Weekly Leader Podcast

This week Pam speaks with Dan Schwabel, author of Promote Yourself, and more great podsafe music.

Weekly Leader

• Dan Schwabel, author of Promote Yourself, The New Rules for Career Success  (Kindle)
• Twitter: @DanSchwabel
• Website

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• Pam’s website: IdeaShape

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 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn’t Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager

This week Pam speaks with Aaron Schwartz, CEO (Director of Player Personnel), Modify Watches and more great podsafe music.

Leadership In the News

• "Luck is the residue of design" at WaterFire Providence (quote attributed to Branch Rickey)

Website of the Week

• Flipboard on the Web
  • Pam's Magazines:
    • Workplace Culture
    • Leading Healthcare Change 
    • Brains & Personality

Weekly Leader

• Aaron Schwartz, CEO and Director of Player Personnel, Modify Watches (web | Facebook)
• Twitter: @MosesofWatches @ModifyWatches

Contact Info

• Send comments to podcast@weeklyleader.net
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  • Pam: https://plus.google.com/u/0/116508030672363440220/about
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• Pam’s website: IdeaShape

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 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn’t Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager

This week Pam speaks with Steven Snyder, author of Leadership and the Art of Struggle, leadership and heroes at the Boston Marathon, the fall of another CEO, and more great podsafe music.

Leadership in the News

• Leaders and heroes at the Boston Marathon
• Silicon Valley’s ‘Coach’ Explains Ex-JC Penney CEO’s Huge Fail - Wired (04.12.13)

Weekly Leader

• Steven Snyder, Snyder Leadership Group 
• Twitter: @steven_j_snyder
• Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow Through Challenge and Adversity" target="_blank">Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow through Challenge and Adversity

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• Pam’s website: IdeaShape

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 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn’t Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager

This week Pam speaks with Greg Marcus of Idolbuster, Pam's Research Report of the Week, reports on some good and bad CEO's and more great podsafe music.

Leadership in the News

• 100 Best Performing CEO’s in the World - (check out the demographics tab) Harvard Business Review, Jan. - Feb. 2013 issue
• The Worst CEO’s of 2012 - Bloomberg BusinessWeek, December 13, 2012

Research Report of the Week

• Creativity's Dark Side: Dan Ariely on Creativity, Rationalization and Dishonesty - Scientific American, December 25, 2012

Weekly Leader

• Greg Marcus of Idolbuster
• Twitter: @GregMarcus2

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• Pam’s website: IdeaShape

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 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn’t Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager

This week Pam speaks with Nikhil Arora, cofoundef of BTTR Ventures, Pam's Research Report of the Week, more great podsafe music and an early Holiday present! (Sample chapters from Pam's book!)

Research Report of the Week

• Three Symptoms of a Vulnerable Team by Keith Ferrazzi HBR Blog Network, September 20, 2012

Weekly Leader

• Nikhil Arora of BTTR Ventures

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 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn’t Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager

This week Pam speaks with Willa Seldon, partner, The Bridgespan Group, 2012 General Election, the fall of another American hero, Pam's Research Report of the Week followed by more great podsafe music.

Leadership in the News

• 2012 General Election - Concession speeches of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown and Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney

• Fall of another hero - The Petraeus Affair

Research Report of the Week

• Job Autonomy, Trust in Leadership Keys to Improvement Initiatives - Science Daily, Nov. 14, 2012

Weekly Leader

• Willa Seldon, partner, The Bridgespan Group

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• Pam’s website: IdeaShape

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 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn’t Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager

This week Pam speaks with Stan Baginskis, Senior Director, Business Incubation - Emerging Technologies at Cisco followed by more great podsafe music.

Weekly Leader

• Stan Baginskis, Senior Director, Business Incubation - Emerging Technologies at Cisco

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42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn’t Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager

This week Pam speaks with Whitney Johnson about her book Dare, Dream, Doplus the Weekly Leader Website of the Week, Pam's Research Report and more great podsafe music.

Website of the Week

• WaterFire Providence - Peter's gig and 2012 ArtPlace Grant recipient
• Pam's 2009 Father's Day post: Leadership lessons from my Dad
• From the Ideashape Archives: What do you stand for?

Research Report of the Week

• Pam's Research on What Makes a Successful Leader - Views Across MBTI Types

Weekly Leader

• Whitney Johnson, Rose Park Partners
• Twitter: @JohnsonWhitney
• Author: Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream (kindle version)

• Leadership lunch: Barbara Corcoran
• Leadership advice:
  • "Dream like it's your privilege and do like it isn't."
  • "Dare to disrupt yourself, dream your very own dream and do."
• Being Invisible Can Help Your Career - June 5, 2012 (all of Whitney's posts on the Harvard Business Review blogs)

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 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn’t Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager

This week Pam speaks with Wendy Appel, The Enneagram Specialist about her book InsideOut Enneagram plus the Weekly Leader Website of the Week, Pam's Research Report and more great podsafe music.

Website of the Week

• You Are Not So Smart podcast

Research Report of the Week

• The Economist Focus: More coffee, less midnight oil

Weekly Leader

• Wendy Appel, The Enneagram Specialist
• Twitter: @WendyAppel
• Author, InsideOut Enneagram: The Game-Changing Guide for Leaders

• Leadership lunch: Madeleine Albright, first woman as United States Secretary of State.
• Leadership advice: "Remember your reactions are 100% with you."

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 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn’t Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager

This week Peter speaks with Hap Klopp, ex CEO of The North Face and author of Conquering The North Face: An Adventure in Leadership plus Pam's Research Report of the Week about diversity in top leadership teams and more great podsafe music from Wolf Larsen.

Research Report of the Week

• McKinsey Quarterly: Is there a payoff from top-team diversity?

Weekly Leaders

• Hap Klopp, ex CEO of The North Face
• Author, Conquering The North Face: An Adventure in Leadership

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 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn’t Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager

This week Pam speaks with Doug Y. Park, Principal, DYP Advisors and Bob Frisch, Managing Partner, Strategic Offsites Group about Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, leadership and corporate governance.

Weekly Leaders

• Doug Y. Park, Principal, DYP Advisors
• Twitter: @DougYPark
• Bob Frisch, Managing Partner, The Strategic Offsites Group.
• Author, Who's in the Room: How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around Them
• Twitter: @OffsiteGuy
• In Facebook Deal, Board Was All But Out of Picture - Wall Street Journal - April 18, 2012

Contact Info

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 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn’t Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager

This week Pam speaks with Anne Marie Burgoyne, Portfolio Director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation about social entrepreneurship and leadership.

Website of the Week

• Teson Life - “Practical tips for the novice leader.”
  • Gavin Grant and Mark Mendez

Weekly Leader

• Anne Marie Burgoyne, Portfolio Director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
• Twtter: @DRKFoundation

Pam's Research Report of the Week

• Why It Pays To Be An Optimist - MIT Sloan Management Review via Forbes.com
• Learning Optimism with the 24x3 Rule - Harvard Business Review
• Delusions of Success: How Optimism Undermines Executives’ Decisions - Harvard Business Review

Contact Info

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 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn’t Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager

This week Pam speaks with Charles H. Green, CEO, Trusted Advisor Associates, LLC about Greg Smith's New York Times op-ed piece on why he quit Goldman Sachs.

Leadership in the News

Ex Goldman Sach's Greg Smith's New York Times Op-Ed "Why I am leaving Goldman Sachs"

Weekly Leader

Charles H. Green, CEO, Trusted Advisor LLC Twitter: @CharlesHGreen Books:

HighTower Whiteboard Animation: Brokers vs. Fiduciaries (via Forbes.com)

Contact Info

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42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn't Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager

This week Pam and Peter talk about leadership at the United States Naval Academy, Top Teams, podcasts and Google+.

Peter's US Naval Academy leadership lecture

• LCDR Siddhartha Herdegen - Naval Academy Faculty Profile / Twitter /Google+ / Principles of Failure Blog
• Leadership Communications: Shakespeare to Twitter for the US Naval Academy Leadership NL100

Pam's Research Report of the Week:

• Strategy+Business:  The Right Role for Top Teams

Social Media Minute/Website of the Week

• Podcasts

• Six Pixels of Separation Podcast #293 - Marketing Leadership With Mark W. Schaefer
• LeaderLab podcast - 302 | Marcus Buckingham

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This week Weekly Leader team members Pam Fox Rollin and Scott J. Allen discuss their recent books: 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role (kindle) and The Little Book of Leadership Development (kindle).

How to Receive Feedback (1-pager by Pam)

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Podsafe Music

• Intro: Trance Sends by Trance Blackman (Music Alley)

This week Peter and Pam return after a lenghty hiatus to talk about Pam's book, 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role and present 5 leadership themes for 2012. 

Leadership in the News: Jason Calacanis - Founders Define Reality (& Give Hope) Warren Bennis interview

Pam's Research Report of the Week: On Target on Onboarding IdeaShape blog

2012 Leadership Themes:

Pam: 

1. Retaining great employees once hiring ramps up
2. Getting new employees productive faster
3. Leading amid transparency

Peter:

1. Co-Leadership
2. Failureship
3. Leadership hubris

Contact Info

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Podsafe Music

• Intro: Trance Sends by Trance Blackman (Music Alley)
• Close: The Way I Am by Ingrid Michaelson