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Nelson Mandela on sidchas
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Nelson Mandela on sidchas

Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's birth. I've waited to share something I discovered reading his autobiography a few months ago. First some context. It's the day of your release. You're a revolutionary, fighting Apartheid, imprisoned for 27 years, much of it in an 8 foot by 7 foot cell or, if outside, breaking rocks. Meanwhile, you've become a global celebrity. Over 200 million people watched your London birthday event in absentia. Meanwhile, you're a 72-year-old man, recently recovering from tuberculosis and have barely seen your family for decades. On the day of your release, what do you do? Quoting Nelson Mandela's autobiography: I awoke on the day of my release after only a few hours' sleep at 4:30am. February 11 was a…

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July 19, 2017
Bill Clinton on Nelson Mandela, for His 100th Birthday
Bill Clinton on Nelson Mandela, for His 100th Birthday
Freedom / Inc.com / Leadership / Nonjudgment

Bill Clinton on Nelson Mandela, for His 100th Birthday

My Inc. story today, "Bill Clinton on Nelson Mandela, for His 100th Birthday," begins Bill Clinton on Nelson Mandela, for His 100th Birthday The father of his nation was born 100 years ago today. Bill Clinton's anecdote reveals the change he created in the world. Nelson Mandela was born on this day in 1918. Few people become the father of a nation. He was imprisoned for 27 years beginning at age 45. Where most people would give up, he persevered. Eventually he negotiated from prison with the presidents of his country. He later got their job. Think about that the next time you have reason to complain about your boss. It puts things in perspective. Bill Clinton on Nelson Mandela Bill Clinton told a story…

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July 18, 2017
NYU Students Speak About Joshua Spodek’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership Courses
Education / Entrepreneurship / Leadership / My Favorite Posts

NYU Students Speak About Joshua Spodek’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership Courses

I recently met with two groups of students who took my leadership and entrepreneurship courses at NYU, Charlie Rose-style. I believe the 9 students represent the experiences of the majority of students who took my courses and did the exercises conscientiously. They included undergraduates who took my courses as freshmen and adult professionals founding or running successful businesses they founded and ran for decades. These videos are the first of more to come from these conversations. Two are mostly edited. The third is still in progress. I think they speak for themselves so here they are: Six entrepreneurship students https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLsrEwaJ94g Focus on one entrepreneurship student: RJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0QUJBcEG2A Three leadership students (editing in progress) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpOl6aGholM

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July 15, 2017
Entrepreneurship / Leadership

I’m not a total failure

My passion lately has been my talk and other work on leadership and the environment. I've progressed a lot by the measure of my talk going farther without triggering automatic responses to push back. But by the important measure of someone agreeing to change behavior to pollute less, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, consume less resources, or the like, as of this morning, I couldn't think of anyone who took on a challenge. In other words, I felt I failed. Despite working hard for months to develop my talk, giving it many times to many audiences, framing the challenge as improving your life, illustrating with changes I made to my life that improved it tremendously, and focusing on how much living by your values improves everything…

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July 14, 2017
Happy 200th Birthday to Henry David Thoreau
My Inc.com article on Henry David Thoreau's 200th birthday
Entrepreneurship / Inc.com / Leadership / Nature

Happy 200th Birthday to Henry David Thoreau

My post on Inc.com today, "Happy 200th Birthday to Henry David Thoreau," (the editors changed the headline) began Happy Birthday to Henry David Thoreau, a True Family Businessman The entrepreneur and supporter of self-reliance, simplicity, and small government was born 200 years ago. 200 years ago today, Henry David Thoreau was born. July is a big Thoreau month. On July 4, 1845 he moved to live by Walden Pond, pictured above, for 2 years. He spent a night in jail, July 24 or 25, 1846, to avoid supporting slavery, inspiring generations. Most periodicals reporting on his birthday talk about nature, his love for it, and his legacy of protecting it. He inspired John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt, for example. Many describe his legacy in inspiring…

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July 12, 2017
Entrepreneur Magazine quoted me on Nelson Mandela
Entrepreneur.com's article quoting Joshua Spodek on Nelson Mandela
Entrepreneurship / Leadership

Entrepreneur Magazine quoted me on Nelson Mandela

Joshua Steimle quoted me today in Entrepreneur's "11 Modern Leadership Lessons from History's Masters: Helen Keller. Theodore Roosevelt. Ann Bradstreet. Nelson Mandela: Who inspired you?" I'm honored to be a member of an ensemble cast of authors, gurus, and influencers including Simon Sinek, Robert Cialdini, Marshall Goldsmith, Geoff Smart, Gretchen Rubin, Ryan Holiday, Leonard Kim, and more. I had recently finished reading Nelson Mandela's autobiography when Joshua interviewed me, so he wasn't a hard choice. Since you should read the whole article, I don't think I'm giving anything away by quoting the part including me: Nelson Mandela No one likes to be bullied, but even top-tier business professionals push one other around all the time. "Many clients come to me because of how their managers treat…

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July 11, 2017
Leadership Requires Getting in the Trenches and Doing, Not Just Learning: The Interview
Manager Mojo's Interview of Joshua Spodek
Audio / Leadership

Leadership Requires Getting in the Trenches and Doing, Not Just Learning: The Interview

Steve Caldwell hosts the Manager Mojo podcast. On Independence Day he posted our conversation, "Leadership Requires Getting in the Trenches and Doing, Not Just Learning — a conversation with Joshua Spodek, bestselling author of "Leadership Step by Step" and an Adjunct Professor for Columbia Business School." Listen to the conversation. Listen to the conversation. Here are the show notes: Leadership Requires Getting in the Trenches and Doing, Not Just Learning Great leaders have developed their ability to connect with others by learning about and understanding what motivates each individual. They recognize that we each bring a different view of the world to work because of varied life experiences. As you are leading a team, how are you connecting to what interests each team member? Are…

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July 5, 2017
A Millennial Making America Clean Again
A Millennial Making America Clean Again, Joshua Spodek's July 4 Inc. article
Habits / Inc.com / Leadership / SIDCHAs

A Millennial Making America Clean Again

My Independence Day post on Inc. today, "A Millennial Making America Clean Again," begins A Millennial Making America Clean Again He's doing a simple, small, short term act that makes a difference and is leading to more. Will you follow? I love Independence Day. I don't eat hot dogs, nor do I care that much for fireworks. I celebrate July 4th by reading and writing about influential Americans and American history. I'll put this one in context with some memories of living abroad. National pride and garbage One of my most vivid memories of China was of a Chinese man at the Great Wall. He was eating a bag of chips. When he finished them, he simply dropped the plastic bag. The wind took it…

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July 4, 2017
The C-Suite Book Club is featuring Leadership Step by Step
The C-Suite Book Club featuring Leadership Step by Step
Leadership

The C-Suite Book Club is featuring Leadership Step by Step

I'm pleased and honored to report the C-Suite Book Club featuring Leadership Step by Step. The big honor is being included in their community of authors. Here's their web page: Still growing and more to come! If you haven't bought the book yet or started the exercises, here's more reason to.

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July 2, 2017
How to coach leadership and executives actively and experientially [video]
Exercises / Leadership

How to coach leadership and executives actively and experientially [video]

I led a webinar at this year's World Business and Executive Coach Summit (WBECS) online summit earlier this month. If you coach, you'll find value in the annual summit and my talk in particular. My talk, "Experiential Learning and Coaching," was popular, with nearly 5,000 registrants. I put the video below. I find this active, experiential way of coaching helpful. If you learn from the video and practice it, please let me know your results. About WBECS: With more than 20,000 attendees from 150 Countries in 2016, WBECS is the world's largest online gathering of business and executive coaches. Our aim and mission is to consistently deliver outstanding value, provide the most innovative content in the industry, help increase the overall quality of coaching provision…

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June 30, 2017
What is Wrong with Leadership Training for Sustainable Success?
Chris Salem interviews Joshua Spodek on the Sustainable Success radio show
Audio / Education / Exercises / Leadership

What is Wrong with Leadership Training for Sustainable Success?

Chris Salem hosts the Sustainable Success radio show on Voice America, Wednesdays at 11am. He interviewed me yesterday and posted the interview. Live radio means no retakes or editing, which makes everything more dynamic. Also, we practice the Meaningful Connection exercise from Chapter 17 of my book and leadership course, so if you're working on them and want to hear it in action, listen to this episode. Here's the episode description: There is the knowledge of leadership and then actually how it is applied in a real world environment. Everyone talks about what it takes to be an effective leader but not the actual process to become one in real life. Joshua Spodek discusses real world exercises how existing leaders or those aspiring to be…

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June 29, 2017
Dave Kerpen on my book: “This Book Gets It: Learn to Lead Yourself and Others”
Dave Kerpen's Review of Leadership Step by Step on Inc.
Inc.com / Leadership

Dave Kerpen on my book: “This Book Gets It: Learn to Lead Yourself and Others”

There are leaders in media and then there are leaders in media. Dave Kerpen stands above the crowd, having achieved what most dream of, gathering around him a community of great people (plus 600,000+ LinkedIn followers). I'll take the liberty of putting his LinkedIn profile below, which recounts his #1 bestselling book, founding and leading a major online media firm, Likeable Media, and his family life. I'm honored and flattered that he reviewed my book and posted it on Inc.: "This Book Gets It: Learn to Lead Yourself and Others" Here's an excerpt: This Book Gets It: Learn to Lead Yourself and Others Industry leader Joshua Spodek's new book teaches how to become a better leader [...] The Art of People has been described as…

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June 28, 2017
Patagonia founder acting on his values, even at the company’s expense. Still works out.
Choosing/Decision-Making / Entrepreneurship / Leadership / Nature

Patagonia founder acting on his values, even at the company’s expense. Still works out.

I rarely simply post someone else just talking, but my focus lately on motivating people to act on their values against comfort and convenience has resulted in such a desert that the video below was too refreshing not to share. No one I talk to considers avoiding one flight. No one who visits can stop bringing garbage. Yet this man keeps choosing actions that would appear to hurt his company, yet he's become a billionaire and they haven't. For example (at 38:18 in the second video below), he had his company research the toxicity of materials his company used. When he learned how toxic and dangerous the cotton was---even getting sprayed with toxins from a plane when he visited the fields---he put his company on…

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June 26, 2017
Leadership and the Environment podcast episode #5: The slideshow, June 23, 2017 [video]
Leadership / Nature / Podcast / Visualization

Leadership and the Environment podcast episode #5: The slideshow, June 23, 2017 [video]

I've delivered this talk a lot lately. It continues to iterate and I'm years from being able to deliver it at the I-Have-A-Dream-level quality to motivate people as the cause demands, but I consider it ready. Please share! (with @spodek) I welcome suggestions to improve. This is the 90-minute version. I will create shorter versions too. Most of all, please contact me to join the movement. I'd love to hear from everyone interested in helping, whether you can help with the areas I name or otherwise. Remember to do part 1---an effective personal challenge---first. Please tell me if you take one on. Here it is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzLoCTM1_tk

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June 24, 2017
Published in the Leader to Leader journal
Education / Leadership

Published in the Leader to Leader journal

I just got my copies of the summer 2017 edition of the Leader to Leader Journal, published by the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute (formerly named for Peter Drucker). The journal is a many-times winner of the APEX award for publication excellence. In other words, it's prestigious. My article, "Leadership Step by Step," is on page 25. Here are some scans to whet your appetite: To whet your appetite more, the article begins The movie The Iron Lady shows an acting coach teach Margaret Thatcher to speak, dress, and act more like a leader. Some may have dismissed such training as superficial. I suggest such training was not only critical in making her one of the twentieth century's most important leaders, but that aspiring leaders should…

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June 23, 2017
Why I turned down nearly $10,000 to teach for an Ivy League school for a week in Shanghai
Awareness / Choosing/Decision-Making / Freedom / Leadership / Nature

Why I turned down nearly $10,000 to teach for an Ivy League school for a week in Shanghai

Columbia University offered me nearly $10,000 to fly to Shanghai to teach an entrepreneurship class, block-week style, meaning a semester in a week, 9-5 each day. I've taught that way before and got great results. I love teaching entrepreneurship. I'm not bragging to say that my reviews say I'm exceptional at it. I love my alma mater, Columbia, and as an adjunct professor, experience teaching at Ivy League schools helps my career. I had developed the relationships with the department that offered me to teach with them for years. I had worked on making this opportunity happen for years and could expect more offers if I did well. I like making $10,000 doing what I love. I loved living in Shanghai for a year in…

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June 17, 2017
Audio / Leadership

Less Talk More Action: The podcast

Erin O'Brien hosts the Less Talk More Action podcast. She just released her interview of me. I recommend listening! As Erin describes it, "Less Talk. More Action" is a podcast with a twist. Instead of a talkfest, it's an action-orientated podcast ... you walk away with something tangible and implementable to improve your business (rather than just feel-good inspiration). That's accurate. It's the only podcast I've been on that takes time for you, the listener, to practice what the podcast talks about it. You don't just listen. You act---the most effective way to learn. In other words, you can improve yourself with this podcast. Listen! [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/327976577" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /] From the show notes: Joshua Spodek is a leadership expert. He's author of…

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June 15, 2017
Leadership Lessons from Authoritarianism, and the Pursuit of Sustainability: The Bare Naked Interview
Audio / Leadership / Nature

Leadership Lessons from Authoritarianism, and the Pursuit of Sustainability: The Bare Naked Interview

Emily Ann Peterson hosts the Bare Naked Bravery Podcast, "a weekly podcast exposing the threads of heroism behind the stories and people we love most," and she just posted her interview of me. First, she teaches bravery like I teach leadership---active, experientially, step by step---so we spoke the same language about what we practiced in complementary areas. She subtitles her bravery lessons: "Put Yourself Out There Step-By-Step." She's a musician and music is usually taught that way, so I imagine she's experienced in it. Second, she was one of the first to delve into my growing passion for leading people and the environment, so you can hear my developing approach. Third, we had a lot of fun and laughed, so you will too. Her show…

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June 14, 2017
The Conscious Millionaire: How to Develop Effective Leadership Skills
J V Crum III interviews Joshua Spodek on the Conscious Millionaire podcast
Audio / Education / Entrepreneurship / Leadership / Podcast

The Conscious Millionaire: How to Develop Effective Leadership Skills

J V Crum III hosts a podcast called the Conscious Millionaire. He helps purpose-driven entrepreneurs succeed. He also interviewed me and posted our conversation today. He and I have talked before and since and I like his mission and approach, which I've learned from. For example, he's inspired me to include him in my Leadership and the Environment slide show for his using a diabetes diagnosis and vastly improve his life. We spoke about the shortcomings of traditional education and our common experiences learning more effectively through experience, which develops authenticity, genuineness, integrity, etc. I walked through exercises from my course. We talked about mindsets for success, helping people, and more. Listen to the conversation! Listen to the conversation! Here are the show notes: 781:…

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June 9, 2017
Call for action to you — for a new path to reduce climate change
Balinth Harvath's podcast Call for action to you — for a new path to reduce climate change with Joshua Spodek
Audio / Awareness / Choosing/Decision-Making / Education / Leadership / Nature / Podcast

Call for action to you — for a new path to reduce climate change

Prepare for one of my most important podcasts from someone who knows the science behind the environment. Want to improve the environment? You may remember Balint, a fellow scientist who got a PhD in physics became an entrepreneur got passionate about improving in business, and teaches experiential project-based learning. from his first podcast interview of me, which covered leadership and education. We continued our conversation and spoke the way only physics PhDs can. I shared what I've posted here about my developing plans to start a movement on leadership and the environment. We decided to record another conversation on it for his podcast on how to act on the environment---yes, you, personally. He posted it, "Call for action to you — for a new path…

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June 8, 2017
If You Can Do this in Leadership, Then You’ll Win in Business
Jeremy Slate's Create Your Own Life podcast interview of Joshua Spodek
Audio / Leadership / Podcast

If You Can Do this in Leadership, Then You’ll Win in Business

Jeremy Slate is an amazing guy whose Create Your Own Life podcast is his latest success in overcome struggles to create his own life. Jeremy is fun, engaging, thoughtful, and shows off his guests. We both laughed a few times. I talked about meeting an NBA superstar multiple time champion. I also talked about times I cried from sports and business. Jeremy makes it comfortable to share vulnerabilities. Today he posted our interview. Listen to the interview! Listen to the interview! Jeremy's show notes: Joshua Spodek, bestselling author of Leadership Step by Step, is an Adjunct Professor at NYU, leadership coach and workshop leader for Columbia Business School, columnist for Inc., and founder of Spodek Academy. Joshua is: An "Astrophysicist turned new media whiz" He's…

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June 7, 2017
#2 on Amazon in Category
Leadership Step by Step is #2 on Amazon in Communications In Management
Education / Exercises / Leadership

#2 on Amazon in Category

Leadership Step by Step is #2 in "Communications in Management," with almost 4 times more reviews than the book above. Buy it on Amazon, or just click to read the 56 5-star reviews Here's the screen shot: Buy it on Amazon, or just click to read the 56 5-star reviews

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June 4, 2017

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