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Fearless Creative Leadership

Fearless Creative Leadership

Charles Day

We talk to leaders of the world’s most disruptive companies about how they are jumping into the fire, crossing the chasm and blowing up the status quo. Leaders who’ve mastered the art of turning the impossible into the profitable.
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Fearless Creative Leadership - Ep 63: John Seifert of Ogilvy on Loyalty

Ep 63: John Seifert of Ogilvy on Loyalty

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07/27/18 • 44 min

'The One-Company Leader'.

I first met John Seifert in 1983. We were both working at Ogilvy & Mather in New York on the TWA business. The world was very different back then.

What hasn’t changed much is John.

John and Ogilvy always seemed to fit together. You couldn’t imagine hime working anywhere else.

Thirty nine years later, he still hasn’t. Today he is the company's CEO.

In an era and industry defined by upheaval, I wanted to talk to John about why he has stayed at one company for so long.

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Fearless Creative Leadership - Ep 62: Thomas Benski of Pulse Films on Leading By Example
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07/13/18 • 40 min

'The Son'.

This conversation with Thomas Benski - the founder of Pulse Films - is the second of my interviews from the Cannes Creativity festival and was recorded in front of a live audience. Vice is an award winning modern-day content studio, which two years ago was bought by Vice.

Thomas is charming and charismatic. He is relentlessly energized and filled with original ideas. He is engaged. Interesting. And Interested.

He is driven in large part by what happened to his family when he was growing up.

So this episodes is called, “The Son.”

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'The Preacher, The Teacher, The Weird Kid and The Absurdist'.

This is my conversation with the four people at the heart of over the last 14 years. The two initial founders: John Boiler and Glenn Cole. And the two people they added soon after to help build the business. Evin Shutt and Matt Jarvis.

Rarely - too rarely - do I see partnerships that - both in their intention and in their casting, have been formed on lasting foundations.

Ego, insecurity and yes, fear get in the way. Common sense and win-wins leave the building. Replaced by missed opportunities, broken promises and in some cases life long resentment.

But when you get it right, it sounds like this conversation.

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Fearless Creative Leadership - Ep 60: Chris Weil of Momentum on Building A Culture
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06/16/18 • 44 min

'The Pace Setter'.

This week, my conversation with Chris Weil - the CEO of Momentum.

Chris has always struck me as clear, confident and charismatic. He welcomes people into his world and puts them at ease. And he relishes change.

I wanted to talk to Chris about where his confidence and openness comes from.

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'The Young Leaders'.

Adolescent Content is the idea of the filmmaker Ramaa Mosley, and is based on the simple insight that content intended for youth would be more impactful if it was conceived and created by youth.

Their creators, directors and photographers are as young as 11. They have developed marketing concepts and content for iconic brands, shot feature films and given TED talks.

Ramaa and I were joined by one of her directors, sixteen year-old Aniya Wolfe.

Aniya is a member of Gen Z, which, as she reminds us, is the largest generation in history. The oldest member of Gen Z is 21. As Aniya shows in our conversation, this generation is coming of age much much earlier than that.

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Fearless Creative Leadership - Ep 37: Vanessa Friedman of The New York Times on Why Integrity Matters
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01/05/18 • 55 min

'The Fashion Critic'.

Vanessa Friedman is the fashion director and chief fashion critic for The New York Times. Her approval is sought by the most famous and successful designers in the world and she has built a reputation as a brilliant, thoughtful and fair judge of what is relevant in this the most creative of industries.

I talked to her about the challenge faced by people who make things from their minds, about the importance of structure, and about the high-flying nature of her secret hobby.

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Fearless Creative Leadership - Ep 31: Michael Kassan of MediaLink on Networking
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11/17/17 • 61 min

'The Connector'.

Michael Kassan is perhaps the best connected person in the creative industries. As the founder Chairman and CEO of Medialink, he creates and unlocks relationships at the intersection of advertising, entertainment, technology and finance. Put another way he connects Silicon Valley, Madison Avenue, Hollywood and Wall Street.

I talked to Michael about the criteria he looks for in people he wants to interact with, about what he’s learned about doing deals on the back of a napkin and about what he loves about being in the room when it happens.

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'The Teacher'.

Gerry Laybourne has spent her life unlocking the creativity of others. From her early beginnings as a teacher and film-maker, she created not one but two game-changing networks. First, Nickelodeon, which placed the care and nurturing of children at the heart of its DNA. And then the Oxygen network, a revolutionary and innovative commitment to the voice and needs of women.

Along the way, she was named the most influential woman in the entertainment industry and one of the 25 most influential people in America by Time magazine.

She is a visionary, a business builder and an audience advocate.

I talked to Gerry about calling out the strengths of people, about the importance of giving yourself credit for the things you do well, about the challenge of hiring 750 people all at once, and about the management approach she’d use building a company today.

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'The Partners'.

Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs are the co-founders of Food52.com. Their goal was to create the first crowd sourced, online cook book. As you will see if you visit the site, they have already achieved much, much more than that - a fully realized food, cooking and lifestyle community and ecommerce destination.

I talked to Amanda and Merrill about the birth and evolution of their partnership, about why they spent 5 years testing 1400 recipes and about the existential challenge of auditioning to play the part of you.

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Fearless Creative Leadership - Ep 257: Yasu Sasaki - In 20

Ep 257: Yasu Sasaki - In 20

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06/04/24 • 22 min

Edited highlights of our full length conversation.

Are you aiming high enough?

This episode is the fourth in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes, we're focusing on a study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries.

Are we moving fast enough? Are we going far enough? Is this an opportunity to fundamentally redesign the creative industries? Or should we adjust and iterate slowly and carefully? Do we follow the puck or skate to where it's going? There are opportunities and risks around every corner.

Yasu Sasaki is the Global Chief Creative Officer of Dentsu. His company has a presence in over 145 countries and regions, and they've been working with artificial intelligence, in one form or another, since 2011.

One of the main questions facing the creative industries is which companies will see AI as an opportunity to stretch the boundaries of human creativity. To recognize that the limitations in our creativity are no longer practical, financial, or time-based, but are, in fact, our own confidence in our capacity to think originally.

We can also use this opportunity to create greater efficiency, a worthy ambition in a world in which resources are scarce and a life in which the time available to us is finite.

In theory and in practice, we can both raise the bar and lower cost.

But we must be careful how we do it.

At the end of the series, I'll offer some thoughts on what we've heard and learned and where we might go from here.

In the meantime, thanks for joining us.

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How many episodes does Fearless Creative Leadership have?

Fearless Creative Leadership currently has 511 episodes available.

What topics does Fearless Creative Leadership cover?

The podcast is about Change, Marketing, Management, Leadership, Creativity, Podcasts, Business and Innovation.

What is the most popular episode on Fearless Creative Leadership?

The episode title 'Ep 99: Emmanuel Andre - In 15' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Fearless Creative Leadership?

The average episode length on Fearless Creative Leadership is 31 minutes.

How often are episodes of Fearless Creative Leadership released?

Episodes of Fearless Creative Leadership are typically released every 4 days.

When was the first episode of Fearless Creative Leadership?

The first episode of Fearless Creative Leadership was released on Apr 27, 2017.

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