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255: "Are You Communicating Accurately Or Just Assuming You’re Heard?" (Reflections On Molly Tschang)
Episode 255
🧠 Erik’s Take
This short review mattered because it challenged a habit Erik has seen in leadership and in himself: focusing on what’s being said while…
11 hours ago
254: "Engagement Vs Connection: Why One Comes After The Other" (Reflections On Jason Lauritsen)
Episode 254
🧠 Erik’s Take
Erik reflects on how the conversation with Jason Lauritsen landed because it challenges a very familiar leadership pattern: treating “co…
14 hours ago
253: Molly Tschang: "When Crickets Win: Why 'No One Speaks Up' Kills Execution"
Episode 253
Erik and Molly dive into the real skill behind “speaking up” and why organizations fail: they don’t have an accurate shared reality—essential to actu…
1 day, 14 hours ago
252: Jason Lauritsen: "Connection as the #1 Performance Booster in the Workspace"
Episode 252
Erik and Jason Lauritsen dig into what “connection” really means at work, what drives it, and how it translates into motivation, performance, and ret…
2 days, 14 hours ago
251: "The Best Leadership Fix Is Focusing On The Fundamentals" (Reflections On Michael Summers)
Episode 251
🧠 Erik’s Take
Erik framed the episode as a leadership question, not a political one: how to lead people who genuinely disagree without losing the thre…
1 week ago
250: "Are You Solving the Right Bottleneck with AI?" (Reflections On Drew Mehta)
Episode 250
🧠 Erik’s Take
Erik treats this episode as a strategy debrief, not a tech demo. The part that stayed with him is that AI adoption often fails when busi…
1 week ago
249: Michael Summers: "Can You Run for Office Without Becoming a Walking Controversy?"
Episode 249
Michael Summers shares how he went from professional musician and third-generation business owner to a politics-and-education leader, and why his nor…
1 week, 1 day ago
248: Drew Mehta: "Why Most AI Projects Deliver Faster Garbage Instead Of Business Value"
Episode 248
Drew Mehta explains why so many “AI strategies” fail in practice, and why owner-operators need end-to-end workflow decomposition, not deck-first cons…
1 week, 2 days ago
247: Are You Building the Future, Or Just Getting Better at Running the Present? (Reflections on Shawn Busse)
Episode 249
Erik walked away from his conversation with Shawn Busse thinking less about technology itself and more about what it actually takes to create somethi…
2 weeks ago
246: Shawn Busse: "The End Of Cheap Customer Acquisition Is Here. Now What?"
Episode 248
Shawn Busse argues that “growth marketing” hits an inherent ceiling when it becomes a commoditized, copyable process. He uses Hotelling’s law and the…
2 weeks, 2 days ago