Management In Minutes with Charles Evans

Management in Minutes delivers sharp, no-fluff lessons for professionals navigating the real challenges of professional and personal leadership. Hosted by executive, coach and author Charles Evans, each episode is built around hard-earned insights from 20+ years in management and 1-on-1 coaching. In straight to the point talk, you'll learn how to lead with clarity, build trust, and make confident decisions under pressure.

Management In Minutes with Charles Evans is a business podcast hosted by Charles Evans, with 28 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Charles Evans hosts Management In Minutes with Charles Evans, a business show with 28 episodes published.

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  Episode #29

  Episode 29: The Leadership Code — Patience

  Aug 17, 202610 minS2

  Every leader imagines a straight line from the vision to the result. It never holds. Progress bends, stalls, and reverses — and the leaders who survive the journey are not the ones with the best plan. They are the ones with the patience to endure the distance between the plan and the reality. In the series finale of The Leadership Code, Charles Evans closes the five-week series with Patience — the value that sustains all the others. Drawing on Angela Duckworth's Grit research, Charles explores why sustained perseverance toward long-term goals is a stronger predictor of success than talent, intelligence, or resources. This episode covers enduring the valley between effort and evidence, distinguishing patience from passivity, and modeling the pace that determines whether the team builds with endurance or burns out chasing an unrealistic timeline. The complete Leadership Code: Responsibility takes ownership. Courage casts the vision. Discipline builds the structure. Humility adapts the plan. Patience keeps you in the arena long enough for all four to work. These five values are not separate ideas, they are a connected system. Practice all five and you become the kind of leader people follow not because they have to, but because they choose to. #LeadOnPurpose

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  Episode 28: The Leadership Code — Humility

  Aug 10, 20269 minS2

  Humility in leadership is not weakness. It is the ability to change course when the evidence demands it, to credit the team for the wins and own the losses, and to build something that will outlast you, even when you'll never get credit for it. In the fourth installment of The Leadership Code, Charles Evans draws on Jim Collins' Level 5 Leadership research from Good to Great to explore why the leaders who built enduring organizations were not the loudest or the most charismatic, they were the ones who combined extreme personal humility with fierce professional will. Collins' formula was simple: Humility + Will = Level 5. This episode breaks down how humility manifests in adapting without ego, practicing the window and the mirror, and building for the successor rather than the legacy. #LeadOnPurpose

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  Episode #25

  Episode 27: The Leadership Code — Discipline

  Aug 4, 202613 minS2

  A courageous vision without disciplined execution is just a speech. And speeches don't change organizations. Structures do. In the third installment of The Leadership Code, Charles Evans explores Discipline — the value that transforms vision into reality. Drawing on The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling, Charles breaks down why strategies fail in the whirlwind of daily operations and how disciplined leaders build systems that make execution predictable rather than heroic. This episode covers protecting the vision from the whirlwind, focusing the team on lead measures they can control, and building a cadence of accountability that sustains itself. Discipline is not willpower. It is architecture. #LeadOnPurpose

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  Episode #26

  Episode 26: The Leadership Code — Courage

  Jul 27, 202613 minS2

  Courage in leadership is not the absence of fear. It is the willingness to stand before the people you lead and cast a vision of a future that does not yet exist and ask them to build it with you. In the second installment of The Leadership Code, Charles Evans explores why Courage is the value that transforms a responsible leader into a visionary one. Drawing on Transformational Leadership theory from James MacGregor Burns and Bernard Bass, Charles breaks down how courage manifests in casting the vision, making the unpopular decision in service of the long-term, and standing in the gap when the vision is tested and everyone around you is questioning whether it's worth pursuing. Courage is not the absence of doubt it is the refusal to let doubt have the final word. #LeadOnPurpose

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  Episode #26

  Episode 26: The Leadership Code — Responsibility

  Jul 20, 202611 minS2

  Season 2 of Management in Minutes opens with the first installment of a five-week series: The Leadership Code. These are the five characteristics required to lead a unit, team, program, organization, or family: Responsibility, Courage, Discipline, Humility, and Patience. Each builds on the last. Each is connected to a specific demonstration in practice. This week: Responsibility, the foundation upon which every other leadership characteristic is built. Drawing on Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's Extreme Ownership framework, Charles Evans breaks down why taking ownership of the outcome is the first act of leadership and how it manifests in owning the mission, communicating the standard with clarity, and building the team with accountability for the consequences. #LeadOnPurpose

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