Tom Peters is an American management consultant, author, and speaker, known for his groundbreaking contributions to the field of management theory and practice. He rose to prominence in the 1980s with his book "In Search of Excellence," co-authored with Robert H. Waterman Jr., which revolutionized the business world by challenging conventional thinking about organizational performance and success. Peters has since authored numerous other books and articles on management, leadership, and innovation, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential management thinkers of our time. His work has had a profound impact on how organizations approach management, and his ideas continue to shape the field of management today. 

In this podcast, Tom Peters and I discussed the following: 

• Tom's career journey, challenges faced, and experiences that have helped Tom succeed in life and most importantly as one of the living management legends. 
• Leadership lessons and what the future of leadership looks like
• Tom's philosophy on the place of the human factor in business 
• Where his idea of Personal Branding came from in the 1990s- Tom started the idea around personal branding. 
• How professionals can stand out in the age of AI, Digitization, and all the buzz out there 
• Women's leadership- why the world of business needs to pay more attention to women because of their unique skills and talents and 
• How Tom reinvents himself. 

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Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentorship and leadership development. In 2021, she was selected as one of 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar List, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking, and recently won the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement “Radar” Award, ranking her the #1 emerging management thinker in the world to bridge theory and practice. She is also a semi-finalist for the Forbes 50 Over 50 list. In addition to publishing in academic journals, she is a contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today where she writes about ‘optimizing success’. Her research is about the mindset and skill set of peak performers, including Nobel laureates, astronauts, and Olympic champions, which she writes about in her book, The Success Factor.

What does success look like for you and how would you define success? Certainly not the same as everyone else's but according to my guest, Dr. Ruth Gotian, she defined success as 'someone who moves the needle in their field.' She spent years researching the world's most successful people- including medical superstars like Dr. Anthony Fauci, astronaut Nicole Stott, NBA Champion Steve Kerr, and several Nobel Prize winners.

In this podcast, Dr. Gotian shares the details of her many years of researching the world's most successful people- including medical superstars like Dr. Anthony Fauci, astronaut Nicole Stott, NBA Champion Steve Kerr, and several Nobel Prize winners. 

She defined success as 'someone who moves the needle in their field' and there are four mindsets (not habits) common to all these high achievers.  These are

1.  Intrinsic motivation
2. Work ethic
3. Strong foundation, and 
4. Continuous Learning through informal learning. 

We also talked about the following:

• Experiences that most shaped who Dr. Ruth Gotian is today
• The myths and misconceptions about success 
• Whether success is for everyone
• Whether success is learnable
• Ways To Redefine Success Now

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Curiosity has been a hot topic over the years because most of the breakthrough discoveries and remarkable inventions throughout history, from flints for starting a fire to self-driving cars, have something in common: They are the result of curiosity. Like other animals, humans are learning machines and that's why scientists referred to us as “informavores,” creatures who search for and digest information just as carnivores hunt for and eat meat.

What Does Curiosity Have to Do with Leadership?

I sat with Dr. Diane Hamilton, a sought-after expert in emotional intelligence and behavioral science with nearly four decades of real-world experience, she's the creator of the Curiosity Code Index® and the author of five books sold worldwide. She is a thought leader in the fields of leadership, sales, marketing, management, engagement, personality, curiosity, perception, and motivation and is known for increasing engagement, improving productivity and reducing conflict. Thinkers50 Radar chose her as one of the top minds in management and leadership.

In this podcast, Dr. Diane Hamilton and I discussed the following:

1. What is curiosity and its significance

2. The link between successful leaders and curiosity.

3. How does curiosity translate into business results?

4. How organizations can foster a culture of curiosity and innovation where people are open and free to experiment with new ideas and concepts in order to unlock their full potential

5. Whether curiosity changes as we age and why we lose our childlike curiosity as we grow

6. What inhibits curiosity and how do we overcome the inhibitors of curiosity

7. How we can retrain our brain to develop curiosity

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Ram Charan is a world-renowned business consultant, author, and speaker who has spent the past 40 years working with many top companies, CEOs, and boards of our time.  In his work with companies including Toyota, Bank of America, Key Bank, ICICI Bank, Aditya Birla Group, Novartis, Max Group, Yildiz Holdings, UST Global, Fast Retailing (Uniqlo), Humana, Matrix, Ram is known for cutting through the complexity of running a business in today’s fast changing environment to uncover the core business problem. Ram has coached more than a dozen leaders who went on to become CEOs. He reaches many more up-and-coming business leaders through in-house executive education programs. His energetic, interactive teaching style has won him several awards, including the Bell Ringer award at GE’s famous Crotonville Institute and best teacher award at Northwestern. He was among BusinessWeek‘s top ten resources for in-house executive development programs.

In the past, companies generally boasted of their greatest competitive advantage with the number of labour, capital, factories, land, physical assets, etc. Unfortunately, the rules of the game are changing and changing so fast and thanks to digitization. In this podcast episode, Dr Ram Charan , he provides an overview of how leaders — of both traditional and digital companies— can increase their chances of success in the digital age. 

In this episode, we talked about how the tech giants (Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba and others ) have radically rewritten the rules of business. If you want to win, you need to learn to play a new game. He shares 6 rules and they're:

Rule #1.  A personalized consumer experience is key to exponential growth.

Rule #2. Algorithms and data are essential weapons.

Rule #3. A company does not compete. Its ecosystem does.

Rule #4. Moneymaking is geared toward huge cash generation, not earnings per share, and the new law of increasing returns. Funders understand the difference.

Rule #5. People, culture, and work design form a “social engine” that drives innovation and execution personalized for each customer.

Rule #6. Leaders continuously learn, imagine, and break through obstacles to create the change that other companies must contend with.

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In a world of increasing change, there has never been a greater need to identify what HR professionals must be, know, do, and deliver to contribute more fully to their organizations. In this podcast, Dave Ulrich, a highly influential figure within Human Resources and Leadership who is also the Rensis Likert Professor at the Ross School of Business, the University of Michigan, and a partner at the RBL Group, (http://www.rbl.net).

In this episode, we discussed the following: 

• Trends & evolving business realities that HR & HR professionals must contend with as a result of many ongoing crises- Covid-19, Social unrest, Recession, etc.
• The competencies needed by HR professionals to deliver personal, stakeholder, and business results
• Dave's view on Ram Charan's radical proposal of splitting HR into two strands
• Relevance of Ulrich-Model aka HRBP Model
• Automation & HR
• Employee Experience
• Dave's simple approach to performance management
• How Dave got into the HR profession
• And more...

Some Notable Quotes

In Performance management, the conversation is more important than the system"

Dave Ulrich

HR shouldn't focus on what the new trend in performance management or employee engagement is, but on how it positively affects business stakeholders.

Dave Ulrich

We should shift from workplace planning to "work task" planning; identifying tasks that align to business goals, and deciding the mode of hiring (Full-time/Contract/Technology)."

Dave Ulrich

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Whitney Johnson is an Executive Coach and Author of the critically acclaimed Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Whitney is Recognized as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers. A prolific speaker on driving innovation through personal disruption. She is a popular contributor to the Harvard Business Review and has almost 1.8 million followers on LinkedIn. According to Whitney, "Disrupting yourself is critical to avoiding stagnation and fast-tracking your personal and career growth. It involves stepping back from who you are today in order to slingshot forward into who you could be tomorrow."

How do you make personal disruption happen in your life, career, and business in this chaotic world without burning yourself? 

In this episode, Whitney and I discussed:

• What Personal Disruption is and Why you Should Care
• How to identify where you are on your career and life S-Curves
• How you can rapidly scale your S-curve(s) in order to reach the top of your career and achieve success.
• Best way to take the right risks in this chaotic world
• How to play to your distinctive strengths
• How to help your team identify their disruptive skills as a leader
• Whitney's story of how she successfully disrupted her career several times.

#DoyinAdebayo #PerformanceAdvisor #PerformanceToolsPodcast #WhitneyJohnson #Podcast #PersonalDisruption

Here's the brutal fact: 70% of all change initiatives fail. In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard, and provided an actionable, 8-step process for implementing successful transformations.

In this podcast with Emeritus Prof John P. Kotter- widely regarded as the authority on Leadership and Change Management- he shared many insights and perspectives with me.

In this episode, we talked about:

• Why change program fail & what you can do about it
• The place of culture and leadership in transformation
• Dialogue around one of Kotter International’s clients who has seen the most significant impact in leading change as a result of applying Kotter's 8-step Model of Change
• How to manage the expectations of various constituencies that have an interest in an organizational change.
• Just one characteristic of today’s leaders among several others

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