The 90th Percentile: An Unconventional Leadership Podcast
Episodes
Episode 57: 7 Things Leaders Do To Help People Change
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Have you ever tried to change anyone’s behavior at work? It can be extremely frustrating. So often the effort produces an opposite result: ...
Episode 95: Why Do So Many Managers Avoid Giving Praise?
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Why do managers avoid giving praise? When talking with managers about giving feedback, we often hear comments such as, “I did not sleep the ...
Episode 56: Extraordinary Performers- Why You Need Them & How to Keep Them
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details In a society that showers attention on those in power, it is valuable to remember that those in the C suite are not the only ones doing the re...
Episode 94: Are You Sure You’re Not a Bad Boss?
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Conjure up the term “bad boss,” and what comes to mind? Scenes of red-faced people berating subordinates in public. Smarmy souls taking cr...
Episode 93: How Leaders Generate Energy
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details The variety of shortages causing major disruptions has rippling effects that seem to grow more consequential daily. But the one shortage tha...
Episode 92: The Problems and Opportunities With Leaders in STEMM
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Increasingly, science and technology are occupying a much more significant role within companies and consumers. But leaders in STEMM organizat...
Episode 91: Challenging Your Decision-Making Strengths and Biases
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Each individual has their decision-making tools in their back pocket, ready to utilize for every choice regardless of how different they are. ...
Episode 90: The Benefits of Deep Listening
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Over the last few years, we have gathered data from over 18,000 leaders on their preference for speaking versus deep listening. While very few...
Episode 88: Keeping Your Name Off the Layoff List
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details The tides are shifting, and the economic downturn is causing some big corporate layoffs. After doing some research with one firm that had a ma...
Episode 87: 7 Leadership Behaviors That Improve Involvement
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details That feeling of not being an insider, but more of an observer, has a profound impact on your engagement, effort, and commitment. Perhaps you’...
Episode 86: Quiet Quitting is About Managers, Not Employees
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Quiet quitting is a new name for behavior that has long existed. Today the term is mainly applied to individuals who reject the idea that work...
Episode 85: Why We’re Growing Organizations All Wrong
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Are we growing leadership in organizations the wrong way? Developing high-potentials isn’t a bad strategy for success—unless you do it at ...
Episode 84: 4 Ways to Be More Effective at Execution
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Many underestimate how important execution is to their careers, it is true that bosses place a premium on execution, which we define as the ab...
Trifecta of Trust Audiobook–Chapter 3
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details The audiobook version of The Trifecta of Trust: The Proven Formula for Building and Restoring Trust is now available Take advantage of the pro...
Episode 21: Strategic Thinking–The Skill Required for Advancement
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Many qualified candidates that are ready to be promoted never see it happen. But what if this common problem that leaders experience could be ...
Episode 83: 6 Ways to Boost Engagement During Summer Slumps
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details With summertime’s flexible and ever-changing schedule, it’s a struggle to stay fully engaged with many distractions and temptations. At th...
Episode 30: FUEL– A Proven Framework For Coaching
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details: Coaching conversations are worth planning. They take up valuable time for both parties, so that time should be put to its most efficient use....
Episode 82: How to Improve Your Coachability
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details: There is high-interest today in how managers can be better coaches and how companies can use external and internal coaches more effectively t...
Episode 81: To Get Results, Push and Pull Your Team
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Over the past year, there has been a call for leaders to be less demanding and more empathetic toward individual employees. They need to inspi...
Episode 80: Can Personal Development and Talent Management Live Together?
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details: Of the organizations using 360-degree feedback, 95% of them use it solely for individual development. But are they gaining the full value th...
Episode 79: Team Trust—Establishment and Maintenance
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details If I trust you, are you more likely to trust another person? And, if I distrust another person are they more likely to distrust me? Trust is u...
Episode 78: The Proven Formula for Building Trust
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Order your copy of The Trifecta of Trust: The Proven Formula for Building and Restoring Trust. In 2019, Joe Folkman wrote an article for Harva...
The Trifecta of Trust– Introduction by Joe Folkman
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Order your copy of The Trifecta of Trust: The Proven Formula for Building and Restoring Trust. In Trifecta of Trust, psychometrics and leader...
Episode 77: The Shifting Alliances of Peers
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details As you think about your peers at work, are they some of your best friends, always helpful and supportive, or are they your harshest critics, p...
Episode 75: As a Leader, How Bold Should You Be?
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details: Bold is a positive word. Bold leaders are champions of change and are willing to challenge themselves and their thinking patterns with things...
Episode 74: Igniting Your Initiative
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Inertia is ever-present and always powerful. That’s why people who are skilled at taking initiative stand out. There are energizer bunnies t...
Episode 73: Remastering The Extraordinary Leader
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details The decision a leader makes regarding their leadership behavior has a profound impact on their career, and the performance of those reporting ...
Episode 28: Controlling the Disease of Distractions
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details: There are many things competing for your attention every minute of the day. Human attention is the ultimate scarce resource. One of the chara...
Episode 72: Building a People First Culture with Roy Banks
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details This episode features guest Roy Banks, CEO of Weave talking about their organization’s dedication to building a people-first culture that be...
Episode 71: 6 Ways Creative Superstars Lead Differently
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details We all love a chance to think through how to do something different and express originality. But most days, most work feels fundamental. Why d...
Episode 70: Change Your Leaders to Change Your Culture
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details How would you describe the culture of your organization? Some might say, “It’s the smell of the place,” or, “It’s how things are don...
Episode 69: Would You Choose to Fly or Be Invisible?
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details How much can you learn about someone from a silly question? We’ve been collecting data from the business and professional leaders who read o...
Episode 68: Why We Need More Helpful Leaders
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Helping and serving others reinforces the connection people have with their colleagues, but it also increases our sense of well-being and can ...
Episode 66: Cultivating Consistency
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details If a basketball, football, or baseball team wins nine games out of 10, most people assume that this is an outstanding team. Sports teams do no...
Episode 65: I’m the Boss! Why Should I Care if You Like Me?
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Many people assume that it’s possible for a person to be an effective leader without being really likable. After all, work isn’t a popular...
Episode 64: 8 Traits of Practically Perfect Problem Solvers
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details An essential skill we need in practically every life scenario is the ability to analyze and solve problems. While we would all love to have so...
Episode 63: How to Improve When You’re Not Getting Feedback
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Too many managers avoid giving any kind of feedback, regardless of whether it’s positive or negative. If you work for a boss who doesn’t ...
Episode 62: How to Eliminate Poor Role Models
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Perhaps you have seen the Where’s Waldo? books. When placed in a crowd or a complex surrounding, Waldo is an odd individual who becomes dif...
Episode 61: 5 Ways to Impress Your Boss in 2022
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details It’s that time of year to make plans and whether you’ve been at your job for many years or are just beginning it always helps to keep in m...
Episode 60: The Balance Between Coaching and Managing
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Ask 100 people if they have good common sense, and more than 95% will tell you they do. Ask them if they are good coaches, and almost as many ...
Episode 59: Expanding Access to Coaching
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Details Demand for coaching within organizations is exploding. Yet certain barriers seem to be blocking the way for coaching to reach its full potenti...
Episode 14: The Power of Teams
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(Rerun) The companies that focus on teamwork and collaboration are the companies that maximize the strengths of individuals as well. Why? Because be...
Happy Holidays from Jack and Joe
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks for tuning into The 90th Percentile Podcast this year. In the book, Blueprint, the Yale scholar Nikolas Christakis, argues that over time we ha...
Episode 58: Heroes, Zeros, and Guides
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details Are you the type of leader who will work hard, assume the risk, and try to save everyone? Are you the type that looks to develop those around ...
Episode 57: 7 Things Leaders Do to Help People Change
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details Have you ever tried to change anyone’s behavior at work? It can be extremely frustrating. So often the effort produces an opposite result: ...
Episode 56: Extraordinary Performers- Why You Need Them & How to Keep Them
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details In a society that showers attention on those in power, it is valuable to remember that those in the C suite are not the only ones doing the re...
Episode 55: The Value of Honesty
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details When CEOs describe what they want most in the people they hire, they consistently talk about honesty and integrity. Among the leadership c...
Episode 54: The Rapunzel Effect– Connecting to the Outside World
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details What value is there in connecting with the outside world? What perspective can we gain from leaving our environment and gaining knowledge from...
Episode 53: How to Communicate When You Lack Credibility
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details Every day you hear a variety of communications from different sources. Some of these experts have excellent communication skills, while othe...
Episode 52: How the Best Build Better Relationships
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details Humans are hard-wired to connect. They are social creatures that crave friendship and positive interactions with others. As much as we yearn f...
Episode 52: How the Best Build Better Relationships at Work
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details Humans are hard-wired to connect. They are social creatures that crave friendship and positive interactions with others. As much as we yearn f...
Episode 50: Balancing Confidence and Competence
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details If you choose an individual to lead you to victory or safety, chances are you will choose the most confident person. Their confidence will ins...
Episode 49: Lessons in Empathy and Competitiveness from Ted Lasso
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details Over the last couple of years, we have all experienced the importance the empathy in the workplace. We’ve had a rough time and it’s import...
Episode 48: What Younger Managers Should Know About How They’re Perceived
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details The great resignation has arrived. As new managers fill vacancies created by retiring Boomers, how do their skills compare with the seasoned o...
Episode 47: Three Myths About Your Strengths
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details One of the most dramatic changes in leadership development in the last decade has been the shift in focus from correcting weaknesses to identi...
Episode 46: Are Employees At Home Actually Working? 5 Behaviors That Signal Productivity To Managers
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details Have you ever questioned whether you or your direct reports are being as productive as they can be? With the flexibility to work anywhere an...
Episode 45: Why Do You Work? Finding Purpose In Your Career
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details This has been an extremely challenging year. Many are hopeful about the progress that has been made but others still feel disconnected and dis...
Episode 44: Who’s The Boss? The Struggles of Increased Independence
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details There are many new struggles with dealing with a hybrid workforce. While the increased independence has benefited organizational productivity,...
Episode 43: How to Encourage Personal Accountability
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details How is the issue of personal accountability viewed in your organization? Seasoned workers have undoubtedly seen their share of finger-pointi...
Episode 42: Uncovering Unconscious Bias
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details There is a great deal of interest today in our society on the topics of diversity, inclusion, and belonging. While some people are flat-out ...
Episode 41: 5 New Skills That Increase Employee Engagement
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details Remember that event that happened in 2020 that kind of disrupted your life? It turns out that despite all the chaos that happened last year em...
Episode 40: The Curious Case of Women’s Strategic Thinking
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details We found that while women generally outperform their male counterparts on most leadership competencies, they are not perceived by their manage...
Episode 39: The Battle of Soft Skills and Hard Skills
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details Are the individual contributors in your organization leaders? Are their “hard” skills the only type of useful skills they possess at that ...
Episode 38: How To Build Digital Expertise
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details The pandemic rapidly accelerated many companies’ digital efforts, but did you possess the digital expertise necessary to function in a compl...
Episode 37: Companies Are Bad At Identifying High Potential Employees
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details A high-potential employee is usually in the top 5% of employees in an organization. These people are thought to be the organization’s most c...
Episode 36: Why the Most Productive People Don’t Always Make the Best Managers
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details When a company needs a supervisor for a team, senior leaders often anoint the team’s most productive performer. Some of these stars succeed ...
Episode 35: 7 Traits of Super Productive People
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details Is there someone on your team who seems unusually productive? Someone who gets a huge amount done — without working longer hours? How do th...
Episode 35: 7 Traits of Super-Productive People
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details Is there someone on your team who seems unusually productive? Someone who gets a huge amount done — without working longer hours? How do th...
Episode 34: Are You Creating Disgruntled Employees?
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details You can’t make every worker happy, surely, and should a business even try? Evidence from our recent research suggests, actually, that the an...
Bonus Episode: Our Roles in Modern Business, with Chip Conley
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chip Conley, the author of Emotional Equations and former Head of Global Hospitality & Strategy at Airbnb, joins Dr. Jack Zenger and Dr. Joe Folkman i...
Episode 33: 5 Steps to Shift Your Company Culture
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Expecting to change the culture of any size organization is quite realistic. It starts with strong and sustained leadership rippling out from the sen...
Episode 32: Innovation– The Forgotten Leadership Competency
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details Do you ever feel pressure and urgency to generate fresh, new ideas or make time to be innovative? Our economy is driven by innovation– new p...
Episode 30: FUEL– A Proven Framework For Coaching
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details: Coaching conversations are worth planning. They take up valuable time for both parties, so that time should be put to its most efficient use....
Episode 31: 6 Fatal Flaws That Kill a Leader’s Effectiveness
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details Chances are you’ve known or read about great leaders and learned that often they have weaknesses. From that, you have probably concluded ...
Bonus Episode- Ryan Smith, Founder/Executive Chairman of Qualtrics
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Smith, Founder and Executive Chairman of Qualtrics, joins Dr. Jack Zenger and Dr. Joe Folkman in this past edition (2016) of the Zenger Folkman p...
Episode 29: The Best Problem Solvers Are Solution Sellers
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details There are many things competing for your attention every minute of the day. Attention, not money, is the most valuable commodity there is. S...
Episode 28: Controlling The Disease of Distractions
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details: There are many things competing for your attention every minute of the day. Human attention is the ultimate scarce resource. One of the chara...
Episode 27: What Makes a Leader Resilient?
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details A resilient leader is a person who sees failures as temporary setbacks they can recover from quickly. They maintain a positive attitude and a ...
Episode 26: 5 Ways to Maximize Brief Interactions
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details Life for a manager inside an organization has an unrelenting pace, with very few occasions where there is uninterrupted time. As a result, rel...
Episode 25: Elements of the Best 360-Degree Assessments
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details The 360-degree assessment is a central component in most leadership development programs. But not all assessments are in the same class when i...
Episode 24: The Trickle-Down Effect of Good and Bad Leadership
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details How far-reaching is the influence of one bad or good boss? Do they only influence their reports? What about the leaders and managers underneat...
Episode 23: Are Women Better Leaders Than Men?
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details We’ve all heard the claims, the theories, and the speculation about the ways leadership styles vary between women and men. There are of cou...
Episode 22: Why Leaders Are Not Improving With Age
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details A long-held belief holds that managers acquire the lion’s share of their management and leadership skills from their on-the-job experience. ...
Episode 21: Strategic Thinking: The Skill Required For Advancement
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Details Many qualified candidates that are ready to be promoted never see it happen. But what if this common problem that leaders experience could be ...
Episode 20: Should Leaders Aspire to Warmth or Competence?
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do people consider you a warm person? Or do you rely more on your competence than your likability? Which trait matters more? After searching ou...
Episode 19: The Confidence Gap In Men and Women
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our research shows that as women’s experience increases over time, so does their confidence. But at the beginning of a woman’s career, there is a ...
Episode 18: Achieving Stretch Goals– Push, Pull, and Problem Solve
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leaders who know how to set stretch goals correctly are perceived as significantly more effective leaders, and they also raise the level of employee e...
Episode 17: Agility– 4 Steps To Advance Your Response To Change
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020, companies were forced to change, and that transformation exposed the vulnerabilities of leaders and organizations that lack agility. Agile le...
Episode 16: 3 Steps To Make Your Job More Meaningful and Indispensable
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With a full-time job, adults spend a third of their life asleep, a third at home, and the last third of their life at work. The hope for everyone is t...
Bonus Episode- Doing Great Work with David Sturt
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Sturt is an executive vice president at the O.C. Tanner Company and author of “Great Work: How To Make A Difference People Love.” He has be...
Bonus Episode- Bold Leadership, with Josh Bersin
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Bersin is the founder and CEO of Bersin & Associates, leading industry research and advisory firm in enterprise learning and talent management. I...
The 90th Percentile Podcast Holiday Message
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the words of Jacob Marley, “Business, business—mankind was my business.” That is our Holiday message to our clients and friends. Whatever it ...
Episode 15: The Science Behind What Inspiring Leaders Do
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Despite all research about the nature of leaders, practitioners and scholars still acknowledge that many aspects of leadership remain a mystery. In ...
Episode 14: The Power of Teams- A Leadership Lesson From My Siberian Husky
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The companies that focus on teamwork and collaboration are the companies that maximize the strengths of individuals as well. Why? Because being a pa...
Episode 13: If Your Boss Thinks You’re Awesome, You Will Become More Awesome
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do you think your boss is judging you fairly? What effect does their opinion have on your performance? Today we are diving deep into our data to prove...
Episode 12: Six Lessons From The Most Effective Coaches
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It is becoming apparent that the best leaders are good coaches. Assuming that most of us would like to become better leaders, what lessons can we lear...
Episode 11: The Checklist of Excellent Virtual Leadership Practices
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The work at home revolution resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about some of the most dramatic changes ever thrust on leaders. Moving fr...
Episode 10: Leaders Under Pressure-5 Essential Skills for the New Era
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leaders are under pressure. Are there certain skills that can even make a difference in a crisis? In the episode, we cover a Zenger Folkman study...
Bonus Episode- Stand Out and Get Noticed, with Dorie Clark
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Folkman interviews Dorie Clark about her research on how leaders can stand out and get noticed. Download our eBook to read the full interview. Dor...
Episode 9: The #1 Growing Competency- Leadership Speed
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s obvious that business is moving faster and faster and that to keep up, leaders at all levels need to know how to pick up the pace. Is there a c...