The Balancing Act with Andrew Temte, PhD, CFA

In business, balancing acts are everywhere. The Balancing Act Podcast explores the balancing acts we play each day in our professional lives by amplifying the voices and real life stories of accomplished business leaders we can all learn from.In each episode:* Listen to the origin stories from today’s leaders,* Discover their key moments of career acceleration,* Explore a hot business topic in an authentic, approachable conversation between Andy and his guests, and* Learn about the skills that lead to workplace success.Tune in today to elevate your journey of continuous improvement and lifelong learning.

The Balancing Act with Andrew Temte, PhD, CFA is a business podcast hosted by Andrew Temte, with 265 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Andrew Temte hosts The Balancing Act with Andrew Temte, PhD, CFA, a business show with 265 episodes published.

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  Episode #265

  Executive Search in the Age of AI | Rodney Morris

  Oct 1, 202628 min

  What does a pork chop sent back to the kitchen three times have to do with hiring your next CEO? In this episode of the Balancing Act podcast, Andy speaks with Rodney Morris, Executive Vice President at The Elliot Group and a former president of the Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers, who has spent his whole career in the people business — twenty-five years on the human capital side of hospitality and twelve leading retained executive search. Rodney sees what companies say they want in a leader and what they actually put on the table, and he names the gap: transformation expectations without the compensation or the authority to match. He and Andy dig into how the best companies teach people to think with AI rather than operate it, what to do with the five hours a week AI gives back, and the one word that separates leaders who take care of their frontline from the ones who don’t. Tune in to episode 265 to hear the pork chop rule, what Rodney would tell a chief people officer asked to bring in AI and hold headcount flat, and why the hardest audience for diversity of thought isn’t the one you’d expect. AndrewTemte.com

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  Episode #264

  Mind-Body Leadership in the Age of AI | Marcel Daane

  Sep 24, 202646 min

  What if burnout isn’t something that happens to you — and what if the leadership skill you’re missing lives in your body, not your head? In this episode of the Balancing Act podcast, Andy speaks with Marcel Daane, author of Headstrong Performance, Five Energies of Horrible Bosses and How Not To Become One, and the forthcoming Leadership Tai-Chi: The Art of Leading with Clarity, Wisdom, and Humanness in the Age of AI. Marcel teaches tai chi to senior leaders -- the more relaxed the body, the sharper the mind. He and Andy dig into what a martial art teaches a leader that a leadership book can’t, why AI behaves like an intern that feeds your biases, and the question Marcel asks every CEO who complains about being surrounded by incompetent people. Tune in to episode 264 to hear the moment in a Gold’s Gym that sent Marcel back to school, why busyness doesn’t happen to you, and what he would say to every version of himself that got fired. AndrewTemte.com

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  Episode #263

  The Hidden Patterns of Leadership Under Pressure | Ian Stewart

  Sep 17, 202637 min

  Why do intelligent, capable, well-intentioned leaders act at their worst under pressure — and what if the answer was a pattern you could learn to see coming? In this episode of the Balancing Act podcast, Andy speaks with Ian Stewart, former Head of Applied Behavioural Science at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and author of The Hidden Patterns of Leadership: The Mental Models That Shape How We Lead, Team, and Follow. Ian has watched the same drama play out in different costumes — military academies, government, boardrooms, a sovereign wealth fund — and it comes down to schemas: the hidden assumptions that decide what a leader reaches for when the pressure is on. Then Andy puts himself on the table. He took Ian’s assessment, came out an Architect-Commander, and gets a live reading of what that pairing does brilliantly and where it gets a leader into trouble. Tune in to episode 263 to hear why pressure reveals patterns rather than creating them, what an Architect-Commander’s team quietly learns to do instead of pushing back, and why the loyalist, the dissenter, the skeptic, and the bystander are each telling you something. AndrewTemte.com

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  Episode #262

  Change Fatigue Is a Signal, Not a Flaw | Cassandra Worthy

  Sep 10, 202630 min

  What if change fatigue isn’t a weakness to push through, but a signal worth listening to? In this episode of the Balancing Act podcast, Andy speaks with Cassandra Worthy, founder and CEO of Change Enthusiasm Global and author of Change Enthusiasm: How to Harness the Power of Emotion for Leadership and Success. A chemical engineer who spent nearly fifteen years at Procter & Gamble and led organizations through two multi-billion-dollar acquisitions, Cassandra makes the case that traditional change management was built for a world that no longer exists — one where change had a beginning, a middle, and an end — and that the emotions leaders are told to check at the door are the most useful data they have. Tune in to episode 262 to hear the mentor’s line that redirected her entire career, the three-step framework she built out of fear, frustration, anger, anxiety, and grief, and her advice to a leader whose integration plan is solid, whose town halls are done, and whose best people are checking out anyway. AndrewTemte.com

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  Episode #261

  When Intelligence Is No Longer Scarce | Brian Solis

  Sep 3, 202638 min

  What kind of company do you need to become when intelligence itself is no longer scarce? In this episode of the Balancing Act podcast, Andy speaks with Brian Solis, head of global innovation at ServiceNow and co-author of Infinite: How Visionary Leaders Transform Today’s Businesses into AI-Forward Companies. A digital anthropologist and nine-time bestselling author, Brian has spent three decades in Silicon Valley mapping each major wave of technological change — and his warning here is that AI is quietly repeating the central failure of digital transformation. Companies digitized without ever transforming. Now they are automating without reimagining, and the gap between those two choices is going to decide which of them still matters in ten years. Tune in to episode 261 to hear why the org chart is giving way to what Brian calls a work chart, what an AI-native company already looks like in Silicon Valley today, the name he gives to what happens to your thinking when you hand it to a machine, and his answer for the capable, experienced leader who is quietly afraid of becoming obsolete. AndrewTemte.com

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