#182 | Clear Is Kind: Why Most Leaders Avoid the Conversations That Actually Matter w/ Peter Murphy @Pocket Prep

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▶︎ #182 | Clear Is Kind: Why Most Leaders Avoid the Conversations That Actually Matter w/ Peter Murphy @Pocket Prep In this episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra sits down with Peter Murphy, CEO and Co-Founder of Pocket Prep, a company built to help people pass notoriously difficult certification exams. Peter's path started in aerospace manufacturing at Lockheed Martin, where he was handed leadership responsibility in his first week on the job with zero preparation for it. After failing a critical operations certification exam by a single point, twice, he turned that frustration into the idea for Pocket Prep, a company now 40 people strong, bootstrapped, and built over 12 years without outside investors. The conversation opens with a story about being told to quit, something Aleksandra experienced as a young violinist and Peter recognizes from the world of harsh, dismissive feedback that still shows up in entrepreneurship today. From there, the two move into one of the most honest moments of the episode: Peter's account of trying to fire an employee who had no idea anything was wrong, because Peter had never actually told them.

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