Maybe you’re leading a marketing team inside a Fortune 100 company and you’ve been reading about the measurable ROI from podcasting, or you’re an author and your publisher is urging you to use the medium to promote your book, or perhaps you are a thought leader wanting to extend your audience.

Larj Network is proud to share the news that our podcast, Battle Fatigue has been short-listed in three categories at the International Women’s Podcast Awards hosted by the Skylark Collective.

I recently read an article from Entrepreneur Magazine Online with the headline “Want 7-Figure Podcast Downloads? Try These 5 Strategies,” and let me be the first to tell you, this article is not only misleading it’s completely ridiculous!

The Seattle Design Center is first and foremost a sensory experience: from the airy atrium with its sweeping staircase that greets you upon arrival, to the maze of fabrics and elegant furnishings on display in its luxury showrooms. Housed in a historic building in Seattle’s arts district, SDC is a marketplace for fine home furnishings, showcasing vendors from around the world, as well as an event venue where designers go to cultivate new ideas and draw inspiration.

You tricked out a quiet conference room with the latest recording equipment and captured some great interviews, and you even had a launch party with podcast schwag for the team! But after a few published episodes, the show just isn’t delivering on its promise. What happened?

If you lead a creative team, or are diving into a creative project yourself, help your stakeholders help you by giving them some suggestions on how to give useful, meaningful, and actionable feedback.

I read Good to Great in the early 2000s when I was at the Gates Foundation. It was gifted to all of us because Collins wrote a monograph of it for social sectors, which we all found sitting on our desks one morning. I remember that the principles from the book strongly resonated with me, and to this day, I comment on how meaningful it was for me as a young leader when I see it on the shelf in the offices of colleagues and friends.