Let Go & Lead with Maril MacDonald
Hosted by Maril MacDonald · Gagen MacDonald
4.9from 36 ratings
- 70
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 36
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About Let Go & Lead with Maril MacDonald
As a leader, letting go doesn't mean abdicating responsibility. In fact, it's just the opposite. Letting go to lead means encouraging your people toward mastery, infusing the workplace with a sense of purpose, allowing room for self-direction and giving others more autonomy in their jobs. In the Let Go & Lead podcast, Maril MacDonald, Founder and CEO of award winning strategy firm Gagen MacDonald, unpacks these topics and more in conversations with today's business leaders, academics and creative thinkers.
- Publisher
- Gagen MacDonald
- Category
- business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Mar 2019
- Latest episode
- 11 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
7 of 70 episodes have a transcript.
11 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Let Go of Sameness as Culture Fit: Why It Isn't a Strength
14 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
From Firefighting to Foresight: How Leaders Can Think Beyond the Crisis
29 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Let Go of Sameness as Culture Fit: Why It Isn't a Strength
Published 11 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And the people for whom the system works? They don't even recognize that that toll exists. We talk a lot at Giga McDonald about what it takes to move people through the human struggle of change. And one of the things I keep coming back to is that the hardest barriers to see are the ones that don't affect you personally. Peter's reframe is powerful. This isn't a people problem, it's a structure problem. And structure can be redesigned. So as we move into the second part of this conversation, I want to push further on that. On what redesigned systems actually look like. And what psychological safety means as a mechanism rather than a buzzword. and also what the business case really is for organizations willing to build differently. […]
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- Peter Mann
- Joanna Lepore
- Divya Demato
- Mary Berner
- Tim Gabel
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- 4.8 / 5
- 19 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 17 ratings
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Maril MacDonald host the show. Published by Gagen MacDonald.
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