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محتوای ارائه شده توسط Kris Safarova for Firmsconsulting.com. تمام محتوای پادکست شامل قسمت‌ها، گرافیک‌ها و توضیحات پادکست مستقیماً توسط Kris Safarova for Firmsconsulting.com یا شریک پلتفرم پادکست آن‌ها آپلود و ارائه می‌شوند. اگر فکر می‌کنید شخصی بدون اجازه شما از اثر دارای حق نسخه‌برداری شما استفاده می‌کند، می‌توانید روندی که در اینجا شرح داده شده است را دنبال کنید.https://fa.player.fm/legal
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590: Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author on What Good Leaders Can Learn From Bad Bosses

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محتوای ارائه شده توسط Kris Safarova for Firmsconsulting.com. تمام محتوای پادکست شامل قسمت‌ها، گرافیک‌ها و توضیحات پادکست مستقیماً توسط Kris Safarova for Firmsconsulting.com یا شریک پلتفرم پادکست آن‌ها آپلود و ارائه می‌شوند. اگر فکر می‌کنید شخصی بدون اجازه شما از اثر دارای حق نسخه‌برداری شما استفاده می‌کند، می‌توانید روندی که در اینجا شرح داده شده است را دنبال کنید.https://fa.player.fm/legal

Mita Mallick, Wall Street Journal–bestselling author and workplace strategist, examines how everyday managerial choices determine whether organizations are resilient, humane, and productive. Drawing on her leadership roles in marketing and human resources, as well as her lived experience as a woman of color in corporate America, she reframes common leadership breakdowns as design failures that can be prevented with the right structures. As she emphasizes, “There is power in being quiet.” Used deliberately, silence becomes a tool to pause, observe, and de-escalate rather than react impulsively.

This episode delivers concrete practices senior leaders can apply now:

  • Use silence deliberately. The “power of the pause” creates thinking space, defuses escalation, and strengthens negotiation outcomes. Leaders should model this and teach teams to signal reflection rather than defaulting to instant responses.

  • Manage up with discipline. Mallick recommends structured, written briefings before talent reviews or board conversations so sponsors can “accurately tell your story” without relying on biased memory.

  • Detect leadership drift early. She observes that leaders often falter when “external market stress, personal stress, and organizational pressure all collide.” Each executive should know their stress-trigger behaviors and plan for corrective action.

  • Design role transitions intentionally. Promotion into people leadership requires coaching, clear expectations, and viable technical career paths for high-performing individual contributors.

  • Replace ad hoc tolerance with governance. “We protect harmful leaders because they deliver results,” she warns. Leaders must enforce HR processes consistently rather than granting exceptions that damage culture.

  • Teach rather than micromanage. Explaining rationale, setting standards, and investing in instruction yields lasting capability—“training sticks more than corrections.”

  • Rebuild trust through apology and consistency. A sincere acknowledgment of mistakes paired with steady, visible actions restores credibility faster than one-time gestures.

  • Create high-trust, low-drama operating norms. Clear rules for communication channels, urgency, and information-sharing reduce gossip and anxiety, replacing speculation with facts.

For executives responsible for people, operations, or culture, this conversation provides a practical checklist: stop treating leadership problems as individual personality flaws, surface stress signals systematically, and convert empathy into repeatable management routines that protect both performance and retention.

📚 Get Mita’s book, The Devil Emails at Midnight, here: https://shorturl.at/xWjjj

Here are some free gifts for you:

Overall Approach Used in Well-Managed Strategy Studies free download: www.firmsconsulting.com/OverallApproach

McKinsey & BCG winning resume free download: www.firmsconsulting.com/resumepdf

Get Exclusive Episode 1 Access of How to Build a Consulting Practice: www.firmsconsulting.com/build

Enjoying this episode? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

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محتوای ارائه شده توسط Kris Safarova for Firmsconsulting.com. تمام محتوای پادکست شامل قسمت‌ها، گرافیک‌ها و توضیحات پادکست مستقیماً توسط Kris Safarova for Firmsconsulting.com یا شریک پلتفرم پادکست آن‌ها آپلود و ارائه می‌شوند. اگر فکر می‌کنید شخصی بدون اجازه شما از اثر دارای حق نسخه‌برداری شما استفاده می‌کند، می‌توانید روندی که در اینجا شرح داده شده است را دنبال کنید.https://fa.player.fm/legal

Mita Mallick, Wall Street Journal–bestselling author and workplace strategist, examines how everyday managerial choices determine whether organizations are resilient, humane, and productive. Drawing on her leadership roles in marketing and human resources, as well as her lived experience as a woman of color in corporate America, she reframes common leadership breakdowns as design failures that can be prevented with the right structures. As she emphasizes, “There is power in being quiet.” Used deliberately, silence becomes a tool to pause, observe, and de-escalate rather than react impulsively.

This episode delivers concrete practices senior leaders can apply now:

  • Use silence deliberately. The “power of the pause” creates thinking space, defuses escalation, and strengthens negotiation outcomes. Leaders should model this and teach teams to signal reflection rather than defaulting to instant responses.

  • Manage up with discipline. Mallick recommends structured, written briefings before talent reviews or board conversations so sponsors can “accurately tell your story” without relying on biased memory.

  • Detect leadership drift early. She observes that leaders often falter when “external market stress, personal stress, and organizational pressure all collide.” Each executive should know their stress-trigger behaviors and plan for corrective action.

  • Design role transitions intentionally. Promotion into people leadership requires coaching, clear expectations, and viable technical career paths for high-performing individual contributors.

  • Replace ad hoc tolerance with governance. “We protect harmful leaders because they deliver results,” she warns. Leaders must enforce HR processes consistently rather than granting exceptions that damage culture.

  • Teach rather than micromanage. Explaining rationale, setting standards, and investing in instruction yields lasting capability—“training sticks more than corrections.”

  • Rebuild trust through apology and consistency. A sincere acknowledgment of mistakes paired with steady, visible actions restores credibility faster than one-time gestures.

  • Create high-trust, low-drama operating norms. Clear rules for communication channels, urgency, and information-sharing reduce gossip and anxiety, replacing speculation with facts.

For executives responsible for people, operations, or culture, this conversation provides a practical checklist: stop treating leadership problems as individual personality flaws, surface stress signals systematically, and convert empathy into repeatable management routines that protect both performance and retention.

📚 Get Mita’s book, The Devil Emails at Midnight, here: https://shorturl.at/xWjjj

Here are some free gifts for you:

Overall Approach Used in Well-Managed Strategy Studies free download: www.firmsconsulting.com/OverallApproach

McKinsey & BCG winning resume free download: www.firmsconsulting.com/resumepdf

Get Exclusive Episode 1 Access of How to Build a Consulting Practice: www.firmsconsulting.com/build

Enjoying this episode? Get access to sample advanced training episodes here: www.firmsconsulting.com/promo

  continue reading

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