Lead In 30 Podcast
Russ Hill hosts the Lead In 30 Podcast. Strengthen your ability to lead others in less than 30 minutes. Russ makes his living coaching and consulting senior executive teams of some of the world's biggest companies. He's one of three co-founders of the fastest-growing leadership training company in the world. Tap the follow or add button and get two new episodes every week of the Lead In 30 Podcast.
Episodes
393 episodes
Stop Surrendering to Obstacles, How to Keep Your Team Moving!
The moment a boulder lands on your path is the moment your leadership shows. Do you freeze and wait for clarity, or move and create it? We dig into the simple but potent idea that action produces information and explore how the best teams keep ...
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Three Ways to Communicate More Efficiently
Strong communicators make strong leaders. In this episode Lone Rock Leadership co founder Russ Hill shares three tips for more efficiently communicating in meetings and in one-on-one chats.Meetings shouldn’t feel like a maze. We walk you...
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Your Mindset Is Limiting Your Capacity
If you’ve ever felt like you’ve hit your ceiling, this conversation is your nudge to test it. We connect three simple moments—a chaotic drive-thru, a standout service interaction, and a gym set that pushed our limits—to the deeper truth that te...
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Stop Breaking Glass - How Effective Leaders Stay Calm
Ever feel like your team is living inside a 24-hour breaking news cycle? We’ve been there—where every email, rumor, or policy tweak turns into a fire drill and the loudest voice sets the tone. Today we unpack a simple shift that changes everyth...
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Sundance Summit: Top Priorities for Developing Leaders
They develop hundreds of thousands of leaders. And they were all in one room at Sundance, Utah. In this episode Lone Rock Leadership co-founder Russ Hill takes you inside the executive summit for HR and L&D leaders.Some highlights:
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How We Must Adjust to Lead Through This Era of Deep Division
It’s never happened in our lifetime. The recent assassination of a major political figure highlights something troubling about our current environment - the increasing inability to peacefully coexist with those who hold different views. While o...
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Organizations Need Leaders Who Narrow The Focus
Trying to improve in too many areas simultaneously is the fastest path to nowhere. In this thought-provoking episode, Russ Hill tackles the widespread problem of focus dilution that plagues both organizations and individuals.Drawing fro...
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5 Ways to Use AI In Leading Your Team
Are you leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance your leadership, or are you getting left behind? The technology revolution isn't waiting for anyone, and leaders who resist adapting to these powerful new tools are choosing obsolescence.
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Critics And Coaches: Who You Listen To And How It Impacts You
Ever find yourself fixating on that one harsh critique while ignoring dozens of positive comments? You're not alone. This deeply human tendency to focus on criticism over praise affects leaders at every level—and it could be holding you back fr...
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Take A Stinkin' Position! Stop Being So Invisible!
Stop being invisible in meetings. Stop decreasing your value in the company. Have a take! Offer an opinion. Give some insight. In this episode Lone Rock Leadership co-founder Russ Hill takes a position! He claims the most valuable p...
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The Memphis Plant & The Leader Who Transformed It
Have we lost our sense of urgency? That's the uncomfortable question at the heart of this eye-opening episode featuring an exclusive preview from Lone Rock Leadership's upcoming book "Deliver."Step into the cracked pavement and broken w...
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What AI is Teaching Us About Leadership
If you're using AI apps then maybe you've already learned this lesson. Maybe you're discovering that what you get back from ChatGPT, Grok, or Claude is largely determined by the prompt you type in. In this episode Lone Rock Leadership's Russ Hi...
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How Do You Get Your Team's Emotional Buy-In?
True team buy-in requires both operational involvement (hands and feet) and emotional involvement (hearts and minds), with many managers struggling to achieve both simultaneously. The distinction matters because emotional investment drives inno...
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Discovering Your Personal Value In the Market
What's your unique value in the marketplace? What problem are you uniquely able to solve? In this episode of the Lead In 30 podcast we explore the critical importance of identifying your unique value proposition and leveraging it in today's mar...
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Why the Smartest Leaders Disappear Every Summer
Ready for a science-backed permission slip to disconnect this summer? Discover how Harvard's longest running happiness study proves that getting completely off the grid isn't just good for your wellbeing—it's critical for your leadership effect...
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The 10 Biggest Regrets in Leadership
The 10 things he wish he knew when he was younger. Lone Rock Leadership co-founder Russ Hill shares a list of things he regrets not knowing when he was a younger manager. See what you think of the list and which ones you've unlocked through exp...
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Systems vs. Drifting: Stop Dreaming and Start Building Systems
Is your team drifting or in reactionary mode? Do you wish you were scaling faster? In this episode Lone Rock Leadership co-founder Russ Hill dives into the value of systems. He defines the importance of setting identity and vision first and the...
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Your Meetings Are Killing Productivity and Here's Why
The science shows we're doing it all wrong! New research about virtual and offsite meetings shows they're leading to burnout and lack of engagement. We're doing it all wrong. In this episode Lone Rock Leadership cofounder Russ Hill shares three...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella On Becoming a 3rd Leader
He is the opposite of Elon Musk and "Founder Mode" being promoted by some of the loudest voices in business today. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks about human-centered leadership. It's what Lone Rock Leadership Co-Founder Russ Hill says is th...
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Want to Play on a Bigger Stage? Three Critical Moves to Scale Your Leadership
You want to get promoted. You want to be invited to the higher-level meetings. You want to make more money. You want to scale your career faster. How do you make that happen? In this episode of the Lead In 30 podcast, Lone Rock Leadership Co-fo...
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The Validation Trap: Where Do You Look to Determine Your Value?
Some of you just want to be liked. Others of you are obsessed with the scoreboard. The crowd and the metrics shouldn't be your ultimate gauges of success or value. In this episode Lone Rock Leadership Cofounder Russ Hill explores where leaders ...
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Vision Vs Execution: Which One Is More Valuable in a Leader?
Which one are you stronger in? Which one does your organization value more? Which one will help you scale your career more? In this episode Lone Rock Leadership cofounder Russ Hill digs into vision vs execution and which one matters most.
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Embracing Uncertainty: Three Truths for Your Next Chapter
It's graduation time. Russ has three people in his expanded family getting college degrees this month. The advice Lone Rock Leadership co-founder Russ Hill would give them is no different than what he says he would share with so many of you who...
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