Podcast Appearances

Deep Leadership

Jon S. Rennie's Deep Leadership podcast is among the most downloaded leadership podcasts worldwide. With Jon, I've discussed:

• why a framework is the solution to many problems leaders face,
• why trust in founders and their ability to become leaders is a prerequisite for investing money into companies, 
• why shared goals make the road ahead visible and help teams turn rather intangible vision and purpose into reality,
• why building a strong team requires more than having the right people in the right roles,
• why acting professionally 24/7 is so important for effective leadership,
• why holding team members is indispensable,
• leadership self-doubts, and

why using stories is a brilliant way to communicate fundamentals.

The Leaders Who Care

With Marian Temelkov, I had a wonderful conversation on his The Leaders Who Care podcast. Our conversation went around the following topics:

• the discoveries that led me to write The Leadership House book,
• why the command-and-control leadership style does not work anymore,
• servant leadership and inclusive leadership,
• how to build a strong team, how to set up the team for success, and how to ensure teams execute their plans,
• whether a strong team or trust is the basis of effective leadership,
• the RESPECT framework for building trust,
• why not being transparent entails mistrust in the leader,
• why a leader without followers is just a person taking a walk in the park,
• the prerequisites of a healthy culture (purpose, vision, behaviour, and truth in leadership),
• why leaders must enjoy being a leader in order to be an effective leader, and

how family businesses can deal with leadership from a business succession perspective.

Leaders of Transformation Podcast

Nicole Jansen's Leaders of Transformation Podcast is constantly on the lists of the best leadership podcasts. It has been a great pleasure to talk with Nicole about effective leadership and The Leadership House framework. We've particularly explored: 

• what is leadership
• the eight elements of the leadership house, 
• why leadership is something to be earned,
• why growing businesses is first and foremost about leadership,
• the difference between responsibility and accountability,
• the important distinctions in vertical and horizontal accountability,
• that purpose, vision, and values must be aligned to trigger the desired behaviours and create a healthy culture,
• why leaders do not have to have all answers and to know the way,
• that great leaders ask great questions,
• that great leaders build leaders, not followers,
• indicators of poor leadership, 
• that results achieved or not achieved are a good indicator for your leadership capability, 
• the RESPECT framework for building trust,
• how to restore trust after it’s been broken, and

taking action. 

Productivity Mastery

My friend Stoyan Yankov invited me two times to his great Productivity Mastery podcast. In the first session, we discussed FastScaling and how to build and scale new ventures. In the second session, we talked about how to become a highly effective leader and impact humankind. Here a few topics we talked about: 

• for whom I have written The Leadership House,
• the elements of effective leadership,
• the three overarching topics of effective leadership (team building, setting up teams for success, and execution),
• why leaders should celebrate team members who admit having made a mistake,
• why trust can ignite growth like mistrust can bring growth to a hold,
•  the RESPECT framework for building trust,
• the importance of honesty,
• truth in leadership,
• why leadership is not about making friends,
• why strong skills are required but/and not enough,
• what founders prevent from becoming effective leaders,
• the importance of effective communication,
• the typical leadership challenges,
• hard skills vs. soft skills (the human side of things),
• servant leadership,
• the difference between vulnerability and incompetence, 
• effective leaders have to do the hard things if they are the right things, 
• why building a strong team requires more than having the right people in the right roles, and
• that effective leadership is also about results.

gguttalks

Maria Matloub and I discussed on her gguttalks podcast the following topics:

• what is a leader,
• company culture,
• what makes a strong team and leadership challenges,
• dealing with self-proclaimed leaders,
• The Leadership House, 
• writing and publishing a book,
• fastscaling versus blitzscaling,
• the state of VC and company valuations,
• how to get investor attention,
• why a board member should be geographically close to the company,
• hardware versus software,
• the importance of empathizing with founders, and
• CVC and why corporates hate insolvencies.

Startup Insider (in German)

Anna-Lena Kümpel and I discussed various elements of the Leadership House framework and delved deep into the question how startup founder can transition from founder to leader.

Genius Leadership

Founders are visionaries whose passion and drive create amazing and valuable things in this world. But are vision and drive enough for building massively valuable businesses? Together with Anna Liebel, I discussed on her Genius Leadership podcast what it takes to become an effective leader. Some of the topics we covered are:

• why is leadership a privilege,
• what is the foundation of effective leadership,
• what is leadership debt,
• what can we learn about leadership from Metallica,
• how to deal with toxic team members,
• what is the leadership drama triangle, and
• what do midwives have to do with leadership.

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