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10 Nov 2016
174: Jessica Tracy - Pride: The Secret To Human Success
00:50:44
Episode 174: Jessica Tracy - Pride: The Secret To Human Success
Jessica Tracy is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where she also directs the Emotion and Self Lab. Her research focuses on emotions and emotion expression, and especially on the self-conscious emotions of pride and shame. She has published over 80 journal articles, book chapters, edited volumes, and reviews, and her groundbreaking work on pride has been covered by hundreds of media outlets, including ABC’s Good Morning America, NPR’s All Things Considered, the New York Times, the Economist, and Scientific American. Tracy was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and now lives in Vancouver with her daughter and her partner.
Her book is: Take Pride: Why the Deadliest Sin Holds the Secret to Human Success. It has received rave reviews by some of the brightest minds in the world
Episode 174: Jessica Tracy - Pride: The Secret To Human Success
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30 Apr 2017
202: Jenny Blake - Pivot - What Do You Do When Your Back Is Against The Wall?
00:53:22
Episode 202: Jenny Blake - Pivot - What Do You Do When Your Back Is Against The Wall?
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19 Oct 2015
064: Kevin Lavelle – CEO of Mizzen+Main: Intellectual Curiosity Leads To Growing 500%
00:41:40
Episode 064: Kevin Lavelle – CEO of Mizzen+Main: Intellectual Curiosity Leads To Growing 500%
Kevin Lavelle is an incredibly intelligent leader. He truly understands the importance of possessing three qualities as a leader: An overwhelming amount of optimism, an intellectual curiosity, and persistence. We are extremely fortunate to have Kevin share his knowledge with us, the loyal listeners of The Learning Leader Show.
Kevin Lavelle is an American entrepreneur and business executive. He is the founder of Mizzen+Main, a men's clothing brand where he serves as the company's CEO. Kevin was named to the 40 Under 40 list by Dallas Business Journal in 2013. He was also named to Men's Fitness list of Game Changers in 2014. Investors in the company, which makes its products in the United States, include Zappos founder Tony Hsieh's Vegas Tech Fund and Navy SEAL Marcus Lutrell. They have grown 500% year over year!
And most recently, he has partnered with NFL star JJ Watt on an endorsement deal that gives JJ an equity stake in the business.
Episode 064: Kevin Lavelle – CEO of Mizzen+Main: Intellectual Curiosity Leads To Growing 500%
Episode 001: How To Become A Master Connector With Jayson Gaignard From MasterMind Talks
Episode 034: Jimmy Hatch – Shot While Searching For Bowe Bergdahl And Sky Diving With Gabby Giffords
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
Did you enjoy the podcast?
This was a jam packed episode full of great content. Kevin is leader who is constantly learning in order to help us all live a better life. Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!
Kevin Lavelle is an American entrepreneur and business executive. He is the founder of Mizzen+Main, a men's clothing brand where he serves as the company's CEO. Kevin was named to the 40 Under 40 list by Dallas Business Journal in 2013. He was also named to Men's Fitness list of Game Changers in 2014. Investors in the company, which makes its products in the United States, include Zappos founder Tony Hsieh's Vegas Tech Fund and Navy SEAL Marcus Lutrell. And most recently, he has partnered with NFL star JJ Watt on an endorsement deal that gives JJ an equity stake in the business.
20 Jul 2015
038: John Ruhlin – Working The Gratitude Muscle | Strategic Appreciation And Gift Giving
00:48:46
Episode 038: John Ruhlin – Working The Gratitude Muscle | Strategic Appreciation And Gift Giving
This episode was absolutely packed full of action oriented takeaways to help us become better at exercising the gratitude muscle. In addition to this, John truly lives by what he says… He sent me handcrafted custom made knives with this engraving, “Hand crafted for the Ryan and Miranda Hawk Family.” He also added my Learning Leader Show logo on the knives. One of the most incredible gifts I’ve ever received!
John Ruhlin is the founder and CEO of Ruhlin Group, a firm that specializes in high-level gifting plans to build relationships and acquire new clients.
The company was originally founded as a way to market Cutco Cutlery as a high-end corporate gift to companies of all sizes. This partnership with Cutco has allowed the company to become the No. 1 distributor of Cutco in the company’s 60-year history and an active consultant to its executives and leadership.
John currently resides just outside of St. Louis with his wife, Lindsay, and two kids. He’s the co-author of the best-selling book “Cutting Edge Sales” and is a sought-after speaker on the topics of C-level selling, relationship development, and strategic gifting.
Episode 038: John Ruhlin – Working The Gratitude Muscle | Strategic Appreciation And Gift Giving
Episode 001: How To Become A Master Connector With Jayson Gaignard From MasterMind Talks
Episode 002: How To Take Over And Set Bigger Goals With Chris Brogan
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
Did you enjoy the podcast?
This was a jam packed episode full of great content. Ben Greenfield is leader who is constantly learning in order to help us all live a better life. Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!
John Ruhlin is the founder and CEO of Ruhlin Group, a firm that specializes in high-level gifting plans to build relationships and acquire new clients.
The company was originally founded as a way to market Cutco Cutlery as a high-end corporate gift to companies of all sizes. This partnership with Cutco has allowed the company to become the No. 1 distributor of Cutco in the company’s 60-year history and an active consultant to its executives and leadership.
John currently resides just outside of St. Louis with his wife, Lindsay, and two kids. He’s the co-author of the best-selling book “Cutting Edge Sales” and is a sought-after speaker on the topics of C-level selling, relationship development, and strategic gifting.
03 Apr 2016
112: Liz Wessel – Why You Should Cold E-Mail Your Heroes
00:39:11
Episode 112: Liz Wessel – Why You Should Cold E-Mail Your Heroes
Liz Wessel is a remarkably talented leader… I found her to be extremely interesting and dynamic during this conversation on The Learning Leader Show. I also admire her guts, will, and determination to create, grow, and sustain her company. We had a fascinating conversation on this episode of The Learning Leader Show.
Liz Wessel is the CEO of WayUp. WayUp is the largest online marketplace exclusively for college students and recent grads to find employment. Their mission is to connect students with awesome opportunities. Liz and WayUp have since raised $9.1 million in funding.
Liz is a University of Pennsylvania graduate who’s had the entrepreneurial bug since birth. Initially after graduation she took on a leadership role at Google and famously told them on her first day, “Consider this my 2 years notice.” Liz stayed true to her word and exactly two years after starting at Google, she left to launch her own business.
Episode 112: Liz Wessel – Why You Should Cold E-Mail Your Heroes
Liz Wessel is the CEO of WayUp. WayUp is the largest online marketplace exclusively for college students and recent grads to find employment. Their mission is to connect students with awesome opportunities. Liz and WayUp have since raised $9.1 million in funding.
Liz is a University of Pennsylvania graduate who’s had the entrepreneurial bug since birth. Initially after graduation she took on a leadership role at Google and famously told them on her first day, “Consider this my 2 years notice.” Liz stayed true to her word and exactly two years after starting at Google, she left to launch her own business
28 Dec 2020
399: Josh Kaufman - How To Master The Art Of Business
Obsessive about learning the details, not a cookie cutter approach
Rapid Skill Acquisition:
Must be specific
Break it down: don't try to do it all at once
Do research
Practice
Deconstruct the skill to its smallest parts
Make a pre-commitment - "I'm going to practice this skill for 20 hours no matter what."
Create fast feedback loops for yourself:
Keep a daily log of what you do... Meetings, interactions, what was discussed, how you feel, etc.
This helps reinforce the importance of paying attention to the small details of what you're trying to learn
If something happens, you can review your notes later
Josh has always had "a desire to understand the world around me"
Teaching is one of the greatest tools in the world for learning
"Management is the act of coordinating a group of people to achieve a goal. Management is not business. Management is not leadership. Management is a supporting function, not a decision making function."
"Leadership = define the goal, account for change."
"Good management =
Recruiting - must get good people
Communicating well between teams and decision making parts of the business
Must create environment of psychological safety
Create a productive working environment
Planning - Estimating time lines and schedules
Measurement
Commander's Intent - "When you are a leader, decision making authority, the least effective thing is for you to make all the ground level decisions." Push decision making power to the people closest to the action.
More quotes from Josh's work:
“You can't make positive discoveries that make your life better if you never try anything new.”
“Every successful business (1) creates or provides something of value that (2) other people want or need (3) at a price they're willing to pay, in a way that (4) satisfies the purchaser's needs and expectations and (5) provides the business sufficient revenue to make it worthwhile for the owners to continue operation.
“If you rely on finding time to do something, it will never be done. If you want to find time, you must make time.”
“The best thing that can happen to a human being is to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.”
“Every time your customers purchase from you, they’re deciding that they value what you have to offer more than they value anything else their money could buy at that moment.”
“The trouble comes when we confuse learning with skill acquisition. If you want to acquire a new skill, you must practice it in context. Learning enhances practice, but it doesn’t replace it. If performance matters, learning alone is never enough.”
"Be positive, force yourself to smile."
“Improve by 1% a day, and in just 70 days, you’re twice as good.”
“Ideas are cheap—what counts is the ability to translate an idea into reality, which is much more difficult than recognizing a good idea.”
“Fear of the unknown will always be with you, no matter what you do. That’s comforting in a way: if there’s nothing you can do to change it, there’s no reason to let it stop you.”
13 Mar 2016
106: Michelle Gielan – How To Broadcast Happiness
00:40:48
Episode 106: Michelle Gielan – How To Broadcast Happiness
Michelle Gielan is a remarkable leader… I love the way she approaches her work. Studying happiness and the mindset in which she approaches life inspires me! Her newest book, “Broadcasting Happiness” takes an incredible look at some really interesting topics on happiness including: Priming your brain for high performance, how to spark positive thinking, and How to deal with negative people. We had a fascinating conversation on this episode of The Learning Leader Show.
Michelle Gielan, national CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher, is the bestselling author of Broadcasting Happiness.
Michelle is the Founder of the Institute for Applied Positive Research and is partnered with Arianna Huffington to study how transformative stories fuel success. She is an Executive Producer of “The Happiness Advantage” Special on PBS and a featured professor in Oprah’s Happiness course.
Michelle holds a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and her research and advice have received attention from The New York Times, Washington Post, FORBES, CNN, FOX, and Harvard Business Review.
Episode 106: Michelle Gielan – How To Broadcast Happiness
Michelle Gielan, national CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher, is the bestselling author of Broadcasting Happiness.
Michelle is the Founder of the Institute for Applied Positive Research and is partnered with Arianna Huffington to study how transformative stories fuel success. She is an Executive Producer of “The Happiness Advantage” Special on PBS and a featured professor in Oprah’s Happiness course.
Michelle holds a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and her research and advice have received attention from The New York Times, Washington Post, FORBES, CNN, FOX, and Harvard Business Review.
28 Sep 2015
058: Michael Port – Steal The Show: From Actor To World Class Speaker
00:45:54
Episode 058: Michael Port – Steal The Show: From Actor To World Class Speaker
This episode was absolutely packed full of action oriented takeaways to help us better understand how to give the performance of our lives during our next presentation, job interview, or deal closing pitch. Michael Port has an incredible story. He has worked incredibly hard to build both his business and his personal brand. There is so much to learn from him. I’m incredibly grateful that he invested his time with us here at The Learning Leader Show.
Michael Port is an author, speaker, and small business marketing consultant.
Port is the author of Book Yourself Solid, Beyond Booked Solid, The Contrarian Effect and the New York Times Bestseller, The Think Big Manifesto. His newest book, “Steal The Show,” details how you can receive a guaranteed standing ovation for all of the performances in your life from Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, and more.
A graduate of New York University, Michael went on to achieve success in television acting roles, including stints in Third Watch, Law and Order, and Sex and The City.
Michael is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine and is the founder of the Book Yourself Solid School of Coach Training.
Episode 058: Michael Port – Steal The Show: From Actor To World Class Speaker
Episode 001: How To Become A Master Connector With Jayson Gaignard From MasterMind Talks
Episode 002: How To Take Over And Set Bigger Goals With Chris Brogan
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
Did you enjoy the podcast?
This was a jam packed episode full of great content. Michael Port is a leader who is constantly learning in order to help us all live a better life. Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!
I’ve been called an “uncommonly honest author” by the Boston Globe and a “marketing guru” by The Wall Street Journal, which I think is cool because I may be the only former professional actor to also be a New York Times bestselling business author.
I’ve written five books including Book Yourself Solid, Beyond Booked Solid, Book Yourself Solid Illustrated, The Contrarian Effect and The New York Times Bestseller, The Think Big Manifesto.
I’ve been on virtually every television network, and these days can be found keynoting conferences around the world on how to get booked solid or performing my one-man show, The Think Big Revolution.
I don’t want to go on and on about myself, but if you pick me, I promise you won’t be getting a vanilla sugar cookie. You’ll get an honest, hardworking, slightly irreverent, sometimes funny, provocative performer who hits his mark every time and has only fallen off the stage and into the orchestra pit once.
10 Sep 2017
222: Jon Acuff - How To Finish (Give Yourself The Gift Of Done)
00:43:16
Jon Acuff is back for a second time on The Learning Leader Show!
JON ACUFF is the author of five books, including the New York Times Bestseller Do Over. For nineteen years he’s helped companies like the Home Depot, Bose, Staples, and AutoTrader.com tell their stories. He’s a well-known public speaker, and his blogs have been read by millions of fans. His most recent book is: Finish - Give Yourself The Gift of Done.
If you'd like to listen to the first conversation Jon and I had on January 27, 2016, CLICK HERE.
Want to write a book? "What question are you willing to spend two years answering?"
Show Notes:
Why Jon dedicated this new book to his parents and their belief in him as a writer
His Dad was a pastor, a communicator. Have to learn how to shape ideas and be a speaker
What took so long for Jon to believe he was a writer?
"I'm a writer. When you do it enough, it becomes possible. I've written six books."
Why this book?
"People say, I like your book Start, but I never finish, how do I finish?"
Like Jim Collins, Jon says, "What is a question I'm willing to spend two years answering?"
91% of Americans want to write a book and less than 1% of them do it
"I want thisthing to be part of my life... This has multiple applications."
James Clear says it's the friction at the start... Lacing up the shoes and beginning the run.
Jon reply "Is it harder to buy a treadmill or use the treadmill?"
This is built on research. 900 participants. It is a data driven book
How to mix in humor... Why to study stand up comedians?
"I've watched 100 stand up comedians for every 1 business leader"
"If you want to enjoy the internet more, you must know it's not about you. It never is." -- People are thinking about themselves (Tracy McGrady & JR Smith)
Goal Setting:
Cut them in half, make the goals smaller
Test principles -- Look to be 5%-10% better
"Before I set a goal, I make sure it is the right size"
How this relates to setting sales goals/quotas in a big company
Need a culture of honesty and realistic goals in order to thrive, grow, and survive
"A goal is a promise to yourself"
"Make it fun if you want it done"
Satisfaction goes up
Performance goes up
How to get something done?
Reward
Fear
Which one do you better respond to? You need to know. How about the people that work for you? You need to know
How Jon will read 156 books this year
What is the story you want to tell your kids?
Are you proud of what you do everyday?
"The old rules don't apply anymore... The faucet of freelance money can turn on."
Why do some have "the fear of success?"
Fear of money
Fear of high expectations
Self sabotage
Fear of "what's next?"
11 Nov 2024
608: Anthony Pompliano - (How To Live an Extraordinary Life) Luck Is Not Real, Surround Yourself With Compounders, Fire Your Boring Friends, Get On The Plane, Practice Simplicity, & Taking Big Risks608: Anthony Pompliano - (How To Live an Extraordinary Li
Luck is not real– “Luck is something we conjure in our minds to grapple with the consequences of whatever life may throw our way. Luck is a physiological concept. It’s determined by how we view a situation. Academic studies show that you can become luckier simply by telling yourself that you are lucky.” Pessimists sound smart, but optimists change the world. Believe in yourself. Have agency. Strive to make something happen.
"Luck is the flip side of risk. They are mirrored cousins, driven by the same thing: You are one person in a 7 billion player game, and the accidental impact of other people’s actions can be more consequential than your own." - Morgan Housel
Surround yourselfwithcompounders and fire your boring friends– Being around other ambitious people who are willing to push you will make you better. Strike the balance between being loyal to longtime friends, and doing anything for them, but spending the bulk of your time around people who will push your edges and make you think bigger.
Fire your Boring Friends - “If you are optimizing for living an extraordinary” life, you have to fire all the boring friends and find people living extraordinary lives.”
You don’t get what you don’t ask for. I love the story of Anthony meeting his future wife, Polina, for coffee and asking for the next date for that same night. The answer is NO if you don’t ask. It’s worth the potential rejection because the upside is so great. In this case, they got married and have two children. The people who sustain excellence are not afraid to make the ask.
Get on the plane-- When in doubt, go see them in person.
"Experience is a liability when it comes to setting expectations." Sometimes, ignorance is bliss. Not knowing that something is supposed to be hard can be useful.
Respect other people's time - “When I was playing football in college one of our coaches used to say, “5 minutes early is on time and on time is late.” By respecting other people's time they will realize you are a serious person.
Childhood is not a crutch— Don't have a victim mindset to use childhood as a crutch for poor behavior. “It’s easy to use your childhood as a crutch instead of seeing it as a chisel.” - Cameron Hanes
Simplicity signals mastery— Tim Urban is the master at this. As a writer and/or teacher, your writing should make the reader feel smarter, not dumber. Using big complicated words and sentences shows that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
The world seems to separate itself into two groups - the people who never stop learning and everyone else.
Document Good Ideas– Ideas run the world. “I created a system that works well for me. I broke everything down into four areas where I could find a good idea. Books, social media, conversations, and audio/video content.
Advice: "Seek risk. What is the riskiest thing you can do? The greatest returns are on the other side of risk. Run towards the risk."
18 Mar 2018
249: Colin Nanka - Success Starts With A Choice: Salesforce.com Leader, Adventure Racer
00:58:55
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk. Episode 248: Colin Nanka Colin Nanka is the Senior Director, Enablement for North American Sales and Leadership Development at the world’s leading Customer Relationship Management Company, Salesforce.com. He is a proven sales leader with over 20 years of sales experience including time at Salesforce and Xerox Corporation. In his spare time, he competes in multi-day, self sustained, adventure races in the world’s most treacherous terrains, including the Sahara Desert, Gobi Desert, Iceland, Grand Canyon, Atacama Desert and, most recently, in Antarctica.
The Learning Leader Show
"Success starts with a choice. Find someone above you, below you, and at your level. That's mentor-ship."
Show Notes:
Commonalities of leaders who sustain excellence?
Understanding of their strengths - self awareness
"Do what you say you will do" "DWYSYWDO" - integrity
The combination of vision --> execution
How have you sustained excellence?
Know how to prioritize
Tiered accounts
Invested 4-6 hours on Saturday and Sunday while others were not working
"Going in on the weekend" - The sheer amount of hard work AND extra work differentiated from the rest
Going door to door in Canada - "It takes 20 knocks to get 1 opportunity"
"Good pipeline solves all ills"
"Flood the market with good will"
Marc Benioff's management process, V2MOM, an acronym that stands for vision, values, methods, obstacles, and measures
Why do crazy races all over the world?
"I hit a crisis. I was very successful and then had a couple bad years. It hurt my confidence."
"I realize there is more to life than just working. The elements of nature... A give back -- be of service to others."
The 2011 Sahara Desert race - Trained for a full year. 6 days a week, 160 miles/week.
"Success starts with a choice. Find who's the best, learn from them."
Mentor-ship = "Above you, below you, and at your level." Have all three.
The practice of "playing up." Play against someone who is better than you in order to stretch and grow.
Constantly put yourself in positions to be stretched
Using Gallup to find your strengths -- "A very wise investment"
Colin's #1 strength - Learning. Curiosity
The compound effect of learning, growing, approaching each conversation with a curious mind
What have you learned from the adventure races?
Dealing with failure. How to learn from others. "We all get better from sharing ideas."
Biggest mistake new managers make?
"They are constantly surprised about the "people" side"
How to have tough conversations
They try to do it all -- You need to be a multiplier -- Trust, Coach, Empower
"If you don't lengthen the leash, you aren't allowing them to grow"
First 30 days - "Focus on winning hearts and minds"
Do a full day off site meeting with no focus on the business. Get to know them.
572: Mike Beckham (CEO of Simple Modern) - Taking Initiative, Giving Generously, Living Your Values, The Best & Worst Parts of Being a CEO, & Being In Pursuit of Priceless Things
Think BIG... But choose what to be ambitious about. Get clear on that first.
Simple Modern is a $225m bootstrapped business... Mike owns the majority of the company.
Mission: "We exist to give generously." Simple Modern is an employee-owned Oklahoma based company whose mission statement is we exist to give generously. Our desire is to make 5-star products offering remarkable value so we can give to worthy organizations making the world a better place.
Use the "75-year-old self principle:" - What would your 75-year-old self regret if you didn't do? (credit: Jeff Bezos)
Leadership stages:
Player
Player/Coach
Coach
General Manager
"I love the name of your podcast. You have to keep learning."
What are the best and worst parts of being a CEO?
Best: Building culture, being part of a community, having lunch every day with your team. It creates huge leverage to do great work.
Worst: Stress, isolation. Understanding your identity? Is it too tied up in an unhealthy place?
Mike's purpose:
Teaching
Giving
Leading and creating value
Parenting
Positively alter the lives of others (as many as possible)
"Great leaders create more leaders. We measure it wrong. It should be about creating more leaders."
The professor, Rufus Fears, started the lecture. The first thing out of his mouth was, "If you are here trying to get a pink slip, I can tell you that the class is full, and there will be no pink slips given." Mike did not let that stop him. He stayed after class, talked with Professor Fears, went to his office, and talked with him. And earned entry to his class (and a few others of his later). It’s a great lesson that we need to be proactive and take initiative. We need to go after what we want.
Is your identity coming from a healthy place? Is it coming from accomplishments, titles, or materialistic things? Money? Or have you found your identity in something bigger than yourself? A well-defined purpose almost always stems from helping other people.
Why you should write: There are multiple levels of understanding. They are: You know nothing, then you have an intuitive understanding of something but you can’t explain it to someone else, then you actually behave in a deliberate way and can explain it. That goes to a point where you can understand a situation in real-time. And finally, you get to the point where you can teach it to someone else. A writing practice can help clarify your thinking and help you better understand something so well that you can teach it to others. Let’s develop a writing practice.
Writing scales. Hosting a podcast scales. They also increase your surface area for luck and serendipity.
Why Mike has no desire to sell Simple Modern:The whole point of having money is that we can trade it for things that are better than money.
"You can't convert money to friendships. You can't buy things that give you meaning & purpose. Life is in pursuit of priceless things."
Mike's favorite marketing pitch ever (Jon Hamm in Mad Men): Kodak asks for a branding campaign around a new product. It is a circular device that allows you to flip through pictures. Kodak hopes to highlight the technology and call the product "the wheel." Then, they get a master class on branding from Jon Hamm in Mad Men…
Before we can lead others well, we have to be internally healthy.Leadership is an inside-out exercise.
What do you value?It is easy to determine what someone truly cares about:
What do they do with their free time?
Where do they spend their extra money?
"I frequently spend time comparing what I say I value to what my behavior shows because the worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves."
13 Feb 2017
190: Roger Martin - Playing To Win: Strategy Is A Choice
00:30:16
Episode 190: Roger Martin - Playing To Win: Strategy Is A Choice
"Strategy is about making specific choices to win in the marketplace. It requires making explicit choices to do some things and not others."
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Common themes of leaders who sustain excellence:
Relentlessly look at the future
They have a curious mindset... Always asking questions
They ask: "Is what we're doing sustainable?"
Why A.G. Lafley was such a great strategic leader
You should always ask the question, "How can I put myself out of business? And think to innovate based on that answer
Marrying innovation and strategic thinking: the dangers of doing this
What era does all of our data come from? The past... Think carefully about that
You cannot always "prove" innovation. You can't always base the future on the past.
Aristotle -- Brought us analysis... How to prove/demonstrate something is true
You can't ever analyze how to change the world... Steve Jobs would say "Imagine the possibilities."
"Strategy is a choice. Where to play and how to win."
Roger explains how to test if you have a real strategy
Best advice he's received and given:
1) "Don't start on the easy stuff. Do the hard tasks first. If you work on the hardest problems, you'll find that the easier ones seem to disappear
2) Less is more. Figure out one thing you do really well and focus on it.
3) "Don't intellectualize people." "Don't try to fool them, treat them as people... As you would want to be treated."
Highly successful people make a list of the Top 10 things to do that day and tackle the toughest problems first
Managing what matters most -- Must have a strategy to know what's most important
Peter Drucker's work -- The Effective Executive
"Too often CEO's will allow what's urgent to crowd out what's really important. It's wrong to define strategy as following best practices. This creates sameness and sameness is not a strategy. It's a recipe for mediocrity."
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10 Mar 2019
301: James Kerr - How To Create An Ethos Of Excellence (Legacy)
Humility - An ego-less approach. "Serve to lead" mentality
Curiosity - Following passion
Value Excellence - Focus on doing the small things right
These are transferable principles to any organziation
The "All Blacks" rugby team "are our Gods in New Zealand."
They've won just under 80% of their games in history
Scored twice as many points as their competitors
The most successful sports team of all time
Sustained high performance
Mana = The God within. The spirit... The ethos that creates excellence decade after decade
Surprises? "The softness in this hard game. A love, a brotherhood, connection, meaning, caring for one another."
How have they sustained excellence?
Tradition
Starts at the top with the leaders
Breaking down old orthodox
Like the British SAS - "Rank but no class"
Leadership group -- It's not just one coach. Everyone's ideas are valued.
It's a player led team - "Positive power of peer pressure." That feeling of not wanting to let one of your teammates down
"You fight more for the person in the foxhole next to you."
The Spartan sword and shield. You can lose you sword, but you can never lose your shield. That helps protect your brother.
Accountability - There is leadership at every level
It empowers the individual in a project bigger than themselves
How does this work in business?
Helps them step up, take ownership, be responsible
"A leader is responsible for the result. Good or bad."
23 Jul 2023
537: Aron Ralston - The Incredible Story Of The Hiker Who Cut Off His Own Arm After Being Trapped Under A Boulder For 5 Days (127 Hours)
00:59:43
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Aron Ralston is amountaineer,mechanical engineer, and best-selling author known for surviving acanyoneeringaccident by cutting off part of his own right arm.On April 26, 2003, during a solo descent ofBluejohn Canyonin southeasternUtah, he dislodged a boulder, pinning his right wrist to the side of the canyon wall. After five days, he had to break his forearm, amputate it with a dull pocket knife to break free, make his way through the rest of the canyon, rappel down a 65-foot drop, and hike 7 miles to safety.The incident is documented in Aron’s autobiography Between a Rock and a Hard Place and is the subject of the 2010 film 127 Hours in which he is portrayed by James Franco.After the accident, Aron continued mountaineering and became the first person to ascend all of Colorado's fourteeners solo in winter.
"Turn boulders into blessings."
During this conversation, Aron takes us through the 127 hours from when his right arm was pinned under a boulder until he was resting safely in a hospital bed. Along the way, he shares key learnings that all of us can take from his experience.
InApril 2003, Aron was canyoneering alone throughBluejohn Canyon, inUtah, just south of theHorseshoe Canyonunit ofCanyonlands National Park. While he was descending the lower stretches of theslot canyon, a suspended boulder dislodged while he was climbing down from it. The boulder first smashed his left hand and then crushed his right hand against the canyon wall. Aron had not informed anyone of his hiking plans, nor did he have any way to call for help.
Assuming that he would die without intervention, he spent five days slowly sipping his small amount of remaining water, approximately 350 ml (12 imp fl oz), and slowly eating his small amount of food, twoburritos, while repeatedly trying to extricate his arm. His efforts were futile as he was unable to free his arm from the 800 lb (360 kg) chockstone. After three days of trying to lift and break the boulder, thedehydratedanddeliriousRalston prepared toamputatehis trapped arm at a point on the mid-forearmin order to escape. After having experimented withtourniquetsand having made exploratory superficial cuts to his forearm, he realized, on the fourth day, that in order to free his arm he would have to cut through the bones in it, but the tools available were insufficient to do so.
After running out of food and water on the fifth day, Aron decided todrink his own urine. He carved his name, date of birth, and presumed date of death into thesandstonecanyon wall, and videotaped his last goodbyes to his family. He did not expect to survive the night, but as he attempted to stay warm he beganhallucinatingand had a vision of himself playing with a future child while missing part of his right arm. Aron credited this as giving him the belief that he would live.
After waking at dawn the following day he discovered that his arm had begun todecomposedue to the lack of circulation, and became desperate to tear it off. Aronthen had anepiphanythat he could break hisradiusandulnabones usingtorqueagainst his trapped arm. He did so, then amputated his forearm with hismulti-tool, using the dull 2-inch knife and pliers for the tougher tendons. The painful process took an hour, during which time he used tubing from a CamelBak as a tourniquet, taking care to leave major arteries until last. The manufacturer of the multi-tool was never named, but Aron said "It was not aLeathermanbut what you'd get if you bought a $15 flashlight and got a freemulti-use tool."
After freeing himself, Ralston climbed out of the slot canyon in which he had been trapped,rappelleddown a 65-foot sheer wall, then hiked out of the canyon. He was 8 miles from his car and had no phone. However, after 6 miles of hiking, he encountered a family on vacation from theNetherlands; Eric and Monique Meijer and their son Andy, who gave him food and water and hurried to alert the authorities. Aron had feared he would bleed to death; he had lost 40 pounds, including 25% of his blood volume. Rescuers searching for Ralston, alerted by his family that he was missing, had narrowed the search down to Canyonlands and he was picked up by a helicopter in a wide area of the canyon. He was rescued approximately four hours after amputating his arm.
The STOP acronym: Stop (pause), Think (brainstorm), Observation, Plan
Stop
Think
Observe
Plan
"Commitment is the first step."
At one point when Aron's arm was stuck under the giant rock, he filmed his "goodbyes" to each family member.
"Who would you say your goodbyes to and what would you say?" Aron realized that life is all about loving relationships.
"You can't hold despair and gratitude at the same time."
127 Hours - There is no force so powerful as the will to live.
Aron's version: "There's no force so powerful as the will to love."
"Welcome adversity. It helps you grow."
"Find gratitude for the worst thing that's ever happened to you."
“Passion. That which I suffer, allow, endure, is done to me.”
26 Jun 2022
478: Susan Cain - Using Pain To Be More Creative, Finding The Right Life Partner, & A New Way To Think About Death
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Susan Cain is the #1 bestselling author of Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole and Quiet: The Power of Introvertsin a World That Can’t Stop Talking, which spent eight years on The New York Times best-seller list, and has been translated into 40 languages. Susan’s TED talks have been viewed over 40 million times. LinkedIn named her the Top 6th Influencer in the World, just behind Richard Branson and Melinda French Gates. Susan partners with Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, and Dan Pink to curate the Next Big Idea Book Club.
Notes:
"Compassion means to suffer together."
How to use sadness? "Make the pain your creative offering."
To suffer with other beings brings people together.
When people are grieving the loss of a loved one, they often want to talk about that person.
Aristotlewondered why the great poets, philosophers, artists, and politicians often have melancholic personalities… his question was based on the ancient belief that the human body contains 4 humors: each corresponding to a different temperament - melancholic (sad), sanguine (happy), choleric (aggressive), and phlegmatic (calm).
Joseph Campbell said, “We should strive to participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.”
Connecting with what matters and taking committed action—moves us from bitter to sweet, from loss to love.” Everyone experiences loss. It is part of the human condition. How have you moved “from bitter to sweet, from loss to love”? Are there coping strategies you recommend?
The bittersweet quiz — 1-10. If you scored between 5.8 and 10, you’re a true connoisseur of bittersweetness: the place where light and dark meet.
Questions:Do you tear up easily at touching TV commercials? Are you especially moved by old photographs? Do you react intensely to music, art, or nature? Have others described you as an old soul? Do you find comfort or inspiration on a rainy day? Are you moved to goosebumps several times a day? Do you feel elevated by sad music? Do you tend to see the happiness and sadness in things, all at once? Do you seek out beauty in your everyday life?" (I scored a 7.1)
“The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.”
“The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.”
“There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”
“If we could honor sadness a little more, maybe we could see it—rather than enforced smiles and righteous outrage—as the bridge we need to connect with each other. We could remember that no matter how distasteful we might find someone’s opinions, no matter how radiant, or fierce, someone may appear, they have suffered, or they will.”
“The secret that our poets and philosophers have been trying to tell us for centuries, is that our longing is the great gateway to belonging.”
“The tragedy of life is linked inescapably with its splendor; you could tear civilization down and rebuild it from scratch, and the same dualities would rise again. Yet to fully inhabit these dualities—the dark as well as the light—is, paradoxically, the only way to transcend them. And transcending them is the ultimate point. The bittersweet is about the desire for communion, the wish to go home.”
“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.”
Life and Career advice:
You have to find a way to do it. Life can sweep you up quickly.
Establish a backup plan. It frees you up to be more creative.
Develop rituals for writing... Purely with pleasure.
11 Jan 2021
401: David Rubenstein - Launching a Business, Living With Purpose, & Loving Your Life
David M. Rubenstein is a Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Mr. Rubenstein co-founded the firm in 1987. Since then, Carlyle has grown into a firm managing $217 billion from 32 offices around the world.
Notes:
David is most interested in continuing to learn... He reads six newspapers per day and 100 books per year.
Your commencement is the beginning, not the end. "Keep your brain active, it's a muscle. It will atrophy without use."
David would give all of his money away to be one year younger...
Keys to happiness:
Thomas Jefferson said we all have the right to be in pursuit of happiness
"It's the most elusive thing in life."
Happiness is all about building meaningful relationships
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis -- "JFK showed tremendous leadership to avert disaster. He strategically ignored Khrushchev's second letter and responded to the first one when making a deal to avoid nuclear war. David was in 9th grade at the time and that moment of leadership impacted him in a big way.
He worked in the White House for Jimmy Carter. "When I worked in the White House, everyone thought I was the smartest person in the world. When we lost and I didn't have a job anymore, nobody called, and nobody offered me a job."
Why leave his job as part of a big law firm?
"If you don't love what you do you can't be great at it."
Launching The Carlyle Group:
Raised $5m
Hired incredibly competent people
New idea: "I wanted to create a private equity one stop shop."
How did he hire well?
"I went after the best people I knew and sold them on why they should join me." What was said?
Convince them they will have responsibility
They will learn a lot
They will make more money
It will be enjoyable
What does David ask in interviews with candidates to hire?
"I want to learn mostly about what motivates them."
Must have qualities to work at The Carlyle Group:
Intelligent
Hard working
Get along well with others
Share credit
Effective communicator (both written and the spoken word)
Help others
Honest/High Integrity
Why start The Carlyle Group?
"I wanted to prove that my idea could work."
What created the success of the company?
"It was the luck of meeting great people... Like Bill Conway."
"Prior preparation prevents poor performance."
What are the keys to being a great interviewer?
Good listener
Enjoy it
Sublimate your ego - It's about the guest, not the interviewer proving how smart they are
Why does David like to interview so many people?
"My mother said it's because I'm a 'yenta.' I want to know everything."
Why own so many of our countries historical documents? (Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence)
"I want to remind people of our history."
He's one of the first 40 members of the giving pledge and plans to give ALL of his money away to charity.
Advice to a young college graduate:
Experiment, find things you enjoy
Share credit
Read a lot... Learn to speak in public
Become a skilled writer
Retain humility
What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.'
"Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up."
08 Feb 2021
405: Ryan Deiss - How To Create Awareness, Tell Better Stories, & Build Your Brand
Ryan Deiss is a best selling author, founder of multiple companies collectively employing hundreds around the globe. He is the founder and CEO of DigitalMarketer.com and Founder and Managing Partner of RivalBrands.com and plattr.com. Ryan is the creator of the “Customer Value Optimization” methodology and have introduced and popularized many of the digital selling strategies. He is also the founder and host of the Traffic & Conversion Summit, the largest digital marketing conversion conference in North America.
Notes:
Commonalities of excellence:
They understand why they've made mistakes - they learn why they've failed.
They are purposeful about their decision making
Appetite for risk:
"I have a very low appetite for risk."
"I value security."
Must have qualities in a leader to hire on his team?
"I want them to not be like me." Need to have skills that compliment his...
Early on he hired people just like him. It was a mistake.
Consistency - Must show up.
A big heart - People who care about others and their work.
Why writing is so important as a leader:
Like academics being peer reviewed. "It forces you to crystalize your own ideas."
"You need to say something new that hasn't been said before. And be willing to be criticized."
Eugene Schwartz
Breakthrough Advertising = one of the best books ever written on marketing
The Awareness Levels:
Completely Unaware - They don't know they have a problem worth solving
Problem Aware - They sense they have a problem, but don't know there's a solution
Solution Aware - Know the results they want, but don't know your product provides it
Product Aware - Know what you sell, but aren't sure it's right for them
Most Aware - Repeat buyers and loyal customers who refer you to their friends
How to make your leadership training better?
Acknowledge their problem is real. Make them feel heard...
Sell the soft. Speak into someone's reality.
Acknowledge the pain, offer a solution... "Outsourced Leadership Development"
"Your service is a vehicle to a more desired result."
Be the "transportation to transformation."
Scaling beyond a personality driven business:
Get off the field, get in the owner's box. Productize yourself.
Build an asset.
Create ideas that travel - Have your version of 10 commandments on one single piece of paper
Ryan has his "customer value journey" - The Customer Value Journey is about turning strangers into super-fans.
Redirect it into the artifact
Say "We" instead of "I"
Give it a name - The genius is in the artifact
The Goal is a book on manufacturing about assembly lines. They identified weakest link and fixed it.
The value of creating of having a big event like Traffic & Conversion Summit:
Create the place for others to go - It helps with branding, earning media, and the gathering spot for great people. It draws others to it.
You become the connector. The host of the party.
Story is the leverage of persuasion:
Don't talk about yourself
Help others change the story they tell about themselves
Marketing shouldn't stop at the order - Marketing should own the entirety of the customer journey.
Career wise - Get as close to the revenue as possible.
Advice: Study old, rich, happy people.
02 Mar 2020
354: WELCOME TO MANAGEMENT Book Launch Party With Doug Meyer
Episode #354: WELCOME TO MANAGEMENT Book Launch Party With Doug Meyer
This is the recording from the conversation I had with Co-Founder/President of Brixey & Meyer, Doug Meyer, in front of many of our friends, clients, and colleagues at the Dayton office of Brixey & Meyer.
In WELCOME TO MANAGEMENT, I provide practical, actionable advice to help new managers build and lead committed teams in the face of daunting, unanticipated challenges. He presents a three-part framework outlining best practices distilled from interviews with more than 350 of the most forward-thinking leaders in the world, as well as his own professional experience transitioning from individual producer to new leader.
Through compelling stories and data-backed case studies, the book helps high performers make the leap from individual contributor to manager with greater ease, grace, courage, and effectiveness.
Notes:
The book writing process: How long did it take to write? What was the proposal writing process like? What led you to sell the book rights to McGraw-Hill?
Curiosity? Always natural or a learned skill? -- For me, this was something I learned to do... As I learned more, I realized there was so much more to learn.
The Cycle of Learning -- Operating Framework
Consume/Learn - The intake engine (read, listen to podcasts, speak with mentors)
Test - Experiment with what's been learned (You can't just be a learner, you have to be a doer) - "We learn who we are in practice, not in theory."
Reflect - Analyze results, make adjustments
Teach - Reinforce learning through sharing with others
Mentors vs. coaches. Interesting comparison and need throughout life. We discussed the difference and importance of each...
“Build the skills to do the job, not to get the job.” -- The act of putting your high potential employees in position to actually do the job, not just prepare for an interview.
Developing self-awareness -- It's important to regularly hold a mirror up to ourselves and surround self with people who will be brutally honest and caring of you and your development.
The greatest medicine for fear and how to put it into practice
Why you need an “Operating Framework” and how to create one
The 3 key elements to creating a performance culture
The opportunity that many managers miss after they achieve success
The seven keys to earning respect
The quickest way to build trust is through vulnerability
Managing a team you inherit -- The instant you sign for the job, those are YOUR players. Don't use terms like 'they' or 'them.' It is US and WE.
The difference between leadership, management, coaching
Leadership:
The act of leading is about providing purpose, direction, aligning expectations, and inspiring the team.
Management:
Figuring out how to work within the current constraints of the system you are in... It is the administration and stewardship of resources.
Coaching:
The two types of coaching:
Coaching for performance - The 'right now' actions... Behaviors.
Coaching for development - Longer term
Dustyn Kim is a fantastic model for humility, vulnerability, and intelligence -- That's what she's the type of leader that I committed to doing everything I could to help her be successful.
Nobody is 'self-made.' We are are built from communities of people who care about us, help us, and show love and support.
11 Apr 2015
002: Chris Brogan: How To Take Over And Set Bigger Goals
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Episode 002: Chris Brogan: How To Take Over And Set Bigger Goals
After we finished recording this interview, Chris said to me, “You’re a good egg Ryan Hawk. Thank you for having me on.” I’m not sure why, but I really enjoyed getting a thoughtful, real compliment from someone like Chris. Chris has a podcast guest standard that he will only record for 20 minutes (it makes sense based on his schedule and the amount of requests he gets). When I shut it down after 21 minutes, he asked to keep going… Just a really enjoyable, fun, and educational episode. We’ll record another 20 minutes together soon…
“I am taking over...” – Chris Brogan
Welcome to Episode 002 with the CEO of Owner Media Group Chris Brogan
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“Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.” – John Wooden
Some Questions I Ask:
How do you equip owners?
Why is entrepreneurship more than just 2 guys shaking hands?
Why did you write “The Freaks Shall Inherit The Earth?”
Why won’t his kids have cubicle jobs?
At what specific moment did Chris know he had created something meaningful?
What specific things can people do to get outside of their comfort zone?
“Have a plan, work the plan, plan for the unexpected.” - Terry Hoeppner
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Chris’s 3 words for 2015: Plan, Leverage, Fabric… And everything that goes into why he chose those words
Why most days he’s awesome but sometimes he has to ride out clinical depression
How he’s become resilient and how you can too
The importance of loyalty to others
How we all can learn from what he’s done and put it into action even if we do not have credibility yet
How to become a better public speaker
What it’s like to interview Richard BransonJames Altucher called his book “The Freaks Shall Inherit The Earth”, “The Bible for making a startup.”
See why over 300,000 people follow Chris on Twitter: @chrisbrogan
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Episode 003: The incredibly interesting story of Maurice Clarett and how he built a 6 figure income after spending 4 years in prison
Episode 009: The Creative Leader’s Guide to making money by thinking outside of the Box with Jason Zook (SurfrApp)
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Bio:
Chris Brogan explores how people use content and community to build marketplaces around areas of belonging. He is CEO of Owner Media Group, a sought after public speaker, and the New York Times bestselling author of eight books and working on his ninth, Belong: A Framework for Embracing Community, Driving the Economy and Building the Future. Learn more about him at www.chrisbrogan.com
094: Clayton Morris – What Is Your Freedom Number? A Crash Course In Real Estate Investing
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Episode 094: Clayton Morris – What Is Your Freedom Number? A Crash Course In Real Estate Investing
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Clayton Morris is a dynamic leader who has experienced immense success in multiple life categories. He is an extremely well prepared and polished TV host on Fox News and he has a very successful real estate investing business. I loved having him on the show. In fact, I expected to spend the majority of our time speaking about the TV business and his rapid ascent in it. However, this one took a hard turn towards learning about real estate investing. It fascinates me. I loved learning more about this from Clayton.
Clayton Morris joined FOX News Channel (FNC) in 2008 and is the co-host of FOX & Friends Weekend. He also serves as a co-host for "FOX & Friends First." Presented weekdays at 5 AM/ET, the program is an hour-long expansion of "FOX & Friends" and is anchored by a pair of rotating hosts. He’s also spends a great deal of time helping others learn more about investing in real estate. He blogs about real estate investing tips at ClaytonMorris.com
Episode 094: Clayton Morris – What Is Your Freedom Number? A Crash Course In Real Estate Investing
See why over 90,000 people follow Clayton on Twitter: @ClaytonMorris
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Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
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This was a jam packed episode full of great content. Clayton Morris is leader who is constantly learning in order to help us all live a better life. Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!
Clayton Morris joined FOX News Channel (FNC) in 2008 and is the co-host of FOX & Friends Weekend. He also serves as a co-host for "FOX & Friends First." Presented weekdays at 5 AM/ET, the program is an hour-long expansion of "FOX & Friends" and is anchored by a pair of rotating hosts. He’s also spends a great deal of time helping others learn more about investing in real estate. He blogs about real estate investing tips at ClaytonMorris.com
29 Oct 2017
229: Henry Cloud - "Be So Good They Can't Ignore You"
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Episode 229: Henry Cloud - "Be So Good They Can't Ignore You"
"If you're a leader, you will get what you create or what you allow."
Show Notes:
Henry constantly striving to do more... Why?
"I'm a practitioner, need to continue doing the work"
Advice to "normal" people who have a 9-5 job. Henry was willing to start with very little money, but grew into his passion slowly and kept at it.
Inflection points -- My football career. Henry's gradual growth. Critical mass moments -- Henry did leadership coaching and consulting from day 1.
"You have to love what you do."
"You have to get moving."
"My first book Integrity was written based on my teaching for 15 years."
Boundaries -- A simple, yet profound concept - A property line: This is you
"In relationships, people put pressure on us"
Leaders are "ridiculously in charge" -- "If you're leading it, you're in charge"
"If you're a leader, you will get what you create or what you allow"
3 Keys to Executive Success (Executive Functions Of The Brain):
Attend to most important/what's relevant -- Need to name the priority -- Boundary of Attention
No multi-tasking. Your brain CANNOT do this -- Inhibit everything else
Working memory - Must be a flow to it
Advice for listeners who have a bad boss?
Don't fret, we've all been there
Create your own culture, do lunch and learns, build what you want within the situation
Vision Statement -- Get so good they will say, "What are they doing?" How do we grow? How can we do that?"
Perform, develop leaders in your own corner of the world/buisness
"Be So Good They Can't Ignore You"
"They work their butt off"
04 Sep 2016
156: Greg Wittstock – The CEO Must Guide The Culture
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Episode 156: Greg Wittstock – The CEO Must Guide The Culture
Greg Wittstock has been dabbling in water gardens since the age of 12. He began with a concrete creation and evolved to the naturally balanced, #1 contractor-installed ecosystem ponds that Aquascape is well known for.
After graduating from Ohio State University with a degree in Interpersonal Communications, Greg founded Aquascape Inc., which experienced incredible growth during its early years. The company appeared on Inc Magazine's coveted list of 500 Fastest-Growing, Privately-Held Companies in North America from 1999-2002. Greg later appeared on the cover of Inc Magazine, along with a feature article about his leadership and entrepreneurial spirit.
Episode 156: Greg Wittstock – The CEO Must Guide The Culture
“The first job of the CEO is to guide the culture"
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Most excited about: The 25th anniversary of his company, Aquascape
Growing a business from college hobby to 120 employees and over $60m in revenue at one point
"Those who sweat together stay together"
Values of Aquascape
Character
Team
Winning
Fun
The importance of playing football and how they taught Greg about teamwork
How The Chicago Tribune story launched his business to another level
Why he didn't speak with his Dad for 9 years
The average pond they build is $15,000
Overall philosophy to the profession of sales: Help those who have had a bad experience, sell the lifestyle, share statistics about how a pond can change your life
Find someone who has done what you want to do and learn directly from them
"The greatest satisfaction in life is helping other people succeed"
“Find someone who does what you want to do and learn directly from them."
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Bio From Aquascapeinc.com
In 2004, Greg was nominated for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award. Greg also received the Best Boss' award from Fortune's Small Business Magazine and Winning Workplaces in 2005, and earned the University of Chicago's Entrepreneur Hall of Fame award in 2007.
At the end of 2005, Wittstock's dream of a workplace utopia came true as the company moved to Aqualand, a 256,000 square foot office and warehouse facility that boasts the largest sloping green roof in North America. Aqualand received Silver Level recognition in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating system.
Greg has been interviewed and featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times in 2009, and has appeared on a variety of television shows over the years including Good Morning America, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, and cable home improvement shows.
23 Jan 2017
187: Jeb Blount - How To Never Have An Empty Pipeline (Fanatical Prospecting)
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Episode 187: Jeb Blount - How To Never Have An Empty Pipeline (Fanatical Prospecting)
They prospect constantly -- driven to keep the pipeline full: it builds confidence
Focus on deals they can win -- they are a good judge of win probability
Have the luxury to choose the deals they work on
High EQ -- they have the ability to manage their emotions
Average sales people focus on a linear sales cycle... The ultra successful focus on the buying process, they shape the buying process, decision making process, and they are masters at influencing decision makers
You CAN move from great to ultra performer -- with work
Hiring process:
The culture must support ultra high performers
Using Sales Drive -- An assessment to learn if people will hunt. Must have intelligence/competitiveness, an optimism to hunt
4 Parts -- Interview process
1) Intelligence - must be able to connect the dots that don't seem connectable
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23 May 2021
420: Sean Covey - Disciplined Execution, 7 Habits, & Decision Making Tools
Sean Covey is President of FranklinCovey Education. He is a New York Times best-selling author and has written several books, including The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make, The 7 Habits of Happy Kids, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, which has been translated into 20 languages and sold over 4 million copies worldwide. Sean's dad is Stephen R. Covey, the author of one of the most sold books of all time (more than 30 million copies), The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
Notes:
Sean played Quarterback at BYU --Led the team to two bowl games and twice selected as ESPN’s Most Valuable Player of the Game.
What he learned from his time as a QB:
How to prepare
How to "do hard things" - "Your zone of comfort expands because the hard things aren't as hard anymore."
Importance of a system - Rigorous practice, filming of the practice, reviewing of the work. Daily.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People came out in 1989... It had a tepid release and then exploded. It changed the lives of the Covey family. Sean said his dad Stephen (the author of The 7 Habits) was "very genuine... A better husband and dad than a writer. H was very congruent. He had the power of principles. There was no hypocrisy."
How do you handle yourself when talking to a person who has a powerful position?
"Treat the garbage collector and the CEO with an equal amount of respect."
4 Disciplines of Execution:
Focusing On The Wildly Important Goals(WIG) - Exceptional execution starts with narrowing the focus— clearly identifying what must be done, or nothing else you achieve really matters much. -- Example: JFK has one of the best examples ever: "Send a man to the moon and return him home safely by the end of the decade." It was one goal. There was a starting line and a finish line.
Act on Lead Measures– Golden rule of execution: Identify lead measures. Twenty percent of activities produce eighty percent of results. The highest predictors of goal achievement are the 80/20 activities that are identified and codified into individual actions and tracked fanatically. Lag Measures are the end goal.
Keep A Compelling Scoreboard -People and teams play differently when they are keeping score, and the right kind of scoreboards motivate the players to win.
Create A Cadence of Accountability -Each team engages in a simple weekly process that highlights successes, analyzes failures, and course-corrects as necessary, creating the ultimate performance-management system.
Goal setting - There are two kinds of strategies:
Deliberate strategies
Emergent strategies - "Be ready for waves that might hit you... And knock you in a better position."
With goal setting, remember the phrase "No Involvement, No Commitment." Involve your team to set their own goals. Don't set the goals for them.
Advice to parents with teenagers:
Have a purpose as a family
Set values
Write a mission statement
Have 1:1 time with kids
Career/Life advice:
Have a plan... But be flexible
Live according to your principles, values, and mission statement
Create a credo of your own
01 Oct 2015
059: Mark Fainaru-Wada – Investigative Reporter, Steroids, Barry Bonds, and Concussions
00:52:32
Episode 059: Mark Fainaru-Wada – Investigative Reporter, Steroids, Barry Bonds, and Concussions
This was an extremely thought provoking conversation with Mark Fainaru-Wada. This is the first time I’ve ever had an investigative reporter on as a guest of The Learning Leader Show. The magnitude of the work that Mark has done is immense. We touched on a number of topics during this conversation from Chris Borland retiring to Cris Carter’s “Fall Guy” comments made at the NFL Rookie Symposium. It was a very enlightening an entertaining conversation.
Mark Fainaru-Wada is an investigative reporter for ESPN. With his colleague Lance Williams, he co-authored the New York Times best-seller “Game of Shadows — Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports.” He’s also written (along with his brother Steve Fainaru) “League Of Denial,” which reveals how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, sought to cover up and deny mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage.
Episode 059: Mark Fainaru-Wada – Investigative Reporter, Steroids, Barry Bonds, and Concussions
Episode 019: ChrisBorland – Why He Walked Away From Millions Of Dollars
Episode 003: The Incredibly Interesting Story Of Maurice Clarett And How He Built A 6 Figure Income After Spending 4 Years In Prison
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
Did you enjoy the podcast?
I really enjoyed this great conversation with Mark… I learned a lot about his makeup and his specific process about how he does his great work. Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!
Mark Fainaru-Wada is an investigative reporter for ESPN. With his colleague Lance Williams, he co-authored the New York Times best-seller “Game of Shadows — Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports.” He’s also written (along with his brother Steve Fainaru) “League Of Denial,” which reveals how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, sought to cover up and deny mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage.
20 Sep 2020
384: Les Brown - How To Unleash The Excellence Within You To Win
"If you want to be successful in life, do these three things..."
Change your mindset - “You don’t get in life what you want, you get in life what you are.”
Practice OQP - “Only Quality People”
Develop your communicationskills - “Once you open your mouth, you tell the world who you are.
Sidney Poitier wrote a book calledThe Measure of a Manand she said, “When you go for awalkwith someone, something happens without being spoken. He said, “either you adjust to their pace or they adjust to your pace.” Think “Whose pace have you adjusted to?
Les needed to disrupt the vision he had of himself in order to change...
Distract
Dispute
Inspire
Expand the vision of what's possible for life
Mike Williams -- "The Road To Your Best Stuff"
Keys to growth: Hire a coach
Use your story to create an experience for your audience
"Be transformed by the renewing of their minds."
"You can't fit a big dream into a small mind."
"We are here to live a life that will out live us."
"The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain
Les has battled cancer for 27 years...
The beginning: When Les's mom worked for a white family, they would make her clap her hands regularly when she was alone in a different room to ensure she wasn't stealing anything. When Les learned why his mom always had to clap her hands together, he made it his mission to ensure that he would buy her a house one day... And eventually that's exactly what he did.
Negative thoughts are like weeds. They'll keep coming back. You have to keep at it and have a positive mind.
Every morning, Les takes the following action:
Has a verbal (positive) affirmation
Writes seven things he wants to do that day
Reads 20-30 pages
"There is power in pursuit... Set goals beyond your comfort zone."
Have a perpetual plan of action
"You're never too old to learn"
"You're never too young to teach"
"Don't ever stop raising the bar on yourself."
There are three kinds of people: Millionaires, Billionaires, and Witnesses
"You gotta be hungry."
Thoreau - "Go where there's no path and leave a trail."
What does Les think immediately before going on stage with 80,000 people in the crowd?
"More of THE, less of ME."
"When you wax a floor, you need to strip it first. The same is true with coaching."
"Cancer Conquerors" -- "I don't have time to die, I've got too much work to do."
Excellence: Durable, sustainable advantage. "I will not fail." All accomplishments happen in the mind first... And then in practice.
04 Jun 2017
208: David Novak -How To Be CEO of The Year: "Take People With You"
00:43:53
David Novak is Co-Founder, Retired Chairman and CEO of Yum! Brands, Inc. (Pizza Hut, KFC, and Taco Bell), one of the world’s largest restaurant companies with nearly 43,000 restaurants in more than 130 countries and territories. He stepped down as CEO on January 1, 2015 and retired from Yum! and Yum!’s Board in May 2016. During his time as CEO, Yum! doubled in size and became a global powerhouse going from approximately 20% of its profits coming from outside the U.S. in 1997 to nearly 70% in 2014.
David is also the best-selling author of multiple books including Taking People With You: The Only Way To Make Big Things Happen. In May 2016, he founded OGO (O Great One!) a consumer lifestyle brand on a mission to turn the world on to the awesome power of recognition and remedy what he calls the “global recognition deficit.”
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Sustained Excellence = "You must be passionate about what you do." Warren Buffet said he "tap dances to work everyday." You should strive to do that.
Must also be a constant learner/grower.
Have a healthy dissatisfaction for the status quo
When people struggle at work, it's typically because they don't like the job
What do you say to skeptics about the "do what you love" advice: "Colonel Sanders started KFC late in life with his social security check. It's never too late."
Must be self reflective. Develop a strategy for yourself. Do a needs assessment. Dig hard at understanding yourself.
The impact of moving his entire childhood. Living in 23 states by the 7th grade. Moved 3 times per year. Lived in trailer parks most of his childhood.
Advice to people early in their career: "Don't wait until you have a management job to lead. Start doing it immediately."
"I tried to learn everything I could from the people above me."
"The minute I stopped learning, I asked for another job."
"I looked at my boss as my coach. A good boss should be a coach."
The manage 2 up plus 2 down strategy:
Make your boss very successful and make his/her boss very successful
Help the people directly working for you successful and directly help the people that work for them to be great
"Every time I met with the CEO, I always brought 3-5 ideas every time we met. I always brought value to those meetings."
"When a good opportunity came up, he thought of me"
Coaching is an "AND" job -- Tell them what you like AND how they can improve. Must do both.
The 3X5 note card exercise: Write a strength and a developmental area for yourself and share it with others so they know what you're working on.
How can CEOs get people to trust them and tell the truth? -- Ask people what they would do if they had your role. LISTEN.
"You have to be vulnerable enough to want to know the truth"
The power of recognition -- "The secret weapon I had as a leader was to recognize great performance to drive the behaviors we valued"
Why people quit their jobs:
Their boss
They don't feel appreciated
Utilize the digital leadership platform
02 Jun 2015
023: AJ Hawk – Why Does This Show Exist? What Does The Future Hold?
01:03:10
Episode 023: AJ Hawk – Why Does This Show Exist? What Does The Future Hold?
One of the most enjoyable conversations I’ve had doing this podcast. My brother AJ and I discuss why I am doing this podcast. AJ has no fear to ask me anything and dives deep into my “Why” and we discuss how this show will progress…
Leaders are learners. The best leaders never stop working to make themselves better. As Kobe Bryant once said, “There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own.” That’s really why the Learning Leader Show exists. To come together to understand the journey successful leaders are on so that we can better understand our own.
This Show is full of stories told by world class leaders. Personal stories of successes, failures and lessons learned along the way. Our guests come from diverse backgrounds—some are best-selling authors, others are genius entrepreneurs and one even made a million dollars wearing t-shirts for a year. My role in this endeavor is to talk to the smartest, most creative, always-learning leaders in the world so that we can learn from them as we create our own journey.
Episode 023: AJ Hawk – Why Does This Show Exist? What Does The Future Hold?
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“The scientist is not the person who gives the right answers; he’s the one who asks the right questions.” – Claude Levi-Strauss
Some Questions AJ Asked Me:
How do you do this show? When do you have time?
What’s your ultimate goal with the podcast?
How do you do it better than others?
How do you feel about where podcasts in general are headed?
Would you ever charge people to listen to your podcast? (NO)
How about doing in person episodes?
How do you make sure your podcast doesn’t feel scripted?
What is pronoia?
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Why I love doing this podcast
My goals – Goals already achieved and others I have for the future
My thought process on making a great podcast
The importance of my preparation for each episode
The facts behind the growth (HUGE) of podcasts
Why I believe in pronoia and what it means
The importance of taking action
“There are two types of pain you will go through in life: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.” – Jim Rohn
Episode 001: How To Become A Master Connector With Jayson Gaignard From MasterMind Talks
Episode 003: The Incredibly Interesting Story Of Maurice Clarett And How He Built A 6 Figure Income After Spending 4 Years In Prison
Episode 011: Brady Quinn – Why Certain People Are Great Leaders And Why Others Are Not
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
Did you enjoy the podcast?
I really enjoyed having this conversation with AJ. Would you like to see us do it again? Reach out to us on Twitter (@OfficialAJHawk & @RyanHawk12) Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!
Ranks No. 1 in franchise history (since 1975) with 1,025 tackles, having surpassed John Anderson (1,020 from 1978-89) for the team mark in the 2013 regular-season finale.
Has posted 100-plus tackles in four consecutive seasons (2010-13) and in seven of his eight years in the NFL (2006-08, 2010-13).
Has led the team in tackles five times during his career (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012-13), which ties LB Nick Barnett for the franchise record (since 1975).
Followed the likes of Lawrence Taylor (1981), Derrick Thomas (1989), Junior Seau (1990) and Willie McGinest (1994) as one of only 29 linebackers drafted in the top five since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970.
Played in 51 games at Ohio State with 38 starts, collecting 394 tackles (196 solo), 41 stops for a loss, 15½ sacks, seven INTs, 13 passes broken up, two fumbles recovered and three forced fumbles; also returned both a blocked punt and INT for TDs…A three-year starter (2003-05), he earned first-team All-Big Ten honors each of those seasons…Available for every play during his college career, he started his final 37 contests in consecutive fashion…Earned his degree in criminology.
Given name Aaron James Hawk…Nicknamed “A.J.” by his parents since birth, after legendary Indy car driver A.J. Foyt…From Centerville, Ohio…Married the former Laura Quinn, The couple has a 3-year-old daughter, Lennon Noel, and a 1-year-old son, Hendrix Knight…Brother, Ryan, played QB for the Birmingham Steeldogs of Arena Football and played in college at Ohio University…
08 Oct 2023
548: Nick Maggiulli - The Power of Compounding, Creating a Writing Practice, Building Your Career, & Proven Ways To Build Wealth
00:53:13
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What’s theMatthew Effect?The Matthew effect explains how two people can start in nearly the same place and end up worlds apart. In these kinds of systems, initial conditions matter. And as time goes on, they matter more and more.
Instead of saving a fixed percentage of your income, save more when you earn more and less when you make less.
The best way to save more is to earn more, not cut expenses to the point of being miserable.
The real question money forces us to answer is what’s important to us in life.
You should savewhatyou can,whenyou can. Relying on a fixed, prescribed savings rate is nonsense.
TheDolly Varden trout, an Alaskan fish species, puzzled biologists for decades. Despite only having a brief window of plentiful food each year — when salmon laid eggs in their waters — the fish continued to thrive year-round. How did they do it? Eventually, scientists discovered that the fish shrink and grow their digestive organs depending on food availability. When the salmon show up, they speed up their metabolism so they can take in more calories. Then, when the other fish leave, they slow down digestion. This way, they get by withmuch less foodthroughout the remainder of the year.
Great Things Take Time– Focusing on the long term is more important than ever. The story of the“Dashrath Manjhi Breakthrough” – He carved a path through a mountain. He moved a little bit of rock each day for 20 years.
Nick committed to writing one blog per week in 2017. And it changed his life. He learned that storytelling is what captures a reader’s attention. And the way to develop good stories is to read a lot, from a wide variety of sources. We all can do this.
One decision can change everything. NASA decided that Voyager 2 would slingshot around planets has made it the farthest man-made object from Earth. And it’s still producing information for us.
The Constant Reminder –How the Right Decisions and Compounding Can Lead to Huge Results. How have the decisionsmade by NASA 40 years agohad a profound effect on the Voyager missions and success to this day?Once a successful process is implemented, the results can be surprising. The point is to show you that making the right choices and letting things run their course can lead to incredible results. This is what makes consistent actions and the power of compounding so amazing. "When I think about creating a new habit in my life, I like to imagine all of the future benefits from that habit discounted back to the moment when the habit is formed."
08 Mar 2021
409: Adam Bryant - How To Conduct A World Class Interview
Adam Bryant interviewed more than 500 CEOs for “Corner Office,” a series on leadership that he created in 2009. Adam is the author of three books based on the themes that have emerged from his interviews and consulting work. His new book is THE CEO Test: Master the Challenges that Make or Break All Leaders.
Notes:
Interview style - Instead of asking them about strategies and industry trends, Adam focuses on timeless questions (how they were influenced by parents, lessons from early years in their careers, what they look for when making bets on people to invest in) about the important leadership lessons that CEOs had learned…
Some questions he likes to ask:
How do you hire? What questions do you ask?
Describe yourself in one word...
Work to get around the polished façade
What animal would you be and why?
Tony Hsieh would ask, "On a scale of 1-10, how weird are you?"
Some additional interviewing tactics:
The CEO has the interviewee drive his or her car. Monitors how they react in a different vehicle, in a new city
Sharing meals
"Put the mosaic of what a person is like as a human being" -- not just interviewing for a job
The Dinner Party game:
"If you could only ask a job candidate one question, what would you ask?"
Learn about failure - Id you desire humility, learn about their failures, learnings, and lessons of life
Ownership - The 3 most beautiful words: "I'm on it."
Every employee needs to write a playbook to how they'd do the job... They need to take ownership.
If you were an animal, what would you be?
Adam: "A Hawk. Hover at high altitude, when they figure out what they want, they go get it."
Question: What qualities of your parents do you like the most and the least?
Ask that if you really want to go deep -- This forces the candidate to get real. "We're fooling ourselves if we think we can escape our parents."
Process to ask questions:
Think, "I want to cut a record with you." -- Have the desire to make something new with the person.
His premise at the New York Times: "What if I sat down with CEOs and never asked them about their companies?"
Questions: What were you like as a kid? What were your parents like? How have your parents impacted your leadership style? What drives you?
"I like to see them in the moment of learning about themselves."
"Eye contact is the 5 G of communication."
Two tracking - Know where to go next AND listen intently
Sustaining Excellence:
Feedback look must be strong - They must be open to it
Recognize patterns
Take action
Learn new things
Be self-aware
Be humble
Need to ask, "What does this moment need?"
"What is the gooey center of that candy?" A leader needs to know that about their business.
Life advice:
"Play in traffic." You have to get out there and meet people and do things. Build relationships. Those help with the pivot points of your career and life.
Always be prepared to learn the most important lesson of your life...
20 May 2018
258: Jesse Itzler - Creating Your LIFE Resume (Living With The Monks)
00:42:55
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
258: Jesse Itzler - Creating Your LIFE Resume (Living With The Monks)
Jesse Itzler is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Living with a Seal, cofounded Marquis Jet, the world's largest private jet card company which he and his partner sold to Berkshire Hathaway/NetJets. Jesse then partnered with Zico coconut water, which he and his partner sold to The Coca-Cola Company. His latest book is titled, Living With The Monks. He's a former rapper on MTV and wrote and performed the NBA's Emmy Award-winning "I Love This Game" music campaign and the popular New York Knicks anthem "Go NY Go." When he's not running ultra-marathons, eating vegan food or being a dad to his four kids, Jesse can be found at the NBA's Atlanta Hawks games, where he's an owner of the team. He is married to Spanx founder Sara Blakely.
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"I invest in people... You must look into their eyes before making a decision."
Show Notes:
Sustaining excellence:
Spending time around the 4,000 people who used Marquis Jet, "I always asked them about their habits."
You have to create the system that works best for YOU:
Attack fear, take risks
Get up early in the morning
Create daily wins, momentum
Be a great connector, build relationships
Run -- Create great exercise habits
Winning habits, routines, mindset. A system for self
For 27 years, Jesse has only eaten fruit before noon
Relying on gut instinct... How to build this, make better? Must spend time alone, to think. Running is where this happens for Jesse (in the car for Sara)
Why?
Awareness with time... Understand your own mortality
A constant drive to build a "life resume"
You only get 1 shot to do this thing
Hiking Mount Washington -- Helps you feel "super alive... It's addicting."
Have you always been this way? "I get bored easily. This has nothing to do with money."
Always being urgent to accomplish something
Always carving out time for yourself. Carve at least 1 hour per day.
Put parameters around your time
YOU are the business plan. "I invest in people... Have you ever looked into his eyes?"
"At the end of the day, people drive companies."
Why live with the monks?
"I did the physical part while living with a SEAL. I needed to focus on the spiritual part."
Lived in a monastery with 8 monks... 4 had been there for 50 years
How living with the monks helped him handle "decision fatigue"
How it free'd up so much energy
"The power of cumulative work"
"Always do something hard"
It sets the tone for yourself
Don't back away from challenges -- Build the grit muscle
Do small things every day (clean, make the bed, finish tasks, do the dishes now)
"I'm turning 50. I only have 28 summers left if I'm lucky."
Episode 078:Kat Cole – From Hooters Waitress To President of Cinnabon
Episode 216:Jim Collins -- How To Go From Good To Great
Episode 179:How To Sustain Excellence - The Best Answers From 178 Questions
Episode 107:Simon Sinek – Leadership: It Starts With Why
03 Dec 2015
077: Adam Braun – Pencils Of Promise: Growing A “For Purpose” Organization Through Intrinsic Motivation
00:41:05
Episode 077: Adam Braun – Pencils Of Promise: Growing A “For Purpose” Organization Through Intrinsic Motivation
Adam Braun is an extremely intelligent and selfless leader. He is intrinsically motivated and is focused on constant self-improvement in order to serve and help others. He firmly believes in family and the important role they play in one’s life. We are extremely fortunate to have Adam share his knowledge with us, the loyal listeners of The Learning Leader Show.
Adam is a New York Times bestselling author and the Founder of Pencils of Promise, an award-winning organization that has broken ground on more than 300 schools for children in poverty around the world. He is also the Director of the Global Education Platform, an initiative conceived by the UN Special Envoy for Global Education to accelerate breakthroughs in learning innovation.
He has been featured as a speaker at The White House, the United Nations and the Clinton Global Initiative. He has also been named to Business Insider’s 40 Under 40, Wired Magazine‘s 50 People Who Are Changing the World, and was selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s original ten Global Shapers.
Episode 077: Adam Braun – Pencils Of Promise: Growing A “For Purpose” Organization Through Intrinsic Motivation
See why over 300,000 people follow Adam on Twitter: @AdamBraun
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This was a jam packed episode full of great content. Adam Braun is a leader who is constantly learning in order to help us all live a better life. Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!
Adam Braun is a New York Times bestselling author and the Founder of Pencils of Promise, an award-winning organization that has broken ground on more than 300 schools for children in poverty around the world. He is also the Director of the Global Education Platform, an initiative conceived by the UN Special Envoy for Global Education to accelerate breakthroughs in learning innovation.
He has been featured as a speaker at The White House, the United Nations and the Clinton Global Initiative. He has also been named to Business Insider’s 40 Under 40, Wired Magazine‘s 50 People Who Are Changing the World, and was selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s original ten Global Shapers.
11 Dec 2017
235: Dr. Gay Hendricks - How To Make The Big Leap
00:50:49
Episode 235: Dr. Gay Hendricks - How To Make The Big Leap
Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., has been a leader in the fields of relationship transformation and bodymind therapies for more than 45 years. After earning his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford, Gay served as professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Colorado for 21 years. He has written more than 40 books, including bestsellers such as Five Wishes, The Big Leap and Conscious Loving (co-authored with his co-author and mate for more than 35 years, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks), both used as a primary text in universities around the world. In 2003, Gay co-founded The Spiritual Cinema Circle,which distributes inspirational movies and conscious entertainment to subscribers in 70+ countries.
Gay has offered seminars worldwide and appeared on more than 500 radio and television shows, including OPRAH, CNN, CNBC, 48 HOURS and others. In addition to his work with The Hendricks Institute, Gay is currently continuing his new mystery series that began with The First Rule Of Ten
Episode 235: Dr. Gay Hendricks - How To Make The Big Leap
"The money became an effortless byproduct of doing what I love"
Show Notes:
Commonalities of leaders who sustain excellence:
Openness to learning
Great listener
They do not waste time being defensive
The makeup of insecure people who won't learn = Fear. A bug --> You poke it, it curls towards the center. They are scared. We have the same nervous system from many years ago
Must acknowledge the fears -- "Don't try to out argue them or "out-facts" them"
"Speak to your shared fears" when scared
The 4 things we do when scared:
Fight
Runaway
Freeze
Space out
Fear tries to take us out of the moment
His story of going on the Oprah show -- "Being on Oprah was like having 10 shots of espresso"
What is the upper limit problem? A point in success/happiness -- if you go past the point of it, you do something to knock yourself down. Fears keep people locked in certain zones
The 4 Operating Zones
Zone of incompetence
Zone of competence
Zone of excellence
Zone of Genius
Most love to do? "Living full time in the zone of genius"
Why you should start with "10 minutes of what you most love to do" -- Then continually bump that time up
Making the leap -- Freedom, pressure. Stand up, walk your talk. So rewarding, but can you make money?
"The money became an effortless byproduct of doing what I love"
Walk quietly and with passion... Auspicious things happen
Life rewards expression of true genius
Early 90's, Gay spent 30% of time in his genius zone, then 50%, then 70%, now 90% of time is spent in his zone of genius
His zone of genius? "Be a model of creativity. Explain complicated things in a simple way."
Oprah called it "Learning to love yourself"
Creativity - Conscious loving ever after -- How to access more creativity? Every day after 50 is a choice between creativity and stagnation. Move, play, create new ideas. At age 65, Gay started lifting weights. Must keep moving your body
He wrote his first mystery novel at age 65 (Wow!)
He just sold the mystery series to Netflix to turn it into a television series
It's never too late to start accessing new paths of creativity
Put your mind on how to create more
Learning Leader = "Commitment to learn from the moment"
Honesty - Clear view of what's going on with self and others
Transparency/Authenticity is overused
Confirmed process of learning - Hypothesis, clarity of though around experimentation
Advice to a new manager:
Ask a lot of questions
REALLY LISTEN - Engage in conversations... Don't just try to get the right answer
We have endless biases
"People defend their biases instead of questioning their biases." --> Have a curious mind.
Curiosity:
His parents gave him positive feedback for being inquisitive... An exploration of new ideas. Brad loves to read and takes a digital sabbath every Saturday.
Approach new ideas with a Buddhist philosophy --> Let go of assumptions. Approach each topic with a beginner's mind.
A founder who is an explorer -- "Don't get stuck as an investor by constantly asking questions. You need to want to deeply understand someone. It goes both ways. Literal answers aren't enough."
Engage with people. Create a 'bi-directional' connection. This has shifted over time for Brad. Think #GiveFirst
Life partner - Amy... They are equals. It's important to acknowledge that. They almost split up after 10 years because Brad's words were not matching his actions.
"YOUR WORDS MUST MATCH YOUR ACTIONS.'
Prioritize what's important and then follow through. If it's important to you to spend time with your spouse, then do it.
Brad and Amy had to learn how to fight...
When their 13 year old dog died, it was devastating. Amy and Brad deal with tragedy differently. It's important to understand that it's OK for your spouse to deal with grief differently than you do.
Key Parts to building community:
The people in charge must be leaders
Must have a long term commitment --> 20 years+
Inclusive of anyone who wants to engage
Have events that engage people
Complex systems to how communities evolve --Complicated systems has more steps.
Goal setting - They tend to be too rigid. The time component can be a problem.
Brad prefers raid iteration. Better to have a hypothesis. If the hypothesis fails, learn it.
Eric Ries - Lean Startup
Rapid experimentation - Rapid learning is better
Vast majority of goals you set are not right in the future
Writing - "When I write, I learn." Force yourself to write it down. Put it in public. Have an open mind to feedback.
"People get stuck in dogma when they don't write things down. They don't know why they believe in it."
You can't do this quickly. People don't feel like they have time to think. That's a problem.
The role of selling: Selling is crucial. You are selling all the time. Sales is a noble profession. Acknowledge it. Develop the skills to do it well. Everyone works in sales.
06 Mar 2023
515: Kim "KC" Campbell - How To Respond To Rejection, Earn a Promotion, Find Your Purpose, & Lead With Courage
01:00:36
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Kim “KC” Campbell(KC = “Killer Chick”)is a retired Air Force Colonel who served in the Air Force for over 24 years. She has flown 1,800 hours in the A-10 Warthog, including more than 100 combat missions protecting troops on the ground in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2003, Kim was even awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for Heroism after successfully recovering her battle-damaged airplane after an intense close air support mission in Baghdad. Kim is the author of Flying in the Face of Fear: A Fighter Pilot’s Lessonson Leading with Courage.
Notes:
On January 28, 1986, the challenger rocket exploded (killing all astronauts on board). On that day, Kim learned what it meant to serve something bigger than yourself. She decided she wanted to be an astronaut and serve something bigger than herself.
A big influence in Kim's life was a high school teacher named Mrs. Kennett. She helped Kim on the speech and debate team. One of her arguments was about women being allowed to be combat pilots.
Mrs. Kennett worked to create "power women."
Response to Rejection: Initially Kim got rejected by the Air Force Academy because of a low SAT score. In response, instead of quitting and moving on, she wrote a letter to them every week stating why they should accept her... Which they eventually did.
"The tough moments make you better." The initial rejection was a blessing in disguise.
How to crush the interview process?
Prepare... Walk through potential questions and rehearse your stories. Role play with a mentor.
Be you. Be real. Be authentic
Create a connection with all in the room. Look them in the eye. Be genuine.
Like father, Like daughter— just before Kim's final year at the academy, she earned the position of Cadet Wing Commander. This is a position her dad held 25 years earlier. They were the first father-daughter wing commander duo in academy history.
A woman in a man’s world: When Kim started pilot training in 1999, there were 33 female fighter pilots in the Air Force. About 1% of fighter pilots.
Kim's choice of airplane was the A10 WartHog. The airplane was designed first with the 30 mm Gatling gun on it in mind: capable of shooting 3,900 rounds per minute.
The leader sets the culture. They decide what to create and what to allow.
Kim was on a combat support mission in Baghdad when her airplane was hit. She had to make a split-second decision about whether to exit the aircraft behind enemy lines or try to fly it back to a safer area...
Commanders intent - Your why is the way forward. You allow your team to take action and make decisions. "Explain the why. Explain the context. Let the lower level leaders make decisions and run with it."
Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" speech resonates with Kim.
"We feel fear and freeze. We can't let fear paralyze us. We need to take action in the face of fear. Remain calm. Acknowledge the fear and move forward."
23 Oct 2019
335: Deconstructing The Art & Science Of Public Speaking With Jay Acunzo
00:58:06
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
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Full show notes can be found at www.LearningLeader.com
Episode #335: Deconstructing The Art & Science Of Public Speaking With Jay Acunzo
This is another bonus episode with my friend, Jay Acunzo. We deconstruct the art and science of public speaking in this bonus episode. "I'm trying to help you see something different that fundamentally changes your work for the better."
Notes:
The goal:
Help your audience see something different that fundamentally changes their work for the better.
Everything I'm doing (when speaking) is helping you get from where you're at to where you want to be.
How to put a talk together:
Prompt driven -- Anticipate the questions that will be asked and answer them.
The coaching of Andrew Davis for Jay... "He's been really instrumental in helping me build a speaking business
"The Dialog Outline" -- You break up a talk you're giving into it's component pieces making it a modular talk.
"You're sharing the things others need to hear at the right moment they need to hear it... So they're anticipating what comes next..."
Put yourself in situations to "talk out your thoughts" to generate ideas... "Learn through speaking."
Process to prepare:
The value of rehearsal -- Is it needed? How much?
Memorization vs. knowing your content cold → How to not sound like a robot, but still remember what to say?
Visual aids (PowerPoint, Keynote) -- "If I need the slides, I'm not ready." - Jay. Slides should be use to reinforce the message. You should never need to look at them. They are there to be additive to your message for your audience.
The 30 seconds before going on stage? The optimal self talk... Interesting to hear the dramatic difference between Jay's approach and mine...
Get emotionally cross-faded. "Wow, I get to do this. This is so cool." (The words Jay says to himself the instant before he goes on stage." And then... "Watch this." Assuring people that "I'm going to have some serious fun."
"Get ready... I'm about to put on a show." -- Use your excitement and confidence to serve the audience.
How to start a speech: What to do and what NOT to do:
The first part of the speech is the shared goal - "What does everyone in the room want?"
"The Vanguard." - The front line you send out to begin the attack...
Do NOT start by saying, "I'm so excited to be here." Of course you're excited. Don't waste that time. It's too important to wander into the speech.
Speaking Framework:
(Mine: story → science → practical application)
Story -- People remember stories
Science -- Empirical evidence/data to support the story
Application -- This is what it means for YOU
Storytelling -- How to become a better storyteller? Great storytellers can rule the world...
Give a "feature story" -- And then reveal your hidden truth.
And then break it down into a methodology.
Engaging the audience - some speakers walk in the crowd, some ask questions regularly… The optimal ways to engage the audience
The element of surprise -- How to create ‘moments’ for the audience (surprise, ‘aha’ etc)? How to ensure you are enlightening them and not just regurgitating stuff they already know...
The keys to Q & A and why it should never be the last thing you do on stage...
Film the audience to see their reaction to your message... Study that to see what hits.
How to add humor appropriately
Coaching/feedback -- The intentional actions taken to ensure improvement. Why you should have a coach. Who is your kitchen cabinet?
For corporate world mid-level managers who have to do QBR’s (quarterly business reviews) -- How can they make those more exciting? (Most are dreadfully boring full of random stats, charts, bar graphs, etc)
Study the 'intentionality' of stand up comedians. Everything you say is for a specific reason.
Be thoughtful and intentional with your actions.
Persuasive presentations have logos, ethos, and pathos (from Talk Like TED)
Logos - Backing up your argument with data
Ethos - Credibility of the speaker
Pathos - Establish an emotional connection
04 Jan 2021
400: Keith Hawk & AJ Hawk - The Life Experiences That Shape Our Character
I sourced questions from members of my Leadership Circle, friends, listeners, and colleagues for this episode...
How does Keith continue to feel impactful after retirement?
KH: "It's like I have a paper route. I work a little bit in the mornings, get my work done, and then I can go have fun with my friends. I work on a few boards, do voice over work, and know how to hit the post."
What has AJ learned from working with Pat McAfee?
"I learned to trust my instincts and not try to be somebody I'm not."
What's the best way to make introductions? AJ: "Text (message) intros are so much better. They are more personal."
From Leadership Circle member, Amanda Wilson: "What habit do you admire the most in each other/best attribute?"
Pistol about AJ: "He's an unbelievable teammate. He has earned the respect of all his peers. I respect his intensity to prepare."
Pistol about Ryan: "A huge preparation guy. His focus on other people. He has more of an outer focus now. And a huge intensity around growth." "Gotta change, Gotta grow."
AJ about Pistol: Consistency. He wakes up early. I never saw him asleep. He never made us do anything. I want to live up to that standard. I don't want my kids to see me asleep. And universally, everyone loves him."
AJ about Ryan: "You're a mini-version of Pistol with your consistency. So detail oriented. Such a leader and not afraid to hold people accountable. People have confidence that you'll take them where they want to go."
Ryan about Pistol: Absolute selflessness. Reminds me of my wife, Miranda. A willingness to always help others succeed and will do anything for them.
Ryan about AJ: A relentless work ethic. A drive to be there for the people who depend on him. Whenever I talk with teammates of AJ, they all say the same thing, "That's my guy. I know he'll be where he's supposed to be when he's supposed to be there. I can depend on him." He shows up to work everyday and gets it done.
Being selfless: Pistol - "My success is better and richer if it follows other people's success."
From Jeff Leung (Sr. Engineer at Facebook): "As the father of two young boys, I would love to hear how you and your brother AJ grew up in a way that you cheer for each other more than compete?"
A mutual love and respect for each others work. An appreciation for what the other does.
From Doug Meyer, Co-Founder/CEO of Brixey & Meyer: "What was your reaction when you heard Ryan was leaving a high paying job at a large company to take a substantial pay cut to start a Leadership Advisory practice at Brixey & Meyer?"
Pistol: "Joy, fun, fulfillment. I was so excited for him."
AJ: "Of course. He's gonna kill it."
Give an example how you handled when one of your kids wanted to do something but you thought it was a mistake?
"When Ryan was at Miami, I probably pushed him too hard to transfer so that he would get another shot to be a starting QB after losing the job to Ben Roethlisberger. I sometimes have thoughts that he could have moved positions and become Julian Edelman."
From Nate DeMars (Founder/Owner of Pursuit) - "You guys have all moved onto what I guess you could consider second careers recently… How do you approach starting over as a novice in a new field?"
"There is no excuse to not learn everything about what you want to do. There is so much out there to read and watch and people to talk to. If you don't learn it, it's your fault."
Find something you care about, that you're passionate about, and pursue that.
"Deal with imposter syndrome when you're new. There's never been a better time to learn something new."
Life experiences that have shaped you. Pistol, what experiences shaped AJ/Ryan?
Playing for the legendary Bob Gregg and Ron Ullery. They molded you and helped you:
Faced the requirement to prepare a lot
Learned how to be a great teammate
Learned to compete hard
Learned to take tough, critical feedback, became coachable
Learned how to be a leader
How to deal with great teammates, but bad coaches?
AJ: "It doesn't help to complain and be negative. Be quiet. Do your job."
And strive to learn from those who aren't good at their job so that you don't repeat what they do.
The Rex Caswell exercise: When you're new, write in a journal in two columns. One is for the great actions of your boss and the other is for the not helpful behaviors. Keep it with you and review it as you continue to get promoted.
Pistol: "Wrap yourself in the mission. Don't wrap yourself in negativity."
"It's the duty of the leader to be in a good mood."
We conducted our first draft. The topic: Our favorite sports movies (listen to hear who we picked).
08 Jun 2016
131: Marshall Goldsmith – The #1 Leadership & CEO Coach In The World
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Episode 131: Marshall Goldsmith – The #1 Leadership & CEO Coach In The World
When you google “helping successful leaders,” the name that will appear on almost all 3,500+ results is Marshall Goldsmith… It was an absolute thrill to learn directly from him during this conversation on The Learning Leader Show.
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the author or editor of 35 books, which have sold over two million copies, been translated into 30 languages and become bestsellers in 12 countries. He has written two New York Times bestsellers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – a Wall Street Journal #1 business book and winner of the Harold Longman Award for Business Book of the Year. His newest book Triggers: Creating Behavior that Lasts – Becoming the Person You Want to Be was published on May 19, 2015.
Marshall’s global professional acknowledgments include: Harvard Business Review – World’s #1 Leadership Thinker, Institute for Management Studies – Lifetime Achievement Award (one of only two ever awarded), American Management Association - 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek – 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal – top ten executive educators, Forbes – five most-respected executive coaches. Leader of the Future Award, and Global Gurus ranked Marshall #1 World's Top 30 Coaching Professionals for 2016. Marshall's work has been recognized by nearly every professional organization in his field.
Episode 131: Marshall Goldsmith – The #1 Leadership & CEO Coach In The World
Courage, Humility, and Discipline leads to sustained excellence
Giving speeches in 96 countries and earning 11 million frequent flyer miles
27 CEO’s have endorsed his new book, “Triggers”
Marshall’s strategy and how he “bets” on himself (he doesn’t get paid unless his coaching works)
The amount he gets paid and time length: 18 months of coaching for $250,000
He’s been coaching for 39 years – He feels incredibly worthy of coaching the best in the world.
He’s the world’s #1 CEO/Leadership coach
If you google “helping successful leaders,” Marshall’s name will appear in virtually every result (over 3,500)
The daily 2 minute exercise that will change your life – Why you should email Marshall and ask him to send it to you (he sent it to me. It’s incredible)
Don’t use the phrase, “I have this problem.” Instead say “I used to do that” – Make it past tense, not current
Doing your best to set clear goals every single day
Being a learning leader means reading and constantly striving to improve
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the author or editor of 35 books, which have sold over two million copies, been translated into 30 languages and become bestsellers in 12 countries. He has written two New York Times bestsellers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – a Wall Street Journal #1 business book and winner of the Harold Longman Award for Business Book of the Year. His newest book Triggers: Creating Behavior that Lasts – Becoming the Person You Want to Be was published on May 19, 2015.
Marshall’s global professional acknowledgments include: Harvard Business Review – World’s #1 Leadership Thinker, Institute for Management Studies – Lifetime Achievement Award (one of only two ever awarded), American Management Association - 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek – 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal – top ten executive educators, Forbes – five most-respected executive coaches. Leader of the Future Award, and Global Gurus ranked Marshall #1 World's Top 30 Coaching Professionals for 2016. Marshall's work has been recognized by nearly every professional organization in his field.
16 Jun 2024
587: Daniel Negreanu - Responding To Failure, Risking It All, Getting Rich, Embracing Criticism, Taking Ownership of Your Life, & How To Read People
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Notes: Daniel Negreanu has earned over 52 million dollars at the poker table, which ranks him as the highest-earning player in live tournament poker history. He’s won 6 world series of poker bracelets, two world poker tour titles, and Daniel was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2014. He’s often referred to as “Kid Poker” and is known for his charismatic personality at the table.
Commonalities among the greatest poker players in the world:
Self-Awareness
Humility
In order to avoid criticism, “say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
Daniel is obsessed with the Rocky movies and the lessons learned from each one. Rocky 3 - Don’t get complacent. Rocky 4 - It’s heart versus machine. Rocky Balboa - But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!
The luck factor... Dealing with things outside of our control. A victim versus an owner mentality. Victims will complain, give up, sulk, be passive-aggressive, or procrastinate. Owners will seek solutions, take action, or ask for help. Victims will focus on things they cannot control, while owners will focus on things they can control.
"A big mistake is a beautiful opportunity." It's easier to be a victim and not take responsibility.
"Failure builds muscle."
"I don't care what others think anymore. I do not have that fear."
Rounders (the movie) is the greatest poker movie of all time.
Why Daniel is inspired by Sylvester Stallone...
He's not complacent
In Rocky IV it was heart versus machine. Rocky (Sly) was all heart.
Outspoken and direct– “If you have a problem with me, text me. And if you don't have my number then you don't know me well enough to have a problem with me.” – Christian Bale
Phil Iveysaid about Daniel: “I can't think of too many people who have done more for the game of poker than Daniel.”
When was Daniel happiest? “I would say in very high-stress situations. During the World Series of Poker main event [in 2015], when I actually was eliminated in 11th place and felt a gut punch.”
Early life – Be Rich– At an early age, Daniel was ambitious: "From the age of four, I thought I'd be rich. I told my mom I'd build a house out of Popsicle sticks and move to California."
Sharing both the wins and the losses with his fans: “This is what holding yourself accountable looks like. I could lie, right…or B. I could just not share this with you but then that wouldn’t be authentic and real, right? I’m not just going to share my winning years, I’m going to share my losing years."
Daniel is willing to go outside of his comfort zone... Head's up matches with Doug Polk (a head's up specialist): On July 29, 2020, after a years-long feud,Daniel publicly accepted a challenge to a high-stakes grudge match with Doug Polk. They played 25,000 hands of No-Limit Texas Hold'emat $200/$400 stakes.The duel ended on February 4, 2021, with Polk winning approximately $1,200,000 over 25,000 hands. Then in 2023, Daniel got a rematch with Doug and beat him for $200K and a championship belt.
12 Oct 2015
062: Jim Tressel – Coaching Ohio State: President of Youngstown State: Servant Leadership: #QuietTime
00:57:58
Episode 062: Jim Tressel – Coaching Ohio State: President of Youngstown State: Servant Leadership: #QuietTime
I’ve been fortunate to know Jim Tressel since 2002 when he recruited my younger brother AJ to play football at Ohio State University. He has always been a phenomenal example of what it means to be a servant leader. Always calm, composed, and measured in his approach… He’s someone who I admire a great deal. It was a thrill for me to have this in depth conversation with him.
Jim Tressel a former college football coach who served as head coach of the Youngstown State Penguins from 1986 to 2000 and the Ohio State Buckeyes from 2001 to 2010, winning five national championships between the two schools and 12 “Coach of the Year” awards during his career. He is currently the president of Youngstown State University.
Episode 062: Jim Tressel – Coaching Ohio State: President of Youngstown State: Servant Leadership: #QuietTime
Episode 003: The Incredibly Interesting Story Of Maurice Clarett And How He Built A 6 Figure Income After Spending 4 Years In Prison
Episode 002: How To Take Over And Set Bigger Goals With Chris Brogan
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
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Jim Tressel became the ninth president of Youngstown State University on July 1, 2014.
A native of Northeast Ohio, Tressel graduated from Berea High School in suburban Cleveland in 1971. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Education from Baldwin-Wallace College in 1975 and a master’s degree in Education from the University of Akron in 1977. He also received honorary degrees from YSU in 2001 and Baldwin-Wallace in 2003.
He previously was executive vice president for Student Success at the University of Akron, where he was charged with restructuring and leading the efforts of a newly created division dedicated to the academic and career success of students. Tressel’s areas of responsibility included recruitment and admissions, financial aid and career services, advising and adult/transfer services, the military services center and multicultural academic programs. He spent a great deal of time in the Northeast Ohio region, emphasizing the need for top-notch higher education, innovation and collaboration.
Prior to joining the University of Akron, Tressel was head football coach at Ohio State University from 2001 to 2010, where his teams won the national championship in 2002 and seven Big Ten championships and appeared in eight BCS post-season bowl games. As head football coach at YSU from 1986 to 2000, Tressel’s teams won four Division I-AA national championships. He also was executive director of Athletics at YSU from 1994 to 2000.
04 Feb 2016
095: Sal Vulcano – Creating A Hit TV Show: Impractical Jokers
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Episode 095: Sal Vulcano – Creating A Hit TV Show: Impractical Jokers
Sal Vulcano is an extremely intelligent and funny learning leader. I absolutely loved having him on the show. For all of the fame and notoriety Sal has gained from his hit TV show and his worldwide comedy tour, he is one of the most down-to-earth people I’ve ever met. In addition to being a fun fan of Sal’s work, I had the good fortune of meeting him at a charity golf event a year ago and I’ve really enjoyed keeping in touch with him ever since.
Sal Vulcano: The Tenderloins, a New York-based comedy troupe, whose four members – Joe Gatto, James Murray, Brian Quinn and Sal Vulcano – are the creators, executive producers, and stars of truTV’s hit series, Impractical Jokers. Currently in its 4th season, Impractical Jokers follows the guys as they coerce one another into doing public pranks while being filmed by hidden cameras. The 4th season premiere drew more than two million viewers and the program consistently earns Top Five rankings in its timeslot for key demos. This season continues to take dares to outrageous levels with a whole new arsenal of over-the-top hijinks, bringing the show and the guys to new locations and setting each other up for some of the most uncomfortable antics yet.
Their highly successful tour, “The truTV Impractical Jokers ‘Where’s Larry?’ Tour Starring The Tenderloins,” is a mix of stand-up, never-before-seen hidden camera videos, stories and insight. The tour has crisscrossed the country playing to 2000-8000 people per market.
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Episode 095: Sal Vulcano – Creating A Hit TV Show: Impractical Jokers
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Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
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Sal Vulcano: The Tenderloins, a New York-based comedy troupe, whose four members – Joe Gatto, James Murray, Brian Quinn and Sal Vulcano – are the creators, executive producers, and stars of truTV’s hit series, Impractical Jokers. Currently in its 4th season, Impractical Jokers follows the guys as they coerce one another into doing public pranks while being filmed by hidden cameras. The 4th season premiere drew more than two million viewers and the program consistently earns Top Five rankings in its timeslot for key demos. This season continues to take dares to outrageous levels with a whole new arsenal of over-the-top hijinks, bringing the show and the guys to new locations and setting each other up for some of the most uncomfortable antics yet.
Their highly successful tour, “The truTV Impractical Jokers ‘Where’s Larry?’ Tour Starring The Tenderloins,” is a mix of stand-up, never-before-seen hidden camera videos, stories and insight. The tour has crisscrossed the country playing to 2000-8000 people per market.
31 Jan 2022
457: Ken Blanchard - Creating Magical Moments, Building Trust, & Simple Truths Of Leadership
Dr. Ken Blanchard is one of the most influential leadership experts in the world and is respected for his years of groundbreaking work in the fields of leadership and management. He's written 60+ published books... Most notably, The One Minute Manager has sold over 15 million copies.
Notes:
T
he One Minute Manager:
1 Minutegoals– All struggles go back to one simple thing:communication. Set 3 goals for each employee. Write each of them down in 350 words or less.
1 Minutepraisings(“catch people doing the right things”) – Do this immediately following good work. Don’t wait (you might forget). Bespecificin your praise.
1 Minutereprimands(later changed to 1 Minute re-directs) - Address this immediately after it happens. Bevery specific.
"Teach people the power of love instead of the love of power."
"Life is what happens to you when you're planning on doing something else."
What made The One Minute Manager catch on?
It was a parable. Those were rare at that time. It was a short book. A quick read.
He started his company in 1979. Charles Schwab told him to name the company after himself... Thus, "The Ken Blanchard Companies" was started.
It helped that YPO adopted them quickly.
"All good performance starts with clear goals."
Create magical moments – For his wife, Margie’s 80th birthday party, They rented a big house in Hawaii for a week surrounded by the people they love. How can you create magical moments?
Ken has written 65 books... Only 2 of them by himself. He likes to write with others.
Profit is the applause you get for creating a great environment for your people.
Expectations:
You get what you expect.
Humility - Be there to serve others. Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.
Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.
Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.
"Many people measure their success by wealth, recognition, power, and status. There's nothing wrong with those, but if that's all you're focused on, you're missing the boat...if you focus on significance -using your time and talent to serve others -that's when truly meaningful success can come your way.:
If becoming a high-performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.
Sustained excellence:
They realize it's not all about them
They have a sense of humor
They listen more than they speak
Feedback is the breakfast of champions
Get to D4 -- The highest level of development: Competent and Committed.
Life/Career Advice:
Be a lifetime learner
Look for good leaders... Ask them to lunch
27 May 2018
259: Shane Snow - How To Build A Dream Team
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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
Episode #259: Shane Snow - How To Build A Dream Team
Shane Snow serves as Founder at Large at Contently, which works with Fortune 500 brands and has helped over 100,000 freelance journalists, artists, and photographers put food on the table.
His writing has appeared in Wired Magazine, The New Yorker, GQ, Fast Company, Advertising Age, The Washington Post, and others. He's author of Smartcuts, and is now releasing his most important book yet: Dream Teams, a journey through history, neuroscience, psychology, and business to reveal what separates groups that simply manage to get by from those that get better together--and how we might make our companies and communities better by understanding the difference. Shane has been named one of Details Magazine's "Digital Mavericks," called a "Wunderkind" in the New York Times, and honored as a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. Originally from Idaho, he studied journalism at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
The Learning Leader Show
"Two heads are only better than one if they think differently."
Show Notes:
Sustaining excellence:
2 X @ Matrix chart
Skepticism and credulity
Optimism and pessimism
They believe the world can be better, but they don't always take things at face value
Be skeptical AND optimistic as a leader
The leader should provide complete emotional AND intellectual support
Be willing to push. Be okay with conflict.
Be a "disagreeable giver" and create psychological safety
How to improve? Get help?
"I have a lot of faith in my self. A healthy ego. But I'm paranoid about my blind spots. I want to learn so much. I collect inputs that are critical from my business partner."
Why write Dream Teams?
The desire to study the best teams. The best cultures. "I wanted to learn this for my own business."
"When human beings come together, we can do incredible things."
The impact his Dad on Shane - A nuclear engineer
The importance of cognitive diversity
"Two heads are better than one only if they think differently."
The power of ragtag teams
Buddy cops
Street smart
By the book
Man/woman teams solve crimes better
How to implement and execute?
WHO is on the team?
How you deal with problems/issues?
"We need to re-frame how we think about this. Set up a pool to make it as cognitively diverse as possible
Perspective - How you view the world, who you are
Heuristic - The way you approach solving problems. (eg: different university, different piano teacher)
Think about solving problems how a movie director acts?
Do they use the exact same actors for every movie they direct? No, it doesn't make sense. They cast the best actors for each movie. "If you're solving different problems, why would you cast the same people every time?"
Shane explains why "culture fit" is not a good characteristic in hiring
The disaster that was the Daimler-Chrysler merger
Miscalculation on how much companies complimented each other
Culture kills most - "It's the fact that they didn't speak to each other."
Mergers that don't go well... People need to talk. It's okay to fight and disagree. It's ruined when people stop talking (just like a marriage)
"Silence is the enemy of innovation"
The Wright Brothers - They would argue one side of a point. Then have lunch... And switch sides of the argument. It forced expansion of the way they thought about problems
Wu Tang Clan - "Competition breeds excellence"
Magic Johnson & Larry Bird
DJ's in the Bronx
Competing against Ben Roethlisberger
Why is it okay to argue and compete?
"An overriding cause that's worth it. A purpose. A passion... To win."
Build an empire with people - Intense, full emotional support. Learn each others stories, their motivations
Blackrock - Form a new team, have everyone tell their personal stories, develop a sense of connectedness
If you dislike a colleague (like Shane did): "I went to her house and met her family and friends. I learned about her life growing up and the people who support her. It changed my perspective of her."
Episode 078:Kat Cole – From Hooters Waitress To President of Cinnabon
Episode 216:Jim Collins -- How To Go From Good To Great
Episode 179:How To Sustain Excellence - The Best Answers From 178 Questions
Episode 107:Simon Sinek – Leadership: It Starts With Why
18 Sep 2016
160: Liz Wiseman - Why Lack Of Experience Is Your Advantage
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Episode 160: Liz Wiseman - Why Lack Of Experience Is Your Advantage
Liz Wiseman teaches leadership to executives and emerging leaders around the world. She is the President of The Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. Some of her recent clients include: Apple, Disney, eBay/PayPal, Facebook, GAP, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Roche, Salesforce.com, and Twitter. Liz has been listed on the Thinkers50 ranking and named as one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world and recipient of the 2016 ATD Champion of Talent Award.
She is the author of three best-selling books: Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter and The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools. She has conducted significant research in the field of leadership and collective intelligence and writes for Harvard Business Review and Fortune and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Inc. and Time magazines. She is a frequent guest lecturer at BYU, and Stanford University.
A former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked over the course of 17 years as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development. During her tenure at Oracle, she led several major global initiatives and has worked and traveled in over 40 countries.
Liz holds a Bachelors degree in Business Management and a Masters of Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University. Liz lives in Menlo Park, California with her husband and four children who share her over-active curiosity and sense of adventure. (Bio from thewisemangroup.com) (Picture from thinkers50.com)
Episode 160: Liz Wiseman - Why Lack Of Experience Is Your Advantage
“The leaders job is to pull out the greatness around them."
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Having an outward orientation and thinking beyond yourself will lead to sustained excellence
Liz describes a "genius vs a genius maker"
"The leaders job is to pull out greatness around them. They are past themselves."
Larry Ellison is a prime example of a leader who pulls out the greatness in others
How to earn the trust of the CEO
Why learning beats knowing
Only 15% of what we know today will be relevant 5 years from now
Why lack of experience is your advantage
Career advice to younger workers: "Don't try to replicate someone else. Don't be a "Steve Jobs wannabe" -- Be yourself
Managers need to understand the value of rookies
The disciplines of a "multiplier vs a diminsher"
Signs you've reached a plateau in your career:
Things are running smoothly
You have "ready answers"
You're getting positive feedback all the time
You're the mentor
You're busy but bored
You start to play it safe
Diminisher = Energy killer, puts a blanket on new ideas
Multiplier = They use their own intelligence to amplify and help others grow and succeed
A Diminsher is
A trophy collector... Treats talented employees like trophies (until they leave)
A tyrant... A creator of stress
A "know it all"
A Multiplier is
A talent magnet... People grow around multipliers and other great leaders flow to them
A liberator... They give space
A challenger... They invite people to do hard things. They get comfortable inviting others to be uncomfortable. They create a warm environment.
Someone who creates a safe environment for intellectual curiosity and creates stretch
“Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else." - Sara Blakely
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10 Mar 2023
516: Matt Mochary - The Components Of A Coaching Conversation, Making Better Hiring Decisions, Holding Yourself (& Others) Accountable, & Giving Useful Feedback
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Matt Mochary is an operator and an investor. Matt is known as the coach of Silicon Valley’s best CEOs. He works with leaders at many companies, including Coinbase, Opendoor, Bolt, and Clearbit. After selling his startup in 1999 for millions, he surfed, made movies, and then developed the Mochary Method to help leaders excel.
Matt's life mantra: “Make Money, Have Fun, Do Good”
Matt has coached the leaders of Angelist, Brex, Coinbase, Sequoia, Grammarly, Attentive Mobile, Flexport, Plaid, and Reddit.
I was not expecting so much emotion from him when talking about coaching. It’s evident that Matt finds great joy in what he does. I find that inspiring.
The components to a coaching conversation... Hold each other accountable. Declare the highest priority actions. Unpack the problems. Ask them how they are complicit in creating those problems? Help provide solutions & action items for each. Then share feedback.
Instead of looking for a specific class, find the best teachers and go to them. That’s where the learning happens. In college and out in the real world.
"Matt’s coaching has brought me clarity, focus, organization, less stress, and higher performance (me and the team). I have always been skeptical of coaches but I think he can 10x the output of a lot of people and I hope he does!" -- Sam Altman (CEO, OpenAI)
“It's often easy to make a decision, but it can be much harder to get your team to invest emotionally in that decision.” “You create buy-in when you make people feel that they are part of the decision and that their input contributes to the final outcome.”
“Most companies spend extraordinary resources of time, money, and equity to bring on a new team member, and then almost entirely drop the ball on quickly getting that team member onboarded and up to speed on how the company works so that they can begin making a full contribution. Don’t make this mistake.”
“You create buy-in when you make people feel that they are part of the decision and that their input contributes to the final outcome.”
“Making a Sale To make a sale effectively, you need to do the following three things: Build trust Identify the customer’s specific pain Sell results, not features”
“Why did you leave that job?” Was the candidate promoted, recruited, or fired? Get very curious about why.”
“And when receiving appreciation, there is only one correct response: “Thank you.” Do not feign humility by downplaying the act with statements like “It was nothing, anyone could have done it.” No. The person is trying to make you feel appreciated. Anything other than “thank you” will rob them of their goal.”
Meetings– ALWAYS start on time. Don’t ever say, “Well let’s wait for everyone to join zoom.”
14 Sep 2016
159: Henry Ward & Josh Merrill - CEO of eShares: How To Hire, Manage, & Lead
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Episode 159: Henry Ward & Josh Merrill - CEO of eShares: How To Hire, Manage, & Lead
Henry Ward is the CEO of eShares. Josh Merrill leads product and Marketing at eShares
Hiring Principles:
Hiring means we failed to execute and need help
Startup employee effectiveness follows a power law
False Positives are okay, False Negatives are not
Culture is defined by who we hire
Hiring Heuristics:
Hire for Strength vs Lack of Weakness
Hire for Trajectory vs Experience
Hire Doers vs Tellers
Hire Learners vs Experts
Hire Different vs Similar
Always pass on ego
Episode 159: Henry Ward & Josh Merrill - CEO of eShares: How To Hire, Manage, & Lead
“The success of a company is the sum of the people in it."
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Patience, long term thinking, and understanding that your success will be determined by the people you surround yourself with will lead to sustained excellence
Product focused and understanding "The Artist's Dilemma"
The best produce it for themselves
How eShares was created
Why their partnership works so well
What Josh feels Henry doesn't do well (Interesting moment!)
Why don't more companies publicly share what they believe in?
eShares hiring process
Why you shouldn't hire someone because they are a "culture fit"
Why you shouldn't have performance plans -- Once you've deemed the person is not working, then fire them immediately
Hiring for trajectory vs. experience
How it's similar to the LA Rams drafting Jared Goff with their #1 pick... Being patient to develop him
How should you grade employees? Don't... Teach them to grade themselves. Don't give people a number grade -- "How am I doing?" "You're doing a 2."
How to fire someone:
Give sincere explanation for why
Don't make it one-sided
Help them with what's next
Be intrigued about what you do -- "eShares is a learning experience for me. I'm doing things I've never done before"
“False positives are okay. False negatives are not."
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28 Mar 2021
412: Kevin Sharer (Former CEO of Amgen) - What Operational Excellence Looks Like
Kevin Sharer has a distinguished career as a successful CEO and Board Member. He is currently a senior lecturer at Harvard University Business School and continues to mentor a select number of senior executives. Either as a Chairman, independent director, or mentor, Sharer has been a part of more than 20 successful CEO-successor transitions. Kevin led Amgen for 20 years, first as President and then as CEO for 12 years. Under Sharer’s leadership, the company achieved annual revenue of $16 billion with operations in 55 countries.
Notes:
"What Operational Excellence Looks Like"
Must know the details
Must have a listening system to know where problems brew
The leaders have a clear agreement with the team on what success is
A cadence of clear communication
The leader must embody the behavior... They are the model
Must have real empathy for people and care about them
The leader needs to assess when things go wrong so that they don't make the same mistake twice...
Kevin spent 110 days underwater in a submarine...
When he left the Navy, he knew he wanted to be a manager. He joined a program at AT&T to become one...
He had an ambition to rise high in an organization
Kevin's dad - A military aviator. His hero and role model. his dad cared a lot about leadership...
How did Kevin earn the CEO role at Amgen?
Spent 8 years as the President of the company. And "made it pretty obvious" to hire him for the CEO role
He consistently delivered results and formed a strong partnership with the CEO
How to sustain what's special about a company as it grows?
The book Built to Last by Jim Collins was very helpful....
How to create and live your values?
They are not defined by what's written down, it's the behavior of the people. And that starts at the top...
Understand what your real values are. If you don't believe in the values, you shouldn't work there...
You "have to have social data to know that the values are real." Ask others in the organization: "Are the values you experience consistent with the values stated by the company?"
How he got hired as the President at Amgen?
"I first decided that I wanted to be a General Manager and not a functional specialists." Kevin pursued that through General Electric and got great experience...They hired him in part because of his broad range of experience.
It was a multi-step interview process. Kevin interviewed with 20 people at the company before getting the offer...
Listening ability: Kevin went from bad to great... "On the way up in my career, I had the view that I was so fast, so smart... It was working. I thought I was being helpful by telling others what I thought, but I was cutting off the full picture."
Kevin had an eye opening moment when he asked the CEO of IBM to talk about leadership with his team...
"I learned to listen for comprehension. Listen to understand first."
"You need to listen to the entire eco-system."
Big idea: Pick 10 CEOs who didn't make it: "Seven of them weren't situationally aware."
What are some "must-have" hiring qualities?
A record of good knowledge
Great communication skill
Comfort in their own skin
Curious - they must ask questions
Answer the question, "what are your goals?"
Answer the question, "what have you learned from failure?"
"If five people were asked about you, what would they say?"
Their accomplishments speak for themselves. They don't have to overly sell themselves
They need to "clearly want the job."
A good sense of humor
Hiring trap: "There is a bias for us to hire people like us. It's overwhelming. We're wired to think, "other is dangerous." We must be aware of that."
18 Jun 2023
531: Dr. Angus Fletcher - Building Confidence, Responding To Adversity, Telling Your Story, Exhibiting Vulnerability, & The New Science of Narrative Intelligence
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Dr. Angus Fletcher has dual degrees in neuroscience (BS, University of Michigan) and literature (Ph.D., Yale). His research employs a mix of laboratory experiment, literary history, and rhetorical theory to explore the psychological effects—cognitive, behavioral, therapeutic—of different narrative technologies. He’s the best-selling author of multiple books including Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature, and Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence.
"The story you tell yourself needs to be the true story of yourself."
How Angus tells his story:
Build trust
Listen
Demonstrate courage - Angus told a group of special forces operators one of the most embarrassing stories of his life. After that, he said, "I'm not scared of anything."
You must be genuinely humble to learn from your mistakes.
"Real leaders activate the leader within you."
Being a leader is all about contemplating fear. Stepping up when adversity strikes is why we exist as leaders. It’s easy to lead when everything is going well. We want to be known as the leader who is there when it’s hard.
Dr. Fletcher's ultimate goal of using the power of story to bring us closer to self-actualization. Seems like that's a good first step to being a great leader.
Confidence is earned by creating evidence for yourself that you can do hard things. Angus did this when he shared his story of not making it through Marine Corps boot camp. Angus's vulnerability earned trust with the military leaders.
“For the longer we suspend our judgments, the more accurate our subsequent verdicts become. This valuable fact has been uncovered by researchers who’ve spent decades probing the mechanics of better decision-making, only to discover that the key is simply more time and more information. Which is to say: reserving our judgment until the last possible moment.”
Unlike a computer, the brain wasn’t particularly data-driven. Or particularly logical. Instead, it was emotional. And creative. And powered by story.
“There are a number of judgments that we can suspend permanently, including most of our judgments about other people. Our brain is constantly making such judgments. It looks at strangers on the street—and judges them. It looks at celebrities in magazines—and judges them. It looks at family members and colleagues and friends in homes and offices and restaurants—and judges them. These judgments feel instantly good to our neurons; they deliver pleasant microdoses of emotional superiority. But in the long run, they make us anxious, incurious, and less happy, so we can improve our long-term mental well-being if we suspend them.”
02:12 - Highlights of Leadership Training04:24 - How to Prevent Failure09:14 - What is a Story Scientist?
12:57 - Is Story Science Therapy?
14:22 - Tell Your Story
18:56 - Vulnerability is the Most Powerful Thing You Can Do
22:00 - Can You Go Too Far With Being Vulnerable?
25:19 - How to Be Vulnerable
32:42 - Real Leaders Activate the Leader In You
36:10 - Where Does Your Sense of Confidence Come From?
40:50 - Punch Through Your Own Fear
43:00 - Be Open About What Could Go Wrong
44:47 - Questions to Ask During the Interview Process
48:33 - Responding to Adversity IS Leadership
51:45 - How to Be Excellent at Speaking
56:27 - Advice For Younger Leaders
29 Apr 2018
255: David Burkus - The Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life (Friend Of A Friend)
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Episode #255: David Burkus - The Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life (Friend Of A Friend)
David Burkus is a best-selling author, a sought after speaker, and business school professor. In 2017, he was named as one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers50.
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"The fundamental element that defines the quality of our lives are the people we surround ourselves with and the conversations we have with them."
Show Notes:
What defines a happy life?
"The fundamental element that defines the quality of our lives are the people we surround ourselves with and the conversations we have with them. That's how you live a happy life."
Adam Rifkin - The "strength of weak ties"
The research suggests you have better odds of getting a job through a loose acquaintance than a close friend
"Dormant ties" are very valuable to have in your life. Make a deliberate effort to reach back out to those people. Use a system to keep track of those relationships
This is the "what" and the "how" to get it done
From "science" to "practice" -- The key to success is to be prescriptive. Give actionable advice
The story of Michelle McKenna Doyle -- How she created her dream job in the NFL. 1 dormant tie - 1 degree of separation. "Most of us are only 1 or 2 introductions away from what we want..."
Clusters - People tend to cluster around like minds. There is amazing power of small communities
"Build your own stage, your own community"
Super connector - Dunbar's # -- Brian Grazer
Having regular curiosity conversations -- That is how he met Ron Howard
Never ask the question, "How can I help you?" Figure out how you can help someone else, then help them. Don't put the onus on them.
Always think, "who does this person need to meet?" And make connections
In a networking situation, don't just ask - "What do you do?" -- Try to learn more about them as a person, not just their job
"What excites you right now?
Who's your favorite super hero?"
Where did you grow up?"
Be interested in order to be interesting
"We feel guilt when we no longer want to associate with old friends and colleagues who haven't changed. The price, and marker, of growth." - Naval Ravikant
How David and his wife measured their friendships and peer group -- They made lists
How to give a TED Talk? -- Practiced it hundreds of times, hired a coach
528: Seth Godin - A New Manifesto For Teams: Innovation, Creativity, Hiring, Firing, & The Power of Speed (The Song of Significance)
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Seth Godin is the author of 20 international bestsellers that have changed the way people think about marketing, leadership, and work. His blog (which you can find by typing "seth" into Google) is the most viewed marketing blog in the world. Some of my favorite books of his are… Tribes, Linchpin, Purple Cow, and most recently The Song of Significance.
Notes:
Hiring Leaders — when deciding who to hire for a leadership role: look at the careers of the people who have worked for them. And look at the careers of the people they’ve led. Leaders aren’t managers with fancy titles. Leaders are planting the seeds for generations of impact to come.
Let's get real or let's not play.
Tension is what we seek.
It's important to show up early.
Frederick Taylor met Henry Ford and management was created.
Study bees - They leave their home and have 72 hours to find their next one.
Matt Mullenweg (Automatic CEO) - "Create the conditions for forward motion."
To create the environment for the people they’re leading to flourish. How are you intentionally creating the environment for the people you’re leading to do their best work?
Management doesn’t just exist. It was invented. When you race to the bottom, You see people as resources, not as people. (I don't like the term human capital management)
When Paul Orfalea wasbuilding kinkos(which he later sold to fed ex for $2B), he said his best technique for growing the business was simple. He would walk into their stores and ask someone there to tell him about an innovation they’ve recently made. And then he’d tell all the other stores about it…
“Real value is no longer created by traditional measures of productivity. It’s created by personal interactions, innovation, creative solutions, resilience, and the power of speed.”
09 Jul 2015
035: Dr. Catriona Wallace – How To Go Where The Money Is…
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Episode 035: Dr. Catriona Wallace – How To Go Where The Money Is…
This was a very interesting conversation with Dr. Catriona Wallace… Catriona has an extremely interesting story to tell about the multiple businesses she runs and how she does it. She is based out of Australia but also spends a great amount of time in The United States to grow her businesses on a global scale.
Catriona is the CEO of three Sydney-based companies, Fifth Quadrant, a Customer Experience Strategy, Design, Research & Analyst firm; Flamingo, a Customer Engagement & Analytics platform software company (www.flamingo.io) and ACA Research, a full service market research firm.
In 2014 Catriona was inducted into the Australian Business Women's Hall of Fame, was selected as one of the top Australian female entrepreneurs by Springboard Enterprises and was a Finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and Telstra Business Women's Awards.
Catriona has a Phd in Organisational Behaviour: Leadership. She is a well published author and international public speaker on the topics of the Future of Customer Experience, Co-creation, Entrepreneurism and Innovation, Data Analytics, new models of Leadership and new models of Philanthropy.
Catriona is also the mother of 5 kids.
Episode 035: Dr. Catriona Wallace – How To Go Where The Money Is…
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“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what brings you alive.”
Some Questions I Ask:
What are common characteristics of people who have achieved success?
What do you feel obligated to?
How do you ensure to always go where the money is?
What is the importance of having the end game in mind?
How do you manage to run 4 businesses at once? And be a single mother to 5 kids?
Which individual leader has had the most influence on you?
“Your business needs three things: Money, Sales, and Vision.”
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
The importance of having a strong purpose
That Catriona once worked with the police force (but that it was corrupt)
The importance of focusing on the user experience (Facebook, Instagram)
The 3 most important aspects of running a business (Money, Sales, Vision)
Why we must be uncomfortable at all times to grow
The need to take risks
A learning leader is always listening to the market and finding the gap
Episode 001: How To Become A Master Connector With Jayson Gaignard From MasterMind Talks
Episode 002: How To Take Over And Set Bigger Goals With Chris Brogan
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
Did you enjoy the podcast?
I love learning from people who bring a new idea to the table… That is what Catriona has done. Catriona is an extremely interesting person. Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!
Catriona is the CEO of three Sydney-based companies, Fifth Quadrant, a Customer Experience Strategy, Design, Research & Analyst firm; Flamingo, a Customer Engagement & Analytics platform software company (www.flamingo.io) and ACA Research, a full service market research firm.
In 2014 Catriona was inducted into the Australian Business Women's Hall of Fame, was selected as one of the top Australian female entrepreneurs by Springboard Enterprises and was a Finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and Telstra Business Women's Awards.
In 2013 Catriona led the Fifth Quadrant Group to win the Telstra Business Awards NSW Business of the Year & NSW Medium Business of the Year.
Catriona has a Phd in Organisational Behaviour: Leadership. She is a well published author and international public speaker on the topics of the Future of Customer Experience, Co-creation, Entrepreneurism and Innovation, Data Analytics, new models of Leadership and new models of Philanthropy.
Catriona is also the founder of Philanthropic funds - Indigo Express Fund which funds Indigenous Literacy; Kids in Philanthropy which mobilizes children to have a broader social consciousness and fund children in need; and Out & Up an employment Program for Women Prisoners, Refugees and Asylum Seekers.
25 May 2016
127: Adam Grant – How Originals Impact The World
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Episode 127: Adam Grant – How Originals Impact The World
Adam Grant has been a leader I’ve admired since I read his NY Times best-selling book, “Give and Take” in 2013. The book changed my life. It changed how I view the world and how I view success. The path to success and sustained excellence is different than I originally thought and I have Adam to thank for you. It was an absolute thrill to have this conversation with Adam.
Adam Grant is Wharton’s top-rated professor and a New York Times writer on work and psychology. He has been recognized as one of the world's 25 most influential management thinkers, the 100 most creative people in business, the 40 best business professors under 40, and Malcolm Gladwell’s favorite thinkers.
Adam is the author of two New York Times bestselling books translated into 35 languages. Originals explores how individuals champion new ideas and leaders fight groupthink; it is a #1 national bestseller and one of Amazon's best books of February 2016. Give and Take examines why helping others drives our success, and was named one of the best books of 2013 by Amazon, Apple, the Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal—as well as one of Oprah's riveting reads and Harvard Business Review’s ideas that shaped management.
Adam received a standing ovation for his 2016 TED talk on the surprising habits of original thinkers and was voted the audience's favorite speaker at The Nantucket Project on the success of givers and takers.
Adam Grant is Wharton’s top-rated professor and a New York Times writer on work and psychology. He has been recognized as one of the world's 25 most influential management thinkers, the 100 most creative people in business, the 40 best business professors under 40, and Malcolm Gladwell’s favorite thinkers. Previously, he was a record-setting advertising director, a junior Olympic springboard diver, and a professional magician.
Adam is the author of two New York Times bestselling books translated into 35 languages. Originals explores how individuals champion new ideas and leaders fight groupthink; it is a #1 national bestseller and one of Amazon's best books of February 2016. Give and Take examines why helping others drives our success, and was named one of the best books of 2013 by Amazon, Apple, the Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal—as well as one of Oprah's riveting reads and Harvard Business Review’s ideas that shaped management.
Adam received a standing ovation for his 2016 TED talk on the surprising habits of original thinkers and was voted the audience's favorite speaker at The Nantucket Project on the success of givers and takers. His speaking and consulting clients include Google, the NBA, Merck, Goldman Sachs, Pixar, Facebook, Johnson & Johnson, the United Nations, the U.S. Army and Navy, and the World Economic Forum, where he has been honored as a Young Global Leader. His New York Times articles on Raising a moral child and How to raise a creative child have each been shared over 300,000 times on social media.
Adam was profiled in The New York Times Magazine cover story, Is giving the secret to getting ahead? He was tenured at Wharton while still in his twenties, and has received the Excellence in Teaching Award for every class that he has taught. He is the founder and host of the Authors@Wharton speaker series, and co-director of Wharton People Analytics. He has designed experiential learning activities based on The Apprentice in which students have raised over $325,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation while developing leadership, influence, networking and collaboration skills. He serves on the Lean In board and authored a New York Times series on women and work with Sheryl Sandberg, including Speaking while female and Madam C.E.O., get me a coffee.
Adam earned his Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan, completing it in less than three years, and his B.A. from Harvard University, magna cum laude with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa honors. He has earned awards for distinguished scholarly achievement from the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, and the National Science Foundation. He has more than 60 publications in leading management and psychology journals, and his pioneering studies have increased performance and reduced burnout among engineers and sales professionals, enhanced call center productivity, and motivated safety behaviors among doctors, nurses and lifeguards. His studies have been highlighted in bestselling books such as Quiet by Susan Cain, Drive by Daniel Pink, and David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell.
18 May 2016
125: Garry Ridge – How To Build A Tribal Culture (CEO WD-40)
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Episode 125: Garry Ridge – How To Build A Tribal Culture (CEO WD-40)
Garry Ridge is president and chief executive officer of the WD-40 Company (NASDAQ WDFC) headquartered in San Diego, California. WD-40 Company is the maker of the ever-popular WD-40. A native of Australia, Garry has served as national vice president of the Australian Marketing Institute and the Australian Automotive Aftermarket Association.
Garry is an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego. He teaches leadership development, talent management & succession planning in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership program. In March 2003, Garry was awarded Director of the Year for Enhancement of Economic Value by the Corporate Directors forum. In 2006, Garry was awarded the Ernst & Young - Master Entrepreneur Award.
In 2009, Garry co-authored a book with Ken Blanchard titled “Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy called “Don’t Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A.”
Episode 125: Garry Ridge – How To Build A Tribal Culture (CEO WD-40)
“The Number That Predicts Long Term Sales Success Is Employee Satisfaction”
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Having a high level of empathy (EQ), being a great listener, and a passion to see others succeed leads to sustained excellence
How he grew WD-40 from $250 million to $1.6 Billion
How to build a tribal culture
Turning up the volume on training, learning, and development
What it means when Garry says, “Don’t waste a good crisis”
Setting SMART goals
Why the employee needs to set the goal and be supported by the leader
“Wisdom is putting knowledge to work”
“You learn a lot by shutting up”
A great line from “The Bridge of Spies” When the prisoner is asked if he’s worried about something potentially bad happening to him, he quietly responds, “Would that help?” – It’s a waste of energy to worry about things outside of your control
Don’t Mark My Paper – Help Me Get An A
Having a rigorous hiring process to ensure bringing great people into the business
Learning Leader – Aggressive self-education
“I Never Lose… I Either Win Or I Learn” – Garry Ridge
Garry's passion about learning is driven from his personal experience of working in an environment where learning was not encouraged or sought out. As Garry recalls, "I knew we as a team could be better, but when looking into the eyes of my employees, I didn't see the hunger. I took a hard line approach and starting asking tough questions, such as, 'what kind of environment would help feed your hunger?' My employees were direct and honest, 'give me an environment where I can learn, be challenged, and rewarded for taking a risk.' So, I did just that, I set out to create a learning environment.
Today, Garry has the desire to continue with his learnings by sharing them with others. Garry says, "Change is difficult, and as I was going through this transitional period, it would have been helpful to have a big brother/sister who could have provided additional insights. Today, knowing others will want to create a learning environment, I would like help and support this by sharing my learnings.
21 Jul 2024
592: Ed Batista - How To Give Useful Feedback, What Great Leaders Do, and Why We All Need An Executive Coach
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Notes:
Commonalities of excellent coaches:
Not defensive
Respond well to feedback
Ability to learn
"Leadership can't be taught but it can be learned."
Coaching is not therapy, but it can be therapy-adjacent.
It's not telling people what to do and it's not just asking questions. It's a combination of all of them.
There is ample research on the benefits of writing. It clarifies your thinking.
The questions to ask someone who might need an executive coach:
Why do you want a coach?
Why now?
What do you hope to get out of it?
What do great leaders do?
First, do no harm.
Walk the talk.
Be an embodiment of the culture.
Have high standards
Take risks
Coach people up
Train people
"Coaching is accomplishment through others."
"Feedback is not a gift."
Feedback is data. Signal and noise.
Signal - Important and good.
Noise - Byproduct of someone's distorted lens.
"Praise, Criticism, Praise (PCP) is terrible." Don't give the compliment sandwich. It's disingenuous.
How leaders best overcome adversity – The most critical skill is "adaptive capacity..." It’s composed of two primary qualities: the ability to grasp context, and hardiness.
Coaching - Asking evocative questions, ensuring the other person feels heard, and actively conveying empathy remain the foundations of coaching.
Connect:Establish and renew the interpersonal connection, followed by an open-ended question.
Reflect:Having elicited a response, reflect back the essence of the other person's comments.
Direct:Focus their attention on a particular aspect of their response that invites further exploration.
Support and Challenge- A client once said, “It feels like you’re always in my corner, but you never hesitate to challenge me.”
Master the Playbook, Throw it Away- Coaching involves a continuous and cyclical process of learning, unlearning, and relearning.
Power Dynamics- The longer I coach, the more I appreciate and value the work of Jeff Pfeffer, a leading scholar on power. philosopherErnest Becker: "If you are wrong about power, you don't get a chance to be right about anything else."
"Meaningful coaching is always an emotionally intimate experience, no matter what’s being discussed. In part this is a function of the context: two people talking directly to each other with no distractions... Intimacy in a coaching relationship also results from a willingness to 'make the private public'--to share with another person the thoughts and feelings that we usually keep to ourselves... And yet an essential factor that makes such intimacy possible isa clear set of boundariesdefining the relationship, which creates an inevitable and necessary sense of distance..."
24 Sep 2023
546: Tim Ryan - Giving Stump Speeches, Using Meditation & Mindfulness, Playing Quarterback, Listening to Dave Matthews Band, and Running for President?
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Gratitude – For Tim’s last speech as a congressman, he said“It’s an honor to be a citizen of the United States. I think we get out of this mess we’re in, the polarization, the hate, the anger, the fear… The first step out of that is with gratitude.”
Tim opens by sharing the impact his high school football coaches had on him and why playing quarterback at John F. Kennedy High School prepared him for life as a leader...
In 2002, Tim ran for the United States House of Representatives for the 17th District. Tim was initially seen as an underdog in a 6-way primary. He was elected at age 29.
"There is an exhausted majority in the country, and they feel like they don't have any political home at all," Ryan said, describing his target audience as those who have been "checking out." "That's maddening because that gives a bigger voice to those forces of division and hate and anger, so we want to build an organization that welcomes these people to participate.”
AOC endorsed Tim for his Senate run in 2022. And he said, “It’s not helpful here. Nor did I seek it.”
David Axelrod said about Tim's 2022 Senate Run that “he's running the best campaign in the country. And the best campaign in the country may not be enough.”
“Dave Matthews has inspired me to live a better life, to do what’s right, that it’s okay to care about each other."
“There may be some things where we don’t agree, but I think we need to have decent people that care about us in government, and I think Tim is a decent man.” -- Dave Matthews
“I’m honored to have Dave Matthews, one of my absolute favorite musicians, in the Buckeye State to fire up our team and bring this thing home.”
Being in the moment – The campaign trail is grueling. Every day is a new town with new people. And you need to get up and give your stump speech, listen to people, and tell compelling stories. His mantra of “I am only in control of this stump speech,” and Tim’s ability to stay in the moment was critical and is a key reason why he’s done so well over the years.
Tim's grandfather… And the impact he had on his life. “He was there."
Regardless of the weather or whatever he had going on, Tim felt his grandfather’s presence as a servant leader. This is an excellent reminder for us as leaders that our first job is to show up consistently for those we are leading.
15 Oct 2017
227: Jeff Goins - How To Be A Thriving Artist (Real Artists Don't Starve)
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Episode 227: Jeff Goins - How To Be A Thriving Artist (Real Artists Don't Starve)
Jeff Goins is a writer, keynote speaker, and award-winning blogger with a reputation for challenging the status quo. He is the best-selling author of five books, including Real Artists Don't Starve, and The Art of Work, which landed on the best seller lists of USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, and the Washington Post. His website Goinswriter.com is visited by millions of people every year. Jeff was previously on The Learning Leader Show Episode #028
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What does it take to stand out? "Show UP, Do the Work, and most importantly: FOLLOW UP. Nobody does this."
Show Notes:
Sustained Excellence. Common Themes of Leaders who Sustain Excellence:
Passion - A fire to pursue their "why"
Discipline - Daily habits, routines, rituals to be best every day
Coach K -- Sit down and analyze after every single game to improve
Great Learners - Hungry learner. How to do it better?
Real Artists don't starve
Starving artist vs. Thriving artist
The myth of the starving artist
Why Michelangelo was a thriving (rich) artist
"Do you really have to starve to be an artist?" -- No
You aren't born an artist (or a Leader) -- It's a result of the choices you make. The human brain is malleable. A person can learn and master a craft.
"Leaders are made. Artists are made."
The story of John Grisham -- A lawyer who wrote novels on the side.
He wrote one page a day for years... And then he had a novel
You can gradually re-create yourself
Wake up a little earlier every day and do the work. Make it a habit
Change happens slowly
The way we talk about it is not actually the way we do it.
We do not need to take a giant risk. When we look at the facts, we can take measured risks
2 Resources at The University of Wisconsin -- A study of 5,000 entrepreneurs
The Two Types
Burn The Boats -- 33% more likely to fail
Side Hustlers -- People who didn't initially go "All In" statistically were more likely to succeed
It took Jeff two years to quit his job. He built one year of runway
The rule of apprenticeship -- Ryan Holiday - Be an Anteambulo. Clear the path for others
A "master piece" came from the time of Michaelangelo
What it takes to stand out -- Show up, do the work, FOLLOW UP (nobody does this), show what you've learned, help others
Jeff has lunch every Wednesday with a mentee -- Rarely do they follow up. Do this.
"The best thing you can do is take notes, and follow up. Put it into action."
Jeff was/is mentored by Michael Hyatt -- He followed up constantly
How do you do X? "It's easy to talk about stuff, it's hard to do it."
"If you're teachable, it puts you in a class of people that sits apart."
Do not work for free -- The rule of value
Charging brings dignity to the work
"Working for free is often not the opportunity we think it is"
"Leaders are made. Artists are made." -- "You aren't born an artists."
499: Cody Keenan - Working With The Most Powerful Person In The World, Taking Big Risks, & The Art Of Speechwriting
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Cody Keenan has written with President Barack Obama since 2007, working his way up to chief speechwriter. He’s been named the “Springsteen” of the Obama White House, even though he can’t play an instrument, and Obama calls him “Hemingway." His first book, Grace, became an instant New York Times Bestseller.
Notes:
The use of productive paranoia. Cody said, “I was so afraid to fail that I would do anything to succeed.” – We can use fear as fuel…
Storytelling – As a speaker, it is our job to help the people in the audience see themselves in the place of the hero in the story. When you’re preparing for your next team meeting or town hall address, think about that and how you tell the stories that you do.
Singing at the Eulogy in Charleston - If you want an A+ performance, you have tochooseto go for it. You can get a B by playing it safe, but you won’t perform with excellence unless you have the courage to go for it.
In less than 10 years, Cody went from mailroom intern in Congress to chief speechwriter in the White House.
My goal is to "write a speech that sings."
‘In less than 10 years, I went from mailroom intern in Congress to chief speechwriter in the White House,’
President Obama said he relied “on Cody not just to share my vision, but to help tell America’s story.” “He’s a brilliant writer. He’s relentless.”
The first speechCody wrote was for Senator Ted Kennedy. Right after President Obama’s 2004 Democratic convention speech that put him on the map. You write:“To see someone else speak words I’d written sent electricity right up my spine and out my hair.”
07 Jul 2019
318: Clark Kellogg - How To Take Control Of Your Personal Development
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#318: Clark Kellogg - How To Take Control Of Your Personal Development
*This episode was recorded live in front of a 200 person audience in Dayton, Ohio at the Sonny Unger Memorial Banquet.
Clark Kellogg serves as one of the the premier voices in college basketball. He works for CBS Sports. In 1997, Kellogg joined CBS Sports full-time as a studio/game analyst for college basketball coverage and was one of three in-studio hosts for March Madness. In March 2010, Kellogg played a game of H.O.R.S.E. against U.S. President Barack Obama. The game, called "P.O.T.U.S." for the occasion, was won by Obama.
Prior to that, Clark was an All-American at Ohio State University. In 1982, Kellogg declared for the NBA draft after his junior year of college and was a 1st round draft pick (8th overall) of the Indiana Pacers. In his first season, he was selected as a member of the NBA All-Rookie Team. Converse signed him to an endorsement deal, to release his own Converse "Special K" sneaker.
Notes:
Take control of your own development - This is YOUR responsibility. That's your property. Be intentional about growing and getting better and improving. It's not just the big things. It's the small things. Who are you associating with? How are you impacting them? Who do you want to be? There are a lot of distractions, there will be bumps, headwinds... Own your development."
Control the controllables: your attitude, your effort, your faith. The most effective leaders are "others centered." This is a distinct and intentional process to help elevate others. Mindset: The battlefield for a lot of our challenges is in our own mind. Attitude impacts how we move forward. "Never major in minor things." Most of life's disappointments are not major in the context of the bigger picture. Don't make mountains out of molehills.
Focusing on just one sport versus playing multiple sports.
Growing up with a dad who was a policeman in Cleveland, OH.
Advice to parents -- Expose your children to a variety of opportunities and support their passions
Needs to be an interest and a desire on your kids part
Having athletically talented kids (son played college basketball and professionally. A daughter who plays college volleyball).
Focus on fun and fundamentals:
If you have an aptitude to go to the higher levels as you get older, then focus
Discussed why he went to Ohio State -- Clark was a top three player in America at the time.
The intensity of the rivalry with Indiana and playing against Bobby Knight
What it was like getting a show named after him from Converse
The makeup of a great coach:
A passion for the role of leading people
A willingness to adapt and adjust to the changes in the game and personalities on the team
An effective communicator -- What you desire and what needs to be done
Set the tone of humility of accountability
Genuine -- They are themselves -- "Players can pick up on phonies quickly"
This establishes trust
"Are they getting better because you've been their coach?" -- That's the question a coach should always ask themselves
A coach should always be developing their players
What to look for in a teammate?
Consistency of attitude and effort
"Don't want the volatile person who is up and down. I want consistency."
Being able to accept criticism and coaching
Able to constructively criticize others in a positive way
"Who you are should not fluctuate based on where you are. There should be a consistency in who you are. That's something that should be worked on and you should be intentional about it. Authenticity is powerful and impactful."
The moment of having his career cut short (only 26 years old) because of a knee injury:
"It was brutal initially, but came to peace with it after having multiple surgeries and realized I couldn't play anymore."
Starting the next career -- TV broadcasting
Humbling self and starting at Cleveland State as an analyst. Back to the basics, starting from the bottom
"I didn't become good at basketball right away. If I'm going to do this well, I need to start where I need to start. I got the reps. Radio was great training. You have to be fairly quick."
The importance of having mentors and being a mentor for others
"How do I become excellent at this thing I'm interested in?"
"You need to be unique, but you need to be you." You must be authentic.
"Everyone can relate to food." Use food analogies in basketball. Using your personality as part of your craft to be relatable.
Working with Charles Barkley:
"It's exactly as it appears. Charles is a personality, successful businessman, and very smart."
Playing basketball at the White House with President Obama -- Losing to him in P.O.T.U.S
How Larry Bird was the best trash-talker Clark played against
How Clark prepares for a broadcast:
"I'm consistent in the process to be ready in the moments as they unfold."
Visit team's practices, review notes from prior year, watch a lot of games on TV, chart each game watched -- "You remember things better when you write it down. I'm always taking notes when I watch games."
Who are you associating with? Who do you want to be? What are you doing to be that?
Live a life of gratitude. Salt water and fresh water can't come from the same spring. You cannot be thankful and hateful at the same time. Be grateful for what you have while striving to improve.
Excellent leaders = Be "others" centered. "Others" focused. They want to help elevate others.
Be available and giving of yourself to others. Help mentor people earlier in their career.
Good habits are hard to break. Build good habits.
22 Mar 2020
357: Stanley McChrystal - Leadership In Uncertain Times
Episode #357: General Stanley McChrystal - Leadership In Uncertain Times
“As we lead through this time ofcrisis, leaders are more important than ever:
1) Communicate relentlessly
2) Match your internal operating pace with that of your external environment
3) Continue to reiterate what ‘winning’ looks like to your organization.”
Foreword from his bookTeam of Teams,legendary author Walter Isaacson wrote: “Whether in business or in war, the ability to react quickly and adapt is critical, and it’s becoming even more so as technology and disruptive forces increase the pace of change. That requires new ways to communicate and work together. In today’s world, creativity is a collaborative endeavor. Innovation is a team effort.”
Stockdale Paradox - (named for Admiral James Stockdale - the highest ranking POW of the Vietnam War who described how leaders survive terrible ordeals) "You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
From page 104 in my book, Welcome To Management -- General McChrystal extended a gracious invitation for me to tour the hallowed grounds at the Battle of Gettysburg alongside the students he teaches in his leadership class at Yale. We learned a lot about the history of the battle over the course of two days with General McChrystal and some of his friends as tour guides. However, one teaching point that I specifically remembered was this, “The real lesson is . . . it’s not tactics, not strategy; it’s always about the people.”
Uncertainty-- What’s most scary for people. While you can’t predict the future, you can be that sense of calm, cool, composed (QB in the huddle in tense moments). General at war. The quarterback at Yale (where Stan teaches) said, "When you throw an interception, don't say 'My bad.' The guys know it's your bad. Say, 'here's what we're going to do next.'"
Recent events: “These observations remind us of our early months fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq: We struggled to keep up with the pace of events, needed to unlearn conventional management rules and had to learn to lead in a totally new way.”
From James Clear- “The most useful form ofpatienceispersistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect.”
"You have to navigate from where you are, not where you wish you were."
From Stan -- The German Army had a say, "feel the cloth." They were referencing when the men were walking so close to one another they could literally feel the cloth on the person next to them. Right now, we don't have that luxury with our co-workers, and it's a challenge. But what we do have and what we need to utilize are communication platforms to stay connected to our teammates. This is our new normal and it's our time to be a leader and help our team get the job done.
Communicate-- Losing these in person interactions in a remote-work environment means leaders need to start communicating with more regularity and breadth to their organization.
Set Realistic Goals- This is not business as usual, but you can still succeed. Your role as a leader is to be brutally honest about what is achievable in the coming weeks and months as this disruption continues to ripple across the economy.
Be Patient- Many of your employees, especially the younger ones, have not experienced turmoil like this in their careers. Be patient, but start communicating now. It is your responsibility as a leader to be a source of calm and steady for them. (from CNN)
Questions from members of my Leadership Circle: Nicci Bosco --What values can we hold in our mind/should we be thinking about/allowing to guide our own actions with when speaking to a group/leading a group/etc in uncertain times? What can we do to re-fill our own reservoir when we notice we're depleted? If we don't know the answer to something, but still want to provide guidance and a response, what are some options? Tom Carvelli -- If you had to sum up your leadership principles into a single unified concept, what would that be? What does your your daily fitness routine look like in times like these when resources and activities are curtailed? Matt Spitz -- In a world that is incredibly uncertain is there anything in his life that never changes? Matt Mullins -- In times of adversity and uncertainty how do leaders ensure that their people are prepared and confident to thrive and maintain character through those moments? How does one develop the ability to maintain composure in stressful situations? How?
Stan's daily routine - It always starts with a workout in the early morning hours. "Always start the day lifting. Do a lot of Abs. Work on your core." That discipline creates consistency and that creates confidence. Stan weighs exactly the same today as he did when he was 17! He's only eaten one meal per day for 40 years.
If you have to fire someone (or lay them off) -- "Explain it, be honest, do it with grace."
Roosevelt during Pearl Harbor - "We are going to do whatever it takes to prevail. It's an unthinkable time, but we will get through it."
"You exist for the team... To give them what they need."
People are watching what you (the leader) is doing at every moment. How do you respond to good news? Bad news? What is you facial expression on that video conference call? The "Say-Do" gap. As a leader there should not be a gap between what you say and what you do. You must LIVE your values.
Building a committed team -- Top CIA agent said to Stan when they were overseas... "I don't know what the Ranger way is, but I will commit to YOU as a person."
A two-thousand-year-old Stoic phrase (from Ryan Holiday's Daily Stoic):What is up to us, what is not up to us?And what is up to us? Our emotions. Our judgments. Our creativity. Our attitude. Our perspective. Our desires. Our decisions. Our determination.
619: Mike Maples Jr. - Practicing Reckless Optimism, Betting On Founders, Bill Gates Hiring Mike Sr at Microsoft, Being Overprepared, & What It Means To Do YOUR Best
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My Guest: Mike Maples Jr is a co-founding Partner at Floodgate. He has been on the Forbes Midas List eight times in the last decade and was recently profiled by Harvard Business School for his lifetime contributions to entrepreneurship. Some of his early investments include: Twitter, DemandForce, Twitch, and Applied Intuition. Mike is also the bestselling author ofPattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future.
Notes
Chance favors the prepared mind. We are all visited by luck, but most of us don’t answer the door. We need to become a professional noticer. That is Mike’s favorite verb. Noticing. Most people don’t have prepared minds. Be intentional about noticing the world around you and being prepared for when luck visits you.
Mike's dad died 7 days before we recorded. “He was a mentor, a friend, and one of the greatest inspirations of my life.” His advice:Do your best. There’s only one of you. Decide what to do with your gift of time, be intentional. Have gratitude for your time. Make the most of it. Don’t waste it trying to be someone else.
Focus - Fishing competition when Mike was 5 or 6. Let’s find a good spot and stay there the entire time. While everyone else moved constantly, Mike and his dad stayed in their spot, caught a big carp, and won.
Bill Gates beggedMike’s dad to “be the adult in the room” at Microsoft. Mike Sr would say to the people he led at Microsoft, "I want to know that you’re thinking about what you’re doing." He used a Socratic method. He was not prescriptive.
Be proactive. Have an intentional strategy. Be intentional.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull-The biggest limits in the world are the limits of your mind, your imagination, and your actions– not the limits of the world itself.
Have to get over that voice in your head that says, “You’re not good enough.”
We get told to be realistic or stay within the lines.
Everybody is figuring it out as they go. Everyone is “winging it.”
Only by being radically different can you make a radical difference.
Great founders are like Patrick Mahomes and Steph Curry. You don’t know how they’re going to score, but you know they will.
Practice Reckless Optimism – The world is built by Optimists. You need to be FOR something. Bet ON something, not against it.
Mike sees himself as a co-conspirator more than an investor.
There can’t be a recipe for a breakthrough because by definition breakthroughs haven’t happened yet.
“Chance favors the prepared mind.” We are all visited by luck but most don’t answer the door.
Chris Rock - Forming unexpected connections.
Sam Beskind (Stanford basketball player where he played for Rob Ehsan) - Time management strategy. Stanford coaches had a one-pager with 3 keys to winning. Not 20. 3. If you have 20 keys, you have none. Nobody can remember all that.
Life/Career Advice: Internalize what it means to do your best. Gratitude for your time. Avoid the trap of mimetic desire. The “T” of knowledge. Charlie Munger. Try to know what the best ideas that have ever existed in a wide range of fields. Then choose one field to know about more than anyone else in the world. Have one area where you are fanatically obsessed. For Mike, that’s startups.
01 Jun 2015
022: Steve Scott – How To Earn $50,000/Month Self-Publishing on Amazon
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Episode 022: Steve Scott – How To Earn $50,000/Month Self-Publishing on Amazon
I love learning about people with fascinating lifestyles… Steve leads an incredibly interesting life. I also enjoyed learning about his daily routine and the process for creating successful books. Steve lives the kind of life that Tim Ferriss describes in The 4 Hour Work Week. Striving to do the activities that he wants… In Steve’s case that involves a lot of traveling, writing, and running!
Episode 022: Steve Scott – How To Earn $50,000/Month Self-Publishing on Amazon
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“Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.” – John Wooden
Some Questions I Ask:
How much money do you make?
What is your writing process?
What are your daily routines?
What is your best-selling book?
How did you decide to do this as your life’s work?
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
$65,000 is the biggest income he’s earned in a month
How to focus on “habit stacking”
Why Steve disagrees with the typical book publishing model
Steve’s travels and climbing mountains
How to get out of your comfort zone
The elements that define a quality life
“A learning leader is someone who is deeply curious about the world… And sees it as a fascination, not a fear…” – Kare Anderson
Episode 001: How To Become A Master Connector With Jayson Gaignard From MasterMind Talks
Episode 002: How To Take Over And Set Bigger Goals With Chris Brogan
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
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Who is Steve Scott? (In his own words from SteveScottSite.com)
I’m a firm believer in the idea of the “Internet Lifestyle.” Money is great and all. But I think it’s not as important as creating the life that YOU want to live. The greatest thing about having an affiliate business is the flexibility to do things on YOUR terms. Don’t believe me? Well, I just spent seven months traveling through Europe in 2010 (from April to November.) I literally lived the laptop lifestyle where I bounced from one city to the next. During this time, each week I averaged 5 hours on my money making businesses and 10 hours writing/marketing this blog. This experience validated all the notions I had about being able to work hard, travel the world, and do what you want to do.
I’m just an ordinary guy who has a relatively normal existence on the Jersey Shore. I live in a modest two-bedroom apartment on the ocean. Most of my days are spent working. And during my free time I like to do fun activities like running, hiking, skiing, surfing, reading and spending time with my loved ones.
15 Jul 2018
266: Ryan Caldbeck - CircleUp CEO: How To Build The Frameworks Of Your Life & Career
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Episode #266: Ryan Caldbeck - CircleUp CEO: How To Build The Frameworks Of Your Life & Career
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"What we look for in a person: Horsepower, Integrity, Work Ethic, Teamwork, Pride."
Show Notes:
Sustaining excellence:
Persistence - regardless of skill, willing to run through unlimited doors with no light at the end of the tunnel. It can be soul crushing
Identified focus passion - an understanding of the passion that is identifiable.
Drive - A motor. Really good at email and/or communication. Can't take too long. "Have a motor." Always moving
Values - "I don't say that lightly." You can't sustain excellence without values. "A framework to understand you."
Isn't it hard to know what your passion is? "Yes. I got scared about the treadmill that I saw others get on." However, people don't think they can leave the corporate job that pays well. But you can. Begin by thinking about the framework to make it happen.
"Silicon Valley is a hard town to talk about challenges."
What it's like to lead 60 employees
What mistakes were made in the hiring process?
"We took too long to make frameworks."
"Frameworks show others what to do."
What traits/values do you look for in hiring?
"The airport test doesn't make sense to me. I don't have to want to spend a day around them in the airport."
"We have crystallized what we look for in a person."
Horsepower - intelligence over experience
Integrity - don't talk negatively about others
Work ethic - must be willing to work hard
Teamwork - need to work well with others
Pride - Care
How to gauge work ethic in a job interview?
"It starts with everyone knowing we are looking for that."
Advice for the individual contributor making the leap to manager...
"Figure out framework for your specific role. Get clarity on what each person's role is."
"Learn how to develop empathy for what your team goes through. Sit with them without micromanaging them."
"Make sure you have a resource (person) to talk to about being a manager. Hire a coach. Get a peer group outside of your company."
624: Chris Beresford-Hill - Writing Excellent Cold-Emails, Taking Responsibility of Your Career, Pushing Your Edges, Becoming Dave Matthews' Pen Pal, Building Culture, & Leading a Creative Agency
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Chris Beresford-Hill is the Worldwide Chief Creative Officer at BBDO. Previously he spent 2 years as North America President and CCO of Ogilvy, where he helped bring the agency and its clients a new level of relevance. He brought Workday to the Super Bowl, led the team that brought in the Verizon account, and one of the biggest Super Bowl campaigns ever, “Can't B Broken,” featuring Beyonce, and created the most celebrated Super Bowl campaign of 2024, the social & influencer lead "Michael CeraVe," for CeraVe. Chris and his teams have won every award for creativity and effectiveness many times over. He has been included in ADWEEK Best Creatives, the ADWEEK 100, and Business Insider’s Most Creative People in Advertising.
Notes:
Cold Emails: Be specific in your praise and specific in your ask. The lame "Can I pick your brain" type emails get deleted and ignored because they aren't specific.
You never need permission to take responsibility. Chris learned this from Ed Catmull’s book Creativity Inc.… And he’s embodied this his entire career. The people who build huge careers take ownership of their own and regularly solve problems and improve their clients' and colleagues' lives. Chris has done this since his early days as an intern.
At any level taking on responsibility yourself, unasked, makes you stand out.
Competence combined with insane follow-through. For some clients, it takes 50 ideas to get to the one that will work. Creating a culture where the team can share all of their bad ideas safely to get to the one great one.
The creative process:
Brain dump everything. Purge your brain of everything it has.
When you think you're done, you're not. There's more. You have to get it all out.
"A lot of creative people aren't fully aware of the process or the structure, they just feel it (Rick Rubin).
"When you can see it lift off the page, you feel a sense of mastery over it."
Chris's first Super Bowl commercial -- Emerald Nuts. He won it because he was both funny and added the fact that the product provided energy. Most people only covered one part, Chris did both.
Push your edges - Chris is like Lionel Messi. He's always walking around in the office, asking questions, looking for ideas, being curious. Then he sees an opportunity and goes for it 100%.
Chris has a standing reservation every week at the same restaurant where he meets with a mentor, mentee, or peer to deepen the important relationships in his life. That would be a good idea for us all to do.
Chris was pen-pals with Dave Matthews for 8 years.
Chris saw that they recorded at Bearsville studios and wrote a letter to Dave there. He also said, "Show up with gifts." He gave Dave a Beatles Bootlegged album.
A leader takes what comes and then turns it into an opportunity.
The formula is Competence + Insane Follow-Through.
How to build relationships: Meet with people in person. Get drunk with them. Do hard work with them. Go through something bad with them. Laugh with them.
I got hired from my internship by cold calling Mark Cuban to get him to approve of using his name in an ad.
The best ideas are often bad in their first moments, or massively wrong, and then someone flips it or unlocks it. You have to stay on things and play around.
I made my first ad by going through a garbage can to learn how to write a script and sending a bunch of Budweiser scripts to my boss.
The art of finding an idea on the edge of possible, and the value of going over your skis when on the cusp of greatness - having a stomach for it. I’ve told a lie to keep things moving on every great campaign I was part of.
I learned the best lesson in leadership when we lost our biggest account (Accenture). I put Danny Meyer's mentality into practice, and we took that moment to put the business and clients second and play for each other. Culture carried us.
Culture is built by the stories we tell and the behaviors we highlight.
04 Sep 2022
488: Cassie Holmes - How To Expand Your Time, Focus On What Matters Most, & Live A Happier Life
00:52:07
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Cassie Holmes is a Professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Cassie is an expert on time and happiness. Cassie is the author of the book, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, which is based on her wildly popular MBA course, “Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design.”
Notes:
What do the happiest people do?
They have strong, supportive relationships
They feel a sense of belonging
They feel safe and healthy
"We have control over what we do and how we spend our time."
Turn routines into rituals - Cassie does this for her Thursday morning coffee dates with her daughter. I do the same going to the pool with my daughter.
Time poverty is prevalent for 50% of Americans.
How to handle back to back to back meetings?
It's unsustainable. Your team needs you to be full. Over time, you will not perform at an optimal level if you don't give yourself time to think, reflect, analyze the situation, and make a decision.
Do a time tracking exercise and analyze what is the best use of your time.
Block time on your calendar each day for yourself. And hold to it.
Learning from admired elders – Ask, ‘what is your greatest source of pride?’ ‘what is your greatest regret?’ - Invest the time to learn from someone who is older than you that you admire.
How to be happier? Unhappy activities can be made less painful byreframingthem (bundling them with something fun or remembering its purpose–whyyou’re doing it)
Reflect back on your last two weeks. When did you feel the most joy? A weekly coffee date with your daughter? Swimming together? Whatever it is… How can you intentionally create more moments of joy for yourself?
If you haveless than two hours of free time(leading to feelings of stress)or more than five hours of free time(undermining your sense of purpose),you’ll likely feel unsatisfied in your life. In between is the sweet spot— and most of us can achieve this with a few simple exercises provided in this podcast.
Why we tend to put off current enjoyment for the sake of tasks we “should” do and why weshould do this less. Dr. Holmes says we need toidentifyandcommitto activities that make us happy so we don’t later feel regret from missing out on life’s good stuff.
Focusing on time increases happiness because it motivates you to spend your time more deliberately.
Recognizing that your remaining time is limited and thus precioushelps you savor life’s everyday moments of joy.
Tracking Time Exercise: based on how you’re currently spending andactuallyexperiencing your hours, identify which times are truly the most and least happy.
Connecting socially, spending time outside, and being mindfulduring the hours you spend have the greatest impact on the happiness experienced in your day.
The Five Whys Exercise: uncoveryourpurpose.
Eulogy Exercise:learn what really matters to you by how you hope to be remembered.
Gallup Poll: Do you have a best friend at work?
Counting times left exercise: How many times have you done it in the past month? How many more do you have left? How many meals will you share with your parents? Realize that it's probably not that many. That realization will help you cherish the time.
07 Mar 2022
462: Max Lugavere - How To Become Smarter, Happier, & More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life
Max Lugavere is the author of the New York Times best-seller Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life. He appears regularly on the Dr. Oz Show, the Rachael Ray Show, and The Doctors. His latest book is called Genius Kitchen - Over 100 Easy & Delicious Recipes to make your brain sharp, body strong, and taste buds happy.
"A healthy person has 100 wishes. A sick person has 1."
This subject became personal for Max when his mother, Kathy, was given a diagnosis of dementia, and he devoted himself to her care. She died in 2018. “Now that Mom is gone, I am even more obsessed with the topic.”
Shop in the perimeter of the supermarket. Reach for nutrient-dense foods.
Lifestyle changes that will 10x the quality of your life:
Getting 8-9 hours of sleep instead of 4-6
Eating more animal protein (especially beef and eggs)
Less cardio, more strength training
Regular heat (sauna) and cold (ice bath/cold shower) stress
Daily sunlight
Intermittent fasting – instead of eating 16 hours a day, eat 8.
Drinking caffeineis “taking a loan out on energy from later in the day?” – Cortisol peaks in the AM. Wait 45 minutes after you wake up to drink caffeine. Stop drinking caffeine from time to time so that your body can reset.
Willpower is a finite resource. Create your environment to make good decisions.
Whole Foods - 3 Things to think about:
Protein - #1 satiating piece. Greek yogurt, beef jerky, eggs
Fiber - It stretches out your stomach. Helps fill you up. Greens, broccoli, whole fruit.
Water - Get hydrated.
Supplements - Protein shakes. Whey isolate. He uses muscle feast.
Most bread is not useful. It's ultra-processed food.
Alcohol - Most wine has a lot of sugar. Most alcohol does. Max drinks tequila.
Wake up, hydrate... "I’m up somewhere between 7 and 8. I don’t use an alarm clock. I go straight into the kitchen and drink a tall glass of room-temperature water. I may sprinkle a bit of mineral salt in it which replenishes electrolytes."
Light... Air... "Whether it’s winter or summer, I go out onto my terrace and do a few minutes of deep breathing, stretching, and meditation. I’m a big believer in getting in natural light in the morning because it aligns my circadian rhythm for the day.
08 May 2016
122: Sarah Robb O’Hagan – EXTREME YOU: Unlocking Your Potential
00:42:35
Episode 122: Sarah Robb O’Hagan – EXTREME YOU:
Unlocking Your Potential
Executive, activist and entrepreneur, Sarah Robb O’Hagan is
described by the media as everything from “Superwoman undercover”
to the “Queen of the Jocks” to the ultimate example of where fierce
business woman, mother and fitness fanatic combine. Named among
Forbes “Most Powerful Women in Sports” and recognized as one of
Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business” Sarah is an
internationally recognized re-inventor of brands, but if you ask
Sarah, she’ll say she’s in business to help individuals and teams
achieve their potential.
Sarah was born in New Zealand – the first country in the world
to give women the vote and home to the first man to climb Mt
Everest. The pioneering spirit of her country cultivated Sarah’s
drive and imagination for “what’s possible” enabling her to found a
movement she currently leads called “Extreme Living” – helping
individuals, teams and businesses unlock their potential by
discovering their own uniquely exploitable traits. Her book
EXTREMEYOU will be published by HarperCollins in 2017. (From
CAASpeakers.com)
Episode 122: Sarah Robb O’Hagan - EXTREME YOU:
Unlocking Your Potential
Sarah Robb O’Hagan is the founder and Chief Extremer at
EXTREMEYOU which is a a content platform of inspirational and
educational articles, as well as programs, tools, workshops and
experiences for ALL Extremers of ALL levels who have the guts and
drive to achieve their potential and want to learn how to get it
done.” Prior to that she was the President of Equinox -- the
world’s premier fitness lifestyle company, comprising the Equinox,
Soul Cycle, Blink Fitness and Pure Yoga brands.
Before earning the role of leading Equinox, she was the
President of Gatorade. During her tenure, the Gatorade brand was
returned to healthy growth and succeeded in evolving into sports
nutrition with successful launches of the G Series platform in the
USA, Latin America, UK and Australia.
Robb O’Hagan joined Gatorade after nearly six years at Nike
where she held marketing and general management roles. She was a
member of the team that launched Nike Plus in collaboration with
Apple.
Prior to Nike she worked at Atari Interactive, Virgin Atlantic
Airways, Virgin Megastores and Air New Zealand.
03 Sep 2015
051: Suzanne Kelly – From CNN To Raising $1.5 Million For A StartUp…
00:45:53
Episode 051: Suzanne Kelly – From CNN To Raising $1.5 Million For A StartUp…
Suzanne Kelly is an incredible learning leader. She truly understands the importance of understanding your environment and surrounding yourself with the right people. We are extremely fortunate to have Suzanne share her knowledge with us, the loyal listeners of The Learning Leader Show.
Suzanne Kelly is CEO and Publisher of The Cipher Brief (www.thecipherbrief.com), an online news service for national and global security developed for the business audience. She is a former CNN Intelligence Correspondent and co-founded, co-developed and served as co-editor of CNN's national security website. She identified, negotiated and managed the network's co-sponsorship (along with The New York Times) of the Aspen Institute's annual security forum.
Her first non-fiction book was published by (Harper) Collins in 2009, and offered the only inside look at the rise and fall of private security contractor Blackwater, 'Master of War: Blackwater USA's Erik Prince and the Business of War'.
Episode 051: Suzanne Kelly – From CNN To Raising $1.5 Million For A StartUp…
Episode 001: How To Become A Master Connector With Jayson Gaignard From MasterMind Talks
Episode 034: Jimmy Hatch – Shot While Searching For Bowe Bergdahl And Sky Diving With Gabby Giffords
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
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Kelly is CEO and Publisher of The Cipher Brief (www.thecipherbrief.com), an online news service for national and global security developed for the business audience. Acting as both an original content provider and a curated aggregator, The Cipher delivers a timely news product that helps companies accurately anticipate and safely navigate the complex, unstable, global environment.
Kelly is a former CNN Intelligence Correspondent and co-founded, co-developed and served as co-editor of CNN's national security website. She identified, negotiated and managed the network's co-sponsorship (along with The New York Times) of the Aspen Institute's annual security forum.
After leaving CNN, Kelly founded and launched AragornCo, a boutique consulting and strategy agency working for clients operating in the national security space.
Kelly also led strategic and crisis communications for ACADEMI, a global security services provider. She had responsibility for conceptualizing, managing and implementing strategies to assist the company in bringing security services to the private sector.
Her first non-fiction book was published by (Harper) Collins in 2009, and offered the only inside look at the rise and fall of private security contractor Blackwater, 'Master of War: Blackwater USA's Erik Prince and the Business of War'.
Earlier in her career, Kelly worked as a war correspondent in Kosovo, and a was business and political reporter based in both Bonn and Berlin, Germany.
She spent nine years working as a news anchor for CNN International based in both Atlanta, Georgia and Berlin, Germany for a series of news programs broadcast live around the world, including a morning news program broadcast throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
10 Jul 2022
480: Seth Godin - Becoming A Great Storyteller, Fixing PowerPoint Presentations, & Defining Leadership
00:52:12
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Leadershave nothing in common. They don’t share gender or income level or geography. There’s no gene, no schooling, no parentage, no profession. In other words, leaders aren’t born with it. Actually, they do have one thing in common. "Every tribe leader I’ve ever met shares one thing: the decision to lead. Leadership is a choice."
Great Stories –Great stories are rarely aimed at everyone. Average people are good at ignoring you. Average people have too many different points of view about life and average people are by and large satisfied. If you need to water down your story to appeal to everyone, it will appeal to no one. The most effective stories match the world view of a tiny audience—and then that tiny audience spreads the story.
Really Bad PowerPoint - Powerpoint could be the most powerful tool on your computer. But it’s not. Countless innovations fail because their champions use PowerPoint the way Microsoft wants them to, instead of the right way.Communication is the transfer of emotion. make slides that reinforce your words, not repeat them. Create slides that demonstrate, with emotional proof, that what you’re saying is true not just accurate. Talking about pollution in Houston? Instead of giving me four bullet points of EPA data, why not read me the stats but show me a photo of a bunch of dead birds, some smog, and even a diseased lung? This is cheating! It’s unfair! It works.
DefineBrand – Seth's definition: A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stories, and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer’s decision to choose one product or service over another.
Linchpin— the combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.
Gifts— there are 2 reasons to give gifts. One is reciprocity. You give so that someone feels like they owe you something. That is manipulative and no way to build a career. The second reason is fascinating. Gifts allow you to make art. Gifts are given with no reciprocity hoped for or even possible. The paintings of Chuck Close - the gift he gives with no possibility of reciprocity gives him room to be in charge. Room to find joy. Because when he’s painting he’s not punching a time clock or trying to please someone who bought his time. He’s creating a gift. My fundamentalargument is simple. In everything you do, it’s possible to be an artist, at least a little bit.
“How To Be Remarkable”
Remarkable doesn’t mean remarkable to you. It means remarkable to me. Am I going to make a remark about it? If not, then you’re average, and average is for losers.
It's not really as frightening as it seems. They keep the masses in line by threatening them (us) with all manner of horrible outcomes if we dare to step out of line. But who loses their jobs at the mass layoffs? Who has trouble finding a new gig? Not the remarkable minority, that's for sure.
Lost in all the noise around us is the proven truth that creativity is the result of desire. A Desire to solve an old problem, a desire to serve someone else. It’s not a bolt of lightning from somewhere else...
The difference between talent and skill:Talentis something we’re born with: it’s in our DNA, a magical alignment of gifts.Skillis earned. It’s learned and practiced and hard-won. It’s insulting to call a professional talented. In the words of Steve Martin, “I had no talent. None.”
If you want to change your story, change your actions first.We become what we do.
PracticalEmpathy -- “We have to be able to say, ‘it’s not for you’ and mean it. The work exists to serve someone, to change someone, to make something better.
13 Apr 2016
115: Amy Porterfield - Working With Tony Robbins, Harley Davidson, & Launching Your Own Business
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Episode 115: Amy Porterfield - Working With Tony Robbins, Harley Davidson, & Launching Your Own Business
Amy Porterfield is remarkably intelligent and an absolute joy to talk to. I love her attitude and approach to her life and business. Sometimes you have a conversation where it just clicks and this is one of those. Between being a world class leader/coach/trainer, Amy is successful in multiple life categories. I loved this conversation.
Amy Porterfield is the co-author of “Facebook Marketing All-In-One for Dummies” and a Social Media Strategist. She creates educational programs for small businesses and entrepreneurs to help them get more traffic, leads and sales with social media marketing. She’s been in the marketing arena for over 12 years and spent over 6 years working alongside Peak Performance Coach, Tony Robbins, where she managed his content marketing team and major online marketing campaigns.
Episode 115: Amy Porterfield - Working With Tony Robbins, Harley Davidson, & Launching Your Own Business
Amy Porterfield is the co-author of “Facebook Marketing All-In-One for Dummies” and a Social Media Strategist. She creates educational programs for small businesses and entrepreneurs to help them get more traffic, leads and sales with social media marketing. She’s been in the marketing arena for over 12 years and spent over 6 years working alongside Peak Performance Coach, Tony Robbins, where she managed his content marketing team and major online marketing campaigns.
Amy also speaks at marketing events, businesses, and networking events about the power of social media. Presentation hot topics include: Facebook marketing "how to", social media marketing strategy, how to streamline your social media chaos, ways to engage in the online world, how to build real, valuable relationships online, and why Facebook just might be your secret weapon to change the game forever for your business.
15 Sep 2024
600: Keith Hawk & AJ Hawk - Setting The Standard, Failure Stories, Taking Ownership, Giving Great Keynotes, & What The Great Teams Do Differently From The Good Ones
We are celebrating episode #600 with Keith Hawk and AJ Hawk
Tell a story about an awesome leader you worked with...
Ron Ullery –I’m a firm believer that people either live up to or down to your expectations. And most people set their expectations for themselves too low. So it’s on you as a leader to raise those expectations for them. Demand more because you know they can do more.
Tyler Cowen– The high return activity of raising others’ aspirations. Encouraged someone who was going for an MBA to get a Phd.At critical moments in time, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young, simply by suggesting they do something better or more ambitious than what they might have in mind. It costs you relatively little to do this, but the benefit to them, and to the broader world, may be enormous.
What helps you give a great speech? How do you prepare?
Ask, "What do I want my audience to do after seeing my speech?" Interview members of their team. Learn their terminology, challenges, what's going well, what's not, what are their goals, etc...
Practice, practice, practice. Say it out loud. Rehearse so that once you're on stage, you can let it rip.
What did the best teams you’ve been on do differently than the average teams?
The best players on the best teams always practiced the hardest. They set the tone for the work ethic of the team. They chose extra work. They set high standards and they demanded others raise their level of performance.
The best teams hung out together outside of work. AJ was a Captain of the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl-winning team in 2010-2011... That team regularly hung out together outside of working hours, shared lots of meals, and knew each other extremely well. They trusted each other.
Tell a story about how you’ve shown resilience… Failed and what did you do next?
The Miami/Ben Roethlisberger story - The world doesn't care what you think you deserve. The primary goal is focused on adding value to others' lives.
AJ shared a story from his sophomore year at Ohio State. His defensive coordinator, Coach Mark Dantonio sat with him 1 on 1 watching each play of the Michigan game. A day he’ll never forget for how hard it was, how upset he was, and how determined he was to respond. AJ never lost to Michigan again in his career after that.
Pistol shared a story about the time when the new CEO wanted to bring in his own head of sales (which was Pistol's job). Instead of complaining and leaving the company, he got creative and offered a new idea and a great way to leverage all the skills and knowledge he developed from being at the company for so long. It is amazingly rare for the head of sales to stay at a company after he’s been replaced. But he thrived in the role and made the company better.
Front line obsession – Pistol’s story of the legendary Mert McGill going to the Supreme Court to demo LexisNexis and earning the most important sale in the company's history. I love stories about leaders proactively taking action and not being afraid to do the work.
Update since Episode #500:
Built the Learning Leader Team -- Officially working full-time with Sherri Coale, Brook Cupps, Geron Stokes, and Eli Leiker. We are working with leaders from a wide variety of companies throughout the U.S.
The magic of the Pat McAfee Show -- They are unafraid. They say what others are thinking but are too afraid to say. They are authentic and fully themselves. They have great role clarity. Everyone knows and embraces their roles and excels at them.
The End of the Podcast Draft –You’re stranded on a deserted island. You have one iPad. On that iPad has 5 TV shows (and nothing else). Which shows do you choose?This is a competition with a clear winner and losers. The object is to win the draft.
29 Sep 2024
602: The Learning Leader Team of Coaches - Sherri Coale, Brook Cupps, Geron Stokes, Eli Leiker - Helping Teams Be Elite and People To Be Excellent
“Have I ever mentioned how much I f’n love these Phase 2 calls?!? Free cocaine. Straight outta the Dope Factory.” – Geron Stokes
"Another thing that I found is an intense interest of the subject is indispensable if you are really going to excel. I could force myself to be fairly good in a lot of things, but I couldn’t be really good in anything where I didn’t have an intense interest." – Charlie Munger
Our Team Values & Behaviors:
Curious: practice invested listening
Honest: give direct feedback
Intentional: provide purposeful action
What is our edge as a TEAM?Our purpose, our values, and our behaviors. We are ACTIVELY doing it.
Rawand Simple: We cut through the noise and address the fundamental issues leaders face. Our straightforward approach helps teams confront what they’re not doing and empowers them to take actionable steps toward improvement.
InThe Arena: We don’t just talk about leadership principles—we live them. Every member of our team actively practices the strategies we coach, ensuring real-world insights and practical solutions.
Take Risks: We’re unafraid to push boundaries and challenge conventional thinking. We help leaders take bold actions, even if it means stepping out of their comfort zones or facing tough consequences.
Love being on a team that "makes the water rise." We all are better for being together on the same team.
Gratitude –You can’t roll up your sleeves and clench your fists at the same time. Living with gratitude is about recognizing and appreciating what you have. This will change the lens in which you view the world. Geron (overheard from Coach Mike Gundy): “I can’t believe they pay us to do this.” It is so much fun working with this team and the reward is that we get to keep doing it. So grateful.
The makeup of a great team… They are tough, they have fun together, they care about each other, and they have that gritty humility about them. “Humble enough to listen, gritty enough to apply."
Our prep calls– The calls before the calls. We learn so much from our preparation together. It's an open forum to share ideas, disagree, talk through stories, and figure out how to make people better. Some of my favorite times.
How to work with the employee who just won’t fully buy-in. Be curious, not judgemental. Ask questions. LISTEN. Care. As Sherri said, “Nobody wants to sleepwalk through life.” We need to figure out what makes them come alive and help them bring that to the team.
03 Aug 2015
042: Rob DeMartini – CEO of New Balance: The Leader Behind Their Explosive Growth
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Episode 042: Rob DeMartini – CEO of New Balance: The Leader Behind Their Explosive Growth
Rob DeMartini is a great leader and an even better human being. I’m very fortunate to now call him a friend. He truly understands the value of the culture and the key ingredient to a successful business is the people that work so hard to provide great products and services to their customers. We are extremely fortunate to have Rob share his knowledge with US, the loyal listeners of The Learning Leader Show.
Rob joined New Balance as CEO in 2007, moving to the company from Tyson Foods, where he oversaw all aspects of the company's $6 billion consumer products business. Prior to Tyson's, he was with Procter & Gamble for 18 years. Since joining New Balance, he’s grown it from a $1.5B business to now a $4 Billion business.
Rob DeMartini was named the country's Most Playful CEO (in 2011) in a nationwide search for inventive leaders who incorporate play and innovation into the work environment to encourage collaboration and teamwork.
Episode 042: Rob DeMartini – CEO of New Balance: The Leader Behind Their Explosive Growth
Episode 001: How To Become A Master Connector With Jayson Gaignard From MasterMind Talks
Episode 002: How To Take Over And Set Bigger Goals With Chris Brogan
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
Did you enjoy the podcast?
This was a jam packed episode full of great content. Rob DeMartini is leader who is constantly learning in order to help us all live a better life. Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!
Rob joined New Balance as CEO in 2007, moving to the company from Tyson Foods, where he oversaw all aspects of the company's $6 billion consumer products business. Prior to Tyson's, he was with Procter & Gamble for 18 years. Since joining New Balance, he’s grown it from a $1.5B business to now a $4 Billion business.
Rob DeMartini was named the country's Most Playful CEO (in 2011) in a nationwide search for inventive leaders who incorporate play and innovation into the work environment to encourage collaboration and teamwork.
18 Dec 2017
236: Brian Scudamore - CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK: How To Scale A Business
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Episode 236: Brian Scudamore - CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK: How To Scale A Business
Brian started his business in Vancouver, Canada at the age of 18, and later went on to franchise 1-800-GOT-JUNK? as a way to expand operations. Today, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? has 1000 trucks on the road throughout some 180 locations in Canada, the United States, and Australia.
Brian has received wide recognition in the media and business community. 1-800-GOT-JUNK? has celebrated appearances on the highly-acclaimed Undercover Boss Canada, Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, CNN, ABC Nightline, the Today Show, The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos, and the View. His story has been told in Fortune Magazine, Business Week, New York Times, Huffington Post, and Wall Street Journal, to name a few. 1-800-GOT-JUNK? is currently the starring junk removal attraction on the hit A&E reality show, Hoarders.
Brian has brought his entrepreneurial success story to many conference stages, including the Fortune Small Business Magazine’s national conference. A strong believer in personal and professional development, Brian graduated from MIT's four-year Birthing of Giants program, and has subsequently completed several years of MIT’s BOG’s alumni program, Gathering of Titans. He is also a participant in a nine-year executive education program at Harvard University through YPO Presidents’ University. (from 1800gotjunk.com)
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"I don't know if you can live the full potential if it's a side hustle. You need to give maximum effort."
Show Notes:
Commonalities of leaders who sustain excellence:
Focus - All in, not a side hustle
Faith - Belief in self, clear vision
Effort - Discipline
Why we all need an "MBA" -- A "Mentor Board of Advisors"
Fred DeLuca -- Subway founder - He never took his eye off the prize. He struggled and kept going. 32 stores in 12 years.
Are entrepreneurs born or made?
Brian started a carwash as a kid. He sold candy in his dorm room
Creativity as a Dad -- Always build things with your kids and watch them grow together (ie. a garden)
Why did he start 1-800-GOT-JUNK?
Needed money for college... Initially called it "The Rubbish Boys"
Brian learned more about running a business from actually doing it than he did in school
The amazing story of Brian's dad "falling out of his chair" when he told me he was leaving school to run the business full time
"It couldn't be a side hustle." The need for maximum effort to be successful
How Brian views opportunities
And where he thinks of new ideas to create more businesses
The importance of going on walks
Meeting outdoors in Vancouver -- "Get your muscles moving"
Morning routine -- Get up at 5:55
Power hour
Focus on self
Exercise
Study French, Italian (other languages)
Spend moments learning before the kids wake up
Side hustle -- "I don't know if you can live the full potential if it's a side hustle. You need to give it full effort. Imagine the possibility if they quit their job"
Philosophy on sales? Mentor Jack Daly -- "Ask questions and listen"
How he got his first 100 customers
"I have the best job in the world for me"
Brian's hiring process
Why he fired his entire team of 11 at one point -- They didn't have the right attitude
"Everyone must pass the beer and bbq test" -- "You have to want to have a beer and eat bbq with them"
"I want friendly, ambitious, passionate, optimistic people."
"Hire for attitude, train for skill"
Brian is the "culture" interviewer
Cameron Herold -- Best man in his wedding, previous business partner. Brian shares why he had to fire him. "You cannot have 2 "fire, ready, aim" type of people."
The process of making mistakes on his path to hiring the right team
The need for Erik Church as the COO -- He is an executor. They are a great yin and yang
Take a sheet of paper and write down what you enjoy doing and what you're good at. Also write what you don't like doing and you're bad it. Find the person to fill those gaps. Erik does that for Brian
How to handle disagreements?
Birthing of giants - MIT -- Annual learning, monthly call
The importance of being a lifelong learner, be curious, ask questions
327: Marc Roberge - How To Create Fans For Life (O.A.R.)
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#327: Marc Roberge
Full show notes can be found at www.LearningLeader.com
Marc Roberge is lead singer and rhythm guitar player for O.A.R. (Of A Revolution). He also is their primary songwriter and has been described by his band-mates as, "Our Leader." He formed the band with his best friend (and drummer) Chris Culos for an 8th grade talent show 23 years ago in Rockville, Maryland. I first saw him play at a college bar called "First Run" on the Miami University campus in Oxford, OH my freshman year (2000). Since then, O.A.R. has gone on to sell out Madison Square Garden. We recorded this episode in Austin, Texas next to the stage at Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater.
Notes:
The importance of persistence and why
Our 20-year history – Watch them playing at First Run in Oxford, OH – The journey from small college bars to selling out Madison Square Garden
Chose Ohio State because they have the most bars in a small area – Earned the Buckeye National Scholarship
“Money was not part of the equation at the beginning. We just needed enough to keep the van gassed up.”
The primary reason why you’re so happy it goes well is so you get to keep doing it.
Two initial goals: Finish college and build the band. – The band started in 8th grade for a talent show.
“We wanted to get on the road, scrape our knee, and build to sustain. It was never about money; it was about gaining ground. Moving forward, progressing.”
The first word to describe Marc from other members of the band: “Leader.” – What it means to be a leader of creative people…
The stages of Marc’s leadership: 1st Stage: Driven completely by the vision of wanting to make music out wandering the world. “I wanted to make these songs because they made me feel good. I wanted to be out with my friends and empower each other.” 2nd Stage: “It becomes our vision.” – “You may no longer provide the best leadership, so you need to empower people in your camp to lead. In order to be in the drier seat, you have to know what other people’s superpowers are so each one can flourish. 3rd Stage: Chris (the drummer) – He nudged the group forward to a rebirth. Became motivated to get back in the driver seat and now he had amazing co-pilots who had their own creative genius. “Realize the powers of those around you and harness that. That was the afterburners for us. It’s built out of mutual respect and admiration for each other.” “Being a leader has to show that things aren’t always going to go great. You must maintain, be composed, don’t flail your arms around. Move forward.”
Respectful disagreement: How to decide which song to open with at Madison Square Garden… How to make decisions through disagreement? “I know when I’m wrong, I know when I’m right too. Good ideas… It’s a self-filtering system. You have to listen, be open to others. In that moment, it was perfect.”
“A part of leadership is knowing when you’re wrong and when the other idea is better and move on.”
“When one of your heroes is standing next to you and says, “I really like this,” that impacts you. “I was wrong and wasn’t thinking of the big picture. It was selfish.”
How to handle people who don’t like your work? Story: Opening for Dave Matthews Band at The Gorge – The entire front row turned their back in protest of the opening act. “I get angry. My new goal was to get them to turn around. It’s a lesson: You can either get hurt or say, “I get to play my songs at the Gorge. Eventually they will respect us.”
Giving a TED Talk: Authenticity – Being real, true to yourself. “Everything I’ve created has stemmed from a few nostalgic pin-pointed childhood memories. I’ve tried to build my whole life to tell those stories of what we can do when we’re together.” Fans for Life: “We were living a life we’ve dreamt of.”
The resistance of chasing approval of others – “That theme is rooted in unabashedly telling a story about where you come from. Sticking to the same morals we were instilled with since growing up.” “I’m not seeking approval because we aren’t adjusting music to fit in, we play what makes us feel good.”
Chasing your curiosity and obsessions with great rigor – How to create a life to do that? “My dream is we’ve built something that allows us something time to create. Keep working on live shows to continue to play them. We love them. If you don’t play 5 nights a week, it won’t be there for you. You have to get the reps.
Sustained excellence: Commonalities: 1) Drive 2) Social – Able to work a room, communicate well with others. 3) Willingness to fail – “If you aren’t willing to jump off that edge, you don’t deserve to get it.”
Song writing process: “Each song has a different method for me.” “There are moments when I’m walking down the street in NYC and it comes to me. I’ll run to the studio and quickly record it. There are so many different styles, but it all has to come from being inspired.”
The creative process: Working with Greg Wattenberg to be a sounding board and offer honest feedback. “We’ve never changed what we’re doing. We’ve only built upon it and have always focused on our story.”
“People get so confused, they want everything, they want a boat, a house, so much. We just want to keep going.”
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the band. “We want to celebrate the fact of a few buddies being together for that time.”
“Tell your story. Don’t be afraid to tell your story.”
How to not get complacent and conservative after success? For fear of failure? “We take risks every year. We book a year in advance and we book some locations that we know might not work. We maintain pressure at all times.” “You have to take calculated risks and create things that may make you a little uncomfortable at first... To move the art form forward.”
Gratitude – The importance of John Lampley being added to the band. “John Lampley is magic. He brought joy in the room. His life gratitude, how he looks at opportunity of everything: meals, being alive, we just exercised in the truck and he keeps talking about how good he feels.” It’s about being grateful for what you have and what you get to do on a daily basis.
Practicing all day long – Love the craft. Loving the process of working on it. “This is what we do, this is how we operate.” The mindset of daily improvement. “We feel very lucky to be doing this. You better earn it and keep it.” Don’t pay attention to what others are doing, Focus on improving your craft.
“What they really like about your group is how it makes them feel?
General life advice: 46:45 – 47:27 (HERO) “Find something that you truly feel connected to… there’s energy in this world that will tell you when you’re in the right spot. And then work. A lot of people want to be famous, how you going to get there. And then grind.” Bring joy to yourself and others is life.
“Be willing to play anywhere. Just keep going.” – It’s all about getting the reps. “What you love, go love it. You might be broke for a while, but you’ll be fulfilled. It will fill you up.”
“Everyone carries around a bucket. You can fill it up or empty it.”
“Find what you love and chase it down.”
Preshow ritual: “What is going through your mind the 90 seconds before you go on stage?” – “We have a group huddle.” – “Remember when we were in the basement and we said, one day we’re going to do this. Remember how happy we were. We’re here. Go be a Rockstar.”
The feedback received from fans/listeners – That’s the juice that fuels you.
124: Don Wettrick – Pure Genius: Learning From The Innovation Teacher
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Episode 124: Don Wettrick – Pure Genius: Learning From The Innovation Teacher
Don Wettrick has become a great friend over the last three months. I absolutely love what he is doing for the students he’s leading at Noblesville High School. It takes a dynamic and fearless leader to create and implement his idea for an Innovation factory within a high school. I love it!
Don Wettrick is an Innovation Specialist at Noblesville High School, just outside Indianapolis, IN. He is the author of “Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level”. Wettrick has worked as a middle school and high school teacher; educational and innovation consultant; and educational speaker. Don is passionate about helping students find their educational opportunities and providing them with the digital tools they need to give them a competitive edge.
Don has lectured across the US and Europe about collaboration, social media use, and work environments that enable innovation. He also hosts an internet radio program, InnovatED, for the BAM! Radio Network. Most importantly Don works with educators and students to bring innovation and collaborative skills into education.
Episode 124: Don Wettrick – Pure Genius: Learning From The Innovation Teacher
Having a broader view of the journey leads to sustained excellence
Why Prince is the definition of “sustained excellence” to Don (**Note – This conversation was recorded prior to Prince tragically passing away)
How Don was inspired by Dan Pink’s TED Talk
The students have the arrogance of belief – it’s great
Learning can be a problem if the only destination is getting into college
The art of non-conformity
The heroes journey is life
Don wants adventure – “Too many people are busy watching someone else’s and not doing it themselves”
The importance of “Just Asking…” And what it can lead to
Being a learning leader means you are embrace the failures and learn from them
“Don Wettrick has incorporated a range of creativity-generating concepts into his teaching and turned his classroom into an innovation factory.” – Dan Pink
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See why over 31,000 people follow Don on Twitter: @DonWettrick
Don Wettrick is an Innovation Specialist at Noblesville High School, just outside Indianapolis, IN. He is the author of “Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level”. Wettrick has worked as a middle school and high school teacher; educational and innovation consultant; and educational speaker. Don is passionate about helping students find their educational opportunities and providing them with the digital tools they need to give them a competitive edge.
Don has lectured across the US and Europe about collaboration, social media use, and work environments that enable innovation. He also hosts an internet radio program, InnovatED, for the BAM! Radio Network. Most importantly Don works with educators and students to bring innovation and collaborative skills into education.
13 Nov 2023
553: Eric Potterat - Mental Disciplines for Leading and Winning from the World's Top Performers (Learned Excellence)
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“Amateurs focus on outcome. Professionals focus on process.” And if you want to change the process, focus on just one change at a time. He used the fly fishing analogy. You don’t change all three at once. Try one change and re-evaluate.
I love the idea of creating a personal checklist for yourself much like pilots fill out every time before they fly a plane. We should all create our checklist and fill it out consistently. This is a great tool to become more self-aware.
Top performers have a thirst for feedback in victory and defeat. The leaders who sustain excellence over time are intentional about surrounding themselves with a kitchen cabinet who is there to regularly provide feedback so that they can iterate and improve. That’s one of the biggest differences between those who sustain excellence over time and those who don’t.
Goal Setting
34%-42% chance of hitting a goal if you ideate it
62% chance of hitting a goal if you write it down
75% chance of hitting a goal if you verbally share it with others
Eric developed a psychological “resilience” test that when combined with data on the candidate's physical characteristics became a very good predictor of who would fail BUD/S (97%).
While working with the Navy SEALs in San Diego, Eric frequently had guests come to observe the SEALs and how they worked. A lot of them were professional athletes like Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Michael Phelps, and many more… While there, Eric asked to interview them. Over time he was able to build an extensive knowledge base of the mental approaches of the world’s top performers.
“If your brain is firing, it’s wiring.” Learned from downhill skiers...
Commonalities of leaders who sustain excellence:
They accelerate what they value. They move from reputation to identity. They worry less about what others think.
One of the biggest regrets of people on their deathbed is that they regret what they didn't do.
Capitlize now to have no regrets later.
Create a credo (your identity)
Mindset
They have a growth mindset (instead of a fixed mindset)
They are thirsty for feedback (they want feedback in victory and defeat)
Eric is agnostic about motivations - Clean fuel vs Dirty fuel
They have different mindsets for the roles they play
Think of yourself as a dimmer switch -- Sometimes you're white hot, sometimes you need to dim down
Efficient and Consistent
They manage their time well
They sleep 8 hours
They don't let life dictate what's important to them.
Time = Currency. Block time for what's most important. Color code your calendar.
Adversity Tolerance
They control their human stress response
They have a pre and post-performance routine
They set goals
They use visualization tools
They compartmentalize well
They use positive self-talk (they believe)
They are good contingency planners
They have high levels of self-awareness
Like a pilot, they have checklists for themselves
Balance and Recovery
The more balanced, the more productive
Feed all of your pillars
Work
Health
Relationships
Hobbies
Spirituality
Legacy
Leadership role "Must-Haves"
Emotional Intelligence - "Feel for a room"
Empathy - Put our own perspective aside to understand others
Curiosity - A desire to learn, to know more
01 Jan 2018
238: Neil Pasricha - Why Action Creates Motivation: 1,000 Awesome Things
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Episode 238: Neil Pasricha - Why Action Creates Motivation: 1,000 Awesome Things
Neil Pasricha is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Happiness Equation and The Book of Awesome series, which has been published in ten countries, spent over five years on bestseller lists, and sold over a million copies. Neil is a Harvard MBA, one of the most popular TED speakers of all time, and after ten years heading Leadership Development at Walmart he now serves as Director of The Institute for Global Happiness. He has dedicated the past fifteen years of his life to developing leaders, creating global programs inside the world’s largest companies and speaking to hundreds of thousands of people around the globe.
"Most think motivation leads to action... No, motivation doesn't cause action... Action creates motivation."
Show Notes:
Commonalities of leaders who sustain excellence:
C -- Clarity - Clear, succinct, memorable
O -- Optimism -- "Find the good in everything"
P -- Patience -- Delaying decision making until the last possible moment
The quality can improve if "we let the tension live"
Empower others - "Parkinson's Law" - Work rises to the time needed to complete it.
"I don't want to fight the customer." -- Thinking about everything from their perspective. Wal-Mart
Being a Harvard Business School graduate
"Chase the companies that don't come to Harvard to recruit. You'll learn more." -- Why Neil went to Wal-Mart
Neil's 30 second pitch to why someone should hire him for a leadership role when he was very young
"I had to be artificially confident"
His pitch -- 3 quick questions
Do you value internal promotions?
What's the #1 program you've seen?
Would you be interested in topics of developing leaders at Harvard?
Get their email address and follow up
None of the companies were hiring when he was leaving school... Neil had to "create a job" within companies to get hired
Brene Brown - "If you go through life trying to find confirmation you don't belong, you'll find it."
2008 - The world was falling apart, his marriage ended, his best friend committed suicide..
He started the blog, 1,000 Awesome Things
Won a webby award for best blog in the world
Wrote The Book Of Awesome
He moved to NYC... Didn't know anyone, lived alone
He was going through pain while starting the awesome things blog. Focused on three things:
Make the blog public - hold him accountable
Use a countdown - From 1,000 to 1 -- Helped him know it was going to end at some point
Finite - There is light at the end of the tunnel
"Most think motivation leads to action. Not true. Action creates motivation."
The importance of consistency - Neil's idea was not unique, but doing it everyday made him different from most
"Try to be receptive of other people's ideas" -- Helps you "notice things"
"Your questions are fantastic. I'm not surprised."
Working on deadlines -- Neil wrote for a newspaper for four years. Helped with this skill
"I believe in consistency"
Actionable advice: You have three, 56 hour buckets of your week. They are:
56 Hours - Sleep
56 Hours - Work/Job
56 Hours - What are you spending this time on? You can do whatever you want...
The happiness equation - Work/Life balance fulcrum -- Flywheel
Taking his side hustle and making it his full time job -- "I should have done it sooner."
"If you go through life trying to find confirmation that you don't belong, you'll find it." -- Brene Brown
149: Marcus Sheridan - The Sales Lion: "They Ask, We Answer"
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Episode 149: Marcus Sheridan - The Sales Lion: "They Ask, We Answer"
Marcus Sheridan has coached multiple businesses of all types from around the globe in an effort to help them achieve world-class communication in all its forms, online and offline. Specifically, he has become known for: Content Marketing, HubSpot Training, Keynote Speeches. In 2015 alone, award-winning speaker Marcus Sheridan has traveled the globe, giving multiple sales, marketing, and leadership keynotes in a total of 8 different countries and 24 states. Sheridan, along with team member George Thomas, can be counted on to teach, inspire, and move audiences of all sizes to action while embracing today’s digital consumer and new way of doing business.
Episode 149: Marcus Sheridan - The Sales Lion: "They Ask, We Answer"
Marcus Sheridan has coached multiple businesses of all types from around the globe in an effort to help them achieve world-class communication in all its forms, online and offline. Specifically, he has become known for: Content Marketing, HubSpot Training, Keynote Speeches. In 2015 alone, award-winning speaker Marcus Sheridan has traveled the globe, giving multiple sales, marketing, and leadership keynotes in a total of 8 different countries and 24 states. Sheridan, along with team member George Thomas, can be counted on to teach, inspire, and move audiences of all sizes to action while embracing today’s digital consumer and new way of doing business.
27 Nov 2017
233: Gretchen Rubin - How To Be Happy
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Episode 233: Gretchen Rubin - How To Be Happy
Gretchen Rubin is the author of several books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, Better Than Before, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home. She has an enormous readership, both in print and online, and her books have sold almost three million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. Fast Company named Gretchen Rubin to its list of Most Creative People in Business, and she’s a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100.
She’s been interviewed by Oprah, eaten dinner with Daniel Kahneman, and walked arm-in-arm with the Dalai Lama.
Gretchen Rubin started her career in law and was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor when she realized she wanted to be a writer. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.
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"What do I want from my life? I want to be happy. How can I be happier?"
Show Notes:
Commonalities of leaders who sustain excellence:
They are self aware
They are happy and healthy and figured themselves out
Better Than Before -- How to create great habits
"I can't have a little. I either have none or a lot." -- Needed to abstain from things like that (sugar)
Think -- "What do I want from my life?" "I want to be happy..." She then went to the library to study. Did a deep dive on happiness
What are the keys to happiness?
Every month (for a year), she created a theme for the month: 3-5 concrete resolutions she could measure to make herself happier
Aim higher -- "Enjoying the fun of failure" -- Starting a blog. Initially worrying that nobody would read it. "It's okay to fail."
How can you buy happiness?
How to be grateful for what you have... Both experiences and possessions
Bill Gates takes "think weeks" -- Why we all should do this
Warren Buffett can buy anything he wants... But he cannot buy time
Gretchen describes her typical day
The Four Tendencies (Personality Profiles) -- How you respond to expectations
Upholders - Respond readily to both outer expectations and inner expecations
Questioners - Question all expectations; they meet an expectation only if they believe it's justified, so in effect they respond only to inner expectations
Obligers - Respond readily to outer expectations but struggle to meet inner expectations
Rebels - Resist all expectations, outer and inner alike
A live role play between Gretchen and me describing which tendency we inhibit and why we are different
Questioner vs Upholder - An upholder wants to always follow the rules (Gretchen)... A questioner (me) thinks differently
Gretchen's advice - Get clarity on who you are, your personality profile, and how you respond to expectations
Questioner - Why are you doing this? Know who, what when, why?
Obliger - Go beyond. Let's both commit. Find outer accountability. Take action
Rebel - Freedom, choice. "I want my voice heard."Influence change
Episode 078:Kat Cole – From Hooters Waitress To President of Cinnabon
Episode 216:Jim Collins -- How To Go From Good To Great
Episode 179:How To Sustain Excellence - The Best Answers From 178 Questions
Episode 107:Simon Sinek – Leadership: It Starts With Why
11 Dec 2023
557: Hal Elrod - How To Create a Morning Routine That Works For You
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The SAVERS acronym – Silence, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, and Scribing. If you implement that consistently, you'll probably do better.
72% of people said they were not a morning person before implementing SAVERS.
The makeup of a great sales professional:
They are coachable...
They bring energy and enthusiasm to the job...
They are consistent. They can handle rejection and keep going. They focus on the process...
Affirmations: First, affirm what you’re committed to. Next, why is it a must for you, and finally, affirm the specific actions you will take and when. That’s how you bring affirmations to life…
Haldied for 6 minutes, broke 11 bones, suffered permanent brain damage, and was told by doctors that he would never walk again. Then, at age 37, he nearly died again when his heart, lungs, and kidneys were on the verge of failing, and he was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of cancer.
“Any time you find yourself “wishing” you were further along than you are, or comparing where you are with where someone else is, keep in mind that when you finally get to point you’ve been working towards for so long, you never wish it would have happened any sooner. Instead, you see that the journey and the timing are perfect. So be at peace with where you are while maintaining a healthy sense of urgency to make the consistent progress each day that will ensure you get to wherever it is that you want to go. "
“Those who only do what they feel like, don’t do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don’t feel like it, knowing it is the action itself that will produce the motivation you need to follow through.”
“It’s temporary. Tolerate it, accept it, embrace it, or enjoy it. Whatever it is, just know that it is temporary.”
“The moment you accept 100% responsibility for EVERY aspect of your life is the moment that you claim the power to change ANY aspect of your life. I think where people get caught up with this is when someone else is to blame for a situation. But understand that accepting responsibility is NOT the same as accepting blame. While blame determines who is at fault for something, responsibility determines who is committed to improving a situation. It really doesn’t matter who was at fault; all that matters is that YOU are committed to improving and creating the circumstances you want for your life, regardless of who is at fault. That’s what taking responsibility is all about.”
03 Sep 2017
221: Phil Jones - What To Say To Influence And Impact Others (Magic Words)
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Episode 221: Phil Jones - What To Say To Influence And Impact Others (Magic Words)
Phil’s passion to “Teach The World To Sell”, now sees him traveling the globe speaking to a breadth of audiences, from small business owners to workforces and mass organizations, spreading his message and sharing his highly credited teachings. To date he’s spoken in 56 different countries across five continents and with his growing popularity, he’s expected to add many more to his roster.
Episode 221: Phil Jones - What To Say To Influence And Impact Others (Magic Words)
Curiosity - Continue to demand improvement from self
Detach self of the outcome - be of service to your customer. Celebrate quietly in the background when the client wins
How he learned to hustle:
Came from a home without much money... Learned to sell his mom's sandwiches at lunch. Then started a business going door to door offering to wash cars for money
He grew to make more money than his teachers when he was 15
"How much money are you making sire?" -- Phil would say to teachers when they criticized him for missing class
By 18, he was named the youngest sales manager in fashion retailer Debenhams, history
Day to Day
Phil delivers 100 keynote presentations a year
"Respect is something that is to be earned"
Ridiculous goal -- "Get my book in front of one million people"
Using Magic words
"I'm not sure if it's for you, but..."
"Magic words are words that speak right to the subconscious of our brain"
If you change 1 or 2 words, it can change everything. You must learn, train, and prepare... Write a script
"You still cry at movies... But the actor is reading a script. It's not real. You need to learn to read scripts."
Magic Word/Phrase
"You wouldn't happen to know..." -- Create a path of least resistance for a referral
How has Phil learned what he teaches?
"120,000 negotiations. Messing up. Being brave enough to say what works and what doesn't."
Magic Word/Phrase
"How open minded are you?" -- When you're trying to internally sell a new idea, this works. Everyone wants to see themselves as open minded. This phrase primes the brain to be more open minded to a new idea. It helps people opt in to your idea.
How to open a keynote speech?
Ask questions of the audience...
"Change one word to change everything" (Listen for more in depth story. This was a really good part. Around the 26:30 mark)
"Questions start conversations, conversations lead to relationships, relationships lead to opportunities."
Methods for prospecting:
You don't need to knock on every door
A great story on what you would do if you lost a child at a department store (again... must listen)
"Go look for who you really want." You must identify those people
Define who they are...
"You wouldn't happen to know?"
How he runs/manages his business and prospects
Franchises, MLMs, Healthcare space
Referrals, gifts, emails, calls
Utilizing Robert Cialdini's method for reciprocity... "They end up thanking ME!"
3rd party credibility and permission
Magic Word/Phrase:
"Just one more thing..." -- TV detectives in the 80's and 90's
This helps both upsells AND downsells (sometimes you won't get the huge deal initially... Must work your way in to build the relationship starting small)
Magic Word/Phrase:
"Most People..." -- "This helps you tell people what to do without telling them what to do."
People love to be led. Example: Yelp reviews
When people are stuck being indecisive... "Look, what most people do..."
Learning Leader = Leaders are always learning. "You've never arrived. You're always becoming."
Good, Better, or Best: What do you want?
You want to be better... Always striving to improve
"Questions start conversations. Conversations lead to relationships. Relationships lead to opportunities."
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26 Sep 2021
438: Jay Williams - How To Reinvent Yourself (Life Is Not An Accident)
Jay Williams is known as one of the greatest college basketball players of all time. At Duke, Jay won the Naismith College Player of the Year award, won the 2001 National Championship, and had his #22 retired. He was the second overall pick by the Chicago Bulls in the 2002 NBA draft. Now Jay works as a basketball analyst for ESPN, hosts a radio show, and is actively involved as an investor in the business world.
Notes:
Jay starts by describing the terrifying night when he wrecked his motorcycle which led to the end of his playing career…
Coach K flew a private plane to be with Jay in the hospital right after his motorcycle accident. He gave him a rosary and said, "you're going to give that back to me when you play again." Jay learned a valuable leadership lesson in that moment. Great leaders create hope. They give people something to strive for. "He gave me a reference point to look forward to."
Communication: As a leader, you need to initiate a conversation with each person you're leading. You can't just lead one generic way. You need to get to know each person for who they are. Ask questions about them. Get to know them.
Jay's mom said, "Life isn't interpreted by headlines." There is context to things. Jay learned from his mom to have a drive for knowledge and education.
Legacy: "Impact is what I want my life to be."
Coach K: "I was coached by one of the great minds at coaching life. He's a life leader."
"I chose Duke because I wanted to be a king among kings."
When Jay got drafted by the Chicago Bulls, he asked to have Michael Jordan's locker. It had not been used by anyone until that moment. "Heavy is the head that wears the crown."
Preparation process - It never turns off. Always working on preparing for his work. Jay Bilas called all the prep the parachute. You don’t want to need it, but you know it’s there in case you get stuck.
While at Duke, Jay decorated his body with tattoos, quotations, and symbols that meant far more later on. On his right leg, he inked the Chinese symbol for sacrifice; on his right arm, two hands clasped together, praying, next to the words “To err is human. To forgive is divine.” He also added this, from Gandhi: “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Jay graduatedin3years:He majored in sociology, graduated early, and turned professional after his junior season. For his final thesis paper, he studied athletes who left college early, their backgrounds, why they failed or succeeded.
Kobe - "A relentless pursuit to be the best." "Don't F with me, I'm in killer mode."
"He crystalized those fruits that translate to things off the court too."
Career advice: Appreciate your position while planning your promotion. Be excellent at your current role while also thinking about what could be next
30 Jul 2015
041: Bob Burg - Long Term Success The Go-Giver Way | Winning People Over Without Manipulation
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Episode 041: Bob Burg - Long Term Success The Go-Giver Way | Winning People Over Without Manipulation
Bob Burg is one of the most giving human beings I’ve ever met. Prior to us recording this episode, Bob consistently went out of his way to try and help me prepare and improve my podcast… Since we recorded he has introduced me to many extremely intelligent learning leaders. I am so grateful to Bob and so fortunate to call him a friend. This was a fantastic episode where we covered a ton of topics ranging from the definition of success to the importance of great sales professionals.
Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at corporate conferences and for entrepreneurial events. He regularly addresses audiences ranging in size from 50 to 16,000 — sharing the platform with notables including today’s top thought leaders, broadcast personalities, Olympic athletes and political leaders including a former United States President.
Although for years he was best known for his book Endless Referrals, over the past few years it’s his business parable, The Go-Giver (coauthored with John David Mann) that has captured the heart and imagination of his readers.
Bob’s newest book is Adversaries into Allies: Win People over without Manipulation or Coercion.
Episode 041: Bob Burg - Long Term Success The Go-Giver Way | Winning People Over Without Manipulation
Episode 001: How To Become A Master Connector With Jayson Gaignard From MasterMind Talks
Episode 002: How To Take Over And Set Bigger Goals With Chris Brogan
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
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This was a jam packed episode full of great content. Bob Burg is a leader who is constantly learning in order to help us all live a better life. Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!
Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at corporate conferences and for entrepreneurial events. He regularly addresses audiences ranging in size from 50 to 16,000 — sharing the platform with notables including today’s top thought leaders, broadcast personalities, Olympic athletes and political leaders including a former United States President.
Although for years he was best known for his book Endless Referrals, over the past few years it’s his business parable, The Go-Giver (coauthored with John David Mann) that has captured the heart and imagination of his readers.
Bob’s newest book is Adversaries into Allies: Win People Over Without Manipulation or Coercion.
Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve. And, he is also an unapologetic animal fanatic.
For more information, articles and free resources, please visit www.Burg.com
06 Apr 2016
113: David Meerman Scott – How Donald Trump Has Mastered NewsJacking
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Episode 113: David Meerman Scott – How Donald Trump Has Mastered NewsJacking
David Meerman Scott is a remarkable leader… I really appreciate that he’s actively seeking out opportunities to learn, grow, and help others. On this episode, I learned a great deal about Newsjacking – what that meant and how we all can do it. I also learned a lot about how David became a world class speaker commanding over $25,000 per hour. We had a fascinating conversation on this episode of The Learning Leader Show.
David Meerman Scott’s book The New Rules of Marketing & PR opened people’s eyes to the new realities of marketing and public relations on the Web. Six months on the BusinessWeek bestseller list with over a quarter of a million copies sold in more than 25 languages from Bulgarian to Vietnamese, “New Rules” is now a modern business classic.
He is the author of ten books and the series editor of six. His other international bestsellers include Real-Time Marketing & PR and Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead (written with HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan).
His latest book is The New Rules of Sales and Service: How to Use Agile Selling, Real-Time Customer Engagement, Big Data, Content, and Storytelling to Grow Your Business.
Episode 113: David Meerman Scott – How Donald Trump Has Mastered NewsJacking
David Meerman Scott’s book The New Rules of Marketing & PR opened people’s eyes to the new realities of marketing and public relations on the Web. Six months on the BusinessWeek bestseller list with over a quarter of a million copies sold in more than 25 languages from Bulgarian to Vietnamese, “New Rules” is now a modern business classic.
He is the author of ten books and the series editor of six. His other international bestsellers include Real-Time Marketing & PR and Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead (written with HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan).
His latest book is The New Rules of Sales and Service: How to Use Agile Selling, Real-Time Customer Engagement, Big Data, Content, and Storytelling to Grow Your Business.
06 Jul 2015
034: Jimmy Hatch – Shot While Searching For Bowe Bergdahl And Sky Diving With Gabby Giffords
00:56:17
Episode 034: Jimmy Hatch – Wounded While Searching For Bowe Bergdahl And Sky Diving With Gabby Giffords
I am honored to know Jimmy Hatch. He truly is an American Hero. He was wounded while on a search mission for Bowe Bergdahl (the US Soldier who has since been charged with desertion). This episode was incredible. To hear the real life stories and the danger that Jimmy has been in to serve our great country is incredibly inspiring.
In July 2009, Jimmy Hatch’s team - part of the Navy's Special Warfare Development Group - was on a search mission in eastern Afghanistan. The warriors landed in the dark and were hit with gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades as they made their way across a field.
Jimmy was an old hand at this kind of mission. He'd become a SEAL in 1990 and joined his elite unit in 1994, back when there was no war. After six years, he left the unit to teach parachuting. When war broke out, he pushed hard to get back to Virginia Beach.
That was in 2004. Now, five years later, Jimmy was a senior chief, a leader of expert commandos, strong and alert and brimming with confidence. He was one of the toughest guys in the world. The bullet that found his leg exploded through his femur just above the knee. It exited with pieces of bone and flung him through the air. The pain was exquisite. In the seconds it took him to land, he told himself not to scream because that would give away the location of the men around him. Then his lungs filled with air, and he couldn't help it. He screamed in agony. Two SEALs shot their way through the firefight, stabilized him and shot their way back out to pull him to safety. – Credit Dianna Cahn from hamptonroads.com/
Episode 034: Jimmy Hatch – Wounded While Searching For Bowe Bergdahl And Sky Diving With Gabby Giffords
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“There is a vetting process. If you weren’t invested, then people would die.”
Some Questions I Ask:
What does being invested mean to you? And others in the military?
How did you and Gabby Giffords become friends?
Your mission was the get Bowe Bergdahl… How do you feel about him? Do you see him as a deserter?
What did you learn about your team when adversity struck?
Why do you have such a strong connection with dogs?
How have you learned about the strength of people when they are faced with challenges?
Which individual leader has had the most influence on you?
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
The importance of investment and what it means to Navy SEALs
The specific feelings going through Jimmy’s head when he got shot
The importance of leaders being transparent
The challenges faced when coming home from battle
How Jimmy dealt with alcohol and drugs
The importance of preparation in battle and in life
The elements that define a quality life
“When I got shot, I went from being in command, to being a spectator.”
Episode 001: How To Become A Master Connector With Jayson Gaignard From MasterMind Talks
Episode 002: How To Take Over And Set Bigger Goals With Chris Brogan
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
Did you enjoy the podcast?
This was a huge honor for me. Jimmy Hatch is a leader who is a real life American Hero. Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!
Spikes K9 Fund was founded by James Hatch, a retired Special Warfare Operator. As a K9 handler on several deployments, James’ life was regularly spared by the work of K9s – one of the most memorable was Spike. And on James’ final deployment, the night he was critically wounded, a K9 spared James’ life while losing his own. From that evening on, James oriented his life around the training, care and preservation of working dogs. In addition to working as the founder and president of the fund, he works with local law enforcement and has adopted a former service dog in need of medical attention.
From Dianna Cahn: hamptonroads.com -- In July 2009, Jimmy Hatch’s team - part of the Navy's Special Warfare Development Group - was on a search mission in eastern Afghanistan. The warriors landed in the dark and were hit with gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades as they made their way across a field.
Jimmy was an old hand at this kind of mission. He'd become a SEAL in 1990 and joined his elite unit in 1994, back when there was no war. After six years, he left the unit to teach parachuting. When war broke out, he pushed hard to get back to Virginia Beach.
That was in 2004. Now, five years later, Jimmy was a senior chief, a leader of expert commandos, strong and alert and brimming with confidence. He was one of the toughest guys in the world. The bullet that found his leg exploded through his femur just above the knee. It exited with pieces of bone and flung him through the air. The pain was exquisite. In the seconds it took him to land, he told himself not to scream because that would give away the location of the men around him. Then his lungs filled with air, and he couldn't help it. He screamed in agony. Two SEALs shot their way through the firefight, stabilized him and shot their way back out
13 Aug 2015
045: Chris Fussell – Gun Fights To Board Rooms: The Similarities In War And Business
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Episode 045: Chris Fussell – Gun Fights To Board Rooms: The Similarities In War And Business
Chris Fussell is an incredible learning leader. Truly on another level when it comes to work ethic, grit, and intelligence. I was absolutely honored to have this conversation with him… And even more proud to now call him a friend.
Chris Fussell is the Chief Business Development Officer at McChrystal Group, leading the sales, marketing, and client relations teams. He and his team are responsible for identifying and growing McChrystal Group’s network and client base, and for positioning CrossLead as a 21st century leadership model and globally-recognized brand. Chris is an author of the firm’s forthcoming management book, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement in a Complex World.
Chris was commissioned as a Naval Officer in 1997, and spent the next 15 years on US Navy SEAL Teams, leading SEAL elements in combat zones around the globe. From war-torn Kosovo, to counter-terrorism operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, to highly specialized efforts in the troubled areas of the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa, he experienced the modern evolution of the US military’s Special Operations community, first on SEAL Teams Two and Eight, then in the Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
Chris was selected to serve as Aide-de-Camp to then-Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal during General McChrystal’s final year commanding the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), where they served a year together in Iraq. He witnessed first-hand the Special Operations community’s transformation into a successful, agile network.
Episode 045: Chris Fussell – Gun Fights To Board Rooms: The Similarities In War And Business
Episode 001: How To Become A Master Connector With Jayson Gaignard From MasterMind Talks
Episode 034: Jimmy Hatch – Shot While Searching For Bowe Bergdahl And Sky Diving With Gabby Giffords
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
Did you enjoy the podcast?
This was a jam packed episode full of great content. Chris Fussell is leader who is constantly learning in order to help us all live a better life. Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!
Chris Fussell is the Chief Business Development Officer at McChrystal Group, leading the sales, marketing, and client relations teams. He and his team are responsible for identifying and growing McChrystal Group’s network and client base, and for positioning CrossLead as a 21st century leadership model and globally-recognized brand. Chris is an author of the firm’s forthcoming management book, Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement in a Complex World.
Chris was commissioned as a Naval Officer in 1997, and spent the next 15 years on US Navy SEAL Teams, leading SEAL elements in combat zones around the globe. From war-torn Kosovo, to counter-terrorism operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, to highly specialized efforts in the troubled areas of the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa, he experienced the modern evolution of the US military’s Special Operations community, first on SEAL Teams Two and Eight, then in the Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
Chris was selected to serve as Aide-de-Camp to then-Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal during General McChrystal’s final year commanding the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), where they served a year together in Iraq. He witnessed first-hand the Special Operations community’s transformation into a successful, agile network.
In 2012, Chris left the Naval Special Warfare Development Group in order to join the McChrystal Group. Prior to becoming Chief of Network Management, he served as a Project Lead for a client engagement. Chris is also a Senior Fellow for National Security at New America, a Washington, DC-based non-partisan think tank dedicated to understanding the next generation of challenges facing the United States. Chris is actively involved in several non-profits dedicated to helping veterans and their families, and holds a seat on the Board of Directors for the Navy SEAL Foundation.
Chris earned a Masters Degree in Irregular Warfare from the Naval Postgraduate School, receiving the Pat Tillman Award for highest peer-rated Special Operations Officer in the program. His thesis work focused on the interagency collaboration and intelligence sharing processes that drove effective, cross-silo collaboration during the peak of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
03 Aug 2016
147: Anders Ericsson - What Malcolm Gladwell Got Wrong About The 10,000 Hour Rule
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Episode 147: Anders Ericsson - What Malcolm Gladwell Got Wrong About The 10,000 Hour Rule
ANDERS ERICSSON, PhD, is Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. He studies expert performance in domains, such as music, chess, medicine, and sports, and how expert performers attain their superior performance by acquiring complex cognitive mechanisms through extended deliberate practice. He has edited “Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance” (2006) and “The Development of Professional Expertise” (2009). In the book Outliers Malcolm Gladwell based his “10,000 hour rule” on Ericsson and colleagues’s research on musicians. His latest book is titled, "PEAK, Secrets From The New Science of Expertise."
Have you ever wanted to learn a language or pick up an instrument, only to become too daunted by the task at hand? Expert performance guru Anders Ericsson has made a career studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak condenses three decades of original research to introduce an incredibly powerful approach to learning that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring a skill.
Ericsson’s findings have been lauded and debated, but never properly explained. So the idea of expertise still intimidates us — we believe we need innate talent to excel, or think excelling seems prohibitively difficult.
Peak belies both of these notions, proving that almost all of us have the seeds of excellence within us — it’s just a question of nurturing them by reducing expertise to a discrete series of attainable practices. Peak offers invaluable, often counter-intuitive, advice on setting goals, getting feedback, identifying patterns, and motivating yourself. Whether you want to stand out at work, or help your kid achieve academic goals, Ericsson’s revolutionary methods will show you how to master nearly anything.
Episode 147: Anders Ericsson - What Malcolm Gladwell Got Wrong About The 10,000 Hour Rule
ANDERS ERICSSON, PhD, is Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. He studies expert performance in domains, such as music, chess, medicine, and sports, and how expert performers attain their superior performance by acquiring complex cognitive mechanisms through extended deliberate practice. He has edited “Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance” (2006) and “The Development of Professional Expertise” (2009). In the book Outliers Malcolm Gladwell based his “10,000 hour rule” on Ericsson and colleagues’s research on musicians. His latest book is titled, "PEAK, Secrets From The New Science of Expertise."
Have you ever wanted to learn a language or pick up an instrument, only to become too daunted by the task at hand? Expert performance guru Anders Ericsson has made a career studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak condenses three decades of original research to introduce an incredibly powerful approach to learning that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring a skill.
Ericsson’s findings have been lauded and debated, but never properly explained. So the idea of expertise still intimidates us — we believe we need innate talent to excel, or think excelling seems prohibitively difficult.
Peak belies both of these notions, proving that almost all of us have the seeds of excellence within us — it’s just a question of nurturing them by reducing expertise to a discrete series of attainable practices. Peak offers invaluable, often counterintuitive, advice on setting goals, getting feedback, identifying patterns, and motivating yourself. Whether you want to stand out at work, or help your kid achieve academic goals, Ericsson’s revolutionary methods will show you how to master nearly anything.
18 Dec 2016
181: Srini Rao - How To Be Unmistakably Creative
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Episode 181: Srini Rao - How To Be Unmistakably Creative
Srini Rao is the host and founder of The Unmistakable Creative podcast where he's conducted over 600 interviews with thought leaders and people from all walks of life. This has given him an incredibly distinctive view into branding, storytelling, and marketing. Srini has also written multiple books including the Wall Street Journal bestseller The Art of Being Unmistakable; created,planned, and executed a 60-person conference called the Instigator Experience;and am publishing the forthcoming Unmistakable book with Penguin Portfolio. Somewhere along the way his compass led him in the direction of an economics degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Pepperdine University. Extracting unmistakable stories out of people is his superpower. And in his spare time he's usually chasing waves.
Episode 181: Srini Rao - How To Be Unmistakably Creative
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20 Mar 2016
108: Steven Kotler – Your Flow State: What Is It? How To Get There…
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Episode 108: Steven Kotler – Your Flow State: What Is It? How To Get There…
Steven Kotler is a remarkable leader… I really appreciate that he’s actively seeking out opportunities to get to his “flow” state. Your flow state is your optimal level of consciousness. On this episode, I learned a great deal about being in flow and finding ways to get there more often. We had a fascinating conversation on this episode of The Learning Leader Show.
Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist and the cofounder/director of research for the Flow Genome Project. He is one of the world’s leading experts on ultimate human performance.
His latest work, Bold was called a “visionary roadmap for change,” by President Bill Clinton and spent many weeks atop both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.
His previous book, The Rise of Superman, was one of the most talked about books in 2013 and the first book in history to land on national bestseller lists in the sports, science, and business categories simultaneously. In it, Steven decodes the science of flow, an optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best.
Episode 108: Steven Kotler – Your Flow State: What Is It? How To Get There…
Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist and the cofounder/director of research for the Flow Genome Project. He is one of the world’s leading experts on ultimate human performance.
His latest work, Bold was called a “visionary roadmap for change,” by president Bill Clinton and spent many weeks atop both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.
His previous book, The Rise of Superman, was one of the most talked about books in 2013 and the first book in history to land on national bestseller lists in the sports, science, and business categories simultaneously. In it, Steven decodes the science of flow, an optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best.
Just as Rise explores the upper limits of individual possibility, his book, Abundance, explores the upper limits of societal possibility, breaking down four emerging forces that give humanity the potential to significantly raise global standards of living over the next 20 to 30 years. Abundance spent 10 weeks atop the New York Times bestseller list and appeared on four prestigious “Best Book of the Year” lists. A Small, Furry Prayer—Steven’s book about the relationship between humans and animals—was a national bestseller and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; West of Jesus, which examines the neurobiology of spiritual experience, was a Pen/West finalist; and his bestselling novel, The Angle Quickest For Flight, won the William L. Crawford IAFA Fantasy Award.
His writings have been translated into over 40 languages and appeared in over 80 publications, including The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Forbes, Wired and TIME. He also writes “Far Frontiers,” a blog about science and culture for Forbes.com, appears frequently on television and radio, and lectures widely on technological, scientific and cultural issues, both to corporate and education institutions.
03 Sep 2023
543: Eric Musselman - Running Great Team Meetings, Developing Your People, Building a Championship Program (Head Men's Basketball Coach at The University of Arkansas)
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Eric Musselman is the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Arkansas. Prior to his time at Arkansas, he was a head coach in the NBA with the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings. He’s also spent time as the national coach for the Dominican Republic National Team and The Venezuela National Team.
Learn from others. Muss shared many examples of times he's gone to other practices to watch and learn. He prefers to watch how and NFL runs practice and he's modeled his practices after NFL teams. And sends his coaches to do the same. This is something we should do in corporate America. Connect with leaders at other companies and visit them. Watch their meetings, their 1 on 1s, and embed yourself in their culture for a few days.
When Muss got fired as the coach of the Golden State Warriors, he was offered office space (from Mike Lombardi) at the Oakland Raiders facility. While there, he learned the ins and outs of running a professional program and has modeled a lot of his system from that experience.
Leadership "Must-Haves" to be on his staff:
Loyalty
Will to win
Specialty area of expertise
Meetings: PREPARE a lot. Grab their attention. Keep them on their toes with surprises. All of these things can be done in business meetings… BUT it takes time and effort to do it well.
Muss's life philosophy is to be a constant learner AND a great communicator. He takes pages of notes with him to the gym every morning and reads, takes notes, and highlights the entire time. Then he synthesizes what he’s learned and shares it with his team. We all can do this. Again, it takes intentional effort, but it’s worth it.
At the beginning of each practice, he does a “classroom” session with his team. He teaches a life lesson or a lesson on basketball.
Family Coaching Legacy – Musselman’s father Bill was also an NBA head coach and they were the first father-son combination to become head coaches in the NBA. His sons work with him at Arkansas.
“Muss is a magician with howhe communicates with referees.” He works to build a genuine relationship with them.
His coaching staff hasmetrics they produce that help him engineer how playing time and combinations of playerson the floor can produce a win.
Hispractices are legendary. Like a well-oiled machine. Everyone has a role. And they are open to the public.
If a player isn’t in a drill, he better be on the sideline dribbling or practicing his game in some way. Always improving, always working.
Muss has a reputation for being the college coach who can get you to the NBA. He is extremely well-connected in the NBA. If a kid wants to enter the draft, Muss will do his homework to see where he thinks he'll get drafted, and then sit down with the kid and his parents to give him feedback.
Herevolutionized the use of the transfer portaland is extremely organized when a new prospect pops up.
On his blog, Musselman wrote about the importance of matching an offense to the "team's makeup." Depending on the roster, a half-court offense might make more sense. In other cases, a team may be better suited for an "open offense." According to Musselman, the idea is to allow players to "play to their strengths."
21 Jul 2019
320: Rick Smith - How To Take Initiative & Solve Problems (CEO Of Axon)
Rick Smith is the founder and CEO of Axon. Axon currently employs over 1,300 people. A pioneer of technology with the vision of making the bullet obsolete, Rick founded the original company, TASER, in 1993. As the TASER device became ubiquitous in law enforcement, Rick pushed the company beyond weapons technology and towards a broader purpose of matching technology to public safety needs in order to make the world a safer place. Under his leadership, the company has grown from a garage in Tucson to a NASDAQ-listed global market leader.
Notes:
Leaders who sustain excellence =
Initiative -- "They see what needs to be done and they do it."
Rick started the company out of his garage in Arizona in 1993
More on taking initiative: "Don't wait for people to tell you what to do. Highlight it and fix it."
Luke Larson was an individual contributor when the company had 250 employees. He challenged Rick on an issue and offered a solution. He is now the President of a 1,300 person company
Mindset -- Build a culture that rewards challenging the status quo
"Tell the ugly truth"
"Anyone can challenge any idea"
Qualities Rick looks for in hiring:
Need to want to be with them
Initiative - they need to step up and do work
Intellectual curiosity - someone who seeks better answers
No time for hierarchical people -- they cannot be threatened by 'up and comers'
"You want to hire people that are literally better than you. You have to learn to embrace that."
"It's so liberating to know that I don't have to be right."
Why try to eliminate the bullet?
"In 1993, two friends were shot and killed. I thought, 'why are bullets still a thing?'"
"Don't wait until you have the perfect business plan. Have a simple concept you believe in and get to work."
"Focus on solving a big problem"
The first seven years did not go well. Rick was fortunate to have his dad fund it... However, it led to a difficult relationship when the business wasn't going well. He had immense pressure for it to succeed.
They fixed their core product and it began catching on with law enforcement agencies
They own 100% of the taser market
"I'm a libertarian guy. I don't want to take anything away from anyone."
"But people romanticize guns. The real world is messy. We make mistakes."
"Why use lethal force instead of a taser?"
What about the phrase: "Don't take a knife (or taser) to a gun fight?"
"How about, 'Don't get into a gun fight.'"
The book (End Of Killing): "Our goal is to replace the gun long term. The book is me sharing what I believe that nobody else believes."
Have to respect ideas
"It's a good sign if people initially think you're crazy"
Keys to building a team at work that sees a higher mission?
"You must have an authentic mission."
"Don't say you're changing the world unless you actually are."
"My goal is to inspire the right team and then get out of their way."
"I'm now the chief storyteller of the business."
Career advice:
"Find a job where you get to feel the impact of what you want to create. What are the big picture things you want to accomplish."
"The people who are most effective see what needs to be done and they go and do it."
Humility - "People who don't think they're very good."
The willingness to "put yourself in situations where you don't have a clue."
No Plateau - Need to put yourself in scenarios where you are inexperienced... To learn and build resilience.
Why Jack shoots "one take" videos and doesn't edit --There is a focus on "getting things out there." Ship it. Publish. Take action.
"The ability to publish is prioritized."
You can build a bond with a teacher through their authenticity.
Create and share what you're building in real time... People want to go on that journey with you (when it's real)
How Jack has built such a high level of confidence in himself -- Had a great mentor who was a polymath.
It was six months into being a designer... Jack was preparing to show some of his work. He framed it as "I'm not sure if this is any good..." His mentor told him, "Never discount what you're doing prior to showing it to them." Frame it right. KNOW YOUR WORK. Own the full interaction of your story. Explain how you got the answer. DO the necessary work to understand it at its fundamental level.
Think as if you are going to defend your work as you present it -- "What would the worst critic say about this work?" How would I respond to that? Do your research and be prepared. That's how confidence is built. Be consciously competent about your work.
Visualize Value -- Jack is a designer by trade. He has built his skills based on his previous decade working with some of the world's largest brands.
He most enjoyed the strategic component of the process -- The articulation of the strategy through the use of compelling visual images.
Think: How can I make this argument more visual?
He helps businesses understand their value proposition
He takes the same principle to consumers now with Visualize Value
Leadership Development - Understand the individual components to transformation
Curriculum - Organize it to a sequence of principles that build on one another.
Share myths - What's incorrect
Don't skip the foundation
Share the problem - Don't just focus on the symptom
Prescriptions can mask the symptom
Help with transformation -- "Debug the code"
"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." - Pat Riley
As a leader, it's important to constantly set a new baseline.
Consistency - "We're bad at understanding the compounding function."
Resistance - Progress is a force you're pushing against. Your ability to continually push forward against the resistance is critical in your long term success.
Sales - There's no scenario where sales isn't important.
Sales is always a component to what you're doing whether you like it or not.
04 May 2016
121: Ryan Michler – How To Build Your 1,000 True Fans
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Episode 121: Ryan Michler – How To Build Your 1,000 True
Fans
If you have a desire to build your own tribe full of raving,
engaged fans, then this is a great episode for you. I
originally met Ryan Michler over a year ago… He was in the midst of
building his community, “The Order of Man.” It’s incredible
to see how far and impactful his community has become in just 12
months. In addition… Ryan and his wife had their 4th child
the DAY BEFORE we recorded this episode. Ryan is a man of his
word and didn’t want to cancel even in the midst of having a
child! Incredible.
Ryan Michler is the creator of “The Order of Man” and “The Iron
Council.” The Order of Man is a website that provides
fantastic value to leaders who strive to improve on a daily
basis. Ryan also has a podcast with the same name. I
was fortunate to be a guest on his show in May of 2015. You
can listen to that episode HERE
if you would like.
Episode 121: Ryan Michler – How To Build Your 1,000 True
Fans
Most of my childhood was spent without a permanent father figure
in my life. I never learned how to work on my car, I never had the
chance to roughhouse with my dad, and I didn’t even learn how to
throw a baseball correctly until I was a freshman in high
school.
Looking back on it now, I wonder how my life would have been
different if I had a permanent male influence in my life. What
would the world look like if there were more men in it? I’m not
talking about males. I’m talking about MEN (there is a
difference).
Now that I have sons, I’m committed to being the dad that I
never had. We do all kinds of great things together-sports (I coach
ALL their teams), build tree houses, and roughhouse ’til we’re
exhausted.
As I talk with other men, I can see that there is a huge need
for learning how to be a better father. But I’ve also seen a need
for strong and honorable men outside of the home.
Guys, we’re losing the meaning of manhood. We’ve gone away from
being strong, rugged, independent, and tough to a collection of
wimpy, dependent, whiners. Something has got to be done!
30 Sep 2018
277: Tom Goodwin - Life Advice From The #1 Influencer On LinkedIn
01:01:17
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
Episode #277: Tom Goodwin - Life Advice From The #1 Influencer On LinkedIn
Show Notes:
Commonalities of sustaining excellence:
Confidence + Conviction
Ability to make quick decisions with limited amounts of information
Faith in their judgement
"There is a feeling in the room when a quality leader walks in. A charisma, an energy, a presence."
How does one develop charisma?
"Introversion is more interesting to me. Great presenters are introverts. They are empathetic and think of the audience first."
There is "cultural permission" when you're on stage. The audience is rooting for you to succeed. Use that energy and positive vibes
The importance of a proper introduction
Head of Innovation at Zenith. What does that entail? "An observer. Reading a lot. Gain perspective through a lot of global travel. You learn more from countries outside of the U.S. where we have everything that we could want or need."
How he became the #1 Influencer on LinkedIn?
First, look for the differences in commonality vs causation. There is a difference
"I orchestrate a conversation on LinkedIn. I facilitate it through my articles. I don't claim to know everything."
"I got quite irritated. I got fired at my job for being outspoken. I started sharing my beliefs and it caught on."
"Because I wasn't filtered, it hit a nerve with people. I am not careful with my words."
How to gain support for your passion/side hustle while working at a big company
"Encouraging this attracts great candidates and helps retain top talent."
"Senior management needs to support and encourage it. If they have envy or are insecure, then it won't work."
"Large companies need to understand why they got big. Those reasons may not be what gets them to the next level. We need to rethink rigidity."
"Life is about creating good problems."
"We need to create a culture of progressive criticism."
The Apple commercial: "It took 1,000 No's to get to a Yes"
"We shouldn't worship busyness. We should worship output."
The reason for writing Digital Darwinism
Life/Career Advice:
"Don't worry. Too many people spend their youth thinking their career would take a tidy path. It's not. My career has been quite messy, but it's worked out fine. Be humble, thoughtful, and empathetic."
Develop curiosity - "The UK education fuels curiosity, fuels interest. That doesn't seem to happen in the States. We need a breadth of the world. Like James Dyson or Elon Musk."
Build a network - "Job postings. That's not how the world works and it won't in the future. I want sparkly talent that has five other jobs. Don't be afraid to nurture multiple talents."
Have a sense of humor. It helps ease the mood/tension and makes you more enjoyable to be around.
Issue: "We're obsessed with being correct rather than being helpful. That's not good."
048: Cameron Herold – Why You Should Teach Your Child To Be An Entrepreneur
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Episode 048: Cameron Herold – Why You Should Teach Your Child To Be An Entrepreneur
This episode was absolutely packed full of action oriented takeaways to help us all improve in each of our environments. I love the strategy Cameron has employed to teach children to be entrepreneurs as well as his strategies to grow a number of businesses…
Cameron Herold has been instrumental in the successful sale, branding, and integration of a remarkable 500 business locations with three major companies. He may be best known as a driving force behind 1-800-GOT JUNK’s spectacular growth from $2 Million to $106 Million in revenue in just six years.
His wide range of executive roles has given him expertise across all aspects of business, from strategic planning, operations, people, sales, marketing, call centers and PR. Combined with hands-on experience negotiating corporate acquisitions and developing numerous strategic partnerships, there are few real-world business challenges he hasn't faced.
Now, as the author of “Double Double”, Cameron mentors a select class of proven CEOs, entrepreneurs and their teams, helping them navigate growth, leadership, and building their own unique company cultures. He reaches an even broader audience through his content-driven presentations to groups of entrepreneurs, speaking in over twenty countries, on five continents, in just five years. Cameron is a top-rated lecturer at the EO/MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program and a powerful and effective speaker at EO/YPO & Vistage events around the world. Additionally, he landed over 5,000 media placements in six years - including coverage on Oprah, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, Fast Company, Fortune and 17 spots on Dr. Phil.
Episode 048: Cameron Herold – Why You Should Teach Your Child To Be An Entrepreneur
“High achievers have a sense of curiosity. They realize they haven’t figured it out yet.” – Cameron Herold
Some Questions I Ask:
What one common characteristic do all high achievers leaders share?
Why is it important to focus on your strengths as opposed to your weaknesses?
If you were in charge of our education system, what would you change?
What is your process for generating free PR for a company?
How did you grow 1-800 Got Junk from $2 million to $106 million?
Why is it terrible to give a child an allowance?
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
The reason why massive curiosity is a key to success
The importance of focusing on strengths
Why all tests in school should be open book and done in groups
Tactical PR strategies to implement NOW
Why vision statements suck
How to systematize culture and why it should be the #1 priority
“Allowances for children teach kids to get used to a fixed amount of income. They are a terrible idea. You need to teach them to spot opportunities and then negotiate how much they should be paid to accomplish the task” – Cameron Herold
Episode 001: How To Become A Master Connector With Jayson Gaignard From MasterMind Talks
Episode 002: How To Take Over And Set Bigger Goals With Chris Brogan
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
Did you enjoy the podcast?
This was a jam packed episode full of great content. Cameron Herold is leader who is constantly learning in order to help us all live a better life. He also strives to constantly help others. Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!
Cameron Herold has been instrumental in the successful sale, branding, and integration of a remarkable 500 business locations with three major companies. He may be best known as a driving force behind 1-800-GOT JUNK’s spectacular growth from $2 Million to $106 Million in revenue in just six years.
His wide range of executive roles has given him expertise across all aspects of business, from strategic planning, operations, people, sales, marketing, call centers and PR. Combined with hands-on experience negotiating corporate acquisitions and developing numerous strategic partnerships, there are few real-world business challenges he hasn't faced.
Now, as the author of “Double Double”, Cameron mentors a select class of proven CEOs, entrepreneurs and their teams, helping them navigate growth, leadership, and building their own unique company cultures. He reaches an even broader audience through his content-driven presentations to groups of entrepreneurs, speaking in over twenty countries, on five continents, in just five years. Cameron is a top-rated lecturer at the EO/MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program and a powerful and effective speaker at EO/YPO & Vistage events around the world. Additionally, he landed over 5,000 media placements in six years - including coverage on Oprah, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, Fast Company, Fortune and 17 spots on Dr. Phil.
05 Nov 2018
282: Seth Godin - You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See
00:43:15
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
Episode #282: Seth Godin - You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See
"In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible."
Show Notes:
Commonalities of sustaining excellence:
It changes over time
Must be willing to fail - "Okay... Will I do things that might not work?"
Some of Seth's failures: many teaching mistakes, tried to build philanthropy platform that failed, blog has failed at times
How to handle a slump? - "There's no such thing as a long slump."
Stephen J. Gould - "The real problem is how you respond to the failure. You can't tell yourself a story that's not true."
Have honest self talk -- "This isn't a slump."
Stanford MBA - Friends with Chip Conley. "Everyone there feels like a fraud or an arrogant jerk. I felt like I was drowning. The sessions with Chip changed my life." Chips "Random Acts of Initiative" were life changing. Chip taking initiative and not fearing rejection. Remarkable.
Empathy - A mentor wants to see you do things that are bold, leap forward because of them.
Be a mentor - "Make the world shinier. Bring life to more causes."
Economy of words - "I made the decision to write like I talk."
"Talking isn't better because you're afraid."
The book publishing world and why Seth chose to traditionally publish This Is Marketing
What percentage of Seth's success is luck? "98.2%" The final 1.8% is "relentless persistence." "The 98.2% is the parent lottery."
How to deal with rejection after rejection...
"Culture IS strategy. How we treat people. It's hard to do the things we're proud of."
"Great ones have better clients."
Side hustle advice -- Start it on the side so that you don't have to make money at it right away. You can choose your clients and never just "do it for the money."
"Exactly. Great advice."
Keys to storytelling - "We have too much stuff."
Better understand the story you're telling yourself.
Robert Greene has written 7 international best-selling books focused on strategy, power, and seduction, including The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, The Laws of Human Nature, and most recently, The Daily Laws.
Notes:
What matters is not education or money, but your persistence and the intensity of your desire to learn; that failures, mistakes, and conflicts are often the best education of all; and how true creativity and mastery emerge from all this.
Adapt your inclinations. Avoid havingrigid goalsand dreams. Change is the law.
Find inspiration from your heroes. Are there people whose work affects you in a powerful way? Analyze this and use them as models.
Trust the process. Time is the essential ingredient of mastery. Use it to your advantage.
What The mentor needs - Find a master to apprentice under, but instead of thinking about how much they can give you, think about howyou can help them with their work.
Learn by Doing -- The brain is designed to learn through constant repetition and active, hands-on involvement. Through such practice and persistence, any skill can be mastered.
Master your emotional responses- displaying anger and emotion are signs of weakness; you cannot control yourself, so how can you control anything?
Always Say Less Than Necessary. When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control.
Avoid the false alliance --Cultivate real allies. No one can get far in life without allies.The trick is to recognize the difference between false allies and real ones. A false alliance is created out of an immediate emotional need. A real alliance is formed out of mutual self-interest, each side supplying what the other cannot get alone.
Despise the Free lunch- Learn to pay and to pay well. -- I find that the best clients don’t haggle on price, they pay immediately and they are easy to work with. The clients who want to fight about every last dollar always end up being the most difficult to work with. “There is no cutting corners with excellence. It is often wise to pay full price.”
Judge people on their behavior, not on their words- What you want is a picture of a person’s character over time. Restrain from the natural tendency to judge right away, and let the passage of time reveal more about who people are.
Don’t mistake extra conviction for truth - When people try to explain their ideas with so much exaggerated energy, or defend themselves with an intent level of denial, that is precisely when you should raise your antennae.
Determine the strength of people’s character - In gauging strength or weakness, look at how people handle stressful moments and responsibility. Look at their patterns: what have they actually completed or accomplished?
Be a source of pleasure - No one wants to hear about your problems and troubles. An energetic presence is more charming than lethargy. Being lighthearted and fun is always more charming than being serious and critical.
Leave people with a feeling - Keep your eyes on the aftermath of any encounter. Think more of the feeling you leave people with -- a feeling that might translate into a desire to see more of you.
Transform yourself into a deep listener - It will provide you the most invaluable lessons about human psychology. The secret to this: finding other people endlessly fascinating.
Do Not let success intoxicate you - after any kind of success, analyze the components. See the element of luck that is inevitably there, as well as the role that other people, including mentors, played in your good fortune.
Increase your reaction time - the longer you can resist reacting, the more mental space you have for actual reflection, and the stronger your mind will become.
Alive time or dead time - Never waste a minute. Make today your own -- whether you’re stuck in traffic, sick in bed, or working long hours. You are renting just about everything in your life. The only thing you own is your time. Make the most of it.
14 Dec 2015
080: Ryan Estis – From Rock Star Sales Professional To World Class Speaker & Entrepreneur
00:42:57
Episode 080: Ryan Estis – From Rock Star Sales Professional To World Class Speaker & Entrepreneur
Ryan Estis has that “It” factor. He’s a leader who you just feel compelled to listen to. This conversation/interview was extremely enjoyable for me. Ryan brought value the entire time and has a knack for sharing actionable content throughout all of his conversations. We are fortunate to have him as our featured leader on this episode of The Learning Leader Show.
Ryan Estis has more than 20 years of experience as a top-performing sales professional and leader. As the former chief strategy officer for the McCann Worldgroup advertising agency NAS, he brings a fresh perspective to business events. As a keynote speaker, Ryan is known for his innovative ideas on leading change, improving sales effectiveness and preparing for the future of work. He was recently recognized as one of “the best keynote speakers ever heard” by Meetings & Conventions magazine alongside Tony Robbins, Bill Gates, Colin Powell and Mike Ditka.
Ryan supports the world’s leading brands, including Liberty Mutual, Darden Restaurants, Goodyear, the Dallas Cowboys, Medtronic, ECCO USA and Blue Cross Blue Shield. He is a faculty member for the Institute of Management Studies, a member of the SmartBrief on Workforce Advisory Board and a certified Human Capital Strategist.
Episode 080: Ryan Estis – From Rock Star Sales Professional To World Class Speaker & Entrepreneur
Episode 001: How To Become A Master Connector With Jayson Gaignard From MasterMind Talks
Episode 034: Jimmy Hatch – Shot While Searching For Bowe Bergdahl And Sky Diving With Gabby Giffords
Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion
Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts
Did you enjoy the podcast?
This was a jam packed episode full of great content. Ryan Estis is a unique leader who is constantly learning in order to help us all live a better life. Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!
Ryan Estis has more than 20 years of experience as a top-performing sales professional and leader. As the former chief strategy officer for the McCann Worldgroup advertising agency NAS, he brings a fresh perspective to business events. As a keynote speaker, Ryan is known for his innovative ideas on leading change, improving sales effectiveness and preparing for the future of work. He was recently recognized as one of “the best keynote speakers ever heard” by Meetings & Conventions magazine alongside Tony Robbins, Bill Gates, Colin Powell and Mike Ditka.
Ryan supports the world’s leading brands, including Liberty Mutual, Darden Restaurants, Goodyear, the Dallas Cowboys, Medtronic, ECCO USA and Blue Cross Blue Shield. He is a faculty member for the Institute of Management Studies, a member of the SmartBrief on Workforce Advisory Board and a certified Human Capital Strategist.
17 Sep 2017
223: Kim Malone Scott - Using Radical Candor To Be A Great Boss
01:03:28
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223: Kim Malone Scott - Using Radical Candor To Be A Great Boss
"It is important for leaders to be learners, not tellers."
Show Notes:
Sustained Excellence. Common Themes of Leaders who Sustain Excellence:
They care about their people as humans, they care personally
They are honest, not worried about being liked all the time, they are willing to challenge directly
Can you be both liked and respected?
Yes, but you shouldn't strive to be popular
Jony Ive and Steve Jobs story -- Steve told them the team their work was of poor quality. Jony said, "Why were you so harsh Steve?" Steve asked, "Why didn't you tell them the work was bad? It's your job to do that." Jony replied, "I didn't want them to be upset or distraught." Steve said, "You are vain. You just want to be liked."
The biggest mistake new bosses make is trying to be liked by everyone and NOT being direct.
Your employees should never have to say, "Why didn't you tell me sooner?" -- A great boss gives directly feedback in a timely manner
A great boss creates an environment where everyone can tell the truth (up, down, and sideways in an organization)
Understand the framework
How to created this culture?
Start by asking for feedback. You can't give feedback if you're not willing to take it.
Go to question: "What could I be doing to make it better for you?"
Use a "Start, Stop, Continue" exercise
Create a "Speak Truth To Power" environment
Embrace the discomfort
"Listen with the intent to understand... Not just waiting to talk."
Must reward the candor -- When you receive good feedback, you must implement it. You must fix the problem.
Google/Sheryl Sandberg story
Sheryl's feedback: "You said "um" a lot during that presentation, would you like a speech coach?" -- "No, I'm fine, thanks." -- "Kim, when you say "um" every third word, it makes you sound stupid."
Sheryl knew she need to be very direct with Kim and they built a relationship of trust and care. That's the only way she was able to get through to Kim and help her
Hiring is the most important decision you will make as a leader
"If you're not dying to work with that person, don't hire them"
Steve Jobs - "It's better to have a hole than an asshole"
Dick Costolo - "You can't just hire great people and get out of their way. You must invest time in helping them, develop them even more."
Jony Ive - "New ideas are fragile. You must create space to talk about them."
"Your job as the boss isn't to be the decider, it's to make sure everyone knows who the decider is."
The Wright Brothers -- Watching birds for hours --> Learning how to build wings for human airplane flight
Dick Costolo -- Build in 2 hours of "think time" per day in your calendar
Career advice:
"Quit talk of building a great resume, build a great life"
Find people to have career talks with... Recount your life story with them. Zero in on changes you've made. Think "What motivates you about work?" Understand what drives you, what matters, why? -- Think about your dreams... Make sure your dreams and values are in alignment. Create a plan
"It is important for leaders to be learners, not tellers."
"When you say "Um" every third word, it makes you sound stupid." -- Sheryl Sandberg's direct feedback to Kim after a presentation to Larry & Sergei
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