Permanence: How Leaders Sustain Success Without Losing Themselves | Lisa Broderick | 714

Episode notes

What if success is not the hard part? Lisa Broderick , Managing Partner of Conversus Group , and co-author of Permanence with Marshall Goldsmith , brings a practical answer to one of leadership's most overlooked problems: how to stay the person you want to be after success arrives. Most leadership advice focuses on achievement. Hit the goal. Grow the company. Build the platform. Scale the impact. But Lisa's work asks a sharper question. What happens to your behavior, identity, and relationships once the pressure of success starts to reshape you? In this conversation, Lisa unpacks the power of daily questions. Not vague reflection. Not motivational slogans. A simple, measurable practice that helps leaders notice their behavior in real time. That noticing creates agency. Agency creates change. The breakthrough is in the wording. "Did I do my best?" is different from "Did I succeed?" It removes perfection from the equation. It puts ownership back in the leader's hands. And it makes behavior change sustainable. Lisa also shares how accountability changes everything. Leaders shifted their actions during the day because they knew someone would ask. Not an app. Not a dashboard. A person.