The Remarkable Leadership Podcast

Kevin Kruse really didn't think much about leadership in his business ventures until he realized his failures were a result of not thinking about leadership. Kevin is the author of Great Leaders Have No Rules: Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business and serves as Founder & CEO of LEADx, an online learning platform that provides free leadership development. He sits down...

I'm talking about criticism, and the role it plays (or doesn't) for us as leaders and coaches. To register for our free master class Video series The Journey to Remarkable Leadership, go to:  http://KevinEikenberry.com/way  

While I'm not an accountant and you likely aren't either, I am using an accounting term today to help us understand the value in our workplace culture.

To do your best work, you need to know why organizationally and globally. Ashley Goodall is energized by thinking about the challenges of how we all do better work together. Ashley is the co-author of 9 Lies About Work with Marcus Buckingham. He and Kevin discuss some of these "lies" and why they may be uncomfortable. The theme throughout the lies is the context. When we spend too much time focusi...

Today I am talking about a lesson I learned in reading a quote from the Theologian John Henry Newman: "Nothing would be done at all if a person waited until he/she could do it so well that no one could find fault with it." And here's the reality – someone will ALWAYS find fault in one thing or another. But that's not all bad. What is bad is when we frame it as "fault" and not "feedback for improve...

David Benjamin believes we are seeing a shift in the workplace from scarcity to abundance. Leaders need to tap into their people and use them differently and better. David is the co-author of Cracking Complexity and joins Kevin to discuss not only the disruption of technology in business but how leaders can approach complexity. David talks about problem-solving and creating purposeful collisions t...

This is a question that I get asked a lot and I think in order to answer this question, you have to understand the answer to another question first: How do you define  friend ? So think about this a little bit and then "join me"on the video to answer the original question about friends and leadership. To learn more about and subscribe to my weekly newsletter,  Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential...

What does education need to do to produce people who can contribute at work and are successful? Danny Iny, the author of Leveraged Learning, chats with Kevin about that topic and what that means for leaders and teams today. Danny believes we are shifting from a "just in case" mindset to learning to a "just in time" mindset. The pace of change is rapid and to stay relevant, we need to continue to l...

You likely have a program of some sort when new employees join your organization – most call it onboarding – but do you have the same process for NEW supervisors? These onboarding processes are so valuable for new employees, but they can also have value for new supervisors. Everything that leaders do has a ripple in the organization, so it's even more important to set new leaders up for success in...

Today is the last in my series on "unusual" collections for leaders and I'm sticking with the theme of something that you might never consider as something that you can actually collect: GRATITUDE And while this "collection" is unusual, when you start collecting it, I think you will find that your life will be more interesting and have more meaning and you will have less stress and more happiness....

We are continuing in our series of episodes about collections and today's episode is about collecting memories. I'll talk about WHY we should collect memories and HOW to do it better and more often.

Leadership can be defined at multiple levels and can be scaled up and down. Bob Anderson is the co-author of Mastering Leadership and his new book, Scaling Leadership. He joins Kevin to talk about the research and findings which led to the latest book. Using a database of senior leaders providing 360-degree written feedback to fellow senior leaders, he and Bill Anderson look at the qualitative dat...

We are continuing in our series of episodes about collections and today's collection topic is one that I can almost bet you have never thought of collecting: relationships. And yet, as a leader, when you do this and do it right, I can almost guarantee that you will see your success skyrocket.

There are mistakes and there is epic failure. Warwick Fairfax identifies with the latter and joins Kevin to discuss leadership and moving beyond failure. Warwick is a leadership advisor and founded Crucible Leadership from his own experience of "one of the most spectacular business failures in the history of his home nation of Australia." First and foremost, start with forgiveness either of yourse...

We are in the middle of a series of episodes about collections. And if you haven't noticed yet, some of these collections are of "things" that you might not have thought of collecting. In fact, most of them aren't anything that you can put on a shelf or in a room of your house. Today's episode is no different as I'm revealing the value in collecting questions as well as an easy process and tips fo...

There are more new managers in the workplace than veterans. You must start somewhere. Julie Zhuo is the VP of Product Design at Facebook and the author of THE MAKING OF A MANAGER: What To Do When Everyone Looks to You . Julie found herself as a new manager years ago and after the celebration ended, she realized she wasn't 100% sure what she was doing. She joins Kevin to discuss the transition to n...

This is the third episode in a series on "collections".  Now to the casual observer, a series on collections might seem an odd choice for a leadership blog. But trust me, it's not. Because we aren't talking about things that take up space on a shelf or that you put in a display case. We are talking about collections that will change your leadership life. And in this episode, we're collecting IDEAS...

Many organizations are not thinking of how their culture can move them forward. Not only do you need to think about how to create your culture, but you also need to own it. Eric Stutzman is a co-author of The Culture Question: How to Create a Workplace Where People Like to Work. The book includes survey feedback from over 2,400 leaders and employees. Kevin and Eric talk about some of these finding...

Today I'm talking again about collections but this collection won't take up a single inch of space in your house or office and yet could be one of the most "valuable" things you can collect.

Hospitable leadership is about creating an environment where you lead more effectively because you are leading with authenticity. Terry A. Smith has served as lead pastor of The Life Christian Church (TLCC) for twenty-seven years. He is also the author of The Hospitable Leader. Terry is passionate about challenging, developing, and encouraging leaders, whether they know they are leaders or not. Ke...

Hospitable leadership is about creating an environment where you lead more effectively because you are leading with authenticity. Terry A. Smith has served as lead pastor of The Life Christian Church (TLCC) for twenty-seven years. He is also the author of The Hospitable Leader. Terry is passionate about challenging, developing, and encouraging leaders, whether they know they are leaders or not. Ke...

You may or may not know, but I am a collector of antique tractors – yes, the real, life-sized tractors that you'd find on a farm. And while this is a fun fact, I mention it today for more reasons than that. I am talking today about collectors because I have some observations on collectors and why it matters to you as a leader.

The operating system that worked on the factory floors 100 years ago does not work today, yet we still try to manage from that perspective. Aaron Dignan is looking at the way we work and turning it on its head to do better. Aaron is the founder of The Ready and author of his latest book, Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent your Organization? Aaron and Kevin discuss building teams that learn...