HERDING TIGERS PODCAST

Let's herd some cats tigers.

Listen to a few episodes below, or follow the show wherever you listen to podcasts. 

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After a failed project, many teams simply move forward to the next one, without a postmortem. This is a huge mistake. It’s important as a leader that you seize those failures and mistakes and turn them into growth moments for your team. Otherwise, people are likely to commit the same mistakes again. Some of the …
Leading creative work is like trying to organize something that doesn’t want to be organized. You will face a number of unique pressures that can easily sidetrack you (and your career) if you don’t handle them well. On this episode, we share three of those pressures, and offer a few questions to ask yourself to …
As a leader of a creative organization, your job may be to tell your client’s story through the work of your team. Your team is in the business of positively shaping the perception a market has towards what your client is selling. You are attempting to gain the market’s trust through creative storytelling and branding. If …
Leadership is hard. It’s a lonely role, you face crushing uncertainty with elevated stakes, and you’re expected to deliver not only on your own work, but also to corral the creative minds of others and parade them into the promised land. (Oh, and did I mention that it’s often thankless?) However, leadership is also a …
Here is a core truth of leadership: if you are not inspired, you cannot inspire. Take time each week to inspire yourself and to connect with the deeper stream of your motivation. On this episode, we share three simple ways to stay inspired so that you can earn your team’s trust and respect. Remember that great …
If you control the work of your team, their capacity never scales beyond the scope of your personal involvement. Great leaders set effective rails to help their team members make good decisions in the face of uncertainty. On this episode, we share the elements of a good leadership philosophy and how to establish your own.  …
Your team needs to know that it will have the time and attention necessary to do the work. However, organizations are often their own worst enemy, and it can be difficult to protect your team from the onslaught of demands and pressure that can get in the way of brilliance.  On this episode, Todd Henry …
To do brilliant work over the long term, creative people need a great coach. As a leader, you need to understand what motivates the people on your team, and help them align their work around what they do best. On this episode, I share insights from Chapter 5 of Herding Tigers about how to step …
Leading a creative team can feel like trying to build a bicycle while riding it. What worked last time might not work next time, so it feels like you’re always trying to figure things out as you go. On top of managing personalities and the complexity of the work itself, there are also a few …
On the first episode of the Herding Tigers podcast, Todd Henry and riCardo Crespo discuss the differences between traditional management and leading creative people. 
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