We kick off Season 2 with this introduction to three key leadership themes that will occupy the season as a whole:

• succession and succession planning as critical leadership competencies;
• what we refer to as "curatorial" leadership - the idea that leaders are often "curators" of the people, values, and purposes of their organizations and groups; and
• differences and similarities between leadership in online and virtual contexts and leadership in face-to-face and other analog settings.

Inevitably, Generative AI enters the leadership picture. What do we make of the possibility of "robot" leaders?

Co-hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim devote this episode to preliminary tours of each of those topics. There are deeper dives to come, together with some incredible guests.

Find Your Leadership Podcast online at yourleadership.net, and use that site to send in questions and comments.

Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered by Commander Buffalo.

While the Commander may use AI to help us organize our interviews, our podcast features only human voices, and our musical accompaniment is composed and performed by the very human Matt Madison.

Your Leadership Podcast returns for Season 2. In this preview, co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison highlight key leadership themes anchoring the coming weeks' episodes.

We have a fresh theme to pair with compelling conversations and usable takeaways for leaders and aspiring leaders alike.

Catch up on Season 1 via this series of short essays on LinkedIn.

Your Leadership Podcast is produced and engineered by Commander Buffalo.

While the Commander may use AI to help us organize our interviews, our podcast features only human voices, and our musical accompaniment is composed and performed by the very human Matt Madison.

This finale of Season 1 prompts hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison to tie together three central themes woven through all of Your Leadership Podcast so far: how great leaders rely on moral and ethical frameworks, how leaders (and followers) understand and build on context, and the key role that team-first perspectives play in organizations with thriving leaders.

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Hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison dig into themes in a new book by Columbia University Business School professor Adam Galinsky, titled "Inspire: the Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others." They work from a recent Harvard Business Review article from Professor Galinsky that summarizes its key points: inspiring leaders distinguish themselves by playing three key roles: visionary, exemplar, and mentor. The conversation finds some surprising connections between Professor Galinsky's findings and the themes of "Your Leadership Podcast."

The book: Adam Galinsky, "Inspire: the Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others."

Adam Galinsky at the Harvard Business Review.

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Hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison tackle a key element of leadership in context. What's expected of a leader who steps into that role in an organization or community that already has an established history and culture? How does that differ from tackling leadership when starting fresh, building and leading from the ground up?

The case study for the conversation: religion and religious practices, both old and new.

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Hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim dig into and pull apart followership, an all-important complement to leadership. They jump off from a recent report by Gallup, Inc. titled, "Global Leadership Report: What Followers Want." The conversation takes on not only what followers want, but also when they want it, and how, and what that means for leaders.

Download the Gallup report here.

For more research on followership and what that means for leaders, take a page from Robert E. Kelley's 1992 book "The Power of Followership."

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Service on a board of directors or advisors is often treated as a “leadership” role, whether in a nonprofit or corporate setting. When and how might that be true? When and how do board roles and leadership roles differ? Hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison talk through this critical set of questions for aspiring leaders.

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Hosts Mike Madison and Kathy Edersheim dig into “doing or delegating,” key moments in the life of an organization or community when individuals step forward to meet needs of the moment. Sometimes, that means taking on tasks themselves. Sometimes, it means delegating responsibilities to others. When and why should leaders make one choice rather than the other?

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