Leading the Millennials: Leading in an Uncertain World

#040: Choosing The Right Spouse

Your spouse is not only your best friend but your companion on the journey of life. If you want to lead more effectively having a spouse that supports and encourages you is necessary. In this episode, Paul and Ken discuss how your key to success is your spouse.

Insights:

• Leveraging each others strength
• Elements and traits of spouses
• Success and support

Challenges:

• How can you be the best spouse?
• A spouse is intended to always be your best friend
• Forget what one gives and remembering what one receives

Attention Getters:

• Suppose there are times at the end of the day where there’s not much to say.  Are you okay if we sometimes we just sit in silence?
• Let’s suppose we have a family at some point,
• • What activities do you see us involved in with our kids.  
  • Where do you see our kids going to school?  
  • Do you think we’ll both stay working?  
  • Do you think your job will cause you to travel a lot?
  • Can you see us having a family dog or cat at some point?
  • Do you see us living in town or out in the country?
• When we’re married, whose family do we visit for Christmas?
• How many years do you want to wait before we have kids?
• What are some of the places you want travel to
• • Before we have kids?
  • After we have kids?
• When do you think we should tell them the truth about Santa Clause?
• What do you think about always having a date night?

Show Links:

• LTM Survey
• Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud
• Radical Candor by Kim Scott

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Episode #039: Marriage

Leadership is a key component in marriage.The best way to lead is to make the people around you the most important. In this episode, Paul and Ken discuss the leadership qualities it takes to be the provider, the encourager and the example in marriage and family.

Insights:

• Working together as an equal team
• The breadwinner is not always the leader
• Asking questions and communicating to connect with one another

Challenges:

• Listen more than advise
• Friendship over finances
• Being Selfish

Show Links:

• LTM Survey
• Nick Foles press conference
• Financial Peace University by Dave Ramsey
• 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
• Love and Respect by Dr. Eggerich

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Episode #038: Sports

Sports is a great way to train to be a better leader. A leader exhibits accountability by being willing to take the heat and handle failure, while also being the person that everyone looks to for direction. Join Paul and Ken as they discuss what it means to be a leader in sports.

 Insights:

• Leading by example
• Character of the leader and the player
• Being intentional with your actions

 Challenges:

• Reacting under pressure and to criticism
• Patience
• Sense of not belonging

 Show Links:

• LTM Survey
• Year of the Scab, ESPN 30 for 30

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Episode #037 Work-Life Balance

Work-life balance is about dedicating time to every area of your life effectively. Our minds are constantly thinking about work while at home and while at work about home. In other words, work-life balance is tough! Join Paul and Ken as they discuss their struggles and successes in balancing work and life.

Insights:

• Work-life collaboration
• Transparencies and boundaries in relationships
• Negatives of not having balance

Challenges:

• Perfectionism
• Self Leadership
• Communication

Show Links:

• LTM Survey
• Dabo Swinney
• So you are married to a workaholic
• Boundaries for Leaders by Henry Cloud

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Episode #036 Productivity

Productivity is taking time to self reflect and learn from others, assessing what was successful or not, deciding what really matters and saying no to everything else. Join Paul and Ken as they discuss tools on how to maximize productivity.

 Insights:

• Being efficient with your time and other people’s time
• Creating a system as a leader
• Maximizing your productivity

 Challenges:

• Multitasking
• Delegating tasks
• Creating boundaries

 Show Links:

• LTM Survey
• Essentialism by Greg McKeown

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Episode #034 Unexpected Challenges

Unexpected challenges occur daily and often cause us stress when completing the small or large day-to-day tasks. In this episode, Ken and Paul exchange ideas and thoughts about how to deal with unexpected challenges they have encountered and how to best prepare for them. They believe that a challenge is a tool that can make one’s life better.

Insights:

• Challenges are opportunities
• See possibilities rather than problems
• Be curious!

Challenges:

• Develop yourself and your team everyday
• Give Millennials challenges and allow them to fail
• Rely on your team for help

Show Links:

• LTM Survey
• Apollo 13
• The Power of Moments by Chip & Dan Heath
• Operation Tomodachi
• Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown

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Episode #035 Crisis Leadership

Everyone will face a crisis in their lifetime; the question is not if it will happen, it’s when it will happen. Your response to the crisis as a leader is rooted in your character and your attitude. In this episode Paul and Ken discuss how to respond to crises, how to prepare for them and what to during a crisis as a leader.

Insights:

• Your character decides how you respond to crisis
• Your  attitude shapes how others react to the crisis as a leader
• Take time to clear your head to think and make the best decision

Challenges:

• Make people feel special and valuable
• Have an attitude of optimism and hope
• Take responsibility

Show Links:

• LTM Survey
• DEFCON Levels
• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Lincoln on Leadership by Donald T. Phillips
• Art of War by Sun Tzu
• Adversaries into Allies by Bob Burg

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Episode #033 Forming Teams

Teams make each other better - they build each other up and complement each other's weaknesses. As a leader is it’s your job to form and build your team to be successful. In Episode #033, Ken and Paul share their thoughts and experiences of how they have formed and built-up teams. They discuss how Millennials can build and form teams, and how they want to be led. They both have great insights that are helpful in forming and building teams.

Insights:

• Forming a team adds value to each member
• Humility and accountability are essential from the leader
• Courage, character and compassion are keys

Challenges:

• Culture leads results
• Learn from your team
• Serve your team

Show Links:

• LTM Survey

• Coach Wooden

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Episode #032 Communication

Communicating your message to others is hard, everyone receives the message differently and they can misinterpret the message. The success of your message to your team is how you communicate with them on a daily basis through email, presentations and your casual conversations where you connect with them. Join Paul and Ken as they discuss how to connect with others, how to best communicate and how to keep your message simple.

Insights:

• Over communicate your message
• Connecting with others is communicating
• Communicating well takes time and patience

Challenges:

• Connect with others over common interests
• Strive to connect with others that you do not have common interests, but can learn from
• Keep your communication simple!

Show Links:

• LTM Survey
• Start With Why TED Talk by Simon Sinek
• Everyone Communicates Few Connect by John C. Maxwell
• Leaders Eat Last TED Talk by Simon Sinek

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Episode #031 Leadership Books & Movies Part 2

Movies, like books, can have a major impact on our lives. Paul and Ken draft their top 10 favorite leadership movies and discuss what they have learned from them. Their lists are variety of movies of yesterday, blockbusters, space, animated and sports.

Movies:

1. Coach Carter - Ken
2. Stand and Deliver - Paul
3. Miracle - Ken
4. Remember the Titans - Paul
5. Pursuit of Happyness - Ken
6. Twelve Angry Men - Paul
7. Forrest Gump - Ken
8. Apollo 13 - Paul
9. Saving Private Ryan - Ken
10. We Were Soldiers - Paul
11. Toy Story Series - Ken
12. The Martian - Paul
13. Spartacus and Gladiator - Ken
14. Brubaker - Paul
15. The last Samurai - Ken
16. Hidden Figures - Paul
17. Top Gun - Ken
18. The Lion King - Paul
19. American Flyers - Ken
20. The Bridge on the River Kwai - Paul

Insights:

1. It is important to see yourself in the movie
2. Every great movie is a story of perseverance
3. Never stop learning and growing

Tips and Challenges:

1. Think about your top five leadership books and movies
2. How do you identify with the story?
3. Who can you ask to recommend their favorite movie or book?

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