Voices of Influence
A few years ago, I launched this blog with the idea of sharing insights, ideas, and inspiration. It is my hope that the lessons and ideas shared here help you in some way whether that is fast-tracking your career or overcoming procrastination.
When I started, I thought it was worth it if I made a real difference to just one person.
I’m happy to report that at least one person has found it life-changing. That person is me. I learn far more by sharing these ideas than you can imagine. What an incredible experience to have the opportunity to learn from so many people.
Thank you for reading, for commenting, and for sharing these posts. I appreciate all of you and look forward to getting to know you better in the coming months.
Below are some of the leadership interviews and posts with thought leaders from a variety of fields on numerous topics. I hope you find one you missed and that it positively influences your year ahead.
Leadership, Management & Execution
- Leadership Moxie: What It Is and Why You Need It (John Baldoni)
- Leaders Open Doors (Bill Treasurer)
- Dan Rather on Leadership (Dan Rather)
- The Power of Executive Candor (L. J. Rittenhouse)
- Leading From The Shadows (Richard Hytner)
- Macaroni and Cheese With a Side of Leadership (Ari Weinzweig)
- Lead Positive: What Highly Effective Leaders See, Say, and Do (Dr. Kathy Cramer)
- Take Command: Leadership Lessons from A First Responder (Jake Wood)
- Why Adapting in the Social Age is Key to Survival (Ted Coine, Mark Babbitt)
- CEO Joel Manby on How Leading a Company With Love Works (Joel Manby)
- 7 Triggers That Can Transform Your Business (Daniel Burrus)
- Michael Hyatt on Leadership (Michael Hyatt)
- Becoming A Heart-Centered Leader (Susan Steinbrecher)
- 3 Challenges for Emerging Leaders (Anya Kamenetz)
- How to Lead in a Crisis (Gisli Olafsson)
- Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed (Mark Divine)
- How to Overcome Leadership Blindspots (Robert Bruce Shaw)
- 3 Ways to Motivate Your Team (David Long)
- What’s Your Leadership Legacy? (Andrew Thorn)
- Intelligent Leadership (John Mattone)
- Learn the Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks (August Turak)
- Innate Leadership: It’s Already Inside (Robert Murray)
- The Challenge of Trusting Leadership (Scott Weiss)
- Fred Returns With New Ideas to Deliver Extraordinary Results (Mark Sanborn)
- Leading Through the 5 Stages of Change (Jim Huling)
- Master the 4 Disciplines of Execution (Jim Huling)
- John Baldoni On Leadership (John Baldoni)
- The Power of Convergence (Faisal Hoque)
- Gain Competitive Advantage Through Servant Leadership (Bill Flint)
- Finding the Next Steve Jobs (Nolan Bushnell)
- 7 Facts of Business Success (Bill McBean)
- Leading So People Will Follow (Erika Andersen)
- A Leadership Course for the Rising Star (Kevin Allen)
- Lead With Humility: 12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis (Jeffrey Krames)
- 5 Ways to Increase Trust in the Workplace (James M. Kerr)
- Serve to Be Great: 7 Lessons from Matt Tenney (Matt Tenney)
- 5 Reasons Why Leaders Must Sometimes Take A Back Seat (Matt Driscoll)
- Note to Managers: Stop Making Decisions (Dennis Bakke)
- How Are Negotiation and Leadership Related? (Steve Brown)
- 5 Leadership Traits for High Performance (Eric Lowitt)
- 4 Leadership Secrets of Alexander the Great (Joe Scherrer)
- 4 Leadership Lessons From a Coach, a Dream and a Miracle (Dave Arnold)
- What A Teenager Dying of Cancer Taught Me About Leadership (Matt Tenney)
Leadership Communication
- The Power of Executive Candor (L. J. Rittenhouse)
- When Sorry Isn’t Enough (Jennifer Thomas, Gary Chapman)
- Better Communication, Not Just More Communication (Geoffrey Tumlin)
- Saying More With Less (Joseph McCormack)
Leadership Lessons from Music
- 7 Lessons on Giving from Jimmy Wayne (Jimmy Wayne)
- Lee Greenwood Asks: Does God Still Bless the USA? (Lee Greenwood)
- Lee Greenwood – Part Two (Lee Greenwood)
- Learning From the Legacy of Johnny Cash (John Carter Cash)
- Because of What They Did We are Blessed (Beau Davidson)
Leadership & Personal Development
- Jon Gordon Shares The Greatest Success Strategies of All (Jon Gordon)
- How to Develop Your Inner Edge (Joelle Jay)
- 5 Principles of Ultimate Influence (Bob Burg)
- Embracing the Tension Between Now and the Next Big Thing (Jeff Goins)
- Why Your Success Depends on Being Off Balance (Dan Thurmon)
- Practicing Personal Responsibility (John Miller)
- What’s Your Purpose? (John Baldoni)
- Treat Me Like a Customer (Louis Upkins)
- How to Ace the Interview and Win the Job (Paul Frieberger)
- What’s the Future of Business? (Brian Solis)
- Working for Good (Jeff Klein)
- Are You Living or Existing? (Kimanzi Constable)
- Stick With It (Lee Colan)
- When Your Parent Becomes Your Child (Ken Abraham)
- Simplify Your Life (Sam Davidson)
- Get Your Shift Together! (Steve Rizzo)
- 10 Lessons in Teamwork (Dennis Perkins)
- Turning Pain Into Strength (Robert Goolrick)
- Make Your Days Count (Robert D. Smith)
- What’s Your Yes? (Mike Glenn)
- 7 Customer Service Strategies for an Amazing Customer Experience (Shep Hyken)
- Better Communication, Not Just More Communication (Geoffrey Tumlin)
- The Power of a Mentor (Andy Andrews)
- 3 Smartcuts to Accelerate Your Success (Shane Snow)
- Why Winners Take Risks (Tom Panaggio)
- Reaching Your Peak Performance (Scott Addis)
- Embrace the Chaos (Bob Miglani)
- Saying More With Less (Joseph McCormack)
- Tips for New Graduates: How to Start Your Professional Life (Robert Dilenschneider)
- Immaculee Ilibagiza and the Power of Forgiveness (Immaculee Ilibagiza)
- How Hard Is It to Be Honest? (Dan Ariely)
- An Interview With a Capitalist Anarchist (Ari Weinzweig)
- Is Your Brain the Fountain of Youth? (Dr. Amen)
- Are You Low on Rocket Fuel? (Tim Sanders)
- The Importance of Character and Trust (Frank Sonnenberg)
- Consider: Harness the Power of Reflective Thinking (Daniel Patrick Forrester)
- 7 Tenets of Taxi Terry (Scott McKain)
- When Sorry Isn’t Enough (Jennifer Thomas, Gary Chapman)
- Pick the Low-Hanging Fruit to Improve Productivity (Jeremy Eden and Terri Long)
- Look and Feel Better Once and For All (Ken Blanchard)
- What Moment Will Change Your Life? (Laura Schroff)
- How Will You Measure Your Life? (Clay Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon)
- Andy Andrews on Why Truth Matters (Andy Andrews)
- A Quick Start for Your Day – My Conversation With Joel Osteen (Joel Osteen)
- Ree Drummond: A Pioneer in Every Sense of the Word (Ree Drummond)
- 3 Essential Keys to Navigate Your Political Force Field (Joe Scherrer)
- Success Starts With Self-Mastery: 7 Effective Strategies(Thai Nguyen)
- Provoking Thoughts With Tremendous Books (Aamir Musharraf)
- The Action Habit: 7 Proven Ways to Move from Deciding to Doing (Chris Shilling)
- To Speak Fearlessly, Take Yourself Out of the Equation (Gary Genard)
- Fear of Failure: Why It’s Essential to Success (Bill Blankschaen)
- Power Is Not A Dirty Word (Achim Nowak)
- How Introverts Can Be Great Leaders (Jacob Shriar)
- Failure Is Not Defeat (Tom Panaggio)
- How to Conduct A Job Interview Without Getting Sued (Johanna Harris)
- How to Get Through Your Writing Faster (Laura Brown)
- Gender Diversity: The New Balanced Scorecard (G. Shawn Hunter)
- Confidence: More Compelling Than Competence (Derek Lewis)
- The Hardest Part is Getting Started (Jeremy Statton)
Leadership & Workplace Culture
- How to Create an Extraordinary Workplace (Ron Friedman)
- Improve Your Happiness At Work (Kevin Kruse)
- Delivering Happiness — At Zappos and Beyond (Tony Hsieh)
- Make Work Happy (Jill Geisler)
- Treating Employees Like Associates(J.D. “Dave” Power III)
- How to Create a Winning Business Culture (Sandra Mills)
- CEO Joel Manby on How Leading a Company With Love Works (Joel Manby)
Marketing, Branding & Sales
- Overcoming Rejection: Why No is A Good Thing (Tom Hopkins)
- How to Create Brand Names That Stick (Alexandra Watkins)
- 7 Brand Building Principles of the Best Brands (Denise Lee Yohn)
- Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success (Dan Schawbel)
- Using Improvised Persuasion to Achieve Your Goals (Steve Yastrow)
- 3 Tools to Break Through the Noise (Jonah Sachs)
- Influencing Others The Go-Giver Way (Bob Burg)
- 3 Steps to Building Your Online Presence With Ron Edmondson (Ron Edmondson)
- Michael Hyatt’s Advice on How to Get Noticed in a Noisy World (Michael Hyatt)
- 4 Cornerstones to Create Distinction (Scott McKain)
- Selling Fearlessly (Robert Terson)
- Reinvent Your Personal Brand (Karen Kang)
- How to Get Through to Almost Anyone with Soar Selling (David and Marhnelle Hibbard)
- How to Read a Client from Across the Room (Brandy Mychals)
Creativity & Innovation
- How to Jumpstart Innovation (Jeff DeGraff)
- Orbit Shifting Innovation (Rajiv Narang and Devika Devaiah)
- Notes on Creativity and Success from Diana Gabaldon (Diana Gabaldon)
- The Creative Processes of 4 Best-Selling Thriller Writers (Michael Connelley, Michael Kortya, Nelson DeMille, Brad Meltzer)
- Which Creative Style Are You? (Chris Grivas)
- 5 Surprising Hacks That Will Boost Creativity In Minutes (Greg Fisher)
- 3 Myths About Creativity (David B. Goldstein)
- Innovation Expert Jeff DeGraff on Building a Better YOU (Jeff DeGraff)
- Jonah Lehrer on Boosting Creativity (Jonah Lehrer)
- 10 Myths of Creativity (David Burkus)
- Learn How to Enhance Your Own Creative Genius (Dr. Tina Seelig)
- 4 Proven Ways to Boost Your Creative Genius (David Burkus)
Strategy
- 5 Critical Moments to Evaluate Your Strategy (Rich Horwath)
- 3 Common Mistakes of Strategic Planning (Rich Horwath)
- How to Stay Relevant and Ahead of the Competition (Andrea Coville)
- Out Execute the Competition (Irv Rothman)
- Discussing Escape Velocity with Geoffrey Moore (Geoffrey Moore)
- How to Ruin a Business Without Really Trying (MJ Gottlieb)
- Shape Your Company’s Future (Max Mckeown)
- Harvard’s Cynthia Montgomery Asks: Are You A Strategist? (Cynthia Montgomery)
- Everything Connects: An Interview with Faisal Hoque (Faisal Hoque)
Technology, Mobile & Analytics
- Silent Intelligence: What A Smarter World Will Mean For You (Daniel Obodovski)
- The 8 Biggest Mobile Mistakes Companies Make (Tom Eslinger)
- Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight (John Foreman)
- The Surprising Predictive Power of Analytics (Dr. Eric Siegel)
- Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing (Hod Lipson, Melba Kurman)
Leadership Lessons from the World of Sports
- Life Lessons from Golf Great Annika Sorenstam (Annika Sorenstam)
- Taking Your Team to the Top (Ted Sundquist)
- Strategies to Develop Major League Leadership (Howard Fero and Rebecca Herman)
- How Mets Pitcher R.A. Dickey Overcame Obstacles On & Off the Field (R.A. Dickey)
- John Smoltz on the Benefits of Failure (John Smoltz)
- 51 Days : No Excuses (Rich Gaspari)
- Triathlete Chrissie Wellington on Achieving Your Goals (Chrissie Wellington)
- Buzz Bissinger: From Friday Night Lights to Fatherhood (Buzz Bissinger)
- Hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis Achieves the “Impossible” (Jennifer Pharr Davis)
- A Small Town’s Shot at Forever (Chris Ballard)
- Senator Bill Bradley on How We Can All Do Better (Bill Bradley)
Lessons from Best-selling Fiction Authors
- Lessons and Quotes from John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
- Tips for Aspiring Authors from Maile Meloy (Maile Meloy)
- Interview with Bestselling Author David Baldacci (David Baldacci)
- Tom Perrotta Talks Leftovers (Not Last Night’s Meal) (Tom Perotta)
- Brad Meltzer’s Success Formula Decoded (Brad Meltzer)
- Maile Meloy — Literature’s Newest Apothecary (Maile Meloy)
- A Conversation With Neil Abramson (Neil Abramson)
- Shifting Gears: Ann Patchett from Writing to Selling (Ann Patchett)
- The Prolific Walter Mosley (Walter Mosley)
- Notes on Creativity and Success from Diana Gabaldon (Diana Gabaldon)
- What It Is To Be A Good American (Alex George)
- The Magical World of Erin Morgenstern (Erin Morgenstern)
- Karin Slaughter on Setting, Procrastination and the Importance of Libraries (Karin Slaughter)
- Crime Writer Jo Nesbo on Phantom (Jo Nesbo)
- Heading Out to Wonderful (Robert Goolrick)
- The Creative Processes of 4 Best-Selling Thriller Writers (Michael Connelley, Michael Kortya, Nelson DeMille, Brad Meltzer)
Leadership in Politics, History & News
- What Was So Great About Catherine the Great? (Robert Massie)
- A Conversation with Condoleezza Rice (Condoleezza Rice)
- 7 Lessons of Extraordinary Resilience from Lee Woodruff (Lee Woodruff)
- Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count? (Barbara Simons)
- Dan Rather On His Life In the News (Dan Rather)
- Lessons from Lincoln (Stephen Mansfield)
- Andy Andrews on Why Truth Matters (Andy Andrews)
