Podcast 1333: All the Difference: Six Leadership Actions to Bridge Perspectives, Strengthen Teams, and Create Value

Podcast 1333: All the Difference: Six Leadership Actions to Bridge Perspectives, Strengthen Teams, and Create Value

From Inside Personal Growth with Greg Voisen by Greg Voisen

June 24, 2026 · 49 min

About this episode

Greg Voisen discusses leadership strategies with co-authors of a book on managing differences in teams.

In this podcast, Greg Voisen sits down with three powerhouse co-authors — Susan MacKenty Brady, Stuart D. Kliman, and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Leslie C. Smith — to explore their Harvard Business Review Press book, All the Difference: Six Leadership Actions to Bridge Perspectives, Strengthen Teams, and Create Value. Together, they bring perspectives from the academy, the boardroom, and the battlefield — and what they've uncovered might just change the way you lead forever. What if the biggest threat to your team isn't a lack of strategy — but a failure to lead through difference? These three authors make a bold case: managing difference may be the single most important leadership competency of our time — more critical than strategy itself, because it determines whether strategy ever gets implemented at all. They reveal the four hidden "landmines" — certainty, justification, inconsistency, and reactivity — that silently derail even well-intentioned leaders, and the six target actions that the best leaders use to turn those differences into extraordinary value. From why vulnerability is actually your greatest leadership strength, to why bias isn't a moral flaw but a feature of the human…

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