12 O’Clock High

12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership brings together stories from history, the arts and movies, research and current events to consider leadership lessons. In this episode, Richard Lummis and Tom Fox are on a 10-part summer series on leadership lessons from biographies found in Plutarch’s Lives. Each week we will pair an ancient Greek and Roman to learn about their lives, the comparison and contrast between the two men and what leadership lessons with might draw from their lives. In today’s episode we look at the Greek Phocion and the Roman Cato the Younger.  Highlights include:

·       Introduction of Plutarch’s Lives as historical work.

·       Lives of Phocion and Cato the Younger.

·       Comparison in the lives of Phocion and Cato the Younger.

·       What leadership lessons can be drawn from the lives of Phocion and Cato the Younger.

Resources

Plutarch’s Lives by Bill Thayer

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12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership brings together stories from history, the arts and movies, research and current events to consider leadership lessons. In this episode, Richard Lummis and Tom Fox are in a 10-part summer series on leadership lessons from biographies found in Plutarch’s Lives. Each week we will pair an ancient Greek and Roman to learn about their lives, the comparison and contrast between the two men and what leadership lessons with might draw from their lives. In today’s episode we look at the Greek Epaminondas and the Roman Scipio Africanus. Highlights include: 

• Introduction of Plutarch’s Lives as historical work.
• Lives of Epaminondas and Scipio Africanus.
• Comparison in the lives of Epaminondas and Scipio Africanus.
• What leadership lessons can be drawn from the lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus. 

Resources

Plutarch’s Lives by Bill Thayer

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12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership brings together stories from history, the arts and movies, research and current events to consider leadership lessons. In this episode, Richard Lummis and Tom Fox begin a 10-part summer series on leadership lessons from biographies found in Plutarch’s Lives. Each week we will pair an ancient Greek and Roman to learn about their lives, the comparison and contrast between the two men and what leadership lessons with might draw from their lives. In today’s episode we look at the Greek Alcibiades and the Roman Coriolanus.  Highlights include:

·       Introduction of Plutarch’s Lives as historical work.

·       Lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

·       Comparison in the lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

·      What leadership lessons can be drawn from the lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

 Resources

Plutarch’s Lives by Bill Thayer

See also Stephen Pressfield book: The Tides of War, for a historical novel on Alcibiades.

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12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership brings together stories from history, the arts and movies, research and current events to consider leadership lessons. In this episode, Richard Lummis and Tom Fox begin a 10-part summer series on leadership lessons from biographies found in Plutarch’s Lives. Each week we will pair an ancient Greek and Roman to learn about their lives, the comparison and contrast between the two men and what leadership lessons with might draw from their lives. In today’s episode we look at the Greek Pericles and the Roman Fabius Maximus.  

Highlights include:

• Introduction of Plutarch’s Lives as historical work.
• Lives of Pericles and Fabius Maximus.
• Comparison in the lives of Pericles and Fabius Maximus.
• What leadership lessons can be drawn from the lives of Pericles and Fabius Maximus.

Resources

Plutarch’s Lives by Bill Thayer

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12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership brings together stories from history, the arts and movies, research and current events to consider leadership lessons. In this episode, Richard Lummis and Tom Fox begin a 10-part summer series on leadership lessons from biographies found in Plutarch’s Lives. Each week we will pair an ancient Greek and Roman to learn about their lives, the comparison and contrast between the two men and what leadership lessons with might draw from their lives. In today’s episode we look at the Greek Solon and the Roman Poplicola. Highlights include:

• Introduction of Plutarch’s Lives as historical work.
• Lives of Solon and Poplicola.
• Comparison in the lives of Solon and Poplicola.
• What leadership lessons can be drawn from the lives of Solon and Poplicola.

Resources

Plutarch’s Lives by Bill Thayer

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12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership brings together stories from history, the arts and movies, research and current events to consider leadership lessons. In this episode, Richard Lummis and Tom Fox begin a 10-part summer series on leadership lessons from biographies found in Plutarch’s Lives. Each week we will pair an ancient Greek and Roman to learn about their lives, the comparison and contrast between the two men and what leadership lessons with might draw from their lives. In today’s episode we look at the Greek Themistocles and the Roman Camillus.  

Highlights include:

• Introduction of Plutarch’s Lives as historical work.
• Lives of Themistocles and Camillus.
• Comparison in the lives of Themistocles and Camillus.
• What leadership lessons can be drawn from the lives of Themistocles and Camillus.

Resources

Plutarch’s Themistocles and Camillus by Timothy Duff

Plutarch’s Lives by Bill Thayer

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Richard Lummis is on assignment this week so I am pleased to host Alyson Van Hooser, well know leadership consultant and coach. She is a partner at Van Hooser Associates. In this episode, we discuss the story of the Goldman Sachs employees and their PP slide deck about working 100+ hours per week. What does this tell us about priorities of and the leadership of Millennials. Highlights include: 

• Many of us worked very long hours early in our professional careers. It does several things: Forces you to learn about a wide variety of topics, work under pressure, weeds out the go-getters from those only along for the ride, ETC. It also makes it very difficult for women who are young mothers. What are your thoughts on a 100+ work week from a leadership perspective?
• How does this type of attitude work for Millennials?
• Will businesses, managers and employers have to adjust?
• I have worked very long hours but never complained because that’s ‘just the way it was’ or it was expected or some other reason. What is it about millennials that they would speak up about that type of treatment?
• Also at least I could commiserate with my peers about the long hours. But in Covid-19 everyone is working from home and there is largely no support. Has that made a difference?

Resources

Van Hooser Associates

Alyson Van Hooser on LinkedIn

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Richard Lummis is on assignment this week so I am pleased to host Rod Robertson. Robertson is the Managing Directors at Briggs Capital. In this episode, we discuss how much Baby Boomers can learn from Millennials and GenZs and how business culture will change as they and the next generation move into the workplace. We have a special shout out to Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.  

Highlights include:

• The work of Briggs Capital.
• What is a ‘no show’ transaction?
• What does the phrase “dependents of the pandemic” mean?
• Why employers should allow canines in the office.
• Why is this issue so important to GenZers and Millennials?
• What does this issue teach us OWG (old white guys) about listening to and managing GenZers and Millennials?
• How does Goldman Sachs and its 100-hour work week for junior employees fit into broader context of managing Millennials?
• What do companies and individuals need to be thinking about into 2025 and beyond regarding managing GenZers and Millennials?

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Richard Lummis is on assignment this week so I am pleased to host Thomas Gelmi. Gelmi is a world-renowned executive coach and leadership trainer. In this episode, he explains why he is so passionate about leadership and executive coaching. Highlights include: 

• What is the difference between executive coaching and executive sparring?
• Why do you maintain that leadership in the 2020s requires a stable personality, someone who knows their own strengths and limitations and who deals with these in an authentic, relaxed and open way?
• How do you coach leadership development? 
• What Cabin Crew can teach you about Leadership, Teamwork and Customer Contact?
• Why did you write this book?
• Who is its target audience?
• Why use the analogy of the cabin crew to teach leadership?
• Favorite real-life story from the book?
• How has the Coronavirus health crisis over this year changed your approach to leadership?
• What do companies and individuals need to be thinking about regarding leadership into 2025 and beyond? 

To find out more about Thomas Gelmi, check out his website by clicking here.

Check out his LinkedIn profile here.

For a copy of his book, go to What Cabin Crew can teach you about Leadership, Teamwork and Customer Contact

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Richard Lummis and Tom Fox conclude a two-part series on leadership lessons from Woodrow Wilson. In this Part 2, we look at lessons from Wilson’s two terms as President, his illness and short post-Presidential life and early death. Highlights of this podcast include:

A.    New Freedom Agenda

1.     Tariff and Tax

2.     Federal Reserve

3.     Anti-Trust Legislation

4.     Labor and Agriculture

5.     Immigration (here we go again)

6.     Judicial Appointments

B.    Race relations and Wilson’s attempts at Segregation

C.     Foreign Policy-how did he “keep us out of war”

1. Re-Election in 1916
2. Move towards and declaration of War
3. D. Miscalculation by Germany and Wilson Response
4. 14 Points
5. The Peace Conference
6. Ratification debate and Incapacity
7. Death
8. Leadership lessons

Resources

Ten Ways to Judge a President

Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Woodrow Wilson-a Failure in Leadership

How Woodrow Wilson Lost the Peace

Woodrow Wilson-Life Before the Presidency

13 Leadership Lessons from WWI

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