Forged with Dan Greer

You don’t have to know everything to help somebody else grow. In this episode of FORGED, Dan Greer talks about what it really takes to coach and develop people. You don’t have to be the most experienced person in the...

It’s easy to look at something you built and say, “Look what I accomplished.” But where did the vision, creativity, opportunity, and ability to build it come from? Standing in front of Delicate Arch, Dan Greer reflects...

You can't scale chaos. If the same problems keep showing up, people keep asking the same questions, and everything still depends on one person knowing how to get it done, you've got an operations problem. In this...

You can’t lead well when you’re running on empty. In this episode, Dan Greer talks about why leaders need to step away from the noise, get off the beaten path, and make time to recharge. Sometimes the best thing you can...

Sales gets a bad reputation because too many people treat it like a game. Push harder. Create urgency. Close the deal. But real sales isn't about manipulating somebody into buying something they don't need. It's about...

You can hire someone with all the right skills and still end up with the wrong person. Knowledge matters. Experience matters. But if the attitude, ownership, and willingness to lead aren't there, you're going to spend...

Growth is exciting—until it exposes everything you haven't built yet. When the business starts moving faster, weak systems break, bottlenecks get bigger, and leadership gaps become impossible to ignore. That's why...

“What if I train them and they leave?” Dan Greer has a better question: “What if I don’t train them and they stay?” In this episode of Forged, Dan challenges leaders to stop seeing training as an expense and start...

If it’s not on my calendar, it’s probably not happening. Why? Because apparently, I’m supposed to remember everything. The meeting. The phone call. The deadline. The idea I had in the shower. The thing my wife told me...

Let’s talk about company drama. You know what I mean. The gossip. The backstabbing. The butt-kissing. The office politics. The person who somehow knows everything happening in the building except how to do their actual...

Walk into someone's office and look around. Sometimes, you can see the chaos before they ever say a word. Stacks of paper. Clutter everywhere. Things that need attention sitting right in front of them. A workspace that...

Sometimes the pressure isn't coming from the job. It's coming from the picture you've created in your own head of everything that has to happen. You're staring at the finish line, thinking about everything that could go...

Leadership isn't about making sure everyone knows your name. It's about making sure the people around you know they matter. In this episode of FORGED with Dan Greer, Dan talks about one of the simplest—and...

What would change if you stopped doing your work just well enough to get by? “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart and all your soul.” That's more than good advice. It's a standard. In this episode of FORGED...

We all have a version of that sentence. “That might work for them, but it won’t work for me.” Sometimes it sounds practical. Sometimes it sounds like experience talking. But sometimes it’s just fear wearing a smarter...