See the new Spodek Academy Facebook page… My courses (available now!) and book (launching in February!) are growing beyond this blog and deserve their own site. Yesterday I announced the new Spodek Academy web page (despite my aversion to Facebook and LinkedIn). Today I’m announcing the Facebook page, which will host forums, discussions, and more on leadership, entrepreneurship, active learning, hustling, The Fundamentals of Hustling, and more. As subscribers, would[…] Keep reading →

See my new web page… My courses (available now!) and book (launching in February!) are growing beyond this blog and deserve their own site. Click Spodek Academy or the image below! You’ll see videos, fuller explanations of the courses, testimonials, and more. … And new social media sites! To create business connections with customers (and in contrast with my aversion to Facebook and LinkedIn), I’m creating Facebook and LinkedIn pages.[…] Keep reading →

My second Inc.com piece from last Monday, “Marshall Goldsmith: How to Become More Than Just No. 1,” began Marshall Goldsmith: How to Become More Than Just No. 1 Faced with the challenge of nowhere to go but down, Marshall Goldsmith offers the world his wisdom, and keeps going up Successful leaders know how to keep leading. We can learn from them. Inc. has written about Marshall Goldsmith many times. He[…] Keep reading →

See me on a panel on entrepreneurial leadership with the Columbia Business School Alumni Club (all are welcome, membership not required), Thursday, October 13, 6pm-8pm at Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, 1301 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY. Register Here! I look forward to seeing you there. From the event page: Entrepreneurial Leadership: Leadership in Starting a New Business Effective leadership is of vital importance at all stages of[…] Keep reading →

A major point of leadership as I teach and practice it is to learn the interests of your teammates and to share yours with them. If you only care about and focus on behavior and external incentives, you’re stuck leading by authority. You can’t create meaning or purpose in the work you lead people to do. Meaning and purpose come from connecting people emotions to their work. Even if you[…] Keep reading →

To develop trust, for someone to have your back, or for you to have someone else’s, which means for teams to work optimally, people have to allow themselves to be vulnerable to each other. People throw the term around a lot. How precisely can you define it? To be vulnerable and to make others feel comfortable around you, it helps to know the word’s meaning precisely My working definition of[…] Keep reading →

My post on Inc.com today, “How Leaders Get Followers” begins How Leaders Get Followers Getting promoted or starting a venture so people get paid to do what you say doesn’t make them followers. Here’s what does. Most people think to become a leader, you just get promoted or start a venture until you have a team below you: the bigger the team, the more people reporting to you, the more[…] Keep reading →

I’m reading Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, which I find fascinating and highly recommend, even if you know a lot about him already. Teaching and coaching at NYU and Columbia, speaking at Harvard, Princeton, MIT, INSEAD, and so on, I see a lot of what many would consider the pinnacle of our educational system. Teaching a non-lecture-based non-test-based style shows me the flaws in this system, how much of it is designed[…] Keep reading →

I am offering my leadership course at NYU this fall at NYU’s School of Professional Studies Wednesdays 6pm – 9pm September 21 – December 13 (12 sessions, no class Thanksgiving) Here is the syllabus Register here! Limited seats available (9 last I checked) Student reviews from my courses The course will show you why my courses get reviews like: Register here! Limited seats available (9 last I checked) “This is[…] Keep reading →