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  • The Hidden Forces Shaping Leaders in the AI Era with Dan Ariely
    Jun 23 2026

    Your work has never looked better. So why do you feel less sure of yourself than you did five years ago?

    In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, behavioral economist Dan Ariely (author of Predictably Irrational and Misbelief) unpacks a quiet problem facing ambitious leaders right now: AI is polishing your output faster than you're actually growing your capability. The result is an "illusion of competence" — work that looks sharper while the person behind it quietly stalls.

    We get into:

    • Why effort and outcome have decoupled — and why working harder is making leaders feel less in control
    • The hidden forces shaping how you judge yourself: effort discounting, social comparison on speed, and attribution error
    • What still compounds in the AI era (hint: it's the meta-capacities machines can't touch)
    • What "context collapse" does to leaders who lean too hard on their tools
    • The simple weekly decision-review habit that will still be paying off in 10 years

    This is the kind of conversation that changes how you think about your own thinking. If your performance reviews and your nervous system are being trained on different signals, this one's for you.

    CHAPTERS

    00:00 The Confidence Gap: Knowledge vs. Perception

    03:46 The Dangers of False Confidence in the Age of AI

    04:28 The Learning Process: Embracing the Messy Middle

    07:35 AI's Role in Knowledge Acquisition: A Double-Edged Sword

    10:32 The Temptation of AI: Short-Term Gains vs. Long-Term Growth

    12:09 Measuring Success: The Risks of Misguided Metrics

    14:09 Innovation and AI: Who Really Benefits?

    15:05 The Impact of Measurement on Innovation

    16:56 Employee Engagement and AI Integration

    19:39 Balancing AI and Human Capital

    20:44 The Gap Between Knowing and Doing

    21:20 The Role of Planning in Change

    23:31 Defining Boundaries with AI

    23:51 AI as a Tool for Self-Reflection

    25:44 The Importance of Impact in Academia

    29:04 Skills to Protect in an AI World

    32:53 Fostering a Joy of Learning

    Listen, then ask yourself: What am I doing not just to do more but to become someone whose judgment I trust more, year after year?

    🎙️ This episode is part of What It Takes to Keep Rising in the AI Era , a series exploring how leaders grow real capability while AI reshapes the work. The combined kickoff episode dropped June 16; this is the first of the solo episodes, with more arriving over the coming weeks.

    Follow the show so you don't miss the rest of the series.

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    44 Min.
  • How to Keep Rising in the AI Era with 6 of Today’s Most Respected Voices
    Jun 16 2026

    For our 300th episode, Charles Good sat down separately with six of the most influential thinkers alive, and asked them all the same question: in an age where AI can produce the work, what's actually happening to us?

    Dan Ariely. Dorie Clark. Sally Helgesen. Whitney Johnson. Dave Ulrich. Alison McCauley. None of them heard the others' answers. They work in completely different fields. And every one of them landed on the same uncomfortable truth: your output is rising, your capability may be quietly falling behind, and you can't feel it happening, because the work still looks great.

    This episode weaves all six voices into one conversation about what AI is really doing to human capability and what the sharpest minds in the world say you should do about it.

    Because in the age of AI, the output is no longer the proof. The output is just the output. You are the proof.

    Over the coming weeks, we're releasing the full deep-dive conversation with each guest as its own episode. Follow the show so you don't miss them.


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    36 Min.
  • How to Build a Team That Keeps Getting Better with Dr. Ron Friedman
    Jun 9 2026

    𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗱𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆?


    In this episode of 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁, award-winning social psychologist 𝗗𝗿. 𝗥𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗻 joins us to unpack the science behind high-performing teams and the practical habits that turn ordinary groups into superteams.


    Drawing on the most comprehensive study of elite teams ever conducted, featured in his new book 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀, Dr. Friedman explains why the strongest teams aren't the ones that collaborate the most, work the longest hours, or get along best. What sets them apart is how they manage energy and attention, bring out the best in one another, and keep improving over time.


    You'll learn how leaders can build stronger team dynamics, cut distractions, and design work environments—physical and digital- that make focus and high performance the path of least resistance.


    𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀:

    • What separates high-performing teams from average ones

    • The core practices that define a superteam

    • How to manage time, energy, and attention more deliberately

    • Why leaders should speak last in meetings

    • How to build shared goals, role clarity, and healthy interdependence

    • Why constant communication can quietly undermine productivity

    • How your environment shapes the way people work together


    If you lead a team, work on a team, or want to build a culture of higher performance, this episode delivers research-backed strategies you can put to work immediately.


    𝗗𝗿. 𝗥𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗻 is an award-winning social psychologist and bestselling author of The Best Place to Work and Superteams. His research on building high-performing teams has been featured in The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Harvard Business Review, where his article “How to Build a Superteam That Keeps Getting Better” is this month’s cover story.

    Ron’s Website: www.superteamsinc.com⁠

    Ron’s Social Media Handles:

    LinkedIn: ⁠@ronfriedmanphd⁠

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    X: ⁠@ronfriedman⁠

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    YouTube: ⁠@ronfriedmanphd⁠


    Book: Superteams: The Science and Secrets of High-Performing Teams available on Amazon and all book sellers.


    𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀

    00:00 Defining Super Teams

    03:31 The First Steps to Building a Super Team

    06:09 The Importance of Team Design

    07:49 Creating a Team Mentality

    09:46 Addressing Survivorship Bias in Team Success

    12:32 The Role of Environment in Team Performance

    16:33 The Impact of Constant Communication

    17:48 The Shift from Individual to Team Success

    19:18 The Surprising Office Amenity for High Performance

    21:06 Strategies for Minimizing Distractions

    22:25 Collaborative Focus: A New Approach to Productivity

    25:26 Concrete Practices for Team Leaders

    26:40 Embracing Mistakes for Team Growth

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    31 Min.
  • How to Do Great Work When Everything Keeps Changing with Melissa Swift
    Jun 2 2026

    The hours are the same, or maybe fewer, but the work has gotten heavier. More context-switching, more overlapping priorities, more pings fracturing your attention. And a nagging sense that all the effort is producing diminishing returns.

    Melissa Swift has a name for what's happening and a framework for fixing it.

    In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good sits down with Melissa Swift, author of Effective: How to Do Great Work in a Fast-Changing World. As a founder, CEO, and former leader at Mercer, Korn Ferry, and Deloitte, Melissa offers a clearer way to think about what effectiveness truly requires. So if you're tired of running harder for less, listen in to discover what you should stop doing to get it back.

    What You Will Learn

    • The Effectiveness Architecture — the four-element "two-story house" (Knowledge and Methods on the ground floor, People and Technology above) and how to quickly diagnose your own dominant strength and blind spots
    • Why burnout is really about intensification, not hours — the specific ways organizations unintentionally turn up the intensity dial, and the "stop-doing" moves that bring it back down
    • How to handle emotion at work — practical behaviors for the moments managers dread: the blow-up, the tears, the team at war
    • Why complaints are data — how to tell the difference between an early-warning signal worth acting on and noise you can safely let go
    • The power of strong Methods — how repeatable design creates "optionality" when chaos hits, instead of leaving you dependent on heroic improvisation
    • Leading in a hyper-transparent world — what one leader's awards-ceremony misstep reveals about how intentions get distorted, and how to build trust through visible decision-making

    MelissaSwift

    https://www.anthromeinsight.com/

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/swiftmelissa/

    Order Melissa's latest book on Amazon, 'Effective: How to do Great Work in a Fast Changing World

    Chapters

    00:00 The essence of effectiveness in leadership

    02:47 Understanding the Effectiveness Architecture

    10:48 Navigating work intensity and burnout

    15:53 Managing emotions in the workplace

    22:04 The power of strong Methods

    26:47 Thriving in a hyper-transparent world

    29:31 Navigating data-driven conversations

    31:38 Closing thoughts


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    34 Min.
  • The Aging Workforce Crisis Leaders Can’t Afford to Ignore with Dan Pontefract
    May 26 2026

    The workforce is aging faster than at any point in human history, and most organizations are responding by quietly writing off the very people who hold their hardest-won knowledge. Dan Pontefract calls the cost of that denial AgeDebt, and he believes it's building toward a crisis as slow-moving and as expensive to ignore as climate change.

    In this conversation, Dan Pontefract joins Charles Good to make the case that age is an asset, not a liability, and that the organizations willing to act now can convert their Age Debt into what he calls the Experience Dividend.

    Drawing on his new book The Future of Work Is Grey: The Untapped Value of Age in the Workforce, Dan throws out the tired generational labels (Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z) and replaces them with a more useful lens: Rivers(early-career, curious, fluid), Rocks (mid-career, resilient, the bridge generation), and Rubies (later-career, wisdom polished by time). His argument is both a wake-up call and a blueprint: the future of work is grey if leaders stay stuck in habitual patterns, but it can be gold if they learn to put Rivers,Rocks and Rubies on stage together.

    Whether you see yourself as a River, a Rock, or a Ruby today, this episode will give you a new language for one of the most overlooked sources of value in any organization, along with the everyday habits to start building it tomorrow.

    What You'll Learn in This Episode

    • What "Age Debt" actually is, and why Dan compares it to climate change: a slow-moving crisis leaders have had the data on for decades, where the cost of doing nothing compounds quietly until it's enormous to fix
    • The Rivers, Rocks, and Rubies framework - three career-stage archetypes that replace birth-year labels, and why Dan says generational branding is actively harmful to good decision-making
    • Why ageism is "the last socially acceptable -ism": the comments and assumptions about age that still pass unchallenged when equivalent remarks about race or gender never would
    • How ageism hits all three groups - Rivers dismissed as "not ready," Rocks written off as "stuck," Rubies treated as "expired" and Dan's own experience of being seen as both "too young" and "too old"
    • The grey-to-gold mindset shift - what keeps organizations stuck in habitual patterns, and what changes when leaders stop fighting experience and start designing around it
    • The Experience Dividend - the measurable value of integrating insight, mentorship, and continuity across every age in your workforce
    • Everyday Age — the small, repeatable habits any leader can start tomorrow to move from age-aware to age-savvy, no corporate program required

    About Dan Pontefract

    Dan Pontefract is a leadership strategist, keynote speaker, and author of several influential books on work, culture, and leadership, including Lead. Care. Win., Open to Think, The Purpose Effect, and Flat Army. His latest book is The Future of Work Is Grey: The Untapped Value of Age in the Workforce. His work focuses on helping organizations rethink how they create value through their people across every stage of life and career.

    Chapters

    00:00 Introduction to Age Debt and the Aging Workforce

    03:13 Understanding Age Debt and Its Implications

    05:20 The Demographic Apocalypse and Longevity Issues

    08:21 The Impact of Ageism in the Workplace

    11:00 the Gray vs. Gold Metaphor in Work

    13:54 Rethinking Generational Labels: Rivers, Rocks, and Rubies

    21:21 Personal Experiences with Ageism

    30:39 The Ruby Experience: Working Beyond Retirement

    36:24The Double Loss of Aging Workforce


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    38 Min.
  • The Art of Trust Building: How Leaders Transform Teams & Organizations with Dennis & Michelle Reina | TGLP #297
    May 19 2026

    Trust isn't a soft skill. It's a discipline.

    In this powerful conversation, Charles Good sits down with Dr. Dennis Reina and Dr. Michelle Reina, the pioneers of behavioral trust research and authors of the new masterwork The Art of Trust Building, to break down what trust really is, how it's built, how it breaks, and how leaders can rebuild it stronger than before.

    For over three decades, the Reinas have shown organizations that trust is not a personality trait or a poster value. It is a set of specific, observable, measurable behaviors and that means it can be coached, scaled, and transformed at every level of leadership.

    In an era of hybrid work, accelerating AI integration, and constant organizational change, the informal proximity-based trust-building of the past no longer works. Leaders today must build trust intentionally, one behavior at a time.

    WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

    ✔ Why 90% of trust breaks are subtle, unintentional — and avoidable

    ✔ The Three Dimensions of Trust®: Character, Communication, and Capability

    ✔ How to measure trust in your team — and what shocks leaders when they see the data

    ✔ The everyday habits that quietly erode Trust of Character

    ✔ Why most leaders overestimate their own communication transparency

    ✔ How over-control and "rescuing" signal capability distrust

    ✔ Self-trust: the overlooked foundation of every trustworthy leader

    ✔ The Seven Steps for Healing® — the path from breach to repair

    ✔ How small ripple-effect behaviors cascade through entire organizations

    ✔ Why trust is the currency that powers change — especially in the AI era

    ✔ The role of specific, grounded gratitude as a trust-building practice

    ✔ The one daily question every leader should ask themselves tonight

    If you lead people, at any level, this conversation will reframe what leadership actually requires.

    ABOUT THE GUESTS

    Dr. Dennis Reina & Dr. Michelle ReinaCo-founders of Reina Trust Building® and authors of the foundational Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace (1999) and the newly released The Art of Trust Building. Their research has shaped how Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and global organizations understand and operationalize trust. They are the creators of the Reina Trust and Betrayal Model®, the Three Dimensions of Trust®, the Reina Team Trust Scale®, and the Reina Individual Trust Scale®, the most widely used behavioral trust assessments in the world.

    MEMORABLE QUOTES

    "Trust is not soft. It is hard and essential."

    "Trust is an energy field, you can feel it.""Transparency and honesty are the foundation."

    "Trust is the currency that powers change."🧭

    CHAPTERS

    00:00 The Foundation of Trust

    03:42 Personal Journeys and Trust Development

    07:25 The Evolution of Trust in the Workplace

    10:23 Measuring Trust: Making the Invisible Visible

    15:14 The Three Dimensions of Trust

    19:20 Character: The Core of Trustworthiness

    25:01 Communication: The Key to Transparency

    30:17 Capability: Empowering Others Through Trust

    34:49 Healing Trust After a Breach

    37:54 The Seven Steps to Rebuilding Trust

    43:38 Creating Conditions for Trust Conversations

    48:07 The Role of Gratitude in Trust Building

    51:25 Common Misconceptions About Trust

    55:06 Final Insights and Takeaways

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    56 Min.
  • Are You Still Getting Sharper? Why Mid-Career Professionals Plateau
    May 12 2026

    Somewhere between year eight and year twelve of a knowledge-work career, something shifts. The title is good. The compensation is good. The reviews are good.

    The output has never been more polished, especially in the last two years, because AI has put a layer of polish on everything you ship. But the feeling of getting visibly better, the feeling that defined your first decade, has quietly disappeared.

    Most professionals misdiagnose what's happening. They call it lost motivation, burnout, or hitting their ceiling. None of those is usually the right diagnosis.

    In this episode, Charles Good breaks down why mid-career professionals plateau and it's not what you think. Drawing on cognitive science research from Anders Ericsson, Robert Bjork, Monique Boekaerts, and the Harvard Business School / BCG / Dell'Acqua study on AI and consultant performance, Charles identifies the four forces quietly dulling your edge: rooms that have become too familiar, the habit of never watching your own tape, the disappearance of reflection time, and the new and accelerating cost of letting AI take your reps.

    Then, using lessons from three of the greatest performers in their fields, Roger Federer rebuilding his game at thirty-two, Tom Brady studying his own film into his forties, and Michael Jordan returning to six AM workouts after three championships, Charles offers three concrete moves to put growth back inside the work you already do.

    You'll learn:

    • Why most professionals misdiagnose the plateau as motivation, burnout, or ceiling — and what's actually happening underneath
    • The cognitive science of deliberate practice and desirable difficulty, and why effort and growth are not the same thing
    • The four forces dulling your edge — including the AI dynamic that almost no one is talking about
    • The Federer Move: how to find a harder room once a quarter
    • The Brady Move: the four-question Friday reflection that takes fifteen minutes
    • The Jordan Move and the First Draft Rule: how to use AI without letting it take the reps that build your judgment

    If you've been delivering well but quietly suspect you've stopped growing, this is the episode for you.

    Chapters

    00:00 Michael Jordan's Breakfast Club: Why Greats Go Back to the Reps

    02:00 The Mid-Career Plateau Nobody Wants to Name

    04:30 Why Motivation, Burnout, and Ceiling Are the Wrong Diagnoses

    06:00 You Stopped Being a Learner — The Real Reframe

    08:30 Force One: Federer at Thirty-Two and the Familiar Room

    12:00 Force Two: The Brady Discipline of Watching Your Own Tape

    13:30 Force Three: The Reflection Loop That Never Gets Closed

    14:30 Force Four: How AI Is Taking Your Reps17:30 The Federer Move — Find a Harder Room

    18:30 The Brady Move — The Four-Question Friday

    19:30 The Jordan Move — The First Draft Rule

    20:00 Are You Still Getting Sharper?


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    20 Min.
  • Stop Giving Advice: The Coaching Questions Every Leader Needs with Michael Bungay Stanier
    May 5 2026

    Most leaders were promoted because they had answers. But the higher you rise, the more dangerous that habit can become.

    When every problem runs through you, your team gets slower. When every answer comes from you, your people stop thinking as deeply. And when your identity becomes being the helpful problem-solver, you can quietly become the bottleneck.

    In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good sits down with Michael Bungay Stanier, bestselling author of The Coaching Habit, to explore how leaders can stop giving advice too quickly and start building stronger, more independent teams through better coaching questions.

    Michael shares insights from the 10th anniversary edition of The Coaching Habit, including why being coach-like is not about becoming a full-time coach, why the Advice Monster is so hard to tame, and how seven simple questions can transform everyday leadership conversations.

    In this conversation, you’ll learn:

    How to use coaching questions in five-minute conversations, not just formal coaching sessions

    Why “And what else?” may be one of the most powerful leadership questions ever created

    How to move from surface-level problem solving to real development by asking, “What’s the real challenge here for you?”

    Why the Advice Monster shows up even in smart, well-intentioned leaders

    How coaching becomes even more important in an AI age, where fast answers are everywhere but human presence, listening, and encouragement still matter most

    This episode is for any leader, manager, coach, or HR/L&D professional who wants to build ownership, reduce dependency, and help people think better for themselves.

    Listen now to learn how to stop rescuing, stay curious longer, and start coaching better.

    Learn more about Michael Bungay Stanier: [https://www.mbs.works/about/]


    Michael's book: The Coaching Habit 10th anniversary edition [https://a.co/d/0dgG1ww7]

    Chapters

    00:00 The Seven Essential Questions of Coaching

    04:17 Navigating Challenges in Conversations

    05:58 Understanding the 'What Do You Want?' Question

    08:58 The Importance of Asking 'What Else?'

    10:28 Avoiding the Rescuer Role in Leadership

    15:10 Strategic Decision-Making: Saying No

    17:27 The Paradox of Confident Humility

    17:48 Building Coaching Habits Effectively

    22:31 Redirecting Conversations Back to the Individual

    24:01 Empowering Employees to Ask Questions

    25:16 The Role of Illustrations in Learning

    29:29 The Future of the Coaching Habit Podcast

    32:31 Key Insights and Takeaways

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    39 Min.