The Frustrated CEO
Being a CEO is a balancing act. You carry the weight of big decisions, yet hold the power to shape your company’s future. How you lead matters just as much as what you do — and having a clear roadmap can make all the difference.
The Frustrated CEO Podcast is your guide on that journey. Each episode dives into proven strategies, processes, and systems to help you boost influence, take confident action, and achieve meaningful success — both professionally and personally.
We explore leadership challenges, share actionable insights, and offer practical tools to help you elevate your game while enhancing your well-being.
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The Frustrated CEO
104 | Love as a Business Strategy: Fixing Toxic Culture and Leadership
In this episode of The Frustrated CEO Podcast, hosts Patrick Lyons and Patsy Feeman sit down with Mohammad Anwar, CEO of Softway and co-founder of Culture+, for a candid conversation on leadership, company culture, and business transformation.
Mohammad shares his powerful origin story, how rapid success left him “power drunk,” and how Softway’s once-strong culture turned toxic—nearly driving the company into bankruptcy. He reveals the pivotal turning point that sparked Softway’s turnaround: hearing a coach describe the company’s comeback as being driven by love as a business strategy.
In this episode, you’ll learn what love in leadership really means (and why it’s neither romantic nor soft), why behaviors—not values—define culture, how to build change-ready organizations, and why sustainable culture change requires leaders to own mistakes, apologize, and seek forgiveness, not just roll out new policies or processes.
This conversation is a must-listen for CEOs, founders, and leaders navigating culture change, leadership burnout, and the real work of building resilient, human-centered organizations.
📌 Connect with Mohammad Anwar
🔗 Personal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manwarsoftway/
🔗 Love as a Strategy: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/love-as-a-strategy/?viewAsMember=true
🔗 Team Softway: https://www.linkedin.com/company/teamsoftway/
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