{"podcast":{"title":"Lead the Team (Top 2% of Podcasts)","slug":"lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768","podcast_index_feed_id":1064768,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/leadtheteam/","website_url":"HTTPS://benfanning.com/blog","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/10af0b95-04e6-42cc-b03d-73690ea3bb8a/QKJ4Hxs4kaKpd554m1ArvK6B.jpg","author":"Ben Fanning","episode_count":465,"summary":"Real CEOs. Real Stories. Hosted by Ben Fanning—2025 Gold Stevie Award winner for Best Business Podcast and ranked in the Top 2% globally—Lead the Team draws on over 600 CEO interviews to take you inside the minds of leaders from brands like Honeywell, HP, IBM, Dunkin’, and L’Oréal. In each episode, you’ll hear raw, unfiltered stories of leading through rapid growth, high-stakes decisions, and make-or-break moments—plus the CEO-tested tools and strategies they use to build high-performing teams. From turning around billion-dollar brands to sparking innovation at scale, these leaders share lessons you can put into action right now to lead your own team better. Subscribe now. ------------- https://www.benfanning.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/benfanning/","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T04:21:29.253817+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768"},"episode":{"title":"The RISK of Your Top Performers (CEO Americas at Nortal, Alain Dias)","slug":"the-risk-of-your-top-performers-ceo-americas-at-nortal-alain-dias","published_at":"2026-02-01T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768/the-risk-of-your-top-performers-ceo-americas-at-nortal-alain-dias","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768","url":"http://www.benfanning.com/theceosessions/alain-dias","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/0b71678e-217f-41a3-9fcc-67cf5c71efd9.mp3","summary":"High performance deceives. Alain Dias, CEO of Nortal Americas, knows a thing or two about building at scale..after all his team helped build the world’s very first \"digital nation.\" When a leader with his kind of track record speaks about growth, I'm in! His interview is a gut-check for most organizations: If your expansion depends on a \"Hero,\" you aren't ready to scale. In many cultures, we celebrate the \"firefighter\" who pulls the all-nighter to save the project. We give them the shout-outs and the awards. But as Alain points out, constant heroics are actually a warning sign. When you rely on individual brilliance to save the day, you aren't building a resilient business...you’re building a dependency. Beware \"The Heroic Trap\": - The Bottleneck: Critical knowledge stays trapped in one person’s head. - The Single Point of Failure: Your best people become your biggest risk for burnout. - The Chaos: As growth accelerates, clarity vanishes, and your \"Hero\" simply can't keep up. What I admire about Alain’s approach is the focus on maturity. World-class leadership is designing systems that make heroics unnecessary. Your vision can’t outrun your systems. Have you seen the limits of heroics? ----- Connect with the Host, #1 bestselling author Ben Fanning Speaking and Training inquires Subscribe to my Youtube channel LinkedIn Instagram Twitter","meta_description":"High performance deceives. Alain Dias, CEO of Nortal Americas, knows a thing or two about building at scale..after all his team helped build the world’s v…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2118,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768/episodes/the-risk-of-your-top-performers-ceo-americas-at-nortal-alain-dias/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lead-the-team-top-2-of-podcasts-1064768/the-risk-of-your-top-performers-ceo-americas-at-nortal-alain-dias.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}