effectively talk about mistakes at work to advance in your career. Explore the importance of communication, vulnerability, and accountability in handling setbacks. Discover how admitting mistakes with vulnerability can showcase valuable leadership attributes and lead to professional growth.

The pandemic has accelerated the shift from lifelong employment to demands for purpose, safety, and inclusion, creating new challenges for organizations. In this episode, Rachel Cooke, former HR Director at American Express and host of the Modern Mentor podcast, highlights significant workforce trends and evolving employee expectations. She tells personal stories, like her friend who commutes an hour each way only to sit in a phone booth for Zoom calls, illustrating the absurdities of some hybrid work policies. Rachel critiques California’s Assembly Bill 2751, arguing it tackles the wrong issues of burnout and emphasizes the need for genuine DEI practices beyond quotas. She also explores why many leadership development programs fail, pointing to organizational dysfunction and lack of practical application, and shares strategies for creating more effective training. This episode is packed with insights for leaders looking to boost team performance and adapt to modern workforce demands. ________________ Start your day with the world’s top leaders by joining thousands of others at Great Leadership on Substack. Just enter your email: ⁠⁠https://greatleadership.substack.com/

Did you know a little fear in leadership can be beneficial? In today’s Leadership Spark, we’ll explore the controversial yet intriguing role of fear in effective leadership. We’ll also talk about the distinctions between healthy and unhealthy fear, how it ensures accountability and helps maintain high performance standards, and practical examples from daily life and notable leaders like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, whose success may partly involve being slightly feared. This discussion will help you understand how a balanced approach to fear can enhance authority, motivate high-quality work, and drive continuous self-improvement.   ________________ Start your day with the world’s top leaders by joining thousands of others at Great Leadership on Substack. Just enter your email: ⁠⁠https://greatleadership.substack.com/

Randy Parker is the CEO of Hyundai Motor America and in today’s episode we go over what it takes to get into a senior leadership role and dispel some of the myths of leadership without sugarcoating! We'll talk about how to get your people to follow you as a leader, the importance of coaching and mentoring as well as hard work and determination, and some key performance indicators (KPIs) that can help leaders evaluate their effectiveness. We will also explore how leaders should be thinking about the future to stay ahead in a rapidly changing world.   ________________ Start your day with the world’s top leaders by joining thousands of others at Great Leadership on Substack. Just enter your email: ⁠⁠https://greatleadership.substack.com/