Want To Cold Email Your Heroes? Read This…
After recording more than 250 episodes of my podcast, The Learning Leader Show, one of the common questions I get from listeners is, “How do you get such high quality guests?” My consistent reply is “I start by sending them a cold email.” Their inevitable follow-up is, “What do you write?” The purpose [...]
How To Hire A Great Leader
A good friend of mine recently sent me an email asking for advice: "Ryan, I am in the process of hiring a few management positions. I have eight candidates lined up. What questions do you ask to hire great leaders?" Below are some of my thoughts on: 1) The art of the interview 2) [...]
Getting To Know You
"People Won't Care How Much You Know Until They Know How Much You Care." When starting a new leadership role, it's important to learn as much as much as possible about my team. Before working to implement new plans and processes, my team needs to know that I care more about them as people than as an [...]
The Top 20 Episodes of 2016
New Listener/Reader? If so, here is a great place to get started. Check out the Top 20 episodes of 2016 Top 20 Episodes of 2016 086: Seth Godin - How To Become Inispensable & Build Your Tribe 095: Sal Vulcano - Creating A Hit TV Show: Impractical Jokers 100: What I’ve Learned Through 100 [...]
18 Keys To Sustaining Excellence
Over the past two years, I've recorded 178 conversations (for my podcast The Learning Leader Show) with some of the greatest leadership minds in the world: CEO's, Entrepreneurs, Professional Athletes... I look for those who have done two things: 1) Sustained excellence over an extended period of time. 2) Have an understanding WHY they've performed [...]
How To Start A Top-Rated Podcast
Creating And Launching A Top-Rated Podcast By: Ryan Hawk 98 million people will listen to podcasts this year, according to Edison Research. The reason why, may have to do with the intimacy audio provides. As Malcolm Gladwell notes, "It's surprisingly easy to make someone cry with audio. Podcasts open you up to emotion." Creating The Learning [...]