Eric Stone
author, speaker, and consultant
Eric Stone has spent almost 30 years figuring out what actually works in leadership. He is a former Regional Vice President at Enterprise Rent-A-Car and now helps businesses build leadership systems.
Episode
EP 179 · 13 March 2025
Jumpstart Your Workplace Culture, with Eric Stone
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Their segments in this episode (23)
- a real world culture transformation example
- advice for employees in toxic environments
- bridging the generational divide
- complexity bias why simpler is better
- connecting leadership to operations
- disagreeing with the leaders shouldn t be friends mindset
- grading today s leaders the leadership gap
- intro eric s story and background
- lessons from enterprise rent a car
- rebutting this isn t a democracy
- recruitment lessons from the sidelines
- the 1 thing leaders should focus on
- the flexibility debate remote vs in office
- the hourglass approach to culture
- the impact of positive leadership
- the magic wand removing complexity
- the velvet hammer balancing accountability and empathy
- warning signs of a toxic culture
- what matters most in leadership today
- when leadership behaviours become normalised
- where to find eric
- why leaders don t need all the right answers
- why some leaders won t adapt