Timeless Leadership

If you want to build accountability in other people, you need to start with yourself.What’s the best way to begin? With a process.In this episode, we’ll talk bout consistency, transparency, and trust — and how they lead to accountability in yourself and others. Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.Links* The Secret to Chan

Leadership requires care. Care that extends to the people around you, for whom leaders are responsible. But also care for the practice of leadership itself.Ideas about this extend back to Plato, who engaged in many conversations about the responsibilities of leaders, the dangers of too much power, and considering the good of others.Princeton professor Melissa Lane, whose book Of Ru

Life is filled with busyness. When something or someone comes along to smooth the way and make life a little easier, we’re more than willing to give them our attention and our money.In an attention-starved world, we look for people who make it easier for us to consume information and make decisions.Pay attention to these curators. They care. Timeless Leadership has been named a T

The web can be a complicated place. And for almost as long as it has existed, Mike McCue’s mission has been to make the content of the internet more easily accessible.From Netscape in the 1990s to TellMe in the 2000s to Flipboard in the 2010s, Mike’s entrepreneurial spirit has guided him, and society has been the beneficiary.And now, with the advent of the Fediverse, Mike is at

Often in our careers, we’re focused on our destinations — the job title, the salary, the external symbols that notch our success, and the associated reputational wealth in the eyes of those who see us.We’re fixated on being when we should be intent on becoming. What are we doing, enjoying, and sharing that inform who we are?Whether it’s personal or professional, learning is

At times, work can dominate our lives, taking up our thoughts and energy, making any outside activities seem impossible. But Kate Volman believes in the power of outside passions to help make us better at what we do and who we are.As the CEO of Floyd Consulting and author of Do What You Love: A Guide to Living Your Creative Life without Leaving Your Job, Kate's mission is to help p

This is the second in our four-part series on core leadership skills.In 1831 Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote “It is a luxury to be understood,” and it is still a luxury in the modern day. Perhaps even more so, given the number of modes of communication and fractured attention.Communication is at the very core of your leadership. Without it, you have nothing. Which is why working on y

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith has worked with hundreds of very high achievers throughout his career as an executive coach. And in doing so, he noticed something: happiness does not come from achievement.So he wrote his latest book, The Earned Life, to address that. It will start you on a fresh journey that goes beyond your last achievement and helps you minimize your regrets, allowing you

Join us as we embark on a four-part series on core leadership skills.Inscribed on the Temple of Apollo in the 5th century B.C., the phrase “Know thyself” is considered a universal truth. So it’s appropriate that the first leadership skill we’re exploring is self-awareness.Too many leaders are tone-deaf or ego-driven to be self-aware. And yet, it’s probably the single most

There are many resources out there for self-employed business owners. But when it comes to Jeffrey Shaw’s approach, it’s resonant with Timeless Leadership.Jeffrey’s book The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success helps business owners focus on the values that are important to them and develop their own ecosystem for su