Larry Coval spent nearly four decades leading organizations at AT&T, Global Crossing, and Cox Business, and came out the other side convinced that most of what gets taught about leadership is wrong. He joins Neal to talk about his new book, Misled, and the argument at its center: “team” is the wrong unit of analysis for business, leadership was never a soft skill, and the fundamentals got skipped while the keynote circuit sold platitudes.
He also makes the case for the smoked marlin taco at Oscar’s - drowned in orange sauce.
Key topics
Why teams don’t exist in business — and the three things real ones have
Leadership Industrial Complex: why substance lost to style
Gallup’s data: managers are now as disengaged as their people
Hiring for sameness as the founder’s most expensive mistake
Red teaming: how the military pressure-tests decisions
Setting expectations with crystalline clarity — confusion is friction
How hoarding work robs your people of development
60% of managers get zero training when promoted
The ARCANE model and why career planning has no playbook
The smoked marlin taco at Oscar’s Mexican Seafood
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