Podcast
Best Places to Lead, the podcast Jerry Macnamara hosts.
I host Best Places to Lead. It’s my show, built on a simple idea: the companies people want to work for are the ones that outperform, and the leaders who run them have lessons worth hearing. I’ve led five companies with the payroll on my desk, so the questions are the ones I wanted answered when the payroll was on my desk. No scripts, no softballs.
Listen
Sixty-four episodes, published February 2022 through September 2023. Every episode is on the show site, and nearly all of them are on YouTube.
Subscribe by RSS: bestplacestolead.com/feed
Start with a question
Sixty-four episodes, sorted by the question a CEO would actually ask.
- How do I make decisions faster and get things done?
- How do I hire and keep the right people?
- How do I build a culture people want to work in?
- How do I communicate so people actually follow?
- How do I grow without breaking the company?
- How do I lead myself: mindset, resilience, focus?
Jerry as a guest
Hosting is one side of the microphone. I also sit on the other side when a host wants an operator’s answer instead of a theory. A few of the episodes I liked best:
- Leadership Is Changing: episode 398
- Entrepreneur Weekly: Love and Business with Jerry Macnamara
- Catalytic Leadership: Why the Leadership Gap Is the Greatest Threat to Your Business
- Think Business with Tyler Martin: Why You Can’t Scale
- Chasing Financial Freedom: The Fun CEO: How to Positively Impact 5 Million People
- Leadership Powered by Common Sense: Love Your People, Treat Them as Whole
Questions hosts and listeners ask
Where can I listen?
Every episode is on the show site at bestplacestolead.com, and nearly all of them are on the Best Places to Lead YouTube channel. The site publishes an RSS feed. Sixty-four episodes were published between February 2022 and September 2023.
Can I invite Jerry as a guest?
Yes. Send the show name, who listens, and the angle you want through the form below. I read every request myself and answer the ones where I can actually add something for your audience.
What does Jerry talk about?
What it’s really like to lead a company with the payroll on your desk. Accountability without policing, building a business that runs without the founder in the middle, influence that’s earned instead of claimed from the org chart, and the mistakes I made across five companies so your listeners can skip them. I’d rather confront the brutal reality than sell a nice story.
Book Jerry on your show
Tell me the show, who’s listening, and what you want them to walk away with. I answer every inquiry myself. If you are booking a stage rather than a microphone, start at Speaking.