What if the leadership lessons you’ve been taught are incomplete?
Because some of the most effective leadership strategies didn’t come from boardrooms or business schools. They came from people who broke the rules and still built power, loyalty, and influence at scale.
That’s why Divya invited Steve Williams, certified leadership consultant and author of Notorious, to challenge how we think about leadership in modern organizations.
Steve spent decades in global manufacturing leadership before studying figures like Genghis Khan, Catherine the Great, and even Al Capone, not to glorify them, but to extract the leadership principles that actually worked under pressure.
In this conversation, Steve explains why decisive action with imperfect information beats waiting for certainty, how freedom to fail creates ownership and momentum, and why challenging norms is often the difference between stagnation and transformation.
This episode is for leaders who feel boxed in by outdated rules and want practical strategies to move faster, think sharper, and lead with courage.
It’s not about copying history’s villains.
It’s about learning from what worked when the stakes were real and the margin for error was slim.
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