🎙️ The Leader’s Guide to Managing Risk: Why Accountability Without Empathy Will Destroy Your Culture. | K. Scott Griffith

What if the very thing destroying trust in your organization… is how you handle risk?

In a world obsessed with performance, perfection, and accountability, have we lost the courage to ask: What if it's not the people, but the system?

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In this episode of The Dov Baron Show, we sit down with K. Scott Griffith, a pilot, physicist, and the former safety lead at American Airlines, as well as the architect of High-Reliability Organizing, a breakthrough method that helped the FAA and NASA redefine safety and human performance.

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But this is not about airlines. It’s about the critical failure happening inside your company, your culture, and your leadership right now.

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Scott shares how traditional management systems often blame individuals for systemic failures, which in turn sabotages innovation, trust, and long-term performance.

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If you’re a leader navigating high stakes, complex systems, or emotionally charged environments… This conversation will permanently shift the way you think about failure, feedback, and the real definition of leadership.

In This Episode:

• Why your most significant leadership blind spot might be how you respond to failure

• The difference between a “Just Culture” and a “Blame Culture,” and why most companies get it fatally wrong

• The real reason why innovation dies in most organizations (hint: it’s not a lack of talent)

• How Griffith helped NASA, the FAA, and healthcare leaders apply High-Reliability Organizing to prevent disasters

• How your emotional response as a leader shapes psychological safety across your organization

• What American Airlines taught Scott about systems failure, human behavior, and the illusion of control

• Why most organizations weaponize accountability—and how to reverse the damage

• The invisible cost of fear-based leadership: disengagement, turnover, and hidden sabotage

• How to build a culture where people tell you the truth—especially when it’s inconvenient

• The courageous conversation every leader must have with their team

Power Quote:
“Accountability without empathy isn’t leadership. It’s control dressed up in a suit.” ~K. Scott Griffith

Guest Bio:
K. Scott Griffith is the founder of SG Collaborative Solutions and the pioneer of High-Reliability Organizing (HRO), a framework adopted by aviation, healthcare, nuclear energy, and other high-stakes industries. He’s advised the FAA, NASA, and Fortune 100 companies on risk management, system design, and building cultures of trust without blame. Author of: The Leader’s Guide to Managing Risk.

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The Fractal Truth of Leadership: Perry Marshall on 80/20, Chaos, and Reinvention

What if the one thing sabotaging your leadership... is your addiction to doing too much of what doesn't matter?

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You’ve heard of the 80/20 Rule. But what if I told you it’s not just a rule...
It’s a recursive law of nature that governs your time, your team… and your destiny.

In this explosive episode of The Dov Baron Show, I sit down with Perry Marshall, the Harvard Business Review-published strategist whose 80/20 model is now used by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs, backed by MIT scientists, and anchored in a $10 million Evolution 2.0 science prize announced at The Royal Society in London.

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He’s been called one of the most expensive business consultants in the world.
But what he teaches will cost you far more if you ignore it.

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Because this isn’t about productivity hacks.
It’s about the existential math of impact.

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It’s about how to shed identities you’ve outgrown, how to navigate resistance as a signpost, and how to use mathematical truth as a diagnostic lens for leadership.

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If you’re not just building a company, but forging a legacy!
This is your mirror. And your wake-up call.

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In This Episode:

• 🧠 How one recursive pattern holds the secret to scaling your business AND your inner transformation

• 🧬 Why 8020 isn’t a rule—it’s the fractal physics of reality itself

• 💥 The “infinite fractal” inside every 80/20—how one shift can collapse 100 tactics

• 🚪 Why your resistance is proof you’re walking the right path

• 🔥 The decision to legally change his name—and what it revealed about shedding identity

• 🧲 Why leaders stay trapped in their niche—and how to escape the illusion of safety

• 🧭 The 3 unshakable pillars of business mastery: 8020, The Star Principle, and Radical Simplification

• 🪞 What Perry learned from chaos theory, quantum recursion, and the Mandelbrot set

• ⚡ Why doing more keeps you average—and doing less makes you legendary

• 🧠 How to use 8020 as a diagnostic lens for influence, team design, and scale

🧠 POWER QUOTE From THE EPISODE:

“If I don’t want to go that way… that’s probably the way.” — Perry Marshall

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Guest Bio:
Perry Marshall is a globally respected business strategist, whose reimagining of the 80/20 Principle is used by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs and featured in Harvard Business Review. He’s consulted in 300+ industries, created the world’s largest science research prize ($10M Evolution 2.0), and authored several bestselling books on marketing, simplification, and business evolution. Forbes and Inc. Magazine hail him as one of the most expensive—and effective—consultants in the world.

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Who This Episode Is For:
This episode is for the serious leader. The one who knows that staying still is its own kind of death.
If you’ve ever wondered whether your next leap is a betrayal of your past…
Or if letting go of your niche is a risk you can’t afford—
This conversation will show you why it’s actually a risk you can’t not take.

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💬 Which part of Perry’s leadership lens changed how you see YOUR role? Leave a review and tag @DovBaron using #TheDovBaronShow.

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Because real leaders don’t just consume information…
They use it to rewrite the code of who they are.

“The Trait That Keeps You Stuck (And the Antidote You’ve Never Tried) | Dr. Philip Agrios

🔥 What if the very thing keeping you stuck, personally, professionally, and emotionally, is something you were born with?
And what if switching it off was as precise and predictable as flipping a light switch?

🧠 What You'll Discover in This Episode:

In Part 2 of this hard-hitting conversation, Dr. Philip Agrios, the disruptor of the self-help industry, returns to reveal:

• The three stress switch positions that sabotage you without your awareness

• Why “perfectionism” is actually a coping mechanism of your Inborn Trait

• The real reason therapy, journaling, or “positive habits” might not be working for you

• How to use the Antidote Trait to disarm conflict and navigate high-stakes business dynamics

• Why almost every high-achiever unknowingly loops through their own sabotage script—and how to break it instantly

👤 Who is Dr. Philip Agrios?

A former functional medicine and chiropractic doctor turned Self-Sabotage Specialist, Dr. Philip Agrios, created the T-NOW Method after a life-altering injury forced him to shut down his 15-year practice.

He discovered a universal Inborn Sabotaging Trait and its precise Antidote, redefining how leaders, entrepreneurs, and visionaries break free from repetitive failure patterns.
His work has transformed boardrooms, marriages, and internal monologues.

🔥 Timestamp:

00:03:22 — “Why we keep solving the wrong problem with the right tools”
00:17:45 — The ‘switch’ moment that breaks subconscious sabotage loops
00:23:11 — How Dr. Phil’s divorce revealed the one thing he couldn’t out-achieve
00:39:00 — Is your success coming at the cost of your inner peace?
00:48:06 — The one question you must ask before trusting your instincts
00:53:15 — Why being ‘a good leader’ is sometimes your biggest blind spot

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Dr Philip Agrios’s work: TheTNowMethod.com

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🔥 Book a private diagnostic session with Dov to uncover your Emotional Source Code and break your loop once and for all → DovBaron.com

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