“Theory and practice” is a common phrase. We've seen a lot of writing on theory, but what about that other word? Peter calls it "the dark matter of the social sciences" - Practice. It applies to pencil-pushing, educating, heart surgery, sailing, golfing, and anything you can do with purpose. Peter and Dave take you into a world of thought that couples work and play, purpose and routine, life and legacy. In a world of white-water, On Practice is the raft.
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Episode 282: Episode 7 (Reprised) - We Practice in a Socio-Technical Swirl
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Dave and Peter examine their conjecture in On Practice as a Way of Being, that there is a dynamic interflow of social and technical conditions. Four years later, AI technologies are mimicking human-social behaviors. Practice seeks the optimum experience of both.
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Episode 281: Episode 6 (Reprise) - Peter and Dave Talk About 'Learning in the Mess".
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This episode was initially recorded in late 2019, just as COVID invaded our lives and livelihoods. Then and now, it is a question of our desire and ability to learn as beginners. Change is changing. Can we keep up?
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Episode 280: Episode 5 (Reprise) - Peter and Dave's Points of View on the Practitioner POV
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Among the 32 Conjectures on why your practice matters in On Practice as a Way of Being is how Practice is perceptual and perspectival. What the person sees in moments of doing is what is acted upon (no matter what observers like Vaill and Fearon think is real). Listen to them form their points of view on points of view back in 2019.…
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Episode 279: Episode 4 (Reprise) Peter and Dave Continue to Probe the Nature of Practice
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The essence of Practice cannot be fully described through lists or agreements in this conversation. It is ultimately defined by each individual practitioner and so much more. Peter and Dave exchange ideas freely and formalize these ideas in their book On Practice as a Way of Being.
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Episode 278: Episode 3 (Reprise) - Peter Vaill and Dave Fearon Clarifying the Nature of Practice
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While collaborating on the final draft of On Practice as a Way of Being, Peter and Dave recorded conversations similar to those in the book to originate the Practice? Podcast. There are 32 conjectures about the complex, yet personal, nature of Pratice. Myths and assumptions are pondered in this episode.…
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Episode 277: Episode 2 (reprised) Peter Vaill and Dave - Conversation at the Origin of On Practice
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Peter Vaill invited Dave to help him complete what was likely to be Peter's last book, On Practice as a Way of Being. In the Summer of 2019, Dave learned how to produce a podcast to capture the idea-rich conversations he was having with Peter. To us, and you, Practice is personal.
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Episode 276: Episode 271 - He Frees Compassion from Hardened Male Minds (Sean Harvey)
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Chief Compassion Officer Sean Harvey's work with men in the most challenging roles and situations elicits a string of 'wows' from Dave. The author of Warrior Compassion: Unleashing the Healing Power of Men, Sean, offers hope that new systems and structures are emerging that favor our spirits in all endeavors.…
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Episode 275: Episode 270 - He Catches Telling Signs in the Ever-shifting Context for Leading (Tom Casey)
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Tom Casey and his firm, Discussion Partners Collaborative, constantly cast questions to various leaders to catch the emerging trends shaping the context for leading their organizations. Dave and Tom discuss the yield from the cast of this question. What do you find reprehensible in a leader? Clue. #1 is hypocrisy.…
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Episode 274: Episode 269 - Problem Solving at the Nexus Corporate Operations (Greg Balicki)
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Corporate business operations are where multiple practices converge, with daily outcomes predicted and not. Dave's former student, Senior Vice President Greg Balicki, works at the nexus of Voya's converging business problems and opportunities to lead problem-solving projects addressing both.
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Episode 273: Episode 268 -She Makes Space for Us to Do the Changing (Lisa Lloyd)
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People find the need and space to change by experiencing Lisa Lloyd's "bespoke support" designs. Dave enjoys this conversation with a fellow podcaster. Lisa is Beyond the Water Cooler. He agrees with her theme: "It's time for change."
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Episode 272: Episode 267 - His Busines is the People Who Are the Business HR Huntsman)
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Dave talks with business growth specialist HR Huntsman and makes the pleasant discovery that The Leaders EDGE is his client company's people - all of them - working in a complex social system that his consulting makes lastingly real.
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Episode 271: Episode 266 - She Revels in the Ambiguity of the Digital Future (ElisaTuijnder)
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Listening to Happiness at Work podcaster and agile leadership consultant Elisa Tuijnder is strangely encouraging. She is not hashing over the past (like Dave does). She is tossing digital breadcrumbs ahead of time for us to follow into the future.
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Episode 270: Episode 265 - He Guides Business Owners Onward Into the Unknown (Scott Beebe)
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Dave was intrigued by a business consultant about the founder of My Business on Purpose, Scott Beebe's logo - Liberating Owners from Chaos. These days, who doesn't need a coach who believes we can handle the yet-to-be-known future? Scott's 100+ business clients know the value of a steady guide.
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Episode 269: Episode 264 - His Practice is Media Magic (Alexander Liteplo)
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Dave met an actual AI content creator, Alex Liteplo, a practice for all our futures. Dave is trying out one of Alex's AI-generated clips to feature podcast episodes with his son Dave, Jr. The images correspond to Dave's words as in a dance. Magic!
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Episode 268: Episode 263 - What Are You Discovering About AI? (Dave, Jr & Dave, Sr)
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Social Enaction thinker Dave Fearon helps his dad Dave Fearon overcome his reluctance to accept AI as an inevitable presence in our practice lives.
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Episode 267: Episode 262 - He Makes Space for Designing Conversations (Mark Bradford)
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Dave returned (see Episode 257) to Relational Leadership thinker Mark Bradford to be with him in a virtual social space where designing thinking has plenty of room to bloom. And, for Dave, it did.
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Episode 266: Episode 261 - Classical Music Is His Learning Sound Track (Paul Crick)
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Dave and Paul Crick, Founder of Elevate Partnership, exchange insights into the marvelous mysteries of humans' behavior in leading, composing, and performing in concert. While you will not hear classical music in the background, it is the analogy to leading playing in their thoughts.
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Episode 265: Episode 260 - Softball then, now, and forever (Hannah Cooper)
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Dave noticed that his former student Hannah Cooper, now a business analyst, was still the softball enthusiast he knew nearly ten years ago. Her practice evolved from player to coach to founder/trainer of Cooper Clinics. Hannah's vision is that girls and young women will develop in spirit, mind, and body with a sport they can play well into adulthoo…
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Episode 264: Episode 259 - He Studies the Sound of Silence (Freek Sanders)
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Freek Sanders, from the Netherlands, is an action researcher, poet, and certified executive coach, among other things. Dave finds his current focus on the role of silence in leadership discourse interesting. However, this episode is not 30 minutes of silence. Rather, it suggests that we could all benefit from more moments of peaceful quiet.…
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Episode 263: Episode 258 - He Helps Us See the Unseen (Leader) - Martin Gutmann
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Dave was attracted to the evocative title of Historian/Business Professor Martin Gutmann's new book - The Unseen Leader. This led to a rousing conversation and the promise to keep on learning with each other. Seeing is believing in the depth of leadership.
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Episode 262: Episode 257 - His Practice Goes to the (Aikido) Mat (Mark Bradford)
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Dave always looks for thinkers who can contribute a different perspective to leading and developing our leadership and collaborative design practices. Dave had to reach all the way out from Connecticut to New Zealand, but he found BeWeDo founder, Aikido-inspired Mark Bradford fits this bill and so much more.…
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Episode 261: Episode 256 - Information Happens as We Practice (Dave, Jr & Dad)
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Son Dave Fearon continues informing me about the hidden 'goings on' as we humans create and use information in conversation, laying out the path for practice. The typed letters are not information until you read and give them meaning.
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Episode 260: Episode 255 - He Brings Out the Best (yet) in Us (Tenneson Woolf)
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Poet, coach, group process facilitator, and refreshingly kind person, Tenneson Woolf and Dave 'speak' in close harmony (singing is out of the question for Dave). They share ways, each in his way, gauges success as moments when guiding people releases untapped potential to solve and to soar.
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Episode 259: Episode 254 - Teaching Becomes Her and Her College (Kathy Lund Dean)
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Dave and Kathy Lund Dean were recognized in subsequent years with the Management & Organizational Behavior Teaching Society's David L. Bradford Award for a lifetime of leadership focusing on teaching and learning. Years of creative accomplishments 'become' the person as a way of being. Kathy's unique role as The Board of Trustees Distinguished Chai…
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Episode 258: Episode 253 - His Practice Earns Him Peanuts (Cornelius Uliano)
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Cornelius (Niel) Uliano tells Dave he was inspired to become a filmmaker in the eighth grade. And so he has! He left Newington, Connecticut, to attend film school four years later. Today, he is the Co-producer and writer of The Peanuts Movie. And, on to other Peanuts movies for Apple+... Well, listen, and Niel will tell his story. And to think he g…
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Episode 257: Episode 252 - She Leads to Funding Better Lives (Robin Sharp)
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Easterseals campaigns and inter-organizational collaborations happen out of the goodness of people's hearts. President & CEO of Easterseals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut, inc. Robin Sharp leads with a deep appreciation for volunteered resources whose disabled beneficiaries have a better quality of life.…
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Episode 256: Episode 251 - Once Upon Many Times - a Storied Practice (David Hutchens)
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I'll tell you a story about the sincerely practiced storyteller in this episode. David Hutchens taps into our humanity and finds the gold in real and true stories (or delightful fiction). Our stories. Our organisations' stories. Our town's stories. And he/we will live happily ever after.
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Episode 255: Episode 250 - Still Exploring for New Ways for Developing Leadership Practice (Gary Lloyd)
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Leading is a skillful practice, and the founder of the Leadership Skills Lab, Gary Lloyd, never lets up on the quest for better ways. Dave realizes he has fallen behind his contemporary Gary, who is urging him to put AI (artificial intelligence) to this purpose. Well, the learning never ceases if you are majorly curious.…
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Episode 254: Episode 249 - Dave and Dad Talk About Time and Space - Always Real as Practice Contexts.
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We continue our series of 'Dave & Dad" learning conversations, looking closely for what happens in moments, engaging all our senses, and compelling our full consciousness. Our practices grow us forward, always landing us in a new time and place (even if the space seems to be the same as before, yet connected anew).…
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Episode 253: Episode 248 - Talking about Today's Distressing Context for Practice (Lizy Freudmann & Tom Casey)
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Our intentional practices have landed us amid a socio-political context of pessimism, anger, and even rage. Dave, Lizy, and Tom talk over such findings in a recent Discussion Partners Collaborative leadership sentiment survey. We still focus and do what we can to make things better.
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Episode 252: Episode 247 - Exemplary Leading - Her Research. Her Practice (Kelly Gesmundo Clarke)
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A Bowling Green State University Doctorate in Organization Development & Change was just conferred upon this seasoned leader whose research focuses on exemplary leaders in highly disruptive settings (COVID). Dr. Kelly Gesmundo Clarke goes now where uncertainty prevails to encourage exemplary leadership practice. "You can find Dr. Gesmundo Clarke he…
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Episode 251: Episode 246 - Yes, Even Grieving Can Be a Practice (Kathryn Kaplan)
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Kathryn Kaplan is now a professional grief counselor. For most of her career, she was an Organization Development consultant. This is the fifth episode with Kathryn, each marking a transformational moment in her practice life. Her latest book, Dying With His Eyes Wide Open, prompts this reunion of two former Peter Vaill students. Dave ventures that…
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Episode 250: Episode 245 - She brings Development to Each Engagement (Lisa Thomas)
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Dave discovers a natural teaching quality in his guest Organizational Development professional, Dr. Lisa Thomas. Mutual development happens in moments when Lisa is coaching, facilitating, or instructing. Her earnest desire for the betterment of others is palpable. You will experience it in this conversation.…
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Episode 249: Episode 244 - She Accounts for Her Practice (Kelly Harper)
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Dave's former student, Kelly Harper, CPA, manages her fortunate way of life as an accountant who constantly leads and learns. After doing so at several global corporations, Kelly brings her team's talents to corporate customers of Deloitte.
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Episode 248: Episode 243 - How the Practice of Talk Really Works (Dave Fearon, Jr and his Dad)
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Dave Fearon, Jr. summarizes the progression of his Social Enaction thoughts across the 18 episodes of conversation with his co-inquiring father (me). This brings us to Conversational Analysis revealing the practice that holds us humans together (or apart). Talking.
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Episode 247: Episode 242 - Her Practice is Changing Change for the Better (Carla McKnight)
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Vice-President of Organization Development & HR Carla McKnight's conversation with Dave gets him 'all fired up' for the community college movement as Carla talks about her constantly changing Valencia College, keeping up with the needs of the Central Florida communities. Changing again? Call Carla.
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Episode 246: Episde 241 - Still Digging for the Natural Moments of Leadership (Don Dunoon)
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Dave reaches across continents to see what fellow restless thinker Don Dunoon, Director of New Futures, has found since Episode 124 in August 2021. Plenty. He's still digging in the gold mine of natural conversation. He shares leadership 'finds' like the importance of safety.
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Episode 245: Episode 240 - Diving into Complexity She Comes Up Smiling (Nicole Mata)
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Dave loves to showcase former Management students who, then and now, are avid learners. Nicole, always up for change, moves into a new practicing estimating for jet engine transactions. "It's different every day".
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Episode 244: Episode 239 - The Effect of His Digital Artistry is Special (Mike Zaman)
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Digital artist and special effects practitioner, Realtime Supervisor at the visual effect company Framestore, Mike Zaman introduces Dave to the vast, fast, and broadly cast world of digitally rendered art.
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Episode 243: Episode 238 - He Advises and Learns in the Thick of It (Daryl Conner)
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Dave meets Daryl Conner, a change consultant who, for many decades, has performed at the epicenter of organizational strategic decision-making, learning with his clients at the point of change execution. While his global firm serves enterprises across the spectrum, Daryl advises international NGOs addressing "changes that matter."…
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Episode 242: Episode 237 - He Led Discovery of Leadership Gems in Childrend's Books (Tom Casey)
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Tom Casey's Discussion Partner Collaborative shifted its leadership research practice to an unusual but elemental source of influence - ideas shaped by reading classic children's books. He and Dave sift through the gems of possibilities.
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Episode 241: Episode 236 - Her Practice is Sweet (Amanda Pizzoferrato)
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Right now, Amanda Pizzoferrato is a Cookie Marketer. No, she's not a Girl Scout. Her's is the innovative Corso Cookie brand. She loves the daily learning of launching a direct sales online marketing practice. It's not unlike her previous venture, 'cooking up' a popular sandwich cafe - the Sleepy Rooster. And yes, she's another of Dave's former stud…
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Episode 240: Episode 235 - Her Practice is Simply Presidential! (Glynis Fitzgerald)
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Dave reconnects with his former university colleague Glynis Fitzgerald to celebrate her recent ascendence to President of Alvernia University with a conversation about old times, now-times, and time up ahead. Glynis' sunny nature is now a beacon for her school, as it was for Dave's back then. This time, her practice is simply presidential!…
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Episode 239: Episode 234 - Teaching 5th Grade -the Hub of his Gallaxy of Practices (Matt Dicks)
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Many have one soul-satisfying practice around which other ways of being cluster. Teaching 5th graders is Matt Dick's primary way of being his best self. Storytelling in many forms and forums orbits and compliments his teaching. Dave salutes his fellow adventurous teacher.
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Episode 238: Episode 233 - She Alway Answers the New Alternative Doorbell (Kate Barhart)
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Kate Barnhart and her old friend "Uncle Dave" talk about her extraordinary service accomplishment - New Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth in New York City. Kate was a close friend of his late niece Kate Spencer, who helped this agency when she could. During this conversation, the New Alternatives doorbell rang - a possible new client needing gui…
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Episode 237: Episode 232 - Encouragng Our Full Potetial for Doing Good in the World (Judi Neal)
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Judi Neal, an inspirational global educator, and leader, encourages us to be Edgewalkers and to elevate our Global Consciousness. It does take courage to change for the better. Listening to Judi in this conversation with Dave, you may experience some of her positive energy right through your screen. Dave did.…
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Episode 236: Episode 231 - She Listens for the Good (Ideas) in Us (Bessi Graham)
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Thinking partner Bessi Graham is a writer, speaker, podcaster, and listener. Hear this in a getting-acquainted conversation with Dave, who suddenly says she is a conversation 'alchemist.' Bessi draws out one's ideas and better is found: a better way forward, a better way to direct business, a better way of being.…
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Episode 235: Episode 230 - His Practice Results in Safety (Jordan Wareham)
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"It is safe to say" that Senior Director of Operational Safety for Spirit Airlines Jordan Wareham is a superb organizational learner. In this conversation, you will see why Dave says this is so. The Operation constantly 'teaches' him what it takes to sustain its exceptional safety. In turn, he brings these lessons to all responsible leaders, and th…
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Episode 234: Episode 229 - His Practice is on (a) Track - Mike Hurczyn
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Motorsports have been the roaring soundtrack of race driver Mike Hurczyn's career since childhood. Among the lessons Dave learns in this conversation with his former student is that all a driver's team does rides on the track on the 'second seat' in all aspects of a race. Mike now consults with those sponsoring and developing those vital teams and …
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Episode 233: Episode 228 - He Talks for the Towns (Bart Russell)
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Hundreds of thousands of people living in America's town have an advocate in Bart Russell. His practice is to know and care deeply about the small town way of life, telling their compelling story for positive change to major companies and government bodies. Dave has known Bart for forty years and is still amazed at how well he 'talks for the towns.…
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