The Lead Up Podcast

The Lead Up Podcast

Hosted by: Mike Harbour

You are looking for quick answers and shortcuts. You want better results as a leader. All leaders desire better performance out of themselves and their teams, but you don't have time to waste. The Lead Up Podcast is...

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Episodes

Episode 502 Leading What's Next: Building the Future-Ready Leaders

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour reflects on the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, honoring the lives lost, the families impacted, and the first responders and healthcare professionals...
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Episode 501 The 9 Cultural Contaminants Hospital Executives Can't Ignore

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour takes on something that is quietly costing healthcare organizations good people, stronger performance, and potentially millions of dollars: Cultural...
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Episode 500 - 500 Never Quit Moments: The Behavior Behind the Breakthrough

In this milestone 500th episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour reflects on the lessons, conversations, and never-quit moments that have shaped the show since its beginning in 2019. But this episode isn't...
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Episode 499 The Leadership Strategy Behind Top 10% Patient Satisfaction with Tracey Carson

Great hospital results rarely come from a single initiative. They come from leaders who get clear about what matters, align their teams around those priorities, and then have the discipline to follow through...
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Episode 498 8 Leadership Mistakes Costing You Great People

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour challenges the familiar idea that people quit jobs and argues that, more often than we realize, they’re responding to the leadership environment around...
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Episode 497 Elite Leader Series with Marcy Doderer

Healthcare doesn't need leaders who are simply prepared for today's challenges. It needs leaders who are willing to rethink tomorrow. In this episode of The Lead Up Podcast, Mike Harbour sits down with Marcy Doderer,...
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Episode 496 WIN TODAY with Joshua Lifrak

Pressure doesn't create leaders. It reveals them. Every day, healthcare leaders face situations they didn't choose—staffing shortages, difficult conversations, unexpected setbacks, and decisions that impact patients,...
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Episode 495 Leadership Fails When Human Needs Are Ignored

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour explores why most leadership problems don't begin with poor strategy, but instead with unmet human needs. Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as a foundation and...
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Episode 494 The Healer Revolution with Richie Splitt

Healthcare has never lacked talented people. What's lacking in many organizations is the ability to stay connected to the purpose that brought those people into healthcare in the first place. In this episode of The...
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Episode 493 7 Habits of Elite Leaders

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour explores the seven leadership habits that consistently separate leaders people simply work for from leaders people genuinely want to follow. Drawing from more...
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Episode 492 Leading Through Issues with Sue Hawkes

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, Mike sits down with leadership expert, bestselling author, and EOS Implementer®, Sue Hawks, to discuss one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today: the inability to...
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Episode 491 Gradually, Then Suddenly

In this episode of the Lead Up Podcast, host Mike Harbour explores one of the most overlooked realities of leadership, culture, and organizational change: meaningful progress rarely happens as quickly as leaders...
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