Jacob Morgan | Best-Selling Author, Speaker, & Futurist | Leadership | Future of Work | Employee Experience

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Podcast

CEO of 120 Year Old Manufacturing Company On How Playing Piano Taught Him To Be Vulnerable

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In today’s episode, I speak with Stephen Smith, CEO of Amsted Industries, an 18,000 person manufacturing company which is entirely employee owned. Stephen shares his belief that vulnerability is about acknowledging that you can be wrong and being willing to expose yourself as a human being. He emphasized that showing vulnerability helps to level the playing field and eliminates defensiveness, which can hinder effective decision-making.

Leadership and Management

Centro CEO On Three Trends Impacting The Future Of Leadership

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When Shawn Riegsecker founded Centro in 2001, his goal was to create a digital media service for ad agencies.

He couldn’t have imagined how big it would become. Centro has appeared on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, The Inc. 500, and lists of best places to work for multiple years in a row. Shawn was also named the 2019 CEO of the Year by Illinois Technology Association.

Future of work

Why Transparency Matters to Employee Experience

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Let’s rewind the clock 10 to 15 years. At that time, if you worked for an organization that wasn’t really treating people well, what would you do? In most cases, not much. There really wasn’t much transparency in the workplace, and employees didn’t have much of a voice. This meant that most organizations could pretty much treat employees however they wanted. Big organizations had cash and brand power, which translated to being able to attract the best talent. Brand power today ain’t what it used to be. You don’t automatically want to work for a company like Starbucks, Disney, or Ford just because of the name. These organizations are having to try much harder to get the people they need and want, and transparency is the key.[…]

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