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Leaders & Futures
Welcome… to Leaders and Futures! This podcast is about leading as futures emerge, are yet to be realized, or plainly…need to be reimagined. Someone has said that “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Although it’s impossible to predict the future, one thing is certain: You must lead in it! It’s time to think differently about leading. Join us!
Episodes
118 episodes
Hire Character!
Chief and Dr Lugo discuss the importance of understanding a person's true identity and character, emphasizing the need for a thorough assessment beyond just personality when hiring. They also highlight the importance of intentional character de...
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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31:21
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Tough Conversations in Professional Settings
In this episode, Dr Lugo and Chief focus on the challenges and strategies for having tough conversations, particularly in professional settings. They discuss the importance of attitude, preparation, empathy, and active listening in effective co...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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32:57
Can Leaders and Followers Get Too Friendly?
Dr Lugo and Chief discuss the idea of hiring family members, with Chief expressing concerns about the potential difficulties of firing a family member. Dr Lugo agrees that familiarity, getting TOO friendly with ANY employees, can lead to large ...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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28:46
How Do We Hire?
Chief and Dr Lugo discuss the challenges of hiring employees, emphasizing the importance of experience, character, and the ability to learn quickly. They also touch on the need for tough decisions, such as firing underperforming employees, and ...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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30:56
Building Trust (Part 2)
Chief and Dr Lugo discuss the importance of confidence, foresight, and scenario planning in leadership, emphasizing the need for preparedness and continuous monitoring of the environment. They also highlight the significance of trust, love, and...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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31:20
Building and Maintaining Trust (Part 1)
Chief and Dr Lugo discuss the importance of trust in organizations, emphasizing the need for a leader to be trustworthy and highlighting examples of trust in everyday situations. They also explore the relationship between quality, trust, and co...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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31:47
Purpose OR Policy?
Chief and Dr Lugo banter a bit regarding the question of whether purpose is more important than policy, or the opposite? Or is there a third alternative? Does it depend on intent? But isn't that purpose? Or is purpose different than intent? How...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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30:27
Loyalty to Whom or What?
Although Dr Lugo and Chief agree that loyalty is important within any organization, they banter about loyalty to whom or what. Chief has to remind Lugo that the Universe does not understand either/or. It understands AND. So can loyalty be share...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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32:26
Leadership, Leading, and Leaders
Here's a previously aired throw-back episode.
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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20:39
The Decision Framework
Last week, Dr Lugo introduced the concept of the Execution Framework. Part of last week's discussion was about how to get things done. This week Dr Lugo and Chief discuss how to decide what to do, the Decision Framework. The discussion includes...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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29:42
The Way it Was Isn't....
Celebrating 53 years since joining the United States Air Force, Chief shares his thoughts on how things were and how they're not anymore. Dr Lugo joins int to discuss the Deception Box and the Education Framework. Some history and some fu...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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31:50
Disruptions Happen!
No matter how focused we are. No matter all the planning we've done, disruptions happen! Usually when we don't want them to happen or aren't prepared for them. What do we do then? With his newly-found knowledge of CTQ (Critical To Quality) Requ...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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27:56
Predicting the Future
Chief and Dr Lugo create some energy in this episode. Chief suggests a discussion on the saying, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” That gets things rolling. Is the future predictable? Do Chief and Lugo agree? Will Dr Lugo ac...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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30:50
What's Trending?
Dr Lugo and Chief continue their bantering about an array of topics that are trending on social media as the new year begins. A hot topic for the team is where people work best. Where's the best place for employees to do their work? Chief suppo...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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23:04
New Year Trends
Dr Lugo and Chief Vásquez wish their listeners a Happy New Year as they begin a new season of new topics. This episode includes the idea of "trends" or "what's trending." They discuss social, economic, and cultural trends, and their effects on ...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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23:04
Gratitude, Valuing, and Appreciating!
Dr Lugo and Chief conclude the season with their discussion on gratitude, valuing, and appreciating. As the holiday season approaches, those concepts are important to consider and practice, particularly when maintaining our personal resilience....
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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20:01
Veteran's Day Tribute
Dr Lugo and Chief share their thoughts on the importance and significance of Veteran's Day. It's not about grilling hamburgers and hot dogs. Having served in the military, they both have experiences and perspectives on that holiday, including t...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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22:26
The Power of Solitude!
Dr Lugo and Chief Vásquez discuss a most important practice that many leaders neglect, the practice of solitude, and its power. Dr Lugo express how leaders, and people in general, often lose their ability to hear their own voice and tend to rep...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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23:56
Thoughts on Thinking....
In this episode, Dr Lugo and Chief think, then share, their thoughts on the idea of thinking. They discuss Future's Thinking including Jim Dator's Four Futures and other thoughts on thoughts. Thinking is good, but as Dr Lugo says, it has to evo...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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18:01
Self Leadership
We often discuss how to be a leader, but seldom contemplate where does leading start. Dr Lugo and Chief share their thoughts on leading oneself, or Self Leadership. Dr Lugo suggests that there are two areas to consider to begin the process, Wha...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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21:39
LIVE! discussion with Mr Timmothy Dickens on the topic of Coaching - Part 2
Here's part 2 of our discussion on Coaching with our guest, Mr Timmothy Dickens, who is a professional executive coach, among other things. We talked about the history, the context, the skills of coaching and how to do it correctly, in the firs...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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32:50
LIVE! discussion with Mr Timmothy Dickens on the topic of Coaching - Part 1
As we do periodically, we recently did a LIVE! episode of Leaders and Futures with our guest, Mr Timmothy Dickens, who is a professional executive coach, among other things. We talked about the history, the context, the skills of coaching and h...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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28:59
First Impressions Last
Dr Lugo and Chief Vásquez banter a bit about the importance and effect that first impressions make, positive and negative, and how leaders are perceived by the first impressions they set. Dr Lugo suggests that they must be consistent, values-ba...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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22:29
Fundamentals of Leading
UCLA men's basketball coach, John Wooden, used to start every season by training his teams how to wear their socks properly. Talk about fundamentals! Well, his teams won...A LOT! So Dr Lugo and Chief Vásquez discuss some of the fundamentals of ...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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23:28