Municipal Leaders: Develop Faster, Lead Stronger, Build Better
Every week, you’ll get insights and actionable steps to help you navigate personal growth and professional success.
Most local government leaders assume their culture problems are a people problem. Wrong hire. Wrong fit. Wrong attitude.
Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor have spent two decades researching what actually drives human performance and what they found should reframe the way you think about every person on your team.
Episode 341 of The HaltingWinter Podcast
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Many veterans spend decades serving something bigger than themselves. Then one day, the uniform comes off. The mission changes. And the question becomes: What’s next?
Episode 340 of The HaltingWinter Podcast
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What separates a decent workplace from a great one? For many local government leaders, that’s a current, pressing question.
In 2006, Eleven Madison Park was a forgettable restaurant in New York City. Decent food. Nothing special. By 2017, it had been named the best restaurant in the world.
The kitchen didn’t change. The location didn’t change. What changed was the philosophy of the leader running the front of the house and the culture he built around it.
Episode 338 of The HaltingWinter Podcast
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Most people don’t think much about county government. And if they think about libraries at all, they probably picture shelves of books and a quiet room with someone telling kids to whisper.
But this week’s conversation with Leonard Hernandez reminds us that both libraries and counties are doing far more than most people realize.
Episode 337 of The HaltingWinter Podcast
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What if City Hall became more than a place people reluctantly visit to pay a bill or attend a contentious meeting?
What if it became a place where community was actually built?
There’s a good chance your organization has a people development strategy.
A training budget. A succession plan. Maybe a leadership cohort or a mentorship program. On paper, it looks like you’re investing in your people.
But what if the way your organization is built — the norms, the culture, the unspoken rules about what’s safe and what isn’t — is quietly undoing all of that?
Episode 335 of The HaltingWinter Podcast
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Most people never think about public works until something stops working.
The water doesn’t come on.
The road floods.
Traffic backs up.
Infrastructure fails.
But behind every functioning community are public servants carrying enormous responsibility to keep cities moving, growing, and thriving every single day.
Episode 334 of The HaltingWinter Podcast
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This National Public Works Week, The HaltingWinter Podcast highlights the people doing far more than building roads, pipes, and infrastructure.
In Episode 334, Seth sits down with Julie Underwood, Public Works Director for the City of Kirkland, Washington and former city manager, for a conversation about leadership, service, and the growing challenge facing local government organizations across the country: preparing people to lead.
Owen Eastwood coaches some of the highest-performing organizations in the world, including elite military command groups, Olympic teams, and professional sports organizations. And the foundation of everything he does isn’t tactics, training, or strategy.
It’s belonging.
