081 Building Cultures Where Smart Teams Actually Thrive with Christian Espinosa

28/02/2025 46 min Episodio 81

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What if your smartest employees are actually sabotaging your company's success?In this eye-opening episode, we sit down with Christian Espinosa, cybersecurity CEO, 24-time Ironman triathlete, and mountain climber who discovered that intelligence without emotional awareness creates toxic workplaces. Learn how Christian transformed his leadership approach after realizing that "99.9% of the problems in my company were because of emotional intelligence." Discover the counterintuitive truth about "brilliant jerks," why core values must be lived not just posted, and how to build a feedback culture where even top performers are held accountable. This conversation reveals the exact framework that helped Christian create a thriving remote-first company culture after painful early mistakes.Keywords: workplace culture, emotional intelligence, core values, leadership development, brilliant jerks, feedback culture, remote teams, team building, cybersecurity, Christian Espinosa

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