Leadership with Bob Chapman

As businesses race toward faster systems, smarter tools, and total automation, something critical is getting lost: human connection. And ironically, the rise of AI is making that gap impossible to ignore. In this episode, I sit down with returning guest and close friend Will Guid ...  Show more

Team Simon here! While A Bit of Optimism is on a short break, we’re revisiting a few episodes you helped make some of our favorites. We’ll be back with brand-new conversations next week, on March 24th, 2026. In the meantime, we’re bringing back an episode that explores a word mos ...  Show more

One of the primary principles of real leadership is being uber-nice. Wildly empathetic. Staggeringly compassionate. The nicest (and best person you know). Why? Because leadership (and business/life) is all about people. Human connections. Social equity. Emotional bonds between ...

Great leaders build more leaders. (Read that twice please, because if you’re not growing more leaders then you’re not really leading, just following). One of the top ways financial moguls scale their fortunes is by exploiting leverage. And that’s not only leveraging i ...

Our gorgeous and scary world needs more leaders. Real, everyday, brave, honest, humble and compassionate leaders who place their cause above their ego. And their service above their self-interest.

Here’s the good news: you can become one of these leaders. By leading w ...

Leadership isn't just for CEOs and presidents. We ALL can lead. Because leadership's mostly a mindset and a way of doing things.

Taxi drivers can lead and street sweepers can lead and teachers can lead as can managers, artists and salespeople.

And plea ...