In this episode of As the Drum Turns, Jeff & Lora discuss how reacting defensively during criticism limits improvement and how receiving feedback with candor helps us grow.

In today's episode:A company on the brink, with barely two weeks of cash left, found its turnaround not in new strategy but in something leadership had stopped doing. A humble admission about what blocks great leadership. There's a simple framework for sorting people into believers, skeptics, and cynics. CEO Daily Brief is a 5-minute daily podcast where business pragmatism meets inner wisdom. Hosted by Dr. Jessica Kriegel, Chief Strategy Officer at Culture Partners. She is frequently joined by

Welcome to the Shepherd Leadership Podcast with host Nick Westbrook. Are you tired of leadership models that focus so much on serving that they forget how to lead? This podcast is designed to inspire, encourage, and equip you to fulfill your true calling as a leader. We explore what it means to shepherd the people entrusted to your care, helping them thrive through courageous accountability and genuine protection. Join us as we redefine what it takes to build trust, shape culture, and become ...

Everyone's blaming AI for the wave of layoffs hitting tech right now, but the AI layoffs data tells a different story. I dug into PwC's research on over 1 billion job postings and found something that changed my mind too.In this episode I break down the two tracks the job market is splitting into: roles where AI amplifies human judgment (seeing 2x job growth and 42% faster pay), and roles getting commoditized into scripts and playbooks. I also share what I'm hearing inside my weekly CEO

Only 27% of Americans trust businesses to use AI responsibly. Congress polls at 16 percent. The public is running out of people to believe.Go here to find links to all of the sources cited in the video: www.ceo.com/the-ai-crisis-is-a-leadership-crisis/

Turn always-on AI into useful client work. Jaeden and Jamie explore Dots and Muse, including automated SEO audits, email triage, draft replies, and meeting follow-up. They discuss which repetitive business tasks agents could handle, how cloud agents differ from a computer that must stay on, and the access and privacy tradeoffs to consider. A practical look at the workflows behind an AI automation service.

Drop us a note In this episode of Risk! Engineers Talk Governance, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss Hazard and Risk versus Threat and Vulnerability – Top Down, Bottom Up. The podcast discussion includes: How bottom-up techniques are creeping back into risk assessments, even though WHS legislation focuses on criticality and asks what is reasonable in the circumstances, How prosecutions are shaping what "critical" means in practice, Why cutting m...

This week looked at the factory floor and the grid line nobody can walk. Part III asks what command structure can run either at scale, through Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell’s Team of Teams(Portfolio/Penguin, 2015).In 2004, the Joint Special Operations Task Force was one of the most capable military organizations in history, and losing. Not for lack of skill, but because it was an efficient hierarchy fighting a fast, decentralized network: a decision a

New Zealand’s housing market has taken another step backwards. Property values have now fallen for six months in a row, with the national median value dropping below the previous cycle low. And while buyers have more choice and bargaining power, there’s still little sign of a sharp rebound - with high mortgage rates, economic uncertainty and plenty of houses on the market keeping a lid on prices. So, what’s happening in the housing market, and how much longer could this subdued

Labour finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds says they won't change modelling, despite the pre-election fiscal update showing smaller house price growth.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Rachel Barber, “Workers keep leaving the US labor force. Experts can’t agree why,” USA TODAY, July 9, 2026.I went to LDT with hope in my heart.Thirty-six years into a career that had taken me through Detroit and Stuttgart and Chennai, I wanted to relearn the thing I had loved first, which was the assembly floor. I arrived carrying everything I had been formed to know. I left broken.Not because the work was hard. The work is supposed to be hard. I left because the floor was organized as a

As business owners, you know how hard it is keeping up with your business, let alone the news. Join Wilhelmina O'Keeffe each week as she gives you a rundown of the biggest stories that could impact your business, so you can make informed decisions with expert advice. This week,the government’s books look better than expected, but can we keep it up? The number of people in work continues to climb, and now that citizen’s arrests are legal, just how many retailers are doing them? Plus, how

Today, we're talking to Mohak Shroff, former SVP of Engineering at LinkedIn. We discuss why the smartest use of AI agents is giving professionals more agency rather than replacing them, how delegating to an agent should look a lot like onboarding a new hire, and what it takes to build the thing that was impossible before instead of making the familiar 20% better.All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

What separates the high performers who build lasting success from those who stay stuck? In this episode of Big Hitters, Larry Weidel sits down with last year's MVP, Jolene Janke, during her trans-Canada live speaking tour. Together, they explore what truly drives high achievers, the hidden costs of staying in mediocrity, and why timing is everything when identifying future leaders. Larry breaks down the importance of continuous training—even for world-class leaders—and shares why you can't want

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Send us Fan Mail What a long run of decisions can do to judgment, and the two changes that show up when leaders find their way back. I am Sahar Andrade, MB.BCh, Neuroleadership Coach and Forbes Coaches Council member. When the old way of operating stops working after a long season of load, the returns I have studied involved two kinds of change: something small and daily that belongs to the leader, and a different relationship to the load itself. Executive decision fatigue is real as a sympto...

Seven containers were waiting near an Antarctic ice shelf’s edge when a blizzard changed the plan. The ice broke away, carrying the cargo out to sea. Grace Sharkey brings this story to Freight Friends, and we talk through the difficulty of supplying a research station in such an unforgiving place. The conversation leads into Shackleton’s survival story and the challenge of operating on moving ice. Even getting supplies to the edge of the world takes an extraordinary amount of coordination. ...

Is buyout just a nicer word for shorting your subs? Sometimes, but it doesn’t have to be. Buying the work competitively is the job, and it crosses a line when a GC takes a project without enough money in it and pushes the shortfall down to the trades. If you are a subcontractor who has watched a buyout call land on your margin, or a project manager handed a fee that you cannot see a path to, this is the conversation both sides usually have separately. In this episode, Greg Gorman, Adam

What if your maintenance team knew what to do before a machine ever went down? In this episode of Maintenance Manufacturing Insights, Martin Engster sits down with Kenneth Welch to talk about practical maintenance, manufacturing experience, and the value of preparing for problems before they happen. Kenneth spent 23 years working at Michelin in Ardmore, Oklahoma, before moving into his current role at SendCutSend in Arlington, Texas. His years on the manufacturing floor have taught him that some of