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The Leader Factor

LeaderFactor

[Previously Culture by Design] The leader is the #1 factor in determining organizational success. If you want to become an effective leader, you have three objectives: First, learn to lead yourself. Then, learn how to unlock the full potential of your team. Finally, build a business where culture is your competitive advantage and innovation is the status quo.

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159 episodes

  1. How to Build Psychological Safety When Your Managers Are Exhausted 26:40
  2. How to Lead a Psychologically Safe Team: 4 Questions to Start With 24:09
  3. 12 Ways Leaders Break Psychological Safety Without Realizing 23:27
  4. Fear Isn't Accountability: How to Lead With Trust 31:15
  5. 5 Ways to Lead When You Don't Have the Answer 33:47
  6. Your Org's Critical Thinking Problem Is a Culture Problem 35:11
  7. Psychological Safety Is More Important Than Employee Engagement 36:17
  8. Psychological Safety Is Not A Shared Understanding 28:03
  9. How to Engineer a Speak-Up Culture 29:17
  10. The Business Case for Psychological Safety: What the Data Proves 1:00:42
  11. Decision Debt: 4 Moves to Make Faster Leadership Decisions 33:39
  12. Team Chemistry is a Myth 26:00
  13. Culture Rot: Who Owns It? Why It Can't Be Delegated 36:51
  14. The Transparent Organization: How AI Rewrites Performance Management 38:58
  15. AI Is Collapsing Three Jobs Into One: What Leaders Do Next 30:23
  16. Universal Vulnerability: Why AI Is Reviving Psychological Safety 22:05
  17. The Four Laws of Business Every CEO Misses 35:02
  18. Why Accountability Breaks Under Pressure 51:33
  19. Integrity Doesn’t Fail. People Do. 47:16
  20. Purpose as a Skill: Choosing Contribution Over Consumption 53:21
  21. How High-Performing L&D Teams Prove ROI 1:00:37
  22. The Human Edge: Can Emotional Intelligence Keep Up With AI? 53:27
  23. Leadership Triage: How to Prioritize When Everything Hurts 32:41
  24. Why Most Leadership Advice Is Junk (and What Actually Works) 34:04
  25. Data or Die Trying: The Budget Survival Guide For L&D Leaders 35:03
  26. Trust vs. Psychological Safety: What Leaders Get Wrong 27:25
  27. Coachability Isn't Optional: Why It Makes or Breaks Career 39:52
  28. The Coaching Blueprint: Conversations That Actually Change Behavior 37:23
  29. From Excuses to Ownership: How to Lead a More Accountable Team 58:11
  30. How Misalignment is Quietly Derailing Your Team’s Performance 53:25
  31. Management 101: Finally Done Right 1:02:11
  32. How Avoiding Mistakes Is Smarter Than Chasing Success 36:21
  33. How to Avoid Manipulative Leadership: 2 Failure Patterns Sabotaging Organizational Change 52:29
  34. The Hidden Danger of Stability: How Great Teams Build Resilience 56:08
  35. Constructive Dissent at Work: How to Turn Conflict Into Innovation 46:31
  36. What Leadership Is Not: 10 Myths You Need to Unlearn 37:32
  37. Navigating Leadership in the AI Era 41:02
  38. Emotional Regulation For Leaders: Staying Calm Under Pressure 44:48
  39. Mastering the Autonomy-Accountability Balance in Leadership 38:46
  40. 4 Coaching Derailers That Are Ruining Your Career 36:00
  41. How to Turn Managers into Leaders 37:58
  42. Fear vs. Innovation: How Toxic Cultures Kill Organizations 32:09
  43. How to Overcome a Legacy Culture 37:22
  44. Influencing Up: How to Effectively Change Organizational Culture 27:51
  45. What Non-HR Execs Need to Know About Psych Safety 48:29
  46. 6 Pitfalls of Large-Scale Psychological Safety Initiatives 35:31
  47. Overcoming Organizational Fear in 3 Practical Steps 46:24
  48. What You Need to Know About Project Aristotle 33:39
  49. 7 Things Psychological Safety Is Not 20:53
  50. What to Do With a Toxic Leader 34:53