235: A Leader’s #1 Priority Every Week

Do you faithfully hold weekly 1-1 meetings with each member of your team? Jeremy Barr explains why this is the most important thing you can do as a leader. In this fast-paced conversation, Jeremy shares lots of nuggets about leadership that he’s learned from his various executive roles and now teaches to company founders, business owners, and leaders. He’s on a mission to have a positive impact on 3 billion people, and you’ll be fascinated to learn the approach he’s taking to reach that audacious goal.

Jeremy has been CTO, COO, CEO and VC investor. As a leader, he has managed teams of teams of people. He is currently building the world’s largest investor and founder network. He created his company Rocket Mindset to rapidly uplevel the skills of founders and leaders.

Jeremy is unique among the guests on this show because of the size of the positive impact he intends to have. Everything Jeremy does is to impact 3 billion people…and have a lot of fun while doing it. To achieve this audacious goal, Jeremy is working with his global team of investors and founders to run, invest in, and advise a ton of companies with the intention of growing them and the humans inside them rapidly.

His favorite things are to find and create high quality, highly evolved humans.

You’ll discover:

What you should learn during the interview process to ensure you hire the right person
How to make an effective pitch, no matter what idea you’re trying to sell
A winning approach when you want to help two people resolve a conflict
Why daily stand-ups with your team create greater clarity, focus, and productivity
The kinds of questions to ask that help your team become autonomous

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Jeremy’s Websites

Rocket Mindset

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234: Practicing The Collaborative Way

What would happen if everyone in an organization adopted a collaborative approach to working together? Lloyd Fickett has facilitated such transformations scores of times over the past 20+ years with a set of 5 practices he created called The Collaborative Way. In this powerful conversation, Lloyd explains each one and describes the benefits that individuals, teams, and entire companies experience as a result of living these practices.

Lloyd founded Lloyd Fickett & Associates, Inc. in 1983, a management consulting firm initially focused on leadership, team building and extraordinary performance. In 1990 he developed The Collaborative Way® while working with Rodel, one of his clients. Since then, Lloyd

has helped his clients adopt The Collaborative Way® in order to build the futures they envision while navigating challenges like rapid growth, mergers, acquisitions, and other market pressures.

Lloyd is co-author of two books, The Collaborative Way®: A Story About Engaging the Mind and Spirit of a Company and Leading the Collaborative Way: Overcoming the Seven Most Common Pitfalls.

You’ll discover:

What led Lloyd to create The Collaborative Way while working with Rodel, one of his clients
Why Listening Generously is the #1 practice
That Honoring Commitments is not just about making them
The distinction Lloyd makes between Acknowledgement and Appreciation
The benefits one company has experienced by practicing the 5 commitments for 25 years

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Lloyd’s Resources

Websites

The Collaborative Way – Lloyd Fickett & Associates, Inc.

The Collaborate Way app

Books

The Collaborative Way®: A Story About Engaging the Mind and Spirit of a Company

Leading the Collaborative Way: Overcoming the Seven Most Common Pitfalls

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232: How One Amazon Leader Mentors and Coaches Others

How do you help people feel valued in a huge organization like Amazon? Omar Halabieh shares what he does on an ongoing basis to connect with his team members and help them understand the contribution they’re making. You’ll enjoy Omar’s enthusiasm as he describes his commitment to being a true servant leader to others.

Omar is Director of Technology at Amazon Payment Services. In this role he’s responsible for delivering simple, trusted, and affordable payment solutions for customers and merchants across the Middle East and North Africa.

Omar is based in Dubai and has been in this role since 2019. Prior to this, he led technology teams within Amazon’s Supply Chain Optimization Technologies organization, based in Seattle, for four years.

Overall, Omar has 20+ years of technology experience where he has delivered transformational initiatives that have created competitive advantage, enabled business growth, exceeded customer expectations, and transformed global organizations.

You’ll discover:

How Omar uses LinkedIn to share valuable content to people throughout Amazon
The distinction he makes between mentoring and coaching
What Omar does to help people feel valued in such a huge organization
The communication skills he considers most critical for success as a leader
Strategies Omar uses to help team members prioritize and focus their time

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Resources

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231: Dr. Octopus Talks Nonlinear Thinking

Do you consider yourself a nonlinear thinker…or do you know someone who is? Perry Knoppert, aka Dr. Octopus, shares important insights that all of us need to hear in order to better understand these individuals. They are often seen as “curious misfits,” and many of their talents are overlooked in the workplace.

This is a must-listen episode for everyone. We have all been guilty of judging or even cancelling others because they don’t think and act the way 80% of the rest of us do.

Perry is an artist of life, driven by his non-conformist spirit and a passion for empowering non-linear thinkers. He was born in the free-spirited Netherlands and was exposed to the diversity of the market while selling lampshades with his father. But Perry yearned for more, and he discovered the beauty of unexpected possibilities in living abroad in places like Beijing, China. After a huge shift in his life, he founded The Octopus Movement, a global network that has become a mycelium of nonlinear thinkers.

Perry embraces his ADHD energy, dyslexic learning style, and multi-tasking brain. He’s found his true calling as a visionary, a trailblazer, and a true-life artist. His movement is on a mission to get the world to recognize and harness the gifts of non-linear thinkers.

The Octopus Movement has grown to include more than 2,600 members from over 63 countries. What they have in common is this: They approach problem-solving in unconventional ways, often bringing unique creativity to entrepreneurship, the arts, and other careers.

You’ll discover:

What distinguishes nonlinear thinkers from those who think in a more linear way
Strengths and gifts these individuals bring to the workplace
How to structure a conversation between a nonlinear thinker and their manager
Reasons why people tend to judge or cancel nonlinear thinkers
What it looks like to be a nonlinear leader

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Perry’s Resources

Website

The Octopus Movement

Forbes article

“Can This Fast-Growing Movement Get The World To Embrace Non-Linear Thinking?”

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230: Trust & Inspire: Unleash Greatness in Others

The Command & Control approach to leadership is obsolete, and there’s a powerful replacement for it: Trust & Inspire. Steven M. R. Covey is passionate about helping leaders adopt this far more effective way of leading others, and he brought this enthusiasm to our conversation. You will be inspired as he describes all the benefits of a leadership model that’s focused on helping people grow even as they are held accountable for results.

Stephen is the New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Speed of Trust, which has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. His new book, Trust & Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others, is also a Wall Street Journal bestseller. It immediately became one of my favorite books for leaders and parents.

Stephen brings to his writings the perspective of a practitioner, as he is the former President & CEO of the Covey Leadership Center, where he increased shareholder value by 67 times and grew the company to become the largest leadership development firm in the world. Stephen co-founded and currently leads FranklinCovey’s Global Speed of Trust Practice.

You’ll discover:

The limitations of Enlightened Command & Control
How the best leaders extend trust to others
What’s involved in inspiring someone to perform at the highest level
Fundamental beliefs that Trust & Inspire leaders have about people
The elements of Stewardship Agreements that clarify expectations and define accountability