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Lead with a Story Podcast | Lessons in leadership, one story at a time

Paul Smith

Based on interviews with 100 executives and leaders at dozens of successful companies around the world as they learned their most important leadership lessons – sometimes the hard way. Featu...

Episodes

10 episodes

10 Tips to Succeed in Middle Management

Middle management gets a bad rap. It brings to mind terrible bosses from the Dilbert cartoons or Michael Scott from The Office , or a career...

21:37May 18, 2021

3 Simple Tools for the Self-Aware Leader

“My experience as a leader is that all the conversations that really mattered happened in corridors when I was in transition from one...

29:30Apr 14, 2021

The Spare Room

Imagine you’re driving home from work one night around 8 pm. It’s cold. It’s raining. And there’s a dirty, slushy, m...

26:07Apr 12, 2021

Transparency vs. Clarity: One is Necessary for Good Leadership, One is Not

“Hi, my name’s John. I just wanted to introduce myself. I’m the new CFO here at the airline.” “So f–ing...

24:02Apr 9, 2021

What Drug Addiction Taught Me About Being a Better Leader

How Michael Brody-Waite went from a drug addict on the street to CEO and what you can learn about leadership from his journey. read more

39:30Jan 5, 2021

Learning from Leaders

Humor Engineer, Drew Tarvin, recently partnered with the Procter & Gamble alumni organization to start a new podcast with former P&G executi...

7:26Aug 27, 2020

The 10-hour Plan to Publish a Bestseller

“Hey Paul, I’m thinking about writing a book. Can we talk? I’d love to get some advice.” I can’t tell you how...

37:17Jul 27, 2020

From Frustration to Founder: Building a Business That Should Have Been There Already

Jason Hartman has been earned a small fortune in real estate across 11 states and 17 cities. His office boasts pictures of him with Richard...

25:40Jun 12, 2020

Monkeying around with corporate policy 2

IMAGINE CONDUCTING this experiment. Put five monkeys in a cage with a bunch of bananas hanging from the ceiling. Underneath the bananas, pla...

8:34Apr 23, 2020

9 Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Future

Confession: I was a little disappointed when I started reading this book and realized it was fiction. I thought I was reading a serious, non...

25:47Feb 5, 2020