HeyJaredLeveraging Thought Leadership
Hear from the people whose ideas shape the business world. Learn what their public stories leave out. Our beat: the business of thought leadership and the people who takeideas to scale. Fortune 500 CEOs. New York Times bestselling authors. Thinkers50 honorees.
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Translating Academic Research Into Real Business Impact | Nathan Bennett | 738 (opens the original)
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What actually happens when academic research meets the boardroom? Peter Winick sits down with Nate Bennett — professor of management and faculty director of the Executive MBA program at Georgia State University 's J. Mack Robinson College of Business — for a candid look at the gap between what business scholars know and what business leaders actually use. Bennett has spent his career straddling three audiences: students preparing to lead, practicing managers looking for answers, and fellow acade
Leading Through Uncertainty: What Crisis Really Reveals | Tom Kolditz & Mariana Khomitska | 737 (opens the original)
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What separates a leader from someone who just holds a title? This episode goes looking for the answer with two people who've watched that question get answered under real pressure: retired Brigadier General Tom Kolditz , who spent 40 years building leaders at West Point , Yale , and Rice , and Mariana Khomitska , a Ukrainian leadership development expert who has spent the last several years watching leadership get tested in wartime. Their new book, Against the Storm: How True Leaders Prevail Whe
Rivers, Rocks, and Rubies: A New Career Model | Dan Pontefract | 736 (opens the original)
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Here's an uncomfortable question: if you replaced "Gen X" with a racial or ethnic label in a hiring conversation, would anyone tolerate it? Dan Pontefract — leadership and corporate culture strategist, six-time author, and former Chief Learning Officer at SAP and TELUS — thinks the answer says a lot about how casually organizations discriminate by age. In this conversation, Dan traces the arc that led to his sixth book, The Future of Work Is Grey — from a "reverse ageism" encounter as a 26-year-
How Career Pivots Really Happen | Mary Olson-Menzel | 735 (opens the original)
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What does it actually take to build a coaching methodology that thousands of people rely on? According to Mary Olson-Menzel , Founder and CEO of MVP Executive Development and author of the national bestseller What Lights You Up? Illuminate Your Path and Take the Next Big Step in Your Career , it wasn't a strategic plan. It was fourteen years of watching. This episode traces Mary's career from local TV news reporter through executive recruiting to founding her own coaching practice, one built on
The Difference Between Opinion and Real Thought Leadership | Lisa Bodell | 734 (opens the original)
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She was skeptical about writing a book for years. Not because she lacked ideas — because she'd watched too many people write books for their ego rather than for their reader. In this episode, Bill Sherman sits down with Lisa Bodell , CEO of futurethink and bestselling author of Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins , to talk about what actually happens between "I should write a book" and "I finally did." It's not the tidy origin story most authors tell. Lisa walks through the real arc: the excite
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