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Things Leaders Do is a leadership podcast for managers who want practical strategies that actually work, not leadership theory that sounds good in a boardroom. No fluff. No vague concepts. Just tactical frameworks you can implement Monday morning. Whether you're a new manager figuring out how to lead your first team, a middle manager carrying the weight of the org, or a seasoned executive refining your approach, host Colby Morris breaks down people-first leadership with humor, insight, and straight talk. Weekly episodes cover how to communicate and build trust, run one-on-ones that actually work, handle performance reviews that don't suck, balance accountability with empathy, manage conflict and tough conversations, lead through pressure and setbacks, plan for succession, develop your people, and build team cultures where people want to stay instead of just show up. A lot of his content is for the leaders stuck in the middle. <p
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Signup to Generate a PitchThings Leaders Do is a leadership podcast for managers who want practical strategies that actually work, not leadership theory that sounds good in a boardroom. No fluff. No vague concepts. Just tactical frameworks you can implement Monday morning.
Recent episodes include "Hard Work Won't Save Your Team After an Acquisition (How to Manage Up to New Leadership)" (28 October 2026, 25 minutes), "Change Fatigue: How Gen X Leaders Can Lead a Team That’s Tired of Change" (21 October 2026, 26 minutes), and "How to Give Your Boss Bad News (Without Making It a Surprise)" (14 October 2026, 24 minutes).
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 28 minutes across 148 episodes.
Booking probability for Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives's contact route on record: verified email.
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Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives is a business podcast with 148 episodes published.
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Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
After an acquisition, new leadership judges your team by the numbers that move, not by how hard everyone looks like they're working. That's a tough shift if you built your reputation on hustle. Colby Morris tells the...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
Change fatigue means your team isn't resisting change, they're tired of it, and how leaders hand change down decides whether it gets worse. It's Monday morning, and a manager named Dana gets an email from her VP with...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
The best way to give your boss bad news is early, before you have the fix, because bosses can handle bad news but not surprises. In 2006, Ford's top leaders put up green status charts every single week while the company...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
When a call isn't working, figure out whether it was a bad decision, bad luck, or bad timing before you fix it. Each one needs a completely different fix, and fixing the wrong one makes things worse. Three hours into a...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
In the first 30 days after an acquisition, your job is closing the gap between the questions people are asking and the answers anyone is giving them. Colby Morris calls it the Answer Gap. The deal closes in an...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
Gen X keeps getting passed over because we built careers as the fixer, and boards promote vision, not maintenance. Colby Morris calls it the Tactician Trap, and there are four ways out of it. The average American CEO is...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
When you're forced to deliver a performance rating you don't believe in, don't defend it and don't hide behind the system. Split the number from the truth: hand off the company's rating cleanly, tell the person the real...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
When you're promoted over your former peers, the job is to redraw three things on purpose: the relationship, the standard, and your own support system. Colby Morris calls it The Redraw, and it's the difference between a...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
Why does my boss ignore my ideas? Usually he isn't ignoring them, he just never heard them the way you meant them. In one workplace study, 81% of leaders said their people have an easy way to give feedback, while only...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
Why do well-structured one-on-ones still feel empty? Usually because the leader is supplying both the structure and everything that goes inside it. This one is for any leader who runs consistent, organized one-on-ones...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
Why does a good team end up with broken processes and a quietly toxic culture? Usually because the leader stopped listening long before anything visibly broke. In this episode, Colby Morris introduces The Feedback...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
Why do leaders keep putting off the hardest decisions? Because "I'm thinking about it" is almost always a cover story for something else. Most of what leaders call deliberation is actually avoidance, and the fear...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
<p>How do you actually build psychological safety on your team if you're a Gen X leader? Not by being softer. By being deliberate in the five seconds that matter. The traits that made you a strong leader (resilience...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
<p>How do you know if your top performers are about to quit? You watch for the five signals — and you fix the management pattern that's pushing them out. Gallup's Q4 2025 data found 51% of U.S. workers are either...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
<p>How does a Gen X leader manage up to a younger boss? Not by fighting the dynamic — by offering your experience as a gift instead of asserting it as a flag. CareerBuilder found that 53% of workers age 45 and up are...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
<p>Research from Notre Dame says more than 80% of workers are holding back at least one tough conversation at work. So when leaders DO finally have those conversations, they're walking in with the wrong goal — trying to...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
<p>You don't have time for the people you're leading because you're spending hours on tasks that AI could handle in minutes. Leaders using AI save 40-60 minutes daily, yet only 26% of employees use AI weekly despite 91%...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
<p>AI anxiety, particularly FOBO (Fear of Becoming Obsolete), affects 75% of employees concerned AI will make jobs obsolete. Nearly 55,000 U.S. job cuts were directly attributed to AI in 2025. The Five Irreplaceable...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
<p><b>Seventy-seven percent of CHROs lack confidence in their leadership bench strength. Meanwhile, 40% of middle managers are planning their exit.</b></p><p>Your leadership pipeline isn't empty because of a talent...
Things Leaders Do: Leadership for Managers and Executives
<p><b><br/></b>Leadership burnout isn't a personal failing—it's a predictable outcome of an unsustainable system. According to Colby Morris on The Things Leaders Do podcast, middle managers can survive unsustainable...
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