Latest Hotmesshotline Podcast Episodes
If You’re Involved You Own It- Extreme Ownership for IT Leaders with Brian Burk
Hot Mess Hotline - April 26, 2024 12:20 - 37 minutesExtreme ownership for IT leaders means: if you’re involved, you own it. Brian Burk brings his IT leadership experience to our conversation with his wise counsel and practical tools for accountability. Today’s projects are complex and have moving targets. It’s easy to want to avoid responsibility...
Example of Technical Debt and Its Cultural Consequences with Ken Knapton
Hot Mess Hotline - April 05, 2024 12:00 - 53 minutesHow about a specific example of technical debt and its cultural consequences? Ken Knapton shares a real world example where tech silos and cultural silos reinforce each other. This company had several overlapping solutions that wasted money and created at least $5 million in cash expense — while...
Insider Threat Detection Comes From Strong Outside Relationships with Robert Field
Hot Mess Hotline - March 15, 2024 12:00 - 31 minutesInsider threat detection comes from new school technology and old school relationships. Robert Field learned of sabotage coming from one of his employees from a trusted relationship outside of the organization. Yes, technically, technology could have detected this. But the reality was that Rob’s...
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There with Ravi Teja Bommireddipalli
Hot Mess Hotline - February 23, 2024 12:55 - 55 minutesWhat got you here won’t get you there if you’re a leader driving growth and transformation. Ravi Bommireddipalli is a CEO who focuses on unlearning as much as he learns. For Robosoft’s next level, he’s being charged with leading the company to where it has never been. Along the way he’s going to...
Every Step of Growth Has Its Own New Challenges with Asad Ur Rehman
Hot Mess Hotline - January 26, 2024 12:03 - 29 minutesEvery step of growth has its own challenges and hot messes. CEO Asad Ur Rehman learned these lessons the hard way as he’s grown from freelance software developer to CEO of a 300-person global firm. There’s a myth about success that when you achieve a certain salary, revenue, job, client, etc. et...
Tell the Story of Your Career When There’s Too Much Variety in Your Resume with Adrian Koehler
Hot Mess Hotline - January 12, 2024 14:45 - 34 minutesDo you know how to tell the story of your career when there’s too much variety in your resume? Adrian Koehler is an executive coach who has transformed a “hot mess” of career experience into clear confidence for how he delivers compelling value every day and in the present moment. This episode ...
Making Decisions Isn’t Hard, Taking Action on the Decision is Hard with Alexei Miller
Hot Mess Hotline - December 08, 2023 12:00 - 56 minutesMaking decisions isn’t always hard, but taking action on the decisions can be hard. Alexei Miller is a leader who lived that firsthand when his company’s locations were caught in the middle of international conflict. When Russia invaded Ukraine, Data Art’s “people first” philosophy was put to th...
The Secret to Creating Alignment During Change with Michael Judd
Hot Mess Hotline - December 08, 2023 02:11 - 49 minutesSuccessful leaders find themselves creating alignment during change. Michael Judd shares one of his initial turnaround gigs where he learned this skill directly and then took it with him for the rest of his career. Learn from his experience and self awareness: Do you know your business’ safety ...
If You Micromanage Then You’re Not Managing with Richard Luna
Hot Mess Hotline - December 08, 2023 02:11 - 41 minutesRichard Luna came to a hard realization when he said to himself, “If you micromanage, then you’re not managing.” As his business and team were growing, he learned — the hard way, of course! — that he was controlling too much: filtering 1,000+ emails a day; creating specific dispatch schedules; p...
Great Leaders Know They Lead Humans Not Robots with Denise Cooper
Hot Mess Hotline - November 09, 2023 01:45 - 35 minutesLeaders lead humans and people working together, not robots working together. Denise Cooper and I explore this topic in a very frank conversation. We’ve gone off course with leadership when we think that multi-tasking and motivating all employees in the exact same way is going to work in the 21s...
Root Cause Analysis Example with 300 Servers and without Emotion with Benjamin Pulatie
Hot Mess Hotline - October 13, 2023 10:00 - 35 minutesIT executives have too many root cause analysis examples to count. Benjamin Pulatie is a leader and entrepreneur who’s no different. But because of his mega hot mess he learned how to take control when everyone was in charge but no one was in control; and check his emotions at the door. Listen ...
Solving the Right Problem with Change Management with Juan Betancourt
Hot Mess Hotline - September 29, 2023 10:00 - 43 minutesSolving the right problem with change management is a perennial problem for IT leaders. Juan Betancourt is a tech entrepreneur who is willing to keep looking in the mirror, ask the hard questions, and continuously improve until he gets it right. Our conversation focuses on how he led his team th...
Leaders Aren’t Fortune Tellers, But They Are Risk Takers with Pamela Diaz
Hot Mess Hotline - September 18, 2023 00:57 - 50 minutesLeadership is about taking risks, not seeing into a crystal ball. Pamela Diaz is a leader that asks her team to trust her enough to take risks with her. And she returns that trust with empathy. Here at The Change Architects, we work with a lot of teams that demand all their questions be answered...
Resistance to Change Isn't What You Think It Is with Jessica Carroll
Hot Mess Hotline - September 01, 2023 11:00 - 49 minutesResistance to change doesn't always show up in your team like you think it does. Jessica Carroll is an executive who has driven multiple digital transformations as a CIO and Chief Customer Experience Officer. The same lessons that apply to "going to the cloud" also apply to digital transformatio...
Deliver Results that Match Your Executive Compensation with Scott Couchenour
Hot Mess Hotline - August 18, 2023 17:22 - 52 minutesHave you ever felt like you weren't delivering the results as an executive that matched your compensation? Scott Couchenour is our faculty member who can tell you exactly why and how to get you focused on results, actions, and the mindset needed to do the strategic work necessary at your level. ...
Action Can't Get in the Way of Empathy with Don Monistere
Hot Mess Hotline - August 04, 2023 11:00 - 57 minutesAction and empathy move at different speeds in companies. Don Monistere is a longtime IT leader who has driven a lot of change. He's led the acquisition and merging of several companies and freely admits that plans on paper sometimes sound great and play out in the real world in a terrible way. ...
How to Come Back from Burnout with Jimmy Burroughes
Hot Mess Hotline - July 21, 2023 11:00 - 42 minutesHow do you come back from burnout as a leader? Jimmy Burroughes was an overachiever who tried to prove himself for too long and burned out. In epic fashion. As someone who knows he's here to make a difference in this world, he wanted to do too much, be too much, and was burning the candle at bot...
IT Needs to Say No Sometimes with Heather Darring
Hot Mess Hotline - July 07, 2023 11:05 - 29 minutesHow to say "No" in IT is tricky. Heather Darring shares with us what's even trickier: saying Yes too frequently, projects going out of scope, and then reading an IT audit that says, "You suck." Okay, okay it didn't actually say that she and her 1 colleague sucked, but it described missed expecta...
Courageous Leadership with Deseri Garcia
Hot Mess Hotline - June 23, 2023 16:57 - 38 minutesCourageous leadership is a choice. Deseri Garcia is a coach and faculty member here at The Change Architects. Because she's been in the trenches as a leader, she knows what it takes to have hard conversations, lead with clarity and vision, and adapt to those around you while maintaining authenti...
Challenge the Status Quo; Business as Usual is Dangerous with Wally Brant
Hot Mess Hotline - June 11, 2023 17:21 - 42 minutes"Challenge the status quo!" The executives we work with shout this from rooftops with their teams. "Business as usual" means a slow decline toward irrelevancy. The reality is that a business that isn't growing in some way is in decline and shrinking the value it's bringing to the world. And "gr...
Rich Leaders Have Rich Relationships with Jack Gibson
Hot Mess Hotline - May 12, 2023 21:13 - 45 minutesA little-discussed asset class known by rich leaders is to have rich relationships. Jack Gibson is a leader who values trust over money; friendship over revenue. Just a few short years ago, he was feeling hot, hot, hot about real estate investing with a business partner. He referred his friends ...
Insights into Uncomfortable Race Conversations at Work with Danielle Meadows-Stinnett
Hot Mess Hotline - April 28, 2023 18:38 - 42 minutesHave you ever wanted insights into uncomfortable race conversations at work but didn't know who to ask? Our guest, Danielle Meadows-Stinnett, is generous enough to share a hot mess she found herself in as the CEO of her marketing company. She describes what it felt like when a client said to her...
How Small Tweaks Create Big Change with Nikki Evans
Hot Mess Hotline - April 14, 2023 19:21 - 24 minutesBig change is created by small tweaks. One of our faculty members, Nikki Evans, reminds us that change happens in small steps. Our brains are wired for overwhelm when we try to prioritize, do, plan, think through too much. Coaching reminds us to use our human superpowers of focus, critical think...
Bring More Critical Thinking to Your Leadership Team with Steve Pearlman
Hot Mess Hotline - March 31, 2023 18:15 - 24 minutesCritical thinking in leadership teams is not the norm. Too many meetings are focused on who's winning, who has the best idea, who's talking the loudest, etc. Steve Pearlman, a critical thinking expert, makes the analogy to poker. We hold our cards close and jockey to win. But then tell everyone ...
Old Habits Can't Create New Results with Tedra White
Hot Mess Hotline - March 17, 2023 19:17 - 36 minutesChange feels hard when we try to use old habits to drive new results. No one knows that better than our very own faculty member, Tedra White. On this episode of the Hot Mess Hotline, we talk through big career transitions; how bad employees create amazing results and how to turn them into great ...
The critical difference between managing complexity and micromanaging with Bill Murphy
Hot Mess Hotline - March 03, 2023 21:53 - 44 minutesThere is a critical difference between managing complexity and micromanaging that all leaders need to know about. Our Hot Mess Hotline guest, Bill Murphy, breaks down how to know when you've reached a ceiling of complexity that requires you to step back into the details of the work. This is dif...
Ep. 55: The critical difference between managing complexity and micromanaging with Bill Murphy
Hot Mess Hotline - March 03, 2023 21:53 - 44 minutesThere is a critical difference between managing complexity and micromanaging that all leaders need to know about. Our Hot Mess Hotline guest, Bill Murphy, breaks down how to know when you've reached a ceiling of complexity that requires you to step back into the details of the work. This is dif...
Ep. 54: What's the Difference Between Orientation and Onboarding?
Hot Mess Hotline - November 06, 2022 17:12 - 18 minutesWhat's the Difference Between Orientation and Onboarding? And why does it matter? With turnover and retention being very painful and expensive problems (especially right now!), leaders need every tool at their disposal to help the right people stay. Onboarding is an incredibly powerful tool an...
What's the Difference Between Orientation and Onboarding?
Hot Mess Hotline - November 06, 2022 17:12 - 18 minutesWhat's the Difference Between Orientation and Onboarding? And why does it matter? With turnover and retention being very painful and expensive problems (especially right now!), leaders need every tool at their disposal to help the right people stay. Onboarding is an incredibly powerful tool an...
Hot Messes Make You a Stronger Leader with Jerry Jones
Hot Mess Hotline - October 02, 2022 15:11 - 46 minutesStronger leaders are made through multiple hot messes. Jerry Jones, former president of Cannon IV, shares his decisionmaking, sleepless nights, and strategy pivots during some tumultuous times. In this Hot Mess Hotline episode, he shares how 50% of their revenue evaporated in 90 days because of ...
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