The Manage 2 Win Podcast
The Manage 2 Win Podcast is hosted by author, speaker, and leadership coach David Russell, and features an ongoing series of conversations, stories, and advice on entrepreneurship, business, leadership, and company culture, including how to hire, manage, develop, and retain great people.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 275
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
#35 - Dispelling the Growth and Innovation Boogeyman, with Andrew McAfee
Andrew McAfee is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Initiative on the Digital Economy and a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In this episode he shares how and wh…
#34 - Achieve More With the Right Focus
Previous episodes have discussed how to MAP your meetings, practice Sanctuary time, and use a Weekly WIN.
In this episode David brings it all together and shines a light on the over-arching theme …
#33 - Daily Huddles Contribute to Great Team Meetings
Daily huddles are a great team-building tool to keep everyone on track and deal with issues before they become major problems. In this episode David discusses why a daily huddle is valuable, how and …
#32 - Former ConnectWise HR Guru Talks Leadership and Culture
Michelle Griffin was the former Head of HR at ConnectWise during their rapid growth phase and oversaw the people side of multiple acquisitions, mergers, and dissolutions. In this episode she shares h…
#31 - Deep Listening with Oscar Trimboli
Oscar Trimboli is a deep listening expert on a mission to create a tribe of 100 million deep listeners. He has worked with many large and small organizations to share his broad knowledge of the scien…
#30 - Plan Your Week with a Weekly WIN
Most people make task lists to keep track of things they want to get done. But those lists get longer and longer as time goes on, and nothing ever seems to get easier. Eventually people give up on th…
#29 - Practice Self-Accountability with Sanctuary Time
In our personal and professional lives we always advocate for weekly planning sessions called Sanctuary. In this episode we discuss what Sanctuary is, when it should happen, and how it should be stru…
#28 - MAP Your Meetings
One piece of effective meetings that many people don’t do, or do poorly, is to define a productive agenda. The agenda format makes it an effective tool, or not. An efficient agenda schedules a balanc…
#27 - "LEAN" Is Not a Manufacturing Discipline, with Dale Hedges
Dale Hedges is Townsend Leadership Program Director at Hedges LCI Consulting, LLC. In this episode he shares his philosophy on business leadership, including how the art of leadership has been ignore…
#26 - From I.T. Tech to CEO, with Rick Norberg, CEO of Vertikal6
In this episode Rick Norberg shares his story of starting as a one-man I.T. shop and growing to now 50 employees and millions in revenue. Today, Rick mostly owns the business development responsibili…
#25 - Social Media & Your Business
We are not sure if we want to use Facebook or Twitter to promote our business, or any social media platform for that matter. It is a question we have been trying to answer for a few months. In this e…
#24 - Five Characteristics of Effective Leaders, with Robert MacPhee
Robert MacPhee is CEO of Excellent Decisions. In this episode we discuss 5 characteristics of effective leaders and how those characteristics determine whether a leader is successful or not. We also …
#23 - Yoga and Meditation for Business, with Travis Eliot
Travis Eliot is a world-renowned yoga instructor and meditation teacher. He teaches his signature Holistic Yoga Flow classes in Los Angeles and in workshops and retreats around the world. In this epi…
#22 - Old School Fund Management, with Neil Hennessy
Neil Hennessy is a nationally recognized and respected asset manager, ranking among Barron's Top 100 Mutual Fund Managers for many years, and he is a frequent guest/contributor in national financial …
#21 - The Four Signals of SEO that I.T. Companies Must Know and Implement
In this episode we welcome back Keith Eneix of Fannit, an internet marketing agency, as he shares four signals of SEO. He gets rather technical in this episode, so make sure you're ready to take note…
#20 - Radical Candor, Emotional Intelligence, and the Water Bottle Trick, with Marcus Bigelow of Convene
Listen as Marcus Bigelow, Executive Coach with Convene, shares his knowledge, tips, and tricks for leaders. He has worked with a variety of business executives and organizational leaders in the for-…
#19 - Write-ups & the Performance Improvement Process (“PIP”)
One of the biggest mistakes leaders make is neglecting to hold their employees accountable. When someone is not performing up to company standards you must implement a Performance Improvement Process…
#18 - How to Use and Benefit from an Employee Referral Program
In a recent blog post called Pay a Bounty for Superstars, David discussed the advantages of employee referral programs. Listen to this episode to learn how a referral program can encourage your emplo…
#17 - The Best Way to Recognize Employees, with David Russell, CEO of Manage 2 Win
What is “employee recognition” and why is it important? What are the best ways to recognize employees? How do companies fail at recognizing their employees?
David Russell is our CEO and Senior Consu…
#16 - Reading for Leading, and a Richer Life, with James Mustich
James Mustich (pronounced "Mustik") is the author of 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die, a comprehensive list of fiction and non-fiction books. Jim has worked in the book industry for decades and in …