Read to Lead Podcast

This highly-anticipated follow-up to Contagious Culture shows aspiring leaders how to embody the qualities they wish to cultivate in their organizations.

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Master Your Code combines ancient wisdom and modern science to produce an essential guidebook for what we all want - a life of joy, fulfillment, and happiness.

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In The Strategy Mindset 2.0, Dr. Chuck Bamford shows you how several popular strategy myths can actually stunt your company's growth.

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In Debt-Free Degree, Anthony teaches you how to pay for college without student loans - whether you've started saving or not.

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Leaders who embrace an infinite mindset build stronger, more innovative, more inspiring companies. They have the resilience to thrive in an ever-changing world, while their competitors fall by the wayside. Ultimately, they are the ones who lead the rest of into the future.

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Mastering the Moment employs Tim Pollard's engaging style, making the guidance as absorbing to read as it is to adopt.

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The Problem Isn’t Their Paycheck guides you through the changes you need to make in your business to attract (and retain) the 12% of employees who bring their all - and maps out the financial reward that comes with retaining employees.

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Amanda Slavin unveils the tools to measure and grow your brand's engagement, forge a deeper, more personal connection with customers, and unite your employees around a shared mission.

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In We Need to Talk, Celeste Headlee outlines strategies that have made her a better conversationalist and offers actionable steps anyone can take to improve their communication skills.

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Tom and Ariana guide current and aspiring entrepreneurs through the major aspects of making it happen with a simple step-by-step process.

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Networking can feel phony, awkward, and intimidating - but it doesn't have to. Here you'll find a more authentic way to make connections.

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In The High Achiever's Guide, Maki Moussavi shares her best tools and processes to determine what fulfillment means to you so you can thrive with empowered confidence.

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Technology and Risk expert Steve Anderson has analyzed and distilled Bezos' shareholder letters to reveal the key 14 Growth Principles that unlock the lessons, mindset, and steps Bezos has used to make Amazon the massive success it is today.

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Trapped in a job or business that's "just not you"? Marianne Cantwell's straight-talking bestseller will help you break out of the career cage and Be a Free Range Human.

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The 10 Laws of Trust is the playbook for breaking through operational silos and CYA mentality that plague so many organizations today.

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What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused and overcome distractions? What if you had the power to become "indistractable"?

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When it comes to running a business, the most important decisions a leader makes are not about products or locations--they're about people. Now Dee Ann Turner is ready to share her secrets on how to build, sustain, and grow an organizational culture that attracts world-class talent and consistently delights customers, no matter what your industry.

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Coming right off the heels of George Lucas and the bestselling Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones is quickly developing a reputation as a master biographer of the creative geniuses of our time.

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You may not realize it, but we were all given a gift that we should be sharing with the world. The experiences you have accumulated throughout your life can turn you into a potential entrepreneur, says Travis Rosser.

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John R. Brandt offers leaders an actionable Anti-Nincompoopery Plan based on retaining three deceptively simple, research-validated strategies: innovation, talent, and process.

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Online marketing's self-described crash-test dummy is back for his third visit, this time to discuss his brand new book on how to create Superfans.

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In Management Mess to Leadership Success, you'll find 30 leadership challenges, honed by FranklinCovey through years of research that illustrate how to rise when you fall and how to survive and even thrive as an unfiltered leader.

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Leading projects thinker Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez looks at how some leading companies, governments, schools, and universities have already embraced projects as the way to deliver on their strategy and ambitions.

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In Think Like Amazon, former Amazon executive John Rossman, who launched and scaled Amazon Marketplace, gives business leaders the ultimate playbook on how to "think like Amazon" and succeed in the digital age, with an inside look at the authentic beliefs, leadership principles, and techniques used to build and manage the dynamic business we all admire, if not fear, today.

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Traditional full-time employment is disappearing. Increasingly, in its place are short-term assignments, contract work, and freelance jobs - the gig economy. Are you ready?

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As I take some time away with family, I've prepared this encore episode especially for you. It originally published as Episode 200 of Read to Lead, which itself takes a look back of five special interviews. Enjoy!

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In this episode, I share the insights and ideas I gleaned from reading Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt. It's one of the most practical books I've read in quite some time.

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Empathy is not about being nice. It's not about pity or sympathy, either. It's about having a deep understanding of your consumers, your colleagues, and yourself.

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If you're ready to get unstuck, love your work, and make the dream happen, entrepreneur and business coach Brian Dixon has a message for you: Start With Your People.

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Karen Brown shares 7 keys to greater success in your personal and professional life by accessing the power of the unconscious mind through scientifically-proven techniques and patterns.

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Taking control of your time and life doesn't have to be complicated. If you're serious about squashing stress and taking control, read Accomplish It.

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Same Side Selling will help you to escape the competitive, adversarial dynamic that gives salespeople a bad name.

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Learn how to create the productive conflict your organization needs to get along and get stuff done.

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Moe Carrick offers a fresh, honest, and direct roadmap for leaders everywhere who seek to make their workplace fit for human life. And, she offers advice for workers and encourages them to be their authentic selves.

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Whether you realize it or not, you have a certain energy level that you’ve developed on the road. Is your status as good as you think it is or even hope it to be?

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Starting a business is hard. Most people fail, but it doesn't have to be that way. It starts with asking WHO instead of WHAT.

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Host Jeff Brown argues that too many people are living someone else's life, trudging along in a job they hate. Is that you? Stop, Jeff says. Life is too short!

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Laura Gassner Otting teaches you how to ignore the rules that created your limits, align your energies and your actions, and do work that really matters so that you can live your best life.

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Life is full of trials, and sometimes you need a warrior spirit to overcome them. In The Elegant Warrior, Heather Hansen shows you how.

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In Great Leaders Have No Rules, New York Times bestselling author Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership.

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Everyone suffers from mindset issues of one kind or another. If you want to learn how to attack yours head on, then Natalie Eckdahl is here to help.

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Safi Bahcall joins Jeff Brown and reveals the surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about the spread of new ideas.

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I share the next three steps you need to take if your current job is no longer fulfilling you and you're not sure what to do next.

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Mark Schaefer will challenge your view of what it means to be a marketer today and provide a radical new blueprint for business growth.

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I share three compelling reasons why now, more than ever, you should consider self-employment, as well as details about my upcoming free online conference.

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In One Million Followers, Brendan Kane teaches you how to gain an authentic, dedicated, and diverse online following from scratch.

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Employee to Entrepreneur combines storytelling with a step-by-step framework to teach you how to effectively explore and leverage entrepreneurship to gain freedom, fulfillment and financial security.

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Vocal Leadership provides proven techniques and daily exercises to help you develop a commanding voice and presence, and improve vocal quality, mental acuity, body language, and self-esteem to dramatically increase your influence.

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In Cultural Brilliance: The DNA of Organizational Excellence, Claudette Rowley offers organizations a step-by-step guide to intentionally assessing, designing, and integrating cultural change that's iterative, each success building on previous successes.

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Motivation expert James Fell teaches readers how to skip the hard part and go directly from intention to committed action.

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Learn how to harness and exploit your own potential, experience, skills and knowledge in the new, digital economy, and create a profitable business based around YOU.

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Chris Hogan destroys millionaire myths that are keeping everyday people from achieving their financial independence.

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