In The Lead

You've attended one at some point. It's the meeting. It's the meeting that happens after the meeting. Sometimes, that second meeting is just a casual and friendly debrief. Othertimes, it's where the real stuff gets...

There's a common fact of leadership that is rarely discussed. You didn't pick this team. You inherited them. Sometimes, if you stay long enough, you will lead a team of people that you yourself hired. But that's not...

It's just a light bulb. How could it possible shape culture? In this episode, we are looking at all the stuff we've walked past. And...better put...how walking past things shapes culture. Every step teaches.

It's lonely at the top. Have you ever heard that phrase about leadership? There's a lot of truth in it but it's important to distinguish what kind of "lonely" we're actually talking about here. In this episode, we're...

The pressure is on. You are the clear leader. Everyone is looking to you. What do you do?

Most leaders aren't stealing from people. But many are. Not money — something harder to replace. This episode names three things leaders take without knowing it: agency, voice, and life. And it asks a harder question...

You can manage your time perfectly and still arrive at Friday completely emptied. Time management doesn't fix depletion. That's a different problem — and that's what this episode is about. In five minutes, Nathan Metz...

July is vacation month. And if you're like most leaders, you're already negotiating with yourself about how available you need to stay. This episode is for you. Time is the one resource every person has in exactly equal...

Great listeners aren't born — they're built. In this episode, Nathan steps back and hands the floor to one of the most-watched communication talks of the last decade. Celeste Headlee spent decades as a public radio host...

Congrats coach! You've put in the time. You've invested. And then they get up from their chair, leave your office and...nothing changes. Why? How? The most common coaching mistake is the loss of the last two minutes...

Most leaders think coaching is something they schedule. A one-on-one. A development conversation. A blocked-off hour on the calendar. In this episode, we make the case that coaching is actually a language — and it...

Frequently, we promote people into leadership based on a criteria that doesn't translate and often works to undercut their own success. To begin addressing the issue, we're starting with one many angles: the pressure to...

The average employee spends two hours and twenty-six minutes every workday in what researcher Cy Wakeman calls drama — not conflict, not hard conversations, but the mental energy spent rehearsing grievances, replaying...

What does it mean to be hard to offend? Not hard-hearted. Not checked out. But the kind of leader who can absorb a difficult moment — a sharp word, an unfair situation, a bad day — and still lead well on the other side...

The previous episode showed how even good leaders can get trapped in cycles that drain their teams. Today we flip it. Drawing on research from MIT's Nelson Repenning and Harvard's Amy Edmondson, we explore what happens...