12 O’Clock High

Richard Lummis and Tom Fox begin a four-part series on leadership lessons from George Washington. We will look at lessons from Washington’s colonial and frontier period, focusing on the French and Indian War, leadership lessons from Washington’s generalship of the Continental Army, his leadership in both the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention and we will end with leadership lessons from both terms of Washington’s presidency. In this second episode, we consider the leadership lessons demonstrated by Washington as General of the Continental Army.

Highlights of this podcast include:

1. Introduction into Washington’s generalship of the Continental Army.
2. First 3rd of the War-Boston and NY disasters to Trenton and Princeton.
3. Valley Forge.
4. Use of French General Rochambeau and commutation of Charles Asgill from death sentence.
5. Resignation as General of the Armies.

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Richard Lummis and Tom Fox begin a four-part series on leadership lessons from George Washington. We will look at lessons from Washington’s colonial and frontier period, focusing on the French and Indian War, leadership lessons from Washington’s generalship of the Continental Army, his leadership in both the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention and we will end with leadership lessons from both terms of Washington’s presidency. In this first episode, we consider the leadership lessons learned by Washington in his colonial and frontier period and how his failures during the French and Indian War influenced his later leadership.

 Highlights of this podcast include:

1. Introduction into Washington’s early life.
2. Washington’s Ambition and the Battle of Jumonville Glen.
3. Battle of Fort Necessity and Washington’s surrender.
4. Massacre of Braddock’s troops by the Iroquois.
5. What did Washington learn from these experiences?

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Richard Lummis is on assignment this week so I am pleased to host Alyson Van Hooser, who was recently in Houston. We sat down for a live recording about her recent LinkedIn post, “3 Gen Z Perspectives Leaders Need to Know”.

Highlights of this podcast include:

1. Why are you in Houston?
2. Why did you write the article?
3. How is Gen Z leadership different from Boomer leadership?
4. Why do leaders need to learn from stories from their people, not statistics about them?
5. How does the style of Gen Z parenting different from that of Gen X (or Boomers) and why is that important to a business leader?
6. Why do you advise Gen Z leaders not to roll up their eyes but to roll up their sleeves?
7. Why is connecting fast so important to training and communications?
8. Why are you so passionate about leadership?

 Resources

Alyson’s weekly leadership blog HERE.

If your business would benefit from higher-performing leaders, check out more information about the comprehensive leadership development training Alyson does training, HERE.

If you want to reach out to Alyson directly, email alyson@vanhooser.com.

P.S. Share and tag Alyson on social — @AlysonVanHooser

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Richard Lummis is on assignment this week so I am pleased to host Jeffery Hayzlett, the Chairman of C-Suite Network (including C-Suite Radio) and Prime Time Television and Podcast Host. Among all these other activities, he is prolific author. Today, we visit about Jeffery’s most recent book The Hero Factor. Highlights of this podcast include:

1. Why Hazylett wrote this book?
2. What is Hero Leadership?
3. What is Hero Intensity?
4. Values Values Values
5. Why are a hero’s values so important?
6. The book has questions, practices pointers and even a self-assessment in the book. Why are these tools include in the book?
7. Who should read this book?
8. What is the Hero Club?
9. Why is Hayzlett so passionate about the Hero Club and Hero Leadership?

Resources

For information about the C-Suite Network, click here

Find out more about The Hero Club, click here

Purchase The Hero Factor here.

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Richard Lummis and I are back. Today, continue our annual review of Oscar winning Best Pictures and the leadership lessons drawn from them. Over the next four weeks we will consider the following movies: Casablanca, Rocky, The Greatest Show on Earth and Out of Africa. Today, we conclude our series with Out of Africa.

Highlights of this podcast include:

1. What are our favorites scenes from the movie?
2. What are the leadership lessons from Karen Blixen?
3. What are the leadership lessons from Denys Finch Hatton?
4. Is your business resilient?
5. Culture outside the US?
6. Do these lessons from this movie hold up today?

Resources

Leadership Lessons from Out of Africa

Study Guide to Out of Africa

A Historian Goes to the Movies

Out of Africa – 10 Inspirational Quotes from Karen Blixen

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In this episode, Richard Lummis and I explore leadership lessons from Toussaint Louverture, who led the only successful slave revolt in the Western Hemisphere. Our remarks are based on the recent biography of him entitled, Toussaint Louverture by Phillipe Gerrard. While not an obvious character for study in a business leadership podcast, Louverture nonetheless presented several important lessons which translate into to today’s business environment. 

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Richard Lummis and I are back. Today, continue our annual review of Oscar winning Best Pictures and the leadership lessons drawn from them. Over the next four weeks we will consider the following movies: Casablanca, Rocky, The Greatest Show on Earth and Out of Africa. Today, we continue our series with one of the very all-time boxing movies, Rocky.

 Highlights of this podcast include:

1. What are our favorites scenes from the movie? No one who you anything, you owe yourself, get the work done and we are all underdogs.
2. What are the leadership lessons from Rocky Balboa? Repetition will make you great, tech can be a great business advantage but never forget the human element and practice for the worst.
3. What are the leadership lessons from Apollo Creed? The mind is the greatest muscle and pay attention to those behind you.
4. What are the leadership lessons from Rocky’s trainer-Mick?
5. What are the leadership lesson from the boxing ring? Go the distance and think long term, it’s not about how hard you punch but how hard a punch you can take and go back into the ring when it’s the toughest.
6. Do these lessons hold up today?

Resources

Five Business Lessons I Learned from Rocky

4 dialogues from Rocky series that helped me become a better leader

Leaders as Storytellers

4 Motivational Lessons that Rocky Can Teach

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Richard Lummis and I are back. Today, begin our annual review of Oscar winning Best Pictures and the leadership lessons drawn from them. Over the next four weeks we will consider the following movies: Casablanca, Rocky, The Greatest Show on Earth and Out of Africa. Today, we begin our series with one of the very all-time greats, Casablanca.

 Highlights of this podcast include:

1. What are our favorites scenes from the movie?
2. What is the world view from Casablanca, including actions and behaviors, values and belief systems and stories of life?
3. What are the leadership lessons from the nobility of Rick Blaine?
4. What can you learn from one of the movie’s greatest lovers?
5. What does compassion help in leadership?
6. Do these lessons hold up today?

Resources

Roundup the Usual Suspects for Leadership Lessons

Leading from the Lover Archetype: Rick Blaine

Casablanca and the Four Levels of Worldview

Casablanca Lessons

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Richard Lummis and I are back. Today, we take a look at leadership lessons from a trifecta of failed leaders, including Adam Neumann, the founder and former CEO of WeWork, Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of Theranos and Travis Kalanick, founder and former CEO of Uber.

 Highlights of this podcast include:

1. What happens when charismatic leaders have disruptive visions?
2. What happens when a brilliant jerk is a CEO?
3. They all had and maintained asymmetrical power, total control and maintained dual-class ownership structures.
4. What happens when the CEO creates a cult of personality?
5. All three valued opaqueness over transparency so that they could control the flow of information.
6. Where was the Board of Directors?

Resources

Is Your CEO Brilliant, a Jerk or Both?

When to fire the boss?

CEOs are not here to save us

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Richard Lummis and I are back and today for our initial podcast of 2020 and the second decade of the 21stCentury. Today, we take a look at leadership lessons from the rise and fall of Adam Neumann, the former CEO of WeWork.

 Highlights of this podcast include:

1. How did Neumann obtain the amplified shareholder rights and how did that contribute to his downfall?
2. What was the role of Softbank in enabling Neumann?
3. What is the role of a visionary after the vision is gone?
4. How was Neumann enabled by the conflicts of interest?
5. Where were the professional managers for WeWork?
6. Why was the abortive IPO pulled and what does it demonstrate about leadership in a company seeking to go public?

Resources

Curse of the Cult of the Founder

The Rise and Fall of Adam Neumann

Adam Neumann’s Over the Top Style

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