About this episode

Robert Adams discusses the importance of addressing hard conversations that leaders often postpone and the implications of such delays.

This week's Play: Schedule the conversation you have been outsourcing to time. The conversations leaders postpone do not disappear. They accumulate. They compound. They develop their own gravity. In this episode of A Student of Leadership, Robert Adams explores the leadership work senior leaders consistently postpone, the work that compounds in cost the longer it gets postponed, and the work AI cannot do no matter how good the tools get. The reason for postponing has never been that the right time has not arrived. The reason has always been that the conversation costs the leader something. The mistake is in believing the costs of postponement and resolution are not symmetrical when they are. In this episode: - Why every senior leader Robert has coached has at least one conversation sitting on their internal docket - The five conversations that keep surfacing across coaching practice and thirty years of food distribution leadership - Why AI can prep you for these conversations but cannot have them - The Place Setting Framework's Knife as judgment and balance in the moment - Three patterns that distinguish productive hard conversations from unproductive ones - Why most leaders get…

People in this episode

Host: Robert Adams

Topics covered

• hard conversations
• leadership
• AI limitations
• performance management
• communication skills

Keywords

• leadership
• conversations
• AI
• performance
• communication

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