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OwlCast: The Leadership & Coaching Podcast

OwlCast: The Leadership & Coaching Podcast

著者： David Morelli with Co-Host William Oakley
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 OwlCast is a podcast on leadership and coaching. You can expect to get insights to help you solve the thorny problems of life and leadership – all with a dollop of laughter thrown in. Your dynamic hosts, David and William, will help you become a more kickass leader. Together, they won’t only motivate you, they’ll give you scientifically proven tools to become better – full stop!David Morelli 2020-2025 個人的成功 出世 就職活動 経済学 自己啓発
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  • Execution Insights: How to Be Coachable and Why it Matters

    Execution Insights: How to Be Coachable and Why it Matters
    2026/01/13
    In this episode of OWLCAST, hosts David Morelli and William Oakley pull back the curtain on a critical leadership truth: raw talent often takes a backseat to coachability. While many professionals focus solely on honing their technical skills, David reveals that when executives are faced with a promotion decision between a highly skilled but "uncoachable" expert and a less experienced but highly "coachable" learner, they choose the learner every single time. This episode serves as a vital gut-check for anyone looking to break through a career plateau by shifting their mindset from being an "island of expertise" to an "active seeker of growth."

    · Key Topics:

    · The Promotion Differentiator: Skill can be taught, but a lack of coachability is often a permanent roadblock. High-performers who reject feedback are often relegated to individual contributor roles where they can be "contained," while coachable individuals are accelerated into leadership.

    · The Implementation Loop: True coachability isn't just nodding and smiling (which David warns actually breaks trust). It is a three-step process: Absorb (acting like a sponge), Synthesize (connecting new info to what you know), and Circle Back (showing the coach that their investment led to action).

    · A Horticultural View of Growth: Using a pruning analogy, the hosts discuss how growth is often painful. Being coachable means allowing others to "cut away" ineffective habits or parts of your process so that more productive areas can flourish.

    · Choice Over Ability: David argues that coachability isn't an innate personality trait like math aptitude; it is a conscious choice. It requires the humility to accept that you don't have it all figured out and the curiosity to value someone else's perspective as "gold."

    · Hidden Benefits: Beyond promotions, coachable employees receive more leeway, greater independence, more dedicated time with leadership, and a "hedge" against layoffs because managers form an emotional attachment to the success of those they invest in.
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    44 分
  • Execution Insights: Jim Huling on Leadership, Purpose, and Driving Results

    Execution Insights: Jim Huling on Leadership, Purpose, and Driving Results
    2026/01/06
    Jim Huling, best-selling co-author of The Four Disciplines of Execution, joins Owlcast to distill 25 years of execution wisdom. He reveals the biggest mistakes leaders make—from undervaluing execution's difficulty to spreading focus too thin—and shares profound insights on leadership, the inner life of an executive, and the critical need to instill a sense of meaning and purpose in team members. Drawing on his experience as a CIO, CEO, and global consultant, Huling emphasizes that true accountability is a non-punitive system of mutual reliance and support, best exemplified by the rock climbing ritual of being "on belay."

    Key Topics:

    · Execution is Harder than Strategy: Every strategy requires people to consistently apply a different action, meaning they must change their behavior. This behavioral change is the hardest part of execution and is often underestimated.

    · The Whirlwind vs. Focus: Most capacity (estimated at 80%) is already allocated to the "whirlwind"—day-to-day operations. Leaders only have a small percentage left for new initiatives. Dividing this small capacity among multiple goals makes failure nearly inevitable.

    · Identify Leverage (The "How"): Instead of increasing raw activity, focus on the "fewest actions that, if done really well, would have the biggest impact." (e.g., improving a hotel guest's arrival experience boosts all subsequent satisfaction scores).

    · No Involvement, No Commitment: Leaders must help team members understand why a goal matters. Giving people a voice in the process, even if they don't have the final vote, drives commitment over mere compliance.

    · Update the Playbook: Many senior executives fail today because they are still using leadership playbooks that are a "relic" of previous decades. Leaders must show humility and introspection to recalibrate their style for the current workforce.

    · Personal Growth is Required: "Every next level of leadership that you desire requires a next version of you." Leaders must continuously evolve their skills and approach to meet new challenges.
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    1 時間 8 分
  • Don’t Fix It: The Power of Letting Your People Struggle

    Don’t Fix It: The Power of Letting Your People Struggle
    2025/12/23
    Are you a 'fixer?' If your immediate response to a problem is to deliver a solution, you might be robbing your team of their greatest growth opportunity. On this episode of Owlcast, Dr. David Morelli and William Oakley discuss why your value isn't wrapped up in being the problem-solver. They explore the connection between struggle and growth, the hidden dopamine hit managers receive when fixing problems, and the single question that can revolutionize your team's capability. Learn the power of letting your people struggle—it leads to greater ownership, better metrics, and a lot less on your desk.

    Key Topics:

    • Your Value Isn't in Fixing: The impulse to solve a problem instantly comes from a desire to feel valuable (a personal dopamine hit) but often disengages the employee, who receives only "more work" crafted by the manager.

    • The High Cost of Fixing: Continually solving problems for your team creates learned helplessness and turns the manager into a bottleneck, forcing them to address the same issue multiple times, which is inefficient.

    • Struggle = Growth: Struggle is the professional equivalent of "time under tension" in muscle building. By letting people wrestle with problems and come up with their own solutions, you foster mindset growth, capability, and ownership.

    • Become an Enabler, Not a Fixer: Stop telling people what to do. Use coaching and the Strategist style to help employees solve problems for themselves or in partnership. Managers should ask the questions they would ask themselves (their "question hierarchy") to train their team's problem-solving ability.

    • Adjust the Tension: The appropriate amount of struggle must be adjusted for the individual. Leaders need awareness (of their own biases) and empathy (to understand the employee's current emotional/situational capacity) to prevent overstraining and ensure the struggle remains productive.

    • Recovery is Key to Growth: If you allow struggle, you must also provide a safe place for recovery. Validation, encouragement, and support act as the "recovery drink" after the "workout," helping the employee integrate the struggle into a positive, lasting growth experience.
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    53 分
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