Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan

Peyman Kargar, President and Chairman of INFINITI Motor Company. With more than 23 years of experience in the automotive industry, Peyman was born in Iran and has spent the majority of his career with Nissan, and has served in a wide variety of leadership roles. The past two decades, he has also been an engineer and a project manager, and holds an engineering degree from the London Business School...

If you want to be a great leader, you have to master the mindset of the chef. When it comes to cooking, you always have to balance ingredients. If you put too much of one thing, it becomes too sweet, too much of something else, it becomes too salty or too much of another ingredient, it becomes unhealthy or too sweet. As a leader in this new world of work that we're all a part of, there are only tw...

Marshall Goldsmith, an expert on leadership and employee engagement He is one of the most well known coaches and on the top 10 list of business thinkers in the world. Goldsmith is the author of 35 books, and has sold a record amount of 3 million copies worldwide. Besides being a keynote speaker and an author, he is also a professor of Management Practice at Dartmouth Tuck School of Business. Today...

One of the most important skills leaders should have is thinking like a futurist. Being a futurist doesn't mean you can predict the future. Futurists help make sure their company isn't surprised by what the future might bring. Especially now that the world is changing at a rapid pace, being able to think like a futurist has never been more important. Here are some questions that could help you thi...

Steve is one of the world's most known entrepreneurs and business leaders and is responsible for helping make communication via the internet possible. AOL rose to being one of the largest and most successful internet companies reaching over 4.5 million subscribers by 1995. In 2000 AOL merged with Time Warner in what was described as "the biggest train wreck in the history of corporate America." In...

What will the future workplace look like? After two years of the pandemic, most employees are demanding flexibility. A lot of the top organizations around the world are giving their employees multiple workspaces so they can perform different types of activities in different types of environments. Because the reality is, there is still a place for in-person work. Even though employees can be produc...

Lisa Osborne Ross, the US CEO of Edelman, the world's largest PR firm, and leads the largest region with 13 offices and more than 2,000 employees, In addition to this, Lisa is also a counselor to senior executives, corporate and public affairs and DE&I initiatives. Lisa has also been featured on Forbes 50 over 50. Prior to being the CEO of Edelman, she was the director of APCO Worldwide's Flagship...

A lot of organizations have a factory mentality that is process-centric and does the same thing all the time. You have to think of yourself as a laboratory. You test, experiment, and innovate. You will make mistakes along the way, and that's ok. That is what the laboratory mentality is all about. It starts with the concept of challenging why things are done the way they are. Next, you create a tea...

Ronni Zehavi, the CEO and Co-founder of HiBob, an HR platform that simplifies people management and modernizes the work experience. Before being the CEO of HiBob, he was an entrepreneur in Residence at the Silicon Valley-based Bessemer Venture Partners . Growing up in Israel, Ronni joined the army at the age of 18, where he became an intelligence officer. After graduating, he got his BA in History...

One of the most crucial mindsets you need as a leader is the mindset of the explorer. One of my favorite stories that perfectly sums it up is of Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton. He was the captain of a ship with 12 men that sailed to explore the Arctic region. Disasters struck one after the other: their ship sank, they had to live on a giant ice floe, and they went over a year without stepping on soli...

Dan Rooney, a PGA Golf professional, F-16 fighter pilot, founder of Folders of Honor, and best selling author of flying to the wind, how to harness faith and fearlessness on your ascent to greatness .  In today's episode Dan shares his incredible story of being a fighter pilot, what purpose means to him, his perspective on prioritizing and making important decisions, the difference between being t...

Leaders have to be masters of communication. There is this great episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry David talks about who you should put in the middle of a dining table during a conversation. Now imagine a table with twenty people. This type of person should be able to keep the conversation going no matter what. As a leader, this is a skill that you need to master. You have to master comm...

John Bacon is the former coach and player of the Ann Arbor Huron High School hockey team in Michigan known as the 'River Rats'. John is also the author of Let them Lead: Unexpected Lessons in Leadership from America's Worst High School Hockey Team.  In today's episode John shares the history and how he transformed one of the worst hockey teams in America to one of the best by setting high expectat...

How we attract and retain talent is wrong. Traditionally, we convince people to work for us by telling stories about our organization and our employee engagement programs. But the problem is, we treat employee engagement like adrenaline shots. We try to distract employees from what it's actually like to work at our organizations by giving them perks and shiny things we keep throwing in their faces...

Alan Murray is the CEO of Fortune Media, former head at Pew Research, journalist and author of the book Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business.  In today's episode Alan shares the history and how he became the CEO of Fortune Media, how businesses have shifted over the years, and about his take on how corporate CEOs are taking on issues including climate, diversity & inclusion, i...

Should you focus on profits or people? The truth is that these two are not mutually exclusive. To get to profits, you need to start by focusing on your people. Think about where your profits come from. Profits come from your employees who are building relationships with customers and selling more products. So remember that people and profits are not two opposing forces that are meant to battle eac...

Michael Abrashoff is a former U. S. Navy captain and Author of his book, "It's Your Ship".  In today's episode Mike shares how he transformed the ship and the crew from being one of the worst performing in the fleet to the best. We explore the counter-intuitive practices he implemented, mistakes he made during his leadership journey, the importance of culture, and why putting people first is alway...

Who you surround yourself with matters. If you surround yourself with negative people, you will adopt that mindset and become a negative person. If you surround yourself with positive people, they can push you to be the best version of yourself. So you need to ask yourself three basic questions to get a sense of who you're surrounded with: Does this person help make you a better version of yoursel...

Jennifer Moss has worked as a workplace culture strategist and speaker with companies of all sizes. Her book The Burnout Epidemic was recently nominated for the 2021 Outstanding Works of Literature Award and selected as one of Thinkers50's 10 Best New Management Books for 2022. Jennifer is heard all over the country as a Freelance writer and radio columnist. Her articles have appeared in numerous...

What makes leaders successful in life and in business? They always do 10% more of what is asked. They don't just deliver what is expected. They exceed the expectations. So if you want to succeed faster, go above and beyond what is expected of you. --------------------- This episode is sponsored by  Workplace  from Meta. Workplace is a business communication tool from Meta. Think Facebook, but for...

Jeffrey Brown is the CEO of Ally Financial, the largest all-digital bank in the United States. They are reporting around $134 billion of retail deposits on hand today, raised and gathered without one single branch. They were also the largest auto lender in the US. In today's episode, we will talk about how Jeffrey became the CEO of Ally Financial, his past career's good and bad culture, and how im...

Do you recognize your employees? A lot of times, organizations fail to recognize their people and the amazing work employees do for the company. But everyone wants to be recognized and appreciated. David Novak, former CEO of Yum Brands, is a pioneer of recognizing his people, but he had to learn it the hard way.  --------------------- This episode is sponsored by  Workplace  from Meta. Workplace i...

Wendy Smith received her Ph. D. from Harvard Business School and is now a Professor of Leadership at the University of Delaware's Lerner College of Business and Economics, as well as the co-founder of the Women's Leadership Initiative. She is interested in how leaders and organizations deal with continuing strategic contradictions such as those between today and tomorrow, global integration and lo...

Leadership is oftentimes equated with transformation. But transformation isn't something that happens overnight. Transformation is something that takes a long time. It's the small things that you do over time that will lead to great impact. Here are small things that you can do to be a better leader: 1. Recognize your team members - it can be as simple as saying thank you. 2. Put together diverse...

Steve Youngwood, Chief Executive Officer at Sesame Workshop. In today's episode, we will talk about Steve's background information, the sesame workshop, the learnings that influence his leading or thinking style, and his fun stories at Viacom. Steve also talks about what you do if you as a leader put a lot of trust and fail and his unique hack, tip, and strategy to be a successful leader. --------...