The Leadership Shift
The Leadership Shift delivers practical insights on promotions, performance management, setting clear expectations, and driving organizational change. Real conversations explore growth mindset, accountability, managing up, and leading with impact.
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- Jul 19, 2026
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The Conversation You Keep Avoiding (opens the original)
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Most leaders treat relationships as the soft stuff, the part you get to after the real work is done. Annie Simpson makes the opposite case: the quality of your relationships is the quality of your results. In this conversation we get into why trust is what makes healthy conflict possible, how the conversations you avoid quietly stall a team, and why the hardest leadership work is inner work. Annie shares her trust bank-account exercise, the case for treating feedback as a gift, and a line worth
Why Leaders Fail in Crisis (and What to Do Instead) (opens the original)
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Lucy Ellis, founder of The Calyx, joins Dr. Joe Pennino to talk about why leaders fail when facing volatility, the trap of over-planning vs. learned helplessness, and what it actually looks like to build adaptive organizations. Drawing from her time at the CDC during COVID and years advising public sector leaders, Lucy shares why "culture is read-only," why technical solutions are seductive but insufficient, and how tinkering with your organization's operating system is the real work of leadersh
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