Episode #030 Leadership Books & Movies Part 1

Successful people read and learn from books; they provide invaluable insight on a person’s life work or research, allowing you to become better. In this episode, Ken and Paul draft their top 10 leadership books that changed them and they way that they lead and think.

Books:

1. Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek - Paul
2. Start with Why by Simon SInek - Ken
3. 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell- Paul
4. Drive by Daniel Pink - Ken
5. Unbroken  by Laura Hillenbrand - Paul
6. Give and Take by Adam Grant - Ken
7. Boundaries for Leaders by Henry Cloud - Paul
8. Think Like a Freak by  Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt - Ken
9. Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson - Paul
10. Great by Choice by Jim Collins - Ken
11. Find your Why by David Mead, Peter Docker, and Simon Sinek - Paul
12. David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell - Ken
13. Poke the Box by Seth Godin - Paul
14. Turn the Ship Around by L David Marquet - Ken
15. Circle Maker by Mark Batterson - Paul
16. The Next 100  Years by George Friedman - Ken
17. The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey by Hal Burrows, Ken Blanchard, and William Oncken - Paul
18. The Starfish and the Spider by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom - Ken
19. The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni - Paul
20. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch - Ken

 Insights:

1. Important for leaders to have boundaries
2. Books can change our perspective on how we think
3. There are quick reads that are very impactful 

Tips and Challenges:

1. Watch TED talks.
2. Find books that can help you add value to yourself and to other people.
3. Go out there and start writing.

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Episode #029 Give and Take

Join Paul and Ken as they discuss the best methods of giving and why it’s important to receive (take) as well. Learn from their insights on giving and receiving as a leader and how it affects you and your team. Everyone should learn how to be a giver and a receiver.

Insights:

1. Give within your talents and passion
2. Be generous with your money AND your time and talent
3. If you want to have a lasting legacy, then practice the art of generosity

Tips and Challenges:

1. Have fun giving
2. Learn to say no
3. Allow yourself to receive
4. Pay 3 honest compliments a day

Show Links:

• Give and Take by Adam Grant
• Milken Global Conference
• Military Leadership Circle
• Lincoln, the movie (2012)
• Japanese tunnel system for drainage
• Andy Stanley
• When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett

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Episode #028 Creativity

Creativity is necessary for a business or a team to thrive. We need new ideas and innovation to provide potential solutions to our problems. And it’s the leader’s job to create an environment that fosters and encourages creativity. Listen to Paul and Ken share their thoughts on creativity, how it applies in leadership and some tips on how to encourage members of your team to be creative.

Insights:

1. Being creative is finding uncompromising solutions to near impossible problems or questions
2. Creativity should evolve
3. Characteristic of creative people is making the impossible possible

Tips and Challenges:

1. Ask good questions and give feedback
2. Do not be afraid to fail and learn from mistakes
3. Take time intentionally to brainstorm and plan carefully for problem solving

Show Links:

• It’s not about the Shark by Daniel Niven
• Jaws story
• Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
• Winning the Brain Game by Matthew E. May

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Episode #027 Life Hacks

Being a leader is a challenging and daunting task. Life and your environment is always changing. You have to devote time and energy to make your team better. But how and where do you devote the little time you have?

Paul and Ken shares their experiences about their favorite life hacks and how they have helped them achieved success and overcome failure. They also discuss how to be your best self and how to choose the life hacks that are right for you.

Insights:

1. A life hack is a strategy that allows you to be your best self
2. A life hack is about finding a solution that propels you ahead and helps overcoming a challenge
3. Reading books and listening to podcasts is a way to learn life hacks from authors and researches that have had success

Tips and Challenges:

1. Model the right way to do things
2. Share what works for you
3. Be open to learning from others

Show Links:

• Dave Gambrills Life Hacks on Good Morning America
• 100 Life Hacks with Photos
• Coffitivity.com
• Habit Stacking book
• The Toothpaste Fix
• 5-Minute Journal
• Admiral McRaven UT Commencement Speech

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Episode #026 Family

Family makes a leader stronger and more successful. A leader does not need to sacrifice his or her family to get ahead; the leader should instead consult their families give input in decisions. Join Paul and Ken in Episode #026, as they share their thoughts and experience of what is it like to be a part of a family and as a leader of a family. They believe that a family can help a leader achieve more rather than just focusing on their careers.

Insights:

1. Leadership starts at home
2. Family is pivotal in leaders success
3. Family is the willingness to sacrifice for someone until it hurts

Tips and Challenges:

1. Encourage a family environment at work
2. You do not need to sacrifice family to get ahead
3. Make family a part of your decision, know your priorities

Show Links:

• General Allen
• Joe Gibbs Bio
• Admiral McRaven UT Commencement Speech

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Episode #025 Reflection

In the hustle and bustle of life sometimes we lose ourselves moving from one thing to the next. We rarely take the time to reflect what great things happened that day and areas of opportunity we have for improvement. In Episode #025  Ken and Paul share why it is important for leaders to make time for reflection. Leaders are self-aware and take time daily to reflect.

Insights:

1. Leaders need to be self-aware and reflection allows us to do so
2. We study history in order to understand what the future holds
3. Reflection is taking the time to see where you’ve come and how it affects where you’ll go

Tips and Challenges:

1. Give your employees time to reflect during work
2. Reflect 3-4 times a week and use the 5-minute journal as a guide
3. Discuss your mistakes with humility and share the lesson with others
4. Teach millennials how to reflect by setting the example for them

Show Links:

• 5-Minute Journal
• General Hal Moore
• General John R. Allen
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Moleskin Notebooks/Journals

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Episode #024 Self-doubt

Self-doubt is a killer. It causes people to be emotionally stuck and mentally defeated. It brings down a leader’s morale and it will eventually bring down the whole team. One way of combatting self-doubt is self-assurance and it can be done through the help of friends and mentors. Most importantly you MUST understand and recognize it, because you cannot address it if you do not. Paul and Ken shares tips on what self-doubt looks like, how to address it and how to use it as a motivation to reach success. 

Insights:

1. Self-doubt is the ability to think that you cannot do something
2. It is the enemy of belief, turns intention into disappointment
3. To combat self-doubt we need self-belief
4. Self doubt is a pre-meditated loss

Tips and Challenges:

1. Understand what self doubt is for you
2. Be humble and ask for help
3. Choose to learn rather than to lose
4. Find a friend or mentor that can guide you in a tough time

Show Links:

• Self-fulfilling Prophecy
• Originals by Adam Grant
• Yumearth candy

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Episode #023 Motivation

Most people think to motivate an employee they must use money to incentivize the behavior and actions they want. That could not be farther from the truth! Motivation is about calling those around you to action through your example and how you empower them as followers and employees. Ken and Paul share their insights about what motivation really is, how to motivate others and how call them to action.

Insights:

1. Leaders must set the example for their followers
2. Show people how much you care with your actions
3. Give your people time to master their jobs, autonomy as much as possible and always give them purpose

Tips and Challenges:

1. Have a growth mindset
2. What would do if you could not fail?
3. Challenge the way you thought you could motivate people

Show Links:

• Nick Vujicic
• Dan Pink TED Talk on The Puzzle of Motivation
• Dan Pink RSA Video
• Simon Sinek TED Talk on How Great Leaders Inspire Action
• Find Your WHY by Simon Sinek
• WHY Discover Course by Simon Sinek
• Laurel
• Elixr Coffee Roasters
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Leaders Press On Blog by Paul
• Ready Player One

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Episode #022 Self-Criticism

Self-criticism can be both a positive and negative. It is a reflection tool that can be used to evaluate oneself; however, when done in excess, self-criticism can lead to inner personal negativity. Inner personal negativity, limits a leader’s ability to be their best and take care of those in their charge. In this episode Paul and Ken share their thoughts on why being self critical is both important and a threat to a leader’s character. They share their insights from personal experiences on how achieve an effective balance of self-criticism, of how to improve and to know when you have done something well.

Insights:

1. Self-criticism is contagious, choose to be positive
2. Be self-aware and self-affirming
3. Leaders need to know their strengths and weaknesses
4. Leaders need to be self-critical to understand where they have been and where they want to go
5. Shame, scarcity, comparison and self-doubt are things that make leaders think less of themselves

Tips and Challenges:

1. Be creative to ensure that you are not too critical of yourself; leadership requires creativity
2. Don’t be too negative with yourself or others, it corrupts and kills
3. Take 5 mins to reflect on things that went well and what could’ve gone better.

Show Links:

• Uber CEO Article #1 & #2
• Brene Brown - Why Your Critics Aren’t the Ones that Count
• The Man in the Arena Teddy Roosevelt 23 April 1910 speech
• The Positive Power of Negative Thinking
• 20 Signs you are too self-critical
• Strengths Finder 2.0
• Strengths Based Leadership
• Emotional Intelligence 2.0
• 5-Minute Journal

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Episode #021 Making a Difference, Part II

Part II of Making a Difference is a continuation of the discussion of Ken with longtime friend Josh Burnett, pastor and social change entrepreneur. In this Episode they share more insights, tips and challenges on how to be a spark for change and how to start your first steps to making a difference in other people’s lives.

Insights:

1. To make an impact and make a difference you must be willing to do so and know that you will get no credit or accolades for it
2. The beauty of making a difference is that it can change one person’s life forever
3. Find something in your community that you are passionate about and make a difference there
4. Millennials need to peacemakers, not just peacekeepers.
5. We often overestimate what we can do in a day, but underestimate what we can do in a year

Tips and Challenges:

1. Get started today
2. Make a plan and commit to it
3. Have someone to be accountable to in achieving your plan
4. Fail, fail often, and fail forward. Learn from the failure and move forward
5. We should all have the opportunity to feel part of something

Show Links:

• Josh Burnett, Instagram
• Revolution Annapolis Community Giving
• Give and Take by Adam Grant
• Netflix Stats #1
• Netflix Stats #2

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