The Conversation Your Team Is Avoiding — Croft Edwards on Leadership Skills

<p>The leadership conversation your team is avoiding is the one deciding your results.Your last meeting was pleasant. Everyone nodded. Nobody argued. And the thing that actually matters never got said.In this episode of The Leader&#39;s Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with Croft Edwards — a Master Certified Coach and U.S. Army veteran (five years active duty, another twenty in the National Guard and Reserve), now president of Croft &amp; Company and author of The Liquid Accordion. Croft&#39;s teacher Bob Dunham put it this way: the root cause of all outcomes, positive and negative, are the conversations we have effectively, ineffectively, or fail to have. This conversation is about the third kind.What you&#39;ll learn:- What &quot;cordial hypocrisy&quot; is — a term popularized by Fernando Flores — and why being polite with someone you don&#39;t trust is the default state of most teams- The two kinds of missing conversation: the one you&#39;re dodging, and the one you don&#39;t even know exists- Why an organization is really a network of conversations, and what that changes about the leadership skills you need to run one- Why the most candid conversations happen at the front line, not in the boardroom — and what a platinum mine a mile underground taught Croft about trust- The &quot;studs and duds&quot; approach to change: spend your energy on the top and the bottom of the curve, not the middle- Why leadership is a practice, not a concept: you can&#39;t think your way into a hard conversation, you have to have it badly firstHow to reach Croft Edwards:<a href="https://croftandcompany.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://croftandcompany.com/</a></p><p><a href="https://liquidaccordion.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://liquidaccordion.com/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/croftedwards/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/croftedwards/</a>More from Jason LeDuc, including the Be The Boss program and the Leadership Academy for Tech Managers:<a href="https://www.leducleadership.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.leducleadership.com/</a></p><p><br></p><p>🗞️ Stay informed without the noise: I use <a href="http://informed.now/" rel="noopener noreferrer">informed.now</a> every day — the day&#39;s news texted straight to you, free of bias, clickbait, and ads. Try it: <a href="https://infmd.co/jld" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://infmd.co/jld</a></p><p>Disclosure: This description contains an affiliate link. If you upg