Success Secrets and Stories
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You are responsible for your development as a leader. Don't expect the boss to invest the training budget in your career. Consider this podcast as an investment of time in your career, with a bit of management humor added at the same time.
Success Secrets and Stories
Latest Episodes
How Leaders Spot Burnout And Restore Hope And Communication
Burnout doesn’t always look like falling apart. Sometimes it looks like a capable person still hitting deadlines while quietly losing sleep, losing humor, and losing the feeling that their day is theirs. Greg and I start with that familiar late...
What If Your Best Talent Are Already Within Your Organization?
A hiring freeze hits, overtime gets cut, deadlines don’t move, and suddenly every manager hears the same message: make do with what you have. We start with a real factory-floor moment where the pressure is obvious, the team is tired, and the wo...
Agreements Beat Expectations
A missed deadline can feel like disrespect, but it often starts with something far less dramatic: an expectation nobody ever agreed to. We open with a simple workplace story a budget report “due Monday” that someone thought was due Wednesday an...
NEW BOOK Announcement: The Fifth Gear of Leadership; A Leader's Transformation
We would like to announce Dr. Durst and I have created a new leadership novel, The Fifth Gear of Leadership: A Leader’s Transformation, built around the MBR program and written for people who learn best through story, pressure, and choic...
Human Centered Leadership With MBR Principles
Blame is easy, but it’s expensive. When teams live in “they did it to me,” deadlines slip, trust erodes, and coaching turns into policing. John Wandolowski and Greg Powell get real about human-centered leadership using Dr. Durst’s Management By...