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Are You On the Plan?
What gets said about you in rooms you’re not in, and how to find out before it matters
 • Ryan Carnes
Flip the Script: Why Your 1:1s Should Be Employee-Led (And How It Changes Everything)
How shifting ownership of performance conversations creates accountability, engagement, and leaders who actually have time to lead
 • Ryan Carnes
036 - Branch Rickey - Luck Is the Residue of Design
The man who couldn’t buy the finished product decided to build the manufacturing process instead and invented the most powerful development…
 • Ryan Carnes
17:14
The Name in the Box Problem
Why identifying successors and developing them are completely different activities, and why most organizations only do one
 • Ryan Carnes
035 - George Marshall - The Little Black Book
The man who removed 600 officers in two years and kept a personal notebook of behavioral evidence for decades, because he knew having names in boxes…
 • Ryan Carnes
15:08
The Succession Planning Lie
Why the annual ritual your organization runs every fall produces documentation, not readiness, and what it’s actually costing you
 • Ryan Carnes
034 - Madam C.J. Walker - She Gave Herself a Start
She arrived in Denver in 1905 with a dollar fifty and no one waiting to develop her, and built the first female self-made millionaire fortune in…
 • Ryan Carnes
15:00
Your Manager Can’t Want It More Than You Do
Why waiting for someone else to care about your career is the most expensive mistake you’re making
 • Ryan Carnes
033 - Phil Jackson and Michael Jordan - What Nobody Told You
Phil Jackson saw exactly what was limiting Michael Jordan and said it anyway, and what he did next is the most elegant piece of feedback delivery in…
 • Ryan Carnes
17:09
The Feedback Nobody Gives
Why the most useful thing a leader could say almost never gets said and what it costs the people waiting to hear it
 • Ryan Carnes
032 - Viktor Frankl - The Last Freedom
The man who lost everything in four concentration camps and emerged more curious, more purposeful, and more alive than almost anyone who walked out with…
 • Ryan Carnes
20:07
Trait Deep-Dive #3: The Four Traits That Determine Whether Everything Else Holds
Values and Purpose Engagement, Growth Mindset, Sound Personal Judgment, and Intellectual Curiosity: the enabling traits that sustain your signal when…
 • Ryan Carnes
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