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Episode 19: Wendy Wallbridge On Spiraling Upward And Women’s Cocreative Powers [The Amiel Show]

by amiel · Jun 1, 2015

Great interview with Wendy Wallbridge, founder of TEDx SandHillRdWomen and author of the new book Spiraling Upward: The 5 Co-Creative Powers for Women on the Rise. We discuss:

9:00 A life-threatening disease that changed Wendy’s life in her 20s
13:36 What is feminine leadership?
24:45 Bringing women into the workforce after motherhood
32:26 When two women executives vie for a CEO’s attention
40:00 Asking your body, “Is it a Yes or a No?”
42:30 The cocreative power of speech
45:45 How to make a counteroffer to your boss
55:00 What Wendy is deliberately practicing to grow as a person

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Episode 18: Brian Underhill on executive coaching, politics, and presence [The Amiel Show]

by amiel · May 19, 2015

Brian Underhill founded the world’s most experienced leadership coaching company, CoachSource. And he’s personally seen it all. So, I thought, what better person to ask about the “undiscussable issues” in leadership coaching?

In Episode 18 of the podcast, we discuss:

10:30 Why many people still associate executive coaching with being messed up
16:45 When leaders’ direct managers want them to be more like them
19:45 The crucial role that HR leaders play in coaching
23:00 How companies discuss the ROI of coaching
29:00 Executive presence, grooming, and media skill
38:00 Political challenges around executive coaching
41:00 When coaches are asked to be surrogates for managers like George Clooney’s character in the film Up in The Air
43:00 The challenge of integrating leaders from other cultures
48:00 Brian’s personal use of peer coaching to stick to his goals

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Episode 17: Teri Woodland on China, leadership, and cross-cultural complexity [The Amiel Show]

by amiel · May 4, 2015

A fascinating interview with Teri Woodland about developing leaders in China over the past three decades. Teri helped build McKinsey’s China practice, led the first ever business climate survey in China, served on the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, and sees the complexity there as an incredible opportunity for leadership growth.

I learned so much from my hour with Teri and know that you will, too.

Episode Highlights

8:15 “The State Department thinks you should come home” (after Tiananmen Square)

11:45 McKinsey’s China practice—the early years

18:00 The challenge of recruiting Chinese nationals from U.S. back to China

21:15 Doing the first business climate survey in China

30:15 A place where Chinese leaders could speak up

36:45 A time Teri missed cultural signals

42:15 How a complex environment helps people develop

50:15 “Moving jobs to China”

53:15 Women in leadership in China

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Episode 14: Jennifer Garvey-Berger on Simple Habits for Complex Times [The Amiel Show]

by amiel · Mar 16, 2015

What do you get when one of the world’s experts in adult development, an aspiring novelist, writes a practical guide for organizations on leading through complexity?

Simple Habits for Complex Times, the new book by Jennifer Garvey-Berger (co-authored with Keith Johnston). What I love about it: not only does it entice the reader to see organizational life through a powerful new lens, it’s a great read!

The book is built around two stories, both with leaders in over their heads in complexity yet willing to stretch their minds and habits to rise to the challenge.

After the great response (nearly 2,000 downloads) to my earlier interview with Jennifer, I just had to interview her about the new book. Fortunately, she was game.

In Episode 14 of The Amiel Show, Jennifer and I discuss (times are approximate):

5:00 How complex systems differ from simple and complicated systems
10:00 Our hunger for cause-and-effect
12:40 The “rich picture of now” brainstorm—and the importance of not being aspirational
17:00 The purpose of safe-to-fail experiments
23:00 Why pilot experiments piss people off
27:30 How job surveys don’t just measure a system. They shape it
33:00 How people create phantom rules that everybody hates
38:00 How complexity principles work at every stage of adult development
40:00 Looking for the attractors that contribute to compliance-based behaviors
44:30 What we miss by assuming we are emotion-less Vulcans rather than human beings
48:30 “We hire the smartest people” and other well-meaning habits that can block learning
53:00 Creating more complex ways to think about performance at work

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David Allen on the Updated (2015) Version of Getting Things Done (Episode 13)

by amiel · Mar 10, 2015

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Being one of the first to interview the world’s top productivity guru about his new book

It used to be that you were either productive or relaxed–but not both, at least at the same time. Sure, the world’s wisdom traditions have taught for centuries how to move forward in life with quiet minds. But modern organizations were slow to the game.

At least until David Allen entered the scene.

Allen’s 2002 book Getting Things Done not only proclaimed “stress-free productivity” to be possible. It showed people how to do it. The positive results of following the system brought many grown men (and women) to tears. And it led TIME magazine to declare the book “the defining self-help business book of its time.”

On March 17, a week from today, an updated version of the book comes out. (I pre-ordered my copy on Amazon). In Episode 13 of The Amiel Show, David Allen and I discuss what’s new in this version, what’s timeless, and why power naps and someday/maybe lists make life better. We explore (times are approximate):

Episode 10: Jeannie Coyle on Lou Gerstner, AmEx, and Developing Leaders through Experience [The Amiel Show]

by amiel · Feb 17, 2015

What happens when CEOs of large organizations make leadership development a central part of their business strategy? What becomes possible when they personally spearhead this pivotal work rather than delegating it to HR or ignoring it entirely?

In episode 10 of The Amiel Show, talent strategist Jeannie Coyle and I talk about her experience at American Express in the early 1980s, helping Lou Gerstner (who later “saved IBM”) build a powerful pipeline for developing leaders internally. We discuss:

The unusual approach that Americal Express took of developing leaders through focused experiences rather than training and complex tools
Jeannie’s big risk that paid off: giving Gerstner a one-page summary of high potential leaders instead of the customary big binders
How Gerstner created a new culture involving honest, transparent conversations that had never happened before
How Gerstner took personal responsibility for developing leaders at the company
What it was like to be a woman in leadership at American Express in the early 1980s

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Episode 8: Kerrie Halmi on Women’s Leadership And Strategic Networking [The Amiel Show]

by amiel · Jan 19, 2015

There’s something special about women’s leadership–and it’s not what you think.

If you’re a woman, women’s leadership can feel like my world–or, perhaps, our world. It’s the planet you inhabit 24/7. If you’re a man, women’s leadership can feel like their world. It’s a distant planet you occasionally visit.

So, which is it?

Both. Women’s leadership is all of our world. When women lead skillfully, our organizations prosper, and all of us within them experience greater engagement. When women lead poorly–or aren’t matched well to opportunities–we all lose.

In Episode 8 of The Amiel Show, Kerrie Halmi and I discuss:

8:15 Why it’s useful for women to build their leadership skills together with other women
13:30 How to advocate for yourself and get sponsors to do the same
23:00 How everyone benefits from women in positions of leadership
26:00 Men supporting women’s success in corporate America
30:30 Why and how to strategically network
42:00 The power of “superconnectors”
49:30 What Kerrie is deliberately practicing in her life

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