Grit, Not Glory: 100 Episodes of Uncovering True Leadership

Welcome to the 100th episode of Success Beneath the Surface. This is a podcast where we dig into what lies beneath the surface of a CEO's success, your success, and insights deeply rooted at times in family, beliefs, or a drive that's just always been there. Our top downloaded episodes include Lessons from Navy Seal Kyle Buckett, number 57, who challenges the notion of leadership from the top, and gives life-saving reasons to build leadership capability at all levels, or at least business-saving reasons. 

James Hyman's episode number 64 gave fodder for a discussion on leading leaders, because if you have leadership at every level, the old management archetypes of top-down management simply don't work. 

Key lessons on building cultures based on trust, transparency, accountability, and urgency can be found in episode number 74 with Clay Spitz, 54, Torey Carter-Conneen, episode 64 with James Hyman, and episode 72 with Ryan Clark. 

And even when exogenous factors and forces create more uncertainty, the intentional leader, Will Bowie, in episode number 70, grows his business team and community through grit, determination,  and purposeful living and somehow still finds time to pay it forward. Check them all out. It strikes me that with all of these CEOs, in the words of Angela Duckworth in her book, Grit, it's not the intensity but the consistency that builds a sustainable business.

Here is the playlist from this episode : EP74 Exterminating Distrust: M&A Successfully Merging Business Cultures EP64: Leading Leaders - Balancing Accountability and Empowerment EP57: Lessons from a SEAL - Culture Improvement with Culture Fit to Build Your Elite Team EP72: Building a Culture of Urgency 20 Seconds at a Time EP49: Navigating Change Through Stakeholder Engagement EP70: The Intentional Leader - Creating Generational Wealth and Opportunity