Dr. Susan Smith Kuczmarski and Thomas Kuczmarski on Changing the Way We Lead and Succeed

Running Time: 14 minutes 01 seconds 

Canadian Management Centre this week is excited to present the American Management Associations leadership podcast Changing the Way We Lead and Succeed.

During this podcast Susan Smith Kuczmarski and Thomas Kuczmarski will discuss their new bestselling book Apples are Square: Thinking Differently about Leadership and their new innovative approach to leadership coined as Squared Leadership. Susan and Tom Kuczmarski will discuss how truly great leaders must have Peopleship. People-ship is when the leader takes their focus away from themselves and turns the focus outwards on to the team.

Susan and Tom will also review the six qualities that make up this new type of leader:

1. Humility
2. Transparency
3. Compassion
4. Inclusiveness
5. Collaboration
6. Value Based Decisiveness

Qualities 1 through 5 are self explanatory, but quality 6 Value Based Decisiveness is a unique quality and means that a leader understands and takes into account human capitol and makes it possible for each team member to understand their own personal value and contribution to the organization.

Susan and Tom will also give the seven steps that are needed to achieve these new leadership goals.

1. Work from the outside in
2. Ask who are you
3. Ask who are they
4. Find common ground
5. Route for people
6. Express your professional passion without losing your creativity
7. Leave some money on the table

Susan and Tom will review in depth each of these seven steps and give real if examples on how to achieve this innovative type of leadership.

Susan Smith Kuczmarski, Ed.D., is an educator, lecturer, and authority on values-based leadership. She was recently selected for inclusion in 500 Leaders of World Influence, Outstanding People of the 21st Century, 2000 Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century, and has been listed in Whos Who in the World for 12 years. Thomas Kuczmarski is founder of Kuczmarski & Associates, a nationally recognized innovation management consulting firm. He has been an adjunct professor at Northwestern Universitys Kellogg School of Management for 27 years, and is regularly quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, News week, the Chicago Sun-Times.