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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Real Cost of Disengaged Employees

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Bill Reed, CEO of Herman Science and a New York Times bestselling author with a background as a U.S. Navy diver and Harvard-trained neuroscientist. We break down why trust and stress are the two most overlooked metrics driving performance, engagement, and even cybersecurity risk. Bill explains how predictive behavior analytics can help companies identify high-risk employees before costly mistakes happen, and why understanding the individual brain profiles of team members is the future of leadership. We also cover why outdated leadership models are failing, how boredom is contributing to the engagement crisis, and why truly knowing who you’re managing changes everything.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook. I'm David Meltzer here with an incredible entrepreneur. Being of

0:05.9

service is my mission to empower over a billion people to be happy. And this CEO, Bill Reed,

0:11.6

at Herman Science is on the same mission, although he may be more qualified with the skills,

0:16.5

knowledge, and desire that he has as a former U.S. Navy diver. He's a bestselling author in New York

0:23.1

Times bestselling author. So stop buying the bullshit about Amazon. This is a real author, a real

0:29.0

entrepreneur. I'm blessed to have the incredible Bill Reed here on the playbook. Welcome, Bill.

0:34.7

Thanks, David. Great to be here. And thanks for inviting me.

0:37.3

Great to have you. And thank you, first of all, for your service, David. Great to be here and thanks for inviting me. Great to have you.

0:38.3

And thank you, first of all, for your service, which today I think more of us may be overlooking than we should as our freedom is at the forefront of attention worldwide.

0:51.4

But we're facing so many different challenges.

0:55.7

And you talk about critical issues on your podcast. US for Warriors Veterans Network. Is it us or US, I assume, for Warriors

1:06.1

podcast? We call it Us for Warriors, but some people say US, by the have. Good. I, you know, I like to get it

1:14.9

right. And luckily your name's so easy. I couldn't mess that one up. But there's a lot of different

1:20.8

issues that come up today. And utilizing the skills and knowledge that you learned specifically in the Navy are applicable in these areas.

1:32.2

And I was curious to you how much you've expanded what you've learned from being of service into not only being an incredible author,

1:41.0

but into the challenges that face our human resources, security, and even

1:47.2

sales teams today.

1:48.2

Yeah, absolutely.

1:49.2

What I think we're seeing across the board is that we have a great deal of stress.

1:58.3

And this comes from geopolitical situations.

2:00.4

It can come from worry and concern about whether or not

2:03.6

I'm going to have a job next week. But additionally, just a lot of things in life in general and much

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