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Why Diversity Builds Stronger Leaders: Emerge and Evolve, Episode 9

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May 24, 2022

For this episode of Emerge and Evolve, Heather Combs and I talk about how diversity of thought, experience, and opinion ultimately builds stronger leaders, leadership teams, and companies. Heather served…

Making & Managing Acquisitions: Emerge and Evolve, Episode 8

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May 16, 2022

Dan Henderson joins me for this episode of Emerge and Evolve to talk about acquisitions, an important, potentially vital tool for growth that the evolving leader must use judiciously. Dan…

Scaling Culture & Developing a Common Ideology: Emerge and Evolve, Episode 7

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May 10, 2022

Earlier in my career as a CEO, our Chief Growth Officer Bobby Christian and I butted heads over whether culture is something that can be managed and cultivated. Bobby believes…

Finding Great Mentors & The Importance of Mentorship: Emerge and Evolve, Episode 6

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May 3, 2022

I first got to know Mark Timm during a leadership master class conducted by Michael Hyatt that Mark and I both attended. We became fast friends over the course of…

Mastering the Fundamentals of Leadership: Emerge and Evolve, Episode 5

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April 26, 2022

Alan Stein, Jr., keynote speaker and author of the recently released book Sustain Your Game, joins me for episode 5 of Emerge and Evolve to talk about the importance of…

Leadership + Emotional Intelligence: Emerge and Evolve, Episode 4

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April 19, 2022

Emotional intelligence is often overlooked when we’re thinking of the most important leadership intangibles. Far too frequently, leadership is mistaken for charisma, or even popularity or social ease. For this…

Leadership & The Stages of Growth, Continued: Emerge and Evolve, Episode 3

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April 19, 2022

Bobby Christian joins us again for episode 3 of Emerge and Evolve to continue our discussion on how and why your leadership focus and capabilities must adapt as your company…

Leadership & the Stages of Growth: Emerge and Evolve, Episode 2

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April 19, 2022

Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post called The Stages of Entrepreneurial Growth. It was a short post that was almost entirely comprised of an email that Bobby Christian,…

Why Are We Here?: Emerge and Evolve, Episode 1

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April 19, 2022

For the first episode of my new series, Emerge and Evolve: Becoming the Leader You Were Made to Be, I talked with host Will Sherlin about why I felt compelled…

Why Leadership is a Learned Skill (and How You Can Boost Your Own Skills)

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January 20, 2022

There are a few common misconceptions around leadership that hold many people back from taking on leadership roles. One of the most frequent flawed refrains is that leadership is innate.…