Interview: Is There a Science Behind the Disruptive Leadership Model?

One of the best paths to building an enterprise that will face distress is to become complacent with success.  Success can be a trap that fills leaderships’ mind with a false sense of security.  In most cases,

Interview: Disrupt or Be Disrupted: How to Future-Proof Your Leadership

How Does Your Company Avoid Being Disrupted? 

Unless you are going on a romantic ride through Central Park, NYC, no one uses the horse and buggy as a mode of transportation.  Now we have planes, trains and automobiles.  When you look at carrier pigeons, you see a similar pattern.  The telegraph disrupted the pigeon's value.  Later the telegraph was disrupted by the phone, then fax and now internet.  What stops

Interview: Can Intentional Disruption Help Small Businesses Grow?

While it may be easier to understand how CEOs, like Steve Jobs, can effectively disrupt large corporations to innovate, can the same mindset be employed in small companies?  In this interview, I address why this counterintuitive approach to creating breakthroughs can apply to an organization of any size.  In fact, because

Interview: Can Leaders Create Problems to Spark Breakthroughs?

In this episode of the Drop In CEO podcast Ted Santos, a leadership disruptor and creator of the Disruptive Leadership Model, discusses strategies for fostering breakthrough growth in organizations. Ted shares his unique approach to advising CEOs, which includes

How Can CEOs Train & Develop to Lead Intentional Disruptions?

While many people hold the title of leader, they are, in reality, serving as a manager.  Why?  Managers control what occurs in time and space, while leaders disrupt what occurs in time and space.  While this may sound counterintuitive, executives can

Did the Pandemic Force Businesses into a New Economic Paradigm? Is Your Organization in a position to Take Advantage of It?

This interview happened approximately 12 months ago.  In the interview, I reveal an intimate phone conversation I had with the former CEO of Dun & Bradstreet.  Over the course of several weeks,he and I discussed a problem corporate America has not

Interview: THE TRUTH BEHIND RELATIONSHIPS AND LEADERSHIP WITH TED SANTOS

In a thought provoking interview, Greg Arden asks me to dive into a conversation about whether or not so-called soft skills are the most critical skills required to be successful in life - personal or professional.  If those critical skills are primarily made up of

Is Success the Enemy of Breakthroughs?

When is the best time to start developing strategies to transform an organization? 

A. After filing bankruptcy?

B. Before making acquisitions?

C. When you are leading your industry?

D. When profits begin to drop?

E. None of the above?

To read a summary of an analogy of business compared to an amusement park, click here.

Do You Understand the Genesis of Most Conflicts?

In this short reel, I am being interviewed about conflict resolution.  I point out where conflict usually begins.  Once you understand this, it becomes significantly easier to

Why Is Your Company or Career Constantly Hitting Road Blocks? (Full Inte...

In a world filled with incremental improvements, breakthroughs are rare. They are rare for a reason, not because they are impossible. In a fantastic, engaging interview, Tyson Gaylord @SocialChameleonShow, and I uncover what

What Is the Cost of Not Effectively Managing Conflict?

Unfortunately, conflict arises in our personal and professional lives.  In our professional lives, it can derail career progress if not handled properly.  This is especially true if you are pursuing leadership.  In our personal lives, the inability to effectively manage conflict can

Do You Understand the Importance of Developing Excellence Whether in the Bedroom or Boardroom?

In this Success, Secrets, and Stories podcast, John and Greg are interviewing Ted Santos. 

What if the key to transforming both your leadership and relationships lies in understanding conflict at its root? Ted Santos, founder and CEO of Turnaround Investment Partners and author of "Here's Why You Can't Find Love," reveals the staggering

Does Your Organization Have a “Moonshot” Initiative?

 

Kevin Craine interviews me about how to effectively launch and lead disruptive initiatives.  Click to hear interview.

MASTERING YOUR MINDSET to BUILD SUCCESS

In this episode, Tony Bradshaw sits down with Ted Santos, a seasoned entrepreneur, executive leadership mentor, and CEO of Turnaround Investment Partners, to discuss the mindset and strategies of top-tier business leaders. With a career dedicated to

Is Your Love Life Important to You?

 

With Valentine’s Day only one week away, many people may be enamored with the subject of love.  For many, love appears to be the panacea for everything that leads to a fulfilling life.  However, as a society, do we have it right?  Is it our dependence on love that blinds us?  Is love

Is Micromanagement Good for Your Business?

Can leaders get the most from their people if they micromanagement them?  I was asked about very specific situations of micromanagement and when or if it is appropriate.    

As a leader, your job is to produce results through others.  The accomplishments are most effective when the outcomes are in the best interest of the whole.  Those results include

Meet Ted Santos, CEO of Turnaround Investment Partners

Ted Santos, Founder and CEO of Turnaround Investment Partners, is in the business of creating miracles. Also known as the CEO Whisperer, he works exclusively with CEOs of midsize to large corporations who are in need of radical change and transformation in order to maintain growth and relevance. He helps them to become

Running With Broken Legs, Ted Santos, Founder/CEO of Turnaround ...

This woman did a great job interviewing me about Disruptive Leadership. She asked a few

Why Do Leaders Fail?

There are thousands of books on leadership.  They all claim to have the answer.  However, most people have an image of leadership before they read a book.  From where do those images come?  Are those images

Is a CEO a Failure When He Does Not Have a Successor?

 

These are thoughts I had at the end of 2023.  I had them because Morgan Stanley was an under performer in their industry.  

Now that Ted Pick is CEO of Morgan, we will see if he is able to keep pace with his industry in a way the former

Can Corporate America Transform US Culture?

In the face of constant change, our personal and professional lives will be filled with new challenges.  Some of those challenges will be unfamiliar to us and present problems for which we have no solutions.  That will require

What Are the Two Most Important Skills of a Great CEO?

While it takes a powerful and well organized team to effectively run a company, there are some aspects that can only be done by the CEO.  To help leaders be

Are Mental Health Experts Failing America?

While there are great mental health professionals, most are not doing a good job for their patients.  If you doubt me, look at the

Leading Through Chaos and Disruption the Steve Jobs Way

In a short interview, Steve Jobs explains how a childhood incident shaped

Has the Pandemic Forced Businesses to Become Better?

The pandemic, federal reserve and inflation can be catalysts for bad times – a recession.  Yet, for some reason, it appears the economy will have a soft landing.  Has the business world entered into a new