You Built a Company So You'd Never Feel Alone. You're Still Alone. | Mark Platten
Episode notes
"We're told the lone wolf is the most powerful person out there — that's what we're aspiring to be. I think it's done us more disservice as men than almost anything else... We may have a large company. We may not be connected at all." — Mark Platten
Karl sits down with author and leadership guide Mark J. Platten to name the thing most C-suite leaders won't say out loud: the subconscious patterns wired into you before age seven are still running your boardroom. Mark and Karl dig into why the "lone wolf" leadership model quietly wrecks trust, decision quality, and retention — and what to do instead.
Mark J. Platten is an author, educator, and founder of the Integral Man Institute, drawing on two decades spanning U.S. Air Force service, university faculty roles, and international leadership consulting to help people close the gap between who they perform and who they actually are.
What you'll get from this episode:
Why 90–95% of your "strategic" decisions are running on a subconscious script written before you turned seven
The real cost of the lone wolf leadership model — and why your team can tell when you're performing confidence instead of having it
How to tell which decisions need data and which need your gut (and why mixing them up quietly erodes trust)
Why coaching your Gen Z and Millennial hires instead of managing them is the highest-leverage retention move nobody's making
What actually changes in your culture the moment you stop needing to have every answer in the room
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