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400: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact with Liz Wiseman

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Today’s episode is a milestone episode in so many ways. It’s episode 400, of course, but several other “yours, mine, and ours” type milestones are also at play. To hear about each one of them, click the play button below.

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Today’s guest, Liz Wiseman, has been one of my favorite leadership authors for the better part of fifteen years, ever since I first learned of her work with her first book Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter.

But Multipliers needs to now move over and make room on the shelf for her latest, as I feel it’s a book every employee, regardless of their title, should read.

It’s called Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact.

Drawing on insights from leaders at top companies, Liz explains what the most influential players are doing differently, how small and seemingly insignificant differences in how we think and act can make an enormous impact, and why—with a little coaching—this mindset is available to everyone who wants to contribute at their highest level.  

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399: Applying Relationship Rules in Business for Ultimate Success

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Since beginning the Read to Lead Podcast over eight years ago, I’ve had the chance to meet more than my fair share of people whose talents include helping others write and publish books (in addition to a few of their own).

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One of those people is Karen Anderson, a strategic book advisor and coach, associate publisher at Morgan James Publishing, and co-author of the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller The Bezos Letters: 14 Principles to Grow Your Business Like Amazon featured right here on the podcast.

Karen recently formally introduced me to today’s guest, Honoree Corder, a name I’ve known for quite some time. I mean, when you’ve written over 50 books, it’s hard not to be on my radar.

One of those books – and the one getting our focus today – is Business Dating: Applying Relationship Rules in Business for Ultimate Success.

Honoree’s book is designed to show you exactly how the rules of personal dating apply to your professional relationships. When you take the time to foster balanced connections, Honoree says, you’ll build meaningful, long-lasting contacts that yield incredible gains. With the power of true networking on your side, you’ll attract better clients and relationships faster than you ever thought possible.

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398: Learning and Development Programs That Stick with Meredith Bell

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Today’s guest has been helping train leaders and their teams for several decades. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone else with her level of training experience.

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Her name is Meredith Bell.  She is president and co-founder of Performance Support Systems, a global software company. Since 1994 she has helped develop brain-based, online assessment and development tools that make long-term improvements in leader and team performance.

She’s also the author of several books over the years. The one I’ve decided to dive into today is called Strong For Performance: Create Learning and Development Programs That Stick.

In Strong for Performance, Meredith provides a clear, simple explanation for creating lasting improvements in the performance of leaders and teams.

Marshall Goldsmith even says to “Use this book as a roadmap for strengthening the people in your organization and building a positive coaching culture.”

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397: Thursday is the New Friday with Author Joe Sanok

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I feel like my guest today is a bit of a kindred spirit of sorts. Numerous times during our conversation, I thought of many examples from my own life of several of the topics we discussed.

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We see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, not the least of which is many of us are caught in a 100-year-old way of doing things.

We work eight to ten hours a day, five or more days every week. But why is this the way we do things? This question and more is what Joe Sanok gets at in his new book.

It was released last month as is called Thursday is the New Friday: How to Work Fewer Hours, Make More Money, and Spend Time Doing What You Want.

In it, Joe offers the exercises, tools, and training that have helped thousands of professionals—from authors and scholars to business leaders and innovators—create the schedule they want, resulting in less work, greater income, and more time for what they most desire.

Most importantly, Thursday is the New Friday empowers you with a practical, evidence-based methodology to create your own work schedule and dedicate more of your precious personal time to pursuing your hobbies and spending time with your family and friends.

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393: You CAN Change Other People with Peter Bregman and Howie Jacobson

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It’s not often that I get the chance to sit at the feet of two incredibly smart as part of an interview. Today, however, is just such a day.

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My guests are Peter Bregman and Howie Jacobson PhD. They’re the authors of the new book You CAN Change Other People: The Four Steps to Help Your Colleagues, Employees – Even Family – Up Their Game.

They rely on over 50 years of collective professional experience to show you exactly what to say to influence those around you for the better.

No one wants to be changed, but change and personal growth are critical to success, and more importantly, to a fulfilled life. 

Their new book is a must-read for anyone who wants to improve their impact with coworkers, family members, and everyone in between.

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