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How to Lead with Clay Scroggins and Adam Tarnow
Hosted by Clay Scroggins and Adam Tarnow · EN
A podcast designed to help you develop yourself and those around you.
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FROM THE VAULT: How to Run a Meeting
1w ago00:19:33Tap to summarizeThis summer, we're revisiting some of our most popular episodes.How to Run a Meeting - the second in a three part series.Enjoy!Produced and edited by Sound of a Rose.
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FROM THE VAULT: How to Start a Meeting
2w ago00:14:38Tap to summarizeThis summer, we're revisiting some of our most popular episodes.How to Start a Meeting - the first in a three part series.Enjoy!Produced and edited by Sound of a Rose.
Transcribe →One Chapter Ends and Another Begins
3w ago00:03:07Tap to summarizeA quick update about the future of the Podcast and our plans for the summer.
Transcribe →Be Easy to Work With (featuring Berry Mansfield)
4w ago00:25:04Tap to summarizeEveryone wants to stand out at work. Berry Mansfield figured out that the secret isn't being the loudest or the smartest — it's being the easiest. As President of Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas, Berry has built an entire career on one principle: be easy to work with. In this episode, he traces how that idea carried him from accounting all the way to the president's chair, and why the simplest principles are usually the most powerful ones.
Transcribe →Culture Matters (featuring Jenni Catron)
Jun 1500:39:08Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Adam sits down with Jenni Catron, leadership expert, founder of The 4Sight Group, and author of Culture Matters , to talk about one of the most important and most overlooked responsibilities of any leader: building a healthy organizational culture. Jenni brings clarity and practical wisdom to a topic that can feel abstract, and this conversation will leave you with both a better understanding of why culture matters and what you can actually do about it.
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The People-Pleasing Tax
Jun 100:25:49Tap to summarizeWe've all done it: said yes before we even finished thinking, then immediately regretted it. Clay and Adam dig into why people-pleasing feels like the kind thing to do, why it isn't, and what it quietly costs you as a leader: trust, clarity, energy, and the hard conversations that only get harder the longer you wait. Plus, five moves to start breaking the reflex this week.
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Your One-on-Ones are Probably Broken
May 1800:25:47Tap to summarizeMost leaders run one-on-ones every week. Almost none of them run one-on-ones their people actually want to show up to. The problem isn't effort — it's a fundamental mismatch: you think you're running a status meeting. Your direct report came hoping for something else entirely.In this episode, Adam and Clay break down why the most powerful recurring meeting on your calendar is also the most wasted one — and what to do about it. You'll learn the difference between a status meeting and a trust meeting, what your direct reports actually need from 30 minutes with you, and a handful of small shifts that turn a hollow check-in into the best meeting of someone's week.This podcast is produced by Sound of a Rose.
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The Most Puzzling Part of Leadership
May 1100:15:25Tap to summarizeWhen 18 out of 23 leaders in a room all gave the same answer — people — to the question "What's the most puzzling part of leadership?", it was hard to ignore. This episode unpacks why.Drawing on a distinction from Arthur Brooks' new book, we explore the difference between complicated problems (ones that can be solved) and complex problems (ones that can only be managed). The cruel irony of leadership? Solve enough complicated problems and you get promoted into a world full of complex ones — and the skills that got you there are almost useless in this new game.If you've ever tried to spreadsheet your way through a relational conflict or a disengaged high performer, this one's for you. We'll talk about what it actually looks like to stop trying to solve the unsolvable — and why leaning into the mystery might be the most important thing you can do as a leader.Podcast produced by Sound of a Rose
Transcribe →Whole Leaders, Wild Trust (featuring Dr. Rob McKenna)
May 400:47:33Tap to summarizeWhat does it really mean to lead from a place of wholeness and why does trust feel so elusive in today's organizations? In this episode, Adam sits down with Dr. Rob McKenna, author of Whole Leaders, Wild Trust, for a conversation that challenges everything you thought you knew about leadership development.Dr. McKenna explores why the most effective leaders aren't the ones who have it all figured out, but the ones who are willing to show up fully; with their strengths, their struggles, and their humanity intact. He unpacks the idea of "wild trust": the kind of deep, unguarded confidence that teams extend to leaders who are genuinely known, not just professionally polished.Whether you're leading a team of five or an organization of thousands, this episode will leave you rethinking how you show up and what it truly means to be trusted.Learn more about Dr. McKenna: https://www.wildleaders.org/Pick up a copy of Dr. McKenna's book: https://a.co/d/046Ru6KbPodcast produced by Sound of a Rose
Transcribe →Your Middle Managers Don't Need to Suck it Up
Apr 2700:26:09Tap to summarizeThe data is hard to ignore: mid-level leaders are the most stressed and burned out professional demographic — more burned out than individual contributors, more than senior executives. And yet most organizations treat manager development as an afterthought. Meanwhile, the generation coming up behind them is looking at middle management and quietly deciding it's not worth it.This episode is for the senior leader. The executive. The person who's climbed out of the valley and is now looking down at it.Adam shares a personal story from May 2009 — a breaking point in the valley, and what the senior leaders around him did and didn't do in response. What that moment revealed wasn't that they didn't care. It's that they'd navigated the valley themselves, but had no idea how to explain what they'd learned. They couldn't transfer what they couldn't articulate.We walk through three signs your middle managers are struggling — and why what looks like a character problem is almost always a systems problem. Then we make the case for what senior leaders actually owe the people in their valley. Spoiler: it's not a pep talk, a mandate to push through, or a sink-or-swim moment. It's a repeatable framework and a leader willing to hand it down.If your team's vision lives or dies through your middle managers — and it does — this one is worth your full attention.Purchase The Fog of Work:Amazon: https://a.co/d/08JMiDajBarnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-fog-of-work-adam-tarnow/1148527628?ean=9781394368136https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-fog-of-work-adam-tarnow/1148527628?ean=9781394368136
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