"Not all mistakes are equal." — Shruti Rustagi

Shruti Rustagi spent two decades in Fortune 400 strategy roles, most recently at Amazon, before becoming a leadership coach and EQ speaker — and her new book landed the same week this episode drops. Her argument: most executives were never trained on the one skill their job now actually requires, and it's costing them their teams before it shows up on a single dashboard.

Karl and Shruti get into the hat someone left in the middle of a conference table to signal "you're not being heard," the JFK trick for getting your team to actually disagree with you, and why treating every mistake the same way is quietly killing your company's ability to innovate.

What you'll get from this episode:

• The three pillars of fearless leadership — and why most executi ...