Previously released on Dare to Lead, this is part of a special six-part series with Adam Grant on Brené's book, Strong Ground. The conversation opens on time scarcity, the devaluation of future time, and whether hope is actually a strategy. From there they discuss how great leaders don't need all the right answers (just the right questions) and the difference between executive presence and pocket presence. While digging into how the five C's of delegation build the situational awareness and critical thinking that pocket presence requires, Adam has a breakthrough realization that pocket presence isn't just an individual skill, it's a collective capability. Executive presence, they agree, is "party of one."
Resource Slack and Propensity to Discount Delayed Investments of Time Versus Money – Gal Zauberman, 2004, Journal of Experimental Psychology
Time for Happiness – Ashley Whillans, 2019, Harvard Business Review
Can We Afford to be Time Poor? The Hidden Tax of Time Poverty – Celestine Rosales, 2024, The Decision Lab
The Will and the Ways – C. R. Snyder, 1991, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Hope Theory: Rainbows in the Mind – C. R. Snyder, 2002, Psychological Inquiry
Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting – David Laibson, 1997, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Some Empirical Evidence on Dynamic Inconsistency – Richard Thaler, 1981, Economics Letters
Future Self-Continuity: How Conceptions of the Future Self Transform Intertemporal Choice – Hal Hershfield, 2011, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
The stranger within: Connecting with our future selves – Cynthia Lee
April 9, 2015, UCLA Newsroom
We normally think of a weakness as a strength you lack, but it can also be a strength you overuse – Adam Grant, July 10, 2018, LinkedIn
Stop Overdoing Your Strengths – Robert Kaplan, 2009, Harvard Business Review
Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit – Brené Brown, 2025, Random House
Research: Vague Feedback Is Holding Women Back – Shelley Correll, 2016, Harvard Business Review
The New Rules of Executive Presence – Sylvia Ann Hewlett, 2024, Harvard Business Review
Pocket Presence (Video) – Emmanuel Acho, n.d., TikTok
Metacognition and Cognitive Monitoring: A New Area of Cognitive-Developmental Inquiry – Flavell, 1979, American Psychologist
Essential social work theories & models – Syracuse University, n.d., OnlineGrad@Syracuse
The 5 Cs of strategic thinking, decision making, and delegating – Brené Brown, n.d., brenebrown.com
Atomic Habits – James Clear, 2018, Avery
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