Join Mike for his podcast, We're All In This Together (which is also the title of his latest book). Mike shares his own wisdom and insight, and also interviews interesting and influential business leaders, thought leaders, and change makers on the show. Over the past 22 years, Mike has partnered with people, leaders, and teams within top organizations like Google, Wells Fargo, Airbnb, Gap, Microsoft, Schwab, the NBA, Genentech, eBay, the Oakland A's, and many others. Episodes of the show authentically address important topics and challenges, and offer specific tips about leadership, teamwork, and life. These conversations are designed to give you practical ideas, insights, and techniques to enhance your success, impact, and the performance of your team.
The world of work continues to change in significant ways. Our ability to be creative, individually and collectively, is essential to our success. My guest today, Steven Kowalski, knows this and has been teaching it for decades. He’s the author of Creative Together: Sparking Innovation in the New World of Work. In our conversation we talk about how to embrace our personal creativity and create the conditions for our teams to be creative with one another…leading to enhanced collaboration and increased performance.
Emotional intelligence is so important to our success and fulfillment in business, relationships, and life. It’s also essential for strong leadership and healthy teams. However, beyond emotional intelligence is emotional freedom – where we can deeply and freely feel all our emotions with courage, and we give other people permission to do the same. On this episode, I talk about why this is so important, how it can be challenging, and some specific ways to experience emotional freedom.
The energy, attitude, and perspective we bring to things often has a big impact on the outcome of whatever we’re doing, as well as everyone else involved. However, this can sometimes be hard to quantify and manage for a number of reasons. On this episode, I talk about the power of our energy and how we can tap into intention and even magic to create what we truly want at work and in life.
Inspired by NBA star Steph Curry’s brilliant performance against Sacramento, I’ve been thinking about the importance of operating with joy and perspective. While it often seems like the circumstances of our work and our life dictate our level of joy and the perspective we take, we actually have much more of a choice than we often realize. On this episode, I talk about ways for us to operate with true joy and a healthy perspective, regardless of what’s going on around us.
In our desire to support those around us, we often offer suggestions, advice, and feedback. And while this can be helpful and necessary at times, what’s usually most important, especially these days, is our ability to hold space. On this episode, I talk about what it means to hold space, why it can be challenging, and some specific ways we can do it effectively for others, as well as for ourselves.
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