HeyJaredThe Standing Apart Podcast
Standing Apart is key not just in business, but in life. Join Nigel Ridpath as he explores why being different is so important for companies in a crowded field. And why so many get it wrong. WARNING: may contain bluntness which may apply to YOU!
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#32 - The Brands People Never Forget: Warren Kornblum on Emotional Branding (opens the original)
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Most businesses assume their biggest branding challenge is awareness. Warren Kornblum thinks that's almost the wrong problem to solve.After a career spanning global brands including Toys R Us and Serta Simmons Bedding, Warren has spent decades studying why some brands earn deep, lasting loyalty while others fade despite heavy marketing investment. His answer centres on a concept he calls Share of Heart: not just being thought of, not just being bought, but being genuinely liked — and the differe
#31 - Why Self-Esteem Beats Ego: Alan Weiss on Courage and Business Success (opens the original)
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Most people treat self-esteem as a by-product of events, rising after a win and faltering after a setback. Alan Weiss argues the opposite: self-esteem doesn't decline because of what happens to you - it declines out of neglect. Despite decades of positive psychology, Weiss makes the case that most of us have quietly surrendered the internal resource that determines whether we succeed consistently, and that recovering it requires something most leadership conversations quietly sidestep: courage.
#30 - Tough but Fair: Dr James Walsh on Conflict, Trust and Adaptive Leadership (opens the original)
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Leadership looks straightforward until it isn't. When conflict is sitting in the room, when your natural style is the wrong one for the moment, when you have to be both tough and fair at the same time — that's where most leadership development leaves you on your own. In this episode, Nigel Ridpath speaks with Dr James Walsh: US Air Force veteran, retired Department of Defense civilian, lecturer at Park University, and author of You're a Leader — Now What? Build Trust, Inspire Teams, Drive Result
#29 - Fair Share: Brad Johnson & David Smith on Gender Equity at Work (opens the original)
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Most conversations about gender fairness in the workplace start from the assumption that it's primarily a women's issue — or worse, a compliance one. Brad Johnson and David Smith start from somewhere different. Their argument, grounded in decades of research at the US Naval Academy and Johns Hopkins, is that the current structure of most organisations fails men and women in different but related ways, and that fixing it is a straightforward business decision. Brad is a clinical psychologist, for
#28 - Gross Jobs, Smart Business: Tim Whitt on Growth and Toxic Teams (opens the original)
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Pest control is not the first industry most people look to for business insights. That's rather the point. Tim Witt spent 30 years rising through corporate leadership in one of the most consistently recession-resistant, AI-resistant sectors in the economy, before starting his own company from scratch in rural Oklahoma — during the 2008 financial crisis, when most sensible people were heading in the other direction. That decision, and what it produced over the following 15 years, turns out to off
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