Episode 433 — Everything You Need To Know to Overhaul Your Firm’s Culture with Cy Wakeman
Drama isn’t just annoying. It’s measurable, costly, and completely avoidable.
In this encore episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael Mogill sits down with Cy Wakeman, leadership expert, author of No Ego, and founder of Reality-Based Leadership, to unpack the staggering cost of emotional waste in the workplace. From venting and scorekeeping to resisting change and holding organizations hostage, drama silently destroys productivity and engagement. This conversation challenges the conventional wisdom around employee happiness and exposes the hard truths about accountability, leadership myths, and what it really takes to build a high-performing culture.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Why the average employee spends over two hours a day stuck in drama, and what that really costs your firm
- How to stop managing emotional waste and start building a culture rooted in accountability and results
- Why popular leadership advice is often based on flawed research, and what the evidence actually says about engagement and performance
Stop managing the drama and start building the culture you actually want.
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Show Notes:
Drama is measurable, and it’s costing you hours every day. “Two hours and 26 minutes a day at work, the average person spends in drama.”
Leadership myths are built on bad research. “It’s one thing to get a survey to build the headline you want to lead with on your next book. And it’s another writing a book reporting on really good research.”
Emotional waste isn’t just unproductive; it’s self-imposed suffering. “It’s time that people spend feeling miserable at work that’s unnecessary. It’s just self-imposed suffering.”
You can’t stop drama by catering to it. “If you want to classify people, classify them by accountability levels, because no matter what your age, your human condition is, you have this ego and you have issues with accountability.”
The best leaders stay curious and facilitate evolution. “To be a game changer, you need to foster curiosity. You’ve got to stay super curious all the time. You’ve got to focus on your own evolution.”
The younger generation brings efficiency to the workplace. “The main difference between millennials and me is that millennials have a low tolerance for inefficiency, thank God.”
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