12 O'Clock High

Richard Lummis is on assignment this week so I am pleased to host Paul Mueller, who coaches on leadership. Mueller, a certified business coach, is the owner of Excel Business Coaching and Consulting, Inc, a Focal Point franchise. Paul’s passion is working with business owners to align their organizations around clear vision, mission, and value statements. These statements pave the way for them to...

Richard Lummis and Tom Fox begin a five-part series on leadership lessons from Theodore Roosevelt. We will look at lessons from Roosevelt’s early years in New York up to his cowboying days in Montana; the second phase of his public career, from NYC Police Commission to Assistant Secretary of the Navy, San Juan Hill and the Vice Presidency; his leadership from his Presidency; his life in the post-P...

Richard Lummis is on assignment this week as we are preparing a multi-part series on leadership lessons from the life and Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. Today, I am hosting Paul Simkins, a long-time leadership and training expert. Simkins believes that we should move away from leadership training to leadership development. He has some unique ideas on how organizations can develop leaders. Highl...

Richard Lummis and I are back with more business leadership lessons. In this episode of 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership, we take a look at leadership lessons from William Howard Taft, the 27th President, who had the misfortune to follow one of America’s greatest and most popular Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt. Taft was a mountain of a man, weighing over 300 lbs. He is also the on...

Richard Lummis and I are back with more business leadership lessons. In this episode of 12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership, we take a look at leadership lessons from the Marcus Aurelius who was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good Emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace and stability for the Roman Empir...

Richard Lummis and I are back with more business leadership lessons. In a nod to the current Coronavirus health crisis, we wanted to look for leadership lessons in prior epidemic emergencies. Today, we take a look at leadership lessons Colonel Walter Reed, as he led the team which discovered what caused yellow fever, how yellow fever was transmitted and developed steps to eradicate it. Highlights...

Richard Lummis and Tom Fox conclude our four-part series on leadership lessons from George Washington. We will look at lessons from Washington’s colonial and frontier period, focusing on the French and Indian War, leadership lessons from Washington’s generalship of the Continental Army, his leadership in both the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention and we will end with leadership le...

Richard Lummis and Tom Fox continue our four-part series on leadership lessons from George Washington. We will look at lessons from Washington’s colonial and frontier period, focusing on the French and Indian War, leadership lessons from Washington’s generalship of the Continental Army, his leadership in both the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention and we will end with leadership le...

Richard Lummis and Tom Fox begin a four-part series on leadership lessons from George Washington. We will look at lessons from Washington’s colonial and frontier period, focusing on the French and Indian War, leadership lessons from Washington’s generalship of the Continental Army, his leadership in both the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention and we will end with leadership lessons...

Richard Lummis and Tom Fox begin a four-part series on leadership lessons from George Washington. We will look at lessons from Washington’s colonial and frontier period, focusing on the French and Indian War, leadership lessons from Washington’s generalship of the Continental Army, his leadership in both the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention and we will end with leadership lessons...

Richard Lummis is on assignment this week so I am pleased to host Alyson Van Hooser, who was recently in Houston. We sat down for a live recording about her recent LinkedIn post, “3 Gen Z Perspectives Leaders Need to Know”. Highlights of this podcast include: Why are you in Houston? Why did you write the article? How is Gen Z leadership different from Boomer leadership? Why do leaders need to lear...

Richard Lummis is on assignment this week so I am pleased to host Jeffery Hayzlett, the Chairman of C-Suite Network (including C-Suite Radio) and Prime Time Television and Podcast Host. Among all these other activities, he is prolific author. Today, we visit about Jeffery’s most recent book The Hero Factor. Highlights of this podcast include: Why Hazylett wrote this book? What is Hero Leadership?...

Richard Lummis and I are back. Today, continue our annual review of Oscar winning Best Pictures and the leadership lessons drawn from them. Over the next four weeks we will consider the following movies: Casablanca, Rocky, The Greatest Show on Earth and Out of Africa. Today, we conclude our series with Out of Africa. Highlights of this podcast include: What are our favorites scenes from the movie?...

Richard Lummis and I are back. Today, continue our annual review of Oscar winning Best Pictures and the leadership lessons drawn from them. Over the next four weeks we will consider the following movies: Casablanca, Rocky, The Greatest Show on Earth and Out of Africa. Today, we continue our series with one of the very all-time boxing movies, Rocky.  Highlights of this podcast include: What are our...

Richard Lummis and I are back. Today, begin our annual review of Oscar winning Best Pictures and the leadership lessons drawn from them. Over the next four weeks we will consider the following movies: Casablanca, Rocky, The Greatest Show on Earth and Out of Africa. Today, we begin our series with one of the very all-time greats, Casablanca.  Highlights of this podcast include: What are our favorit...

This week I have a special five-part podcast series where I am joined by Amii Barnard-Bahn to review some of the top business leadership failures of 2019. Today, we conclude our series by considering some of the leadership failures of the Swedish telecom company Ericsson in connection with its stunning FCPA enforcement action of over $1bn in fines and penalties. Some of the issues we explore in th...

This week I have a special five-part podcast series where I am joined by Amii Barnard-Bahn to review some of the top business leadership failures of 2019. Today, we take a look at the continued leadership failures of Wells Fargo. Some of the issues we explore in this podcast include: The bank recently hired a new CEO, Charles W. Scharf, who is taking on one of the toughest jobs in the country. The...

This week I have a special five-part podcast series where I am joined by Amii Barnard-Bahn to review some of the top business leadership failures of 2019. Today, we take a look at leadership failures from Goldman Sachs and the 1MDB corruption scandal. Some of the issues we explore in this podcast include: The Goldman Sachs/1MDB imbroglio is one largest geopolitical scandal of the decade and may we...

This week I have a special five-part podcast series where I am joined by Amii Barnard-Bahn to review some of the top business leadership failures of 2019. Today, we take a look at leadership failures from the continuing saga of Boeing. Some of the issues we explore in this podcast include: This case is a tragic ethical failure, which caused significant loss of life. Boeing clearly has a broken cul...

This week I have a special five-part podcast series where I am joined by Amii Barnard-Bahn to review some of the top business leadership failures of 2019. Today, in our first episode, we take a look at leadership lessons from the rise and fall of Adam Neumann, the former CEO of WeWork. Some of the issues we explore in this podcast include:  How did a charismatic, eccentric and inexperienced Founde...

Richard Lummis and I are back. Today, we take a look at leadership lessons from a trifecta of failed leaders, including Adam Neumann, the founder and former CEO of WeWork, Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of Theranos and Travis Kalanick, founder and former CEO of Uber.  Highlights of this podcast include: What happens when charismatic leaders have disruptive visions? What happens when a br...

Richard Lummis and I are back and today for our initial podcast of 2020 and the second decade of the 21stCentury. Today, we take a look at leadership lessons from the rise and fall of Adam Neumann, the former CEO of WeWork.  Highlights of this podcast include: How did Neumann obtain the amplified shareholder rights and how did that contribute to his downfall? What was the role of Softbank in enabl...

Richard Lummis and I are back and today for our final podcast of 2019 and the second decade of the 21stCentury. Today, we provide a wrap up of 2019 podcasts, giving some of our favorites and new issues we learned about or perhaps reacquainted ourselves with from history. We then consider some of the topics we will explore in 2020.  Highlights of this podcast include: Leadership series based upon t...

I turn the tables on Richard Lummis this week as I interview him on the recent bestseller Super Pumped-the Battle for Uber by Mike Issac. Highlights of this podcast include: What were Kalanick’s leader failures? How did Trump’s first Muslim ban negatively impact Uber and start Kalanick’s downfall? What was the role of the Susan Fowler blog in the downfall of Kalanick What was the role of the Board...

Richard Lummis is on assignment this week so I take this week’s episode solo to discuss how you can begin to evaluate a leader’s conduct around not simply compliance and ethics but also how a leader can improve culture. Highlights of this podcast include: The DOJ wants to see more evidence of leadership. How can a leader use current events to lead culture? What messages can a CEO push out around c...