It’s been a minute.

Season 5 is here and we’ve got a shiny new logo, a new theme song, and more of the timelessness you’re here for.

So as not to jar you with too much on the first episode back, this episode explores a bit of what many leaders struggle with — recurring themes we’ll keep coming back to here. And I geek out a bit on music.

In the links below you’ll not only find links to the music, but to books featured on the podcast and the newsletter as well.

You can find Timeless Leadership wherever you get podcasts.

We are a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category on Goodpods.

Links

* Timeless & Timely newsletter

* American Frontiers by Aaron Kenny

* JFK - Prologue by John Williams

* Americana Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod

* Timeless Harmony by Matías Léon

* Westworld Main Theme by Ramin Djawani

* Books featured on Timeless Leadership — when you buy through these links, we receive a small portion of your purchase to support the show.

Music

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.htmlArtist: http://incompetech.com/

Theme music

Our theme song is Timeless Harmony, written by Matías Léon and performed by Matías Léon and the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Leaders are lifelong learners. Without curiosity and a desire for self-awareness, we stagnate.

Being insatiable learners, leaders also become teachers of others, passing down the traits and skills to help the next generation of leaders achieve their potential.

But it all starts with committing to learning more, every day. In this episode, we’ll identify nine characteristics of lifelong learners, ask you questions about five facets of the agile learner, and leave you with four tips to help you on a journey of lifelong learning.

This wraps up Season 4. I’ll be back with some changes in Season 5 — you won’t want to miss it.

Timeless Leadership is part of the Timeless & Timely family of publications. Your support is the only thing that makes this possible.

Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

Links

* Leaders are Readers

* All Timeless & Timely entries on Reflection

* All Timeless & Timely entries on Self-Awareness

* Timeless & Timely newsletter

Find all of the books featured on Timeless Leadership.

Quotes from this episode

“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1917

“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.” — Laurence Sterne, 1760

“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.” — Thomas Hobbes, 1651

Music

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com

Contact

Get in touch with Scott to discuss a speaking engagement or to find out about his executive coaching and business advisory services.

Most leadership books are written by one expert, intended for an audience of many. UnLeadership: Make Building Relationships Your Business flips that concept on its head.

Scott Stratten and Alison Stratten set out to capture the wisdom and insights of more than 50 leaders, highlighting their stories and their lessons for the benefit of all of us.

The book is filled with stories from leaders of all kinds, from small mom and pop shops to corporate executives, across almost every industry, and spanning B2B and B2C.

And Scott Stratten has a few choice stories of his own to share…

Timeless Leadership is part of the Timeless & Timely family of publications. Your support is the only thing that makes this possible.

Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

Links

* UnLeadership by Scott & Alison Stratten

* UnMarketing website

* Connect with Scott Stratten on LinkedIn

* Timeless & Timely newsletter

Find all of the books featured on Timeless Leadership.

Music

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com

Contact

Get in touch with Scott to discuss a speaking engagement or to find out about his executive coaching and business advisory services.

This is the third in our series of core leadership skills. In this episode, you’ll learn how influence is a key element of leadership.

We’ll cover four key influencing skills that transcend every level of the organization and three tactics for influencing others that you can apply when appropriate with different groups.

And here’s your chance to influence someone else:

Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

Links

* Previous entries in our series:

* Core Leadership Skill: Self Awareness

* Core Leadership Skill: Communication

* The Best Leadership Advice of All Time

* Bonus episode: Influence with Jason Falls

* Timeless & Timely newsletter

* Contact Scott

Find all of the books featured on Timeless Leadership.

Music

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com

Contact

Get in touch with Scott to discuss a speaking engagement or to find out about his executive coaching and business advisory services.

Joe Pulizzi knows content. He also knows how to think about the business of content.

As if hosting the podcasts This Old Marketing and Content Inc. aren’t enough, he established Content Marketing Institute and Content Marketing World.

And now, Joe has a new book and a new business model, The Content Entrepreneur, to help you make a business out of your content.

Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

Links

* The Content Entrepreneur by Joe Pulizzi

* The Tilt newsletter

* Tilt Publishing

* Joe’s podcasts: This Old Marketing and Content Inc.

* Timeless & Timely newsletter

Find all of the books featured on Timeless Leadership.

Music

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com

Contact

Get in touch with Scott to discuss a speaking engagement or to find out about his executive coaching and business advisory services.

If you want to build accountability in other people, you need to start with yourself.

What’s the best way to begin? With a process.

In this episode, we’ll talk bout consistency, transparency, and trust — and how they lead to accountability in yourself and others.

Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

Links

* The Secret to Changing a Habit

* Episode 75: Of Rule and Office with Melissa Lane

* The Ampersand Guild

* Timeless & Timely newsletter

* Contact Scott

Find all of the books featured on Timeless Leadership.

Quotes from this episode

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu

Music

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com

Contact

Get in touch with Scott to discuss a speaking engagement or to find out about his executive coaching and business advisory services.

Leadership requires care. Care that extends to the people around you, for whom leaders are responsible. But also care for the practice of leadership itself.

Ideas about this extend back to Plato, who engaged in many conversations about the responsibilities of leaders, the dangers of too much power, and considering the good of others.

Princeton professor Melissa Lane, whose book Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political, joins us to explore the impact of Plato's ideas today, as we struggle with concepts of accountability and servant leadership.

Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

Links

* Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political

* What the Ancient Greeks Understood About Democracy (Los Angeles Times)

* Melissa Lane

* Gresham College Lectures

Find all of the books featured on Timeless Leadership.

Music

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com

Life is filled with busyness. When something or someone comes along to smooth the way and make life a little easier, we’re more than willing to give them our attention and our money.

In an attention-starved world, we look for people who make it easier for us to consume information and make decisions.

Pay attention to these curators. They care.

Timeless Leadership has been named a Top 50 Podcast in the Management category by Goodpods.

Links

* Episode 73: The Fediverse with Mike McCue

* The Ampersand Guild

* The Good Stuff in the Back Room

* Timeless & Timely newsletter

* Contact me

Quotes from this episode

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?” — George Eliot, 1871

Music

Americana - Aspiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200092

Artist: http://incompetech.com