No Clichés - the podcast from A Bold Leader

Face To Face is a leadership book, but one unlike anything you’ve ever read - in both format and content.

Career healthcare executive, hospital president, international performance consultant and author Cheryl Lynn Mobley was inspired to write Face To Face by the intersection of trust, disruption and uncertainty and her experiences on an African horse safari - where she and her group came face to face with threats that could end th...

In your worst nightmares, you’ll likely never have to defend your office against an armed terrorist. Tim White, however, had to do exactly that on July 16th, 2015.

It was the last full day of Ramadan when terrorist Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez rammed his vehicle through the gate of Chattanooga’s Navy Operational Support Center and approached the headquarters building with an AK74 semi-automatic rifle. Inside, the Center’s Commanding...

When something goes wrong in Navy aviation, it’s called a “mishap”. When it goes tragically wrong - the kind of wrong that leaves someone dead or strikes an entire aircraft from the Navy’s inventory - it’s called a “Class A mishap”. It didn’t take the Navy Safety Center long to determine the Tango 5 fire to be a Class A mishap.

Had we caused the fire? Had we contributed to it?

The 2022 cohort of Leadership Fort Worth's CEO-level program, LeaderPrime, recently graduated. To kick off the commencement, TD Smyers moderated a panel of respected leadership academicians discussing engagement of today's workforce and the new irrelevance of command & control leadership. What you thought you knew about leading our Millennial and GenZ workforce is about to get reset.

From the University of Texas at Arlington - ...

If you've ever had to endure a dysfunctional workplace culture or tiptoe around a supposed teammate who's looking for a reason to lodge a new complaint against somebody, you may think you know toxic. Well, I'm here to tell you - Pete Havel knows toxic.

A former lobbyist for some of the biggest, most powerful organizations in the US, Pete’s shocking corporate experience was the inspiration for his book The Arsonist in the Office: Fi...

If you google Dan Pallotta, he comes up identified as an "American Entrepreneur".  While true enough, this description is really only part of the story. Dan is a visionary, a development economics guru with a Harvard sheepskin, a social sector champion and a bold leader. You may already know of of him, since he's been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Forbes magazine, among others. Or you m...

Leading boldly isn’t always about breaking the rules. A bold leader’s best moments often come from navigating a group through unknown territory, a threatening situation, or even an unpopular requirement. This story features all three. Although these events took place at the very end of the 20th Century, my story opens up with a topic that is very contemporary and very controversial – mandatory vaccinations.

Bold isn't fearless. Fearless doesn't exist in the sane, rational leader. Courage certainly does, but courage is different. Courage isn't the absence of fear. It's the conquest of it.

In fact, in my experience bold isn't homogenous at all. It's a complex mix of sometimes competing traits. A good analogy this time of year is to think of bold as a kind of stew. A hearty recipe with just a few key ingredients.

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