Grow Great - A City Government Leadership Podcast

Grow Great - A City Government Leadership Podcast


Latest Episodes

I Hate To Lose, But I Hate Not Playing More – Grow Great Daily Brief #236 – June 26, 2019
June 26, 2019

Growing up in the era where business was considered a zero-sum game - meaning, I win at your expense or you win at my expense - competition was fostered. Prized. - You wanted to dominate and ruin the competition. The object,

7X7 Fast Start Small Business Coaching – Grow Great Daily Brief #235 – June 25, 2019
June 25, 2019

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”              —Viktor Frankl Speed is a crucial component when it comes to making me...

Who You Surround Yourself With Matters – Grow Great Daily Brief #234 – June 24, 2019
June 24, 2019

The Peer Advantage by Bula Network is now enrolling charter members. Today's show is a brief outline of why you may want to consider applying today. - This is a paid, professional peer advantage group (a mastermind group,

Three Leadership Shortages: Stewardship – Grow Great Daily Brief #233 – June 21, 2019
June 21, 2019

Stewardship is the last of the 3 leadership shortages I've focused on this week. There are so many more, but it can be like grabbing a porcupine. You just don't know where to start so you may as well start somewhere. - Service was the first one.

Three Leadership Shortages: Servitude – Grow Great Daily Brief #232 – June 20, 2019
June 20, 2019

We continue our conversation about the 3 leadership shortages I see regularly. Today's topic will seem identical to yesterday's. SERVITUDE. the state of being a slave or completely subject to someone more powerful

Three Leadership Shortages: Service – Grow Great Daily Brief #231 – June 19, 2019
June 19, 2019

Starting today we're going to get our toes in the water on the three shortages I regularly see in leadership: service, servitude, and stewardship. Honestly, there are MANY leadership shortages. I'm just looking at these 3 over the next three days. -

Forgiveness: It’s Good For Business (and your employees) – Grow Great Daily Brief #230 – June 18, 2019
June 18, 2019

Touchy feely fru fru alert! - Forgiveness is a quality of the highest character. Something we should all aspire to incorporate into our lives, something we should elevate and increase as much as possible. -

Rewards & Consequences: Getting The Performance You Need From Employees – Grow Great Daily Brief #229 – June 17, 2019
June 17, 2019

All of us learned the proverbial truth that what you reward gets done. And that what gets measured can be improved. - The tougher lesson learned - and one I talked about a bit in the previous show - is that we sometimes get the rewards wrong.

Let’s Solve The Problem By Stop Making It Worse (Listening Matters) – Grow Great Daily Brief #228 – June 14, 2019
June 14, 2019

It's comically effective. Very much so. - "Is there anything you've tried that has worked better than anything else you've tried?" - They answer, "Yes." - I respond with, "Then do more of that and stop doing all that other stuff." -

The Value Of People Who Know Something You Don’t – Grow Great Daily Brief #227 – June 13, 2019
June 13, 2019

Listening is learning. - Choosing to learn is superior to choosing to be the smartest person in every room you enter. - It's born of our curiosity. How curious are you? To learn and understand things you don't yet know...or understand? -