Are today's leaders so focused on results that they're overlooking the very thing that drives success: their people?

In Episode 16 of Leadership SOPs, host Ed Tyson welcomes Dr. Scott Paine, industrial-organizational psychologist and leadership development expert at Kaiser Permanente, for a powerful conversation about the challenges facing modern leaders.

With increasing workplace demands, shifting expectations, and mounting pressure to deliver results, leaders are struggling to balance operational performance with the human side of leadership.

Ed and Scott explore why traditionally labeled "soft skills" such as trust, emotional intelligence, accountability, vulnerability, and psychological safety are essential to building high-performing teams.

Discover how leaders can turn these concepts into practical, repeatable behaviors that strengthen workplace culture, improve collaboration, and create meaningful results.

Scott also shares his personal leadership SOPs, including the importance of owning mistakes, honoring commitments, asking for feedback, and consistently demonstrating the values you expect from others.

Together, they explore how mindset, personal responsibility, and focusing on what you can control can help leaders navigate uncertainty and inspire their teams.

Because great leadership isn't just about achieving results. It's about building the trust, relationships, and culture that make those results possible.

Whether you're an executive, manager, or emerging leader, this episode offers practical insights to help you lead with greater authenticity, accountability, and impact.

Listen now and discover how small, intentional leadership behaviors can create lasting organizational change.

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What happens when your career takes you away from the work that made you successful?

In Episode 15 of Leadership SOPs, host Ed Tyson welcomes Dr. Mayssa Attar, Senior Vice President of Pharmaceutical and Consumer R&D at Bausch + Lomb, to explore the challenging transition from technical expert to executive leader.

Drawing from her journey from scientist to senior executive, Mayssa shares why great leadership requires courage, adaptability, and the ability to empower others rather than always having the answers.

Discover how to navigate difficult colleagues, embrace career transitions, build collaborative teams, and create an environment where people feel comfortable raising challenges before they become bigger problems.

Because becoming a great leader isn't about leaving your expertise behind. It's about learning how to make an even greater impact through others.

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Flattening an organization sounds appealing: fewer management layers, lower costs, faster decisions, greater autonomy, and less bureaucracy. But what happens when the leaders who remain suddenly inherit a much heavier leadership load?

In this episode of LeadershipSOPs, Ed Tyson examines “The Great Flattening,” the growing organizational trend of eliminating management layers and expanding spans of control. While flattening can create real value, Ed challenges leaders to look beyond headcount and organizational charts before deciding which management roles are truly unnecessary.

Ed breaks down six critical leadership accountabilities: governance, coordination, integration, quality, performance, and stewardship. He explains why two managers with the same number of direct reports can carry dramatically different leadership workloads depending on the complexity, risk, interdependence, expertise, and demands of their teams.

He also challenges the idea that there is a universal “right” number of direct reports. Instead, organizations should determine how much leadership work actually needs to be done, how much capacity a manager has, and whether the next leader up can realistically absorb those responsibilities if a management layer disappears.

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