JD Meier's videos and podcasts

I’ve built a lot of innovation teams at Microsoft....

Your current business keeps pulling you toward what already works.

Stephen Covey’s 8th Habit might be my favorite: “...

Your inner world shows up in your outer results. ...

I felt behind when I got to Microsoft. So I studi...

Are you getting smarter with AI?

Sometimes your boss is your opposite.

What you don’t see can hurt you. The hard part is...

You can be better than people realize. The goal i...

10X results don’t come from 10X effort.

How do you fix your one-on-ones? Change the questions to fit the relationship: With a direct repor...

A 1:1 with your boss is not the same meeting as a ...

I had 30 manager changes at Microsoft. I wish I’d known to have these five conversations sooner: I...

I had 30 manager changes at Microsoft. A working ...

Before you master strategy, you need to see it. But how can you "see" or visualize strategy? The b...

Before you master strategy, you need to see it.

What's the hardest part of scaling leadership? As the team grows, one pattern gets expensive: Ever...

You can delegate the work and still be the bottlen...

Some questions stay with you. The best ones can haunt you: I remember Tony Robbins teaching that t...

You don’t answer a North Star question once.

10X innovation starts with a future you don’t know how to create yet.

How do you 10X your innovation impact? You start with a future you don’t know how to create yet. I...

One of the hardest things I had to learn at Micros...

I had to learn how to scale leadership at Microsoft. As teams, products, and organizations grew, th...

I learned to scale leadership early at Microsoft. The hard part was growing it beyond me: I had to...

Leadership gets harder as the scope expands.

One skill can quietly limit how far you go as a leader. A simple question could expose the gap: Ho...

At Microsoft, a lack of critical thinking could quietly limit your career.

Mature businesses rarely fail because they can’t r...

How do leaders innovate in a mature business? Here’s how Microsoft Developer Division did it: Micr...