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Bob Glazer: Build 4 Capacities for Success

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Bob Glazer says core values are the ultimate decision-making rubric, and he ties them to formative lifetime events.

Caitlin Schiller and Ben Schumann-Soler open with a warm, easy exchange before turning to Bob Glazer. They introduce his new book, *Elevate Your Team*, as a business book that genuinely stands out. Ben calls it a compendium of the best ideas from leadership books of the last decade or so. That sets the tone for the rest of the conversation. The discussion keeps circling back to what makes teams work in practice. Feedback is a major thread. So is the reality that many organizations are bad at giving feedback and bad at receiving it. The hosts connect healthy feedback to psychological safety. They treat that safety as what makes honest debate possible. They also link it to people getting the information they need in real time so they can make better choices tomorrow. Ray Dalio's mistake log at Bridgewater comes up as an example of a culture's values made visible. The point is not punishment. It is learning. The conversation then turns toward templates and phrases that help with hard conversations. Caitlin says she shared some of them with her team. One line she liked was, what I'm about to say may not be easy to hear, but it's important. That kind of wording tries to keep both people in the exchange respected. The episode also touches on the so-called sandwich approach to criticism. The hosts are interested in how language can lower defensiveness while still making room for the hard part. Glazer's appeal, as the show presents it, is that he translates leadership ideas into something usable. The whole discussion stays grounded in practice rather than abstract management theory.

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A practical leadership conversation about feedback, trust, and the language of hard conversations.

The episode keeps its focus on Bob Glazer and treats Elevate Your Team as a steady, usable book on leadership. Feedback sits at the center of the discussion: how people give it, how they take it, and how it can sharpen decisions while they are still live.

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When you want leadership advice that feels like a conversation, not a keynote.

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