Are you a leader who wants to help your team learn to risk more and fail well? In this episode, Harvard Business School professor Amy C. Edmondson sits down with our Jason Jaggard to unpack her research behind her latest book, The Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well. Their conversation includes the difference between a mistake and a failure, the 3 categories of failures, and how to encourage a team to experiment and learn quickly.
For leaders, there’s no avoiding failure; it just comes with the territory. However, how leaders respond when things don’t go as planned—how they lead through failure—is absolutely critical. This month, we are going to focus on ways that leaders can lead through failure and turn potential disappointment into powerful lessons for growth and renewal. In this episode, GLN President and CEO, David Ashcraft, shares stories of times when things did not go as planned, and how he has learned to “fail well” over time.
Hospitality is one of the most powerful differentiators that an organization possesses, but it can be challenging to create and sustain it across an entire culture. In this episode, cofounder and former president of Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Horst Schulze, shares hospitality insights from a legendary career with GLN President and CEO, David Ashcraft. If you’re a leader who is interested in creating a culture of excellence and customer-focused hospitality, we invite you listen in to this rich conversation!
It’s not often that you get to listen to someone who has literally been rated the best in the world in their craft, but that is exactly what this episode is about. Under Will Guidara’s Leadership, Eleven Madison Park (EMP) received 3 Michelin Stars, and was rated the #1 restaurant in the world. In this conversation with GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft, recorded live at the Global Leadership Summit, Will shares about the power of hospitality for all businesses and organizations. He also shares some of the leadership principles that created a winning culture at EMP. If you have ever wanted to learn from someone operating at the peak of their profession, this episode is just right for you.
What should leaders know about hospitality? What does it mean to be welcoming? Whitney Putnam (GLN VP of Marketing and Global Leadership Podcast Host) and David Ashcraft (GLN President and CEO) kick off this month’s focus with a focus on the importance of hospitality. In the conversation, David reflects on the impact hospitality can have on guests and/or customers, and how showing unreasonable hospitality to others can positively impact a team.
What’s your story? More specifically, is the story that you tell yourself releasing you to live your best life, or is it holding you back? In this episode, Global Leadership Summit Executive Producer Lori Hermann sits down with storytelling expert and author Kindra Hall to explore why story has such extraordinary power and to share some steps we all can take to make sure our inner stories are not undermining our deepest dreams.
Have you ever wished you could learn from someone at the absolute top of their craft? In this episode of the Global Leadership Podcast, you get to listen in as GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft speaks with author, entrepreneur, and master communicator Erwin McManus about his concept of seven frequencies of communication. If you are curious about how communicating—both speaking and listening—can be used to remove barriers from your life and unlock hidden potential in others, we invite you to join us for this powerful and engaging conversation.
Effective communication is a critical, but sometimes overlooked, aspect of leadership. Used correctly, effective and clear communication ensures that our messages get heard, our vision gets communicated, and our people feel seen and heard. Recently, podcast host and GLN VP of Marketing Whitney Putnam sat down with GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft to introduce this month’s theme of effective communication, and to hear about his own best practices around communication from over 30 years of strategic leadership.
In this second episode about the 2024 Global Leadership Summit, GLN VP of Marketing and podcast host Whitney Putnam talks with Craig Groeschel and Jo Saxton about how they were personally impacted by this year’s Summit. We invite you to listen in as Craig and Jo share their highlights and challenges that they heard and also some of the ideas and actions that they are implementing immediately on their teams.
As the 2024 Global Leadership Summit wrapped up, we sat down with David Ashcraft, President and CEO of the Global Leadership Network. In this conversation with Whitney Putnam (GLN VP of Marketing), David shares some of his highlights and takeaways from this year’s Summit, and looks forward to GLS2025.
Our world has never been more in need of healthy, growing leaders. In a world of tension and anxiety, we need men and women who have the courage to respond to the call to lead and who impact their communities positively by diligently using their influence to make things better. The Global Leadership Podcast hopes to educate and inspire growing leaders in our world, and to inspire everyone to “lead where they are at.” In this special episode of the Global Leadership Podcast, Whitney Putnam (VP of Marketing, GLN) talks with David Ashcraft (President and CEO, GLN) about some exciting changes coming for Season 8 of the Global Leadership Podcast.
Over an astonishing 45 years, Fred Martin, Founder and CEO of Objective Measure, built a career marked by consistent success and a commitment to leadership. In this conversation with GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft, Fred shares about how his faith affects his ability to lead, how he strives to continue growing as a leader, and how his vision for how to help everyday people learn to ask fruitful questions about investing and managing their money.
Initially, Megan Tamte did not think of herself as an entrepreneur, but after a disappointing shopping experience triggered a patient and faith-filled journey, she and her husband Mike launched—and now are Co-CEOs of—EVEREVE, a national chain of over 100 stores and a thriving ecommerce site as well. Recently, Megan sat down with GLS Executive Producer Lori Hermann to talk about her journey to launch EVEREVE, how she co-leads with her husband, and how she leverages her strengths as a learning leader to keep EVEREVE moving forward. We hope you enjoy this engaging conversation.
Global Leadership Podcast team members Eric Case and Aubrey Wentz recently sat down with Julie Baumgardner, Senior Director of WinShape Marriage, to discuss the relationship between the health of our home and relational worlds and our work performance. Julie has spent over 20 years working—first as a counselor and now as an executive-level leader—to build healthy families, and in this conversation with Eric and Aubrey she shares how work life can be impacted by challenges at home and offers some practical tips for starting healthy conversations that can lead to healing.
Recently, GLN CEO & President David Ashcraft sat down with Cliff Robinson, Executive VP and “Chief People Person” at Chick-fil-A. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to sit in a room with an experienced, high-level leader and listen to them share practical experience and wisdom, this is a great episode to dive into! Cliff discusses how the Chick-fil-A is able to place such a high value on people while simultaneously maintaining a high standard of product and customer service. Cliff also shares about the role of innovation at Chick-fil-A, and some techniques he personally leverages to maintain his effectiveness as he leads.
This episode is a special broadcast of Erwin Raphael McManus’ talk from GLS 2023, “Mind Shift.” Erwin is a Los Angeles-based author and artist who is obsessed with helping people identify and eliminate the self-imposed, internal barriers that keep them from realizing their unique genius.
Fernando Carillo is an Anglican priest, entrepreneur and leadership coach based in London, England, and recently sat down with podcast team member Jason Jaggard at the 2023 Global Leadership Summit. In this episode, Jason and Fernando discuss his upbringing, the extraordinary life change he went through, as well as the role leadership plays in helping individuals step into their calling and purpose.
We invite you to join us for this episode as Global Leadership Podcast Co-Producers Eric Case and Aubrey Wentz sit down with Rebecca Taguma, Executive Director of the Trauma Healing Institute) to discuss how the effects of unresolved trauma on individuals, and some practical steps that leaders can take to get help for those affected in their churches and on their teams.
CEO, executive coach and bestselling author Ryan Leak shares how chasing failure has taken him much farther in his life than safety and security. Global Leadership Podcast team member Lori Hermann explores Ryan’s upbringing, the significant events that have defined his leadership, and how following through change can be just as challenging as leading through change.
In this episode, Global Leadership Podcast interviewer Jason Jaggard sits down with Chris McChesney, co-author of The Four Disciplines of Execution, to revisit the book and to explore how the four disciplines can impact our lives outside the business world. IN THIS EPISODE: - What is a basic overview of the “Four Disciplines of Execution”? - How can you learn to focus what is most important, but is not necessarily the most urgent? - What “levers” can you affect that make it seem like your intended result is a winnable game? - What has being a parent taught Chris about leadership, and how can the four disciplines be applied to a family? LISTEN Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube STANDOUTS AND TAKEAWAYS - It’s better to fall in love with a problem than it is to fall in love with a solution. - All of the “have tos” in our life is called “The Whirlwind.” The “One” is the strategic result in your life that is going to require disproportionate effort. - Human beings have the capacity to handle “the whirlwind plus one.” - It’s best to not give your frontline teams the answers; get their commitment and engagement by making them a part of the process. - The Four Disciplines can actually be a way to protect the entrepreneurial spirit of a organization. - If you want to see the highest level of engagement a human being is capable of, watch them in a game. - The strategic result you’re looking for should feel like both a high-stakes game and a winnable game. - Progress and purpose are the most important things that drive employee engagement. This fact also has profound implications for how leaders address remote work. - The whole purpose of The Four Disciplines is to achieve goals that do not feel as important as “the day job.” - If kids have one anchor of self-esteem in their life, they are able to handle the whirlwind and drama of life much more effectively. - The enemy of the human soul is not work; it’s futility. - The struggle is that as you become more successful as a company, the whirlwind grows and requires more and more. - People don’t fear change; they fear uncertainty. - Most success comes from putting huge energy into small wins. - The most significant jump is moving from leading a team to leading leaders. LINKS MENTIONED - Website: Chris McChesney - Book: The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Revised and Updated: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals - Added Value: Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex (TEDTalk via YouTube) - Added Value: “Leaders Concerned About Remote Work Should Be Looking at This Metric” - Podcast: 2018 Global Leadership Podcast - Book: The Truth About Employee Engagement: A Fable About Addressing the Three Root Causes of Job Misery (Patrick Lencioni) - Website: Global Leadership Network THIS EPISODE SPONSORED BY: - World Vision
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