Experimental Leader

Listen to the podcast here Kata As A Tool Hey everybody, I’m super excited to be here with you today. And I want to talk to you a little bit about a continuous improvement tool that I use called an experiment kata. A kata, it’s a Japanese word, and it means form. And it’s talking about a choreographed pattern of martial arts movements that can be practiced alone. So you’re practicing these in martial arts alone so that you can learn how to move your body, you’re doing it on a regular cadence, and that cadence increases your skill. And...... Read More

Listen to the podcast here Values are the filter thru which the vision is executed by the mission Hey, I’m really excited to get to talk to you about values today. And the reason I’m excited to talk to you about values is we spend so much time creating our vision and our mission for our organizations. And that’s all great, we have to do that as leaders but I think of values as the filter that we put those things through because they’re really like the spice, and the flavor and the feel of the how of how you’re...... Read More

Listen to the podcast here Feeling Good About Your Own Leadership Hey, everybody, I’ve been thinking about how leaders can feel good about their own leadership. And so many times, we’re in a learning mode or growing mode. And as soon as we start to learn some new things and try to implement them, we find ourselves sort of falling into some imposter syndrome or finding ourselves feeling uncertain about the path that we’re on. And I want to talk about the idea that there’s sort of three zones in your leadership or anything new that you’re learning. So, there’s...... Read More

Listen to the podcast here Using The 5 Senses To Foster Creativity Hey, I’m really excited to be with you today. And I started to think about fostering creativity. And as leaders, we’re always fostering creativity on our teams. Helping them do things that haven’t been done before. And I was trying to think about how do people do that? Because I think it’s really important that we foster creativity. And then I also think that it can be kind of intentional. And I realized there’s some, you know, I got kind of enamored of the idea of thinking about...... Read More

  Listen to the podcast here Random Rules Stifle Innovation Hey, everybody, I’m super excited to be here with you. And our topic today is how random rules stifle innovation. And this topic is really near and dear to my heart because I’m kind of, you know, have a dominant, charming, sometimes leadership style. And I kind of like to be in charge. And I like to be in control. And I like to plan things. And so, I actually have realized I have kind of exactly the right personality to make random rules. So, if something goes wrong, here’s...... Read More

Listen to the podcast here Barriers, Bottlenecks, and Breakdowns Hey, everybody, I am really excited to be here with you. And I want to talk about bottlenecks, barriers and breakdowns today. So, when I think about bottlenecks, I really think about Eliyahu Goldratt. And the Theory of Constraints. So Eliyahu Goldratt, was an Israeli physicist, and he worked a lot in manufacturing. And if you think about a factory floor, where you’re producing something like automobiles that flows through an assembly line, for example, then we think about throughput. And we think about the amount of work that is produced...... Read More

  Listen to the podcast here Empathy Improves Productivity Hey, everybody, I’m super excited to be here with you today. I think it’s really important when we’re thinking about making our teams more productive, that we also think about empathy, that we also think about what our teams need what they’re experiencing at any given time that we respond to them first, as human beings. We don’t see them as machinery to extract value from, but real people who we can help find fulfilment, and help them have an excitement about the work they do to feel proud of the...... Read More

Listen to the podcast here How To Pick Your Leadership Icons Hey, everybody, it’s great to be here with you today. And I’m super excited to talk to you about your leadership icons. It’s so interesting when we think about who we want to emulate when we become leaders, we want to think about, we want to think about choosing people to emulate who aren’t really our natural first choice. You see, we all have these personality types. So, someone who is more dominant might really love the idea of power in leadership, or someone who’s more of a charismatic...... Read More

Listen to the podcast here Three Tips For Leading A Team That Rocks Innovation Hey, everybody, I’m super excited to be here with you today. And I want to give you some tips that’ll help you. When you’re leading innovation. There’s something really hard about creating alchemy in a business or an organization when you’re trying to do something that’s never been done before. It can feel like a slog, it can feel like you’re kind of trying to push through sand or move fast through the water. It isn’t always apparent why it feels so hard, because you think,...... Read More

No leadership is ever the same. They vary according to the organization, the people, the goals, and more. In this episode, Melanie Parish takes us into the world of a different kind of leadership. She sits down with Daniel Edds, a Practicing Management Consultant, to talk about his books, Transformation Management and Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership, where he looks at how elite organizations approach the practice of leadership. He lays down how they differ from what the average organization is doing and how you, too, can apply some of their strategies and practices to help you improve your leadership skills. Follow along with Daniel in this conversation as he shows how he is trying to radically transform leadership and more.... Read More