You can have great ideas if you don't execute, you won't succeed. So we say execution is a discipline of getting things done.

Welcome to How Leaders Lead, where every week you get to listen in while I interview some of the very best leaders in the world.

I break down the key learning so that by the end of the

episode, you'll have something simple you can apply as you develop into a better leader. That's what

this podcast is all about. Well, welcome to the 200th episode of How Leaders Lead. I'm so grateful for

your support of the show. I learn a lot talking to these leaders

week in and week out, and I hope you do too. You're the reason we've made it to this milestone,

and you're the reason we're going to keep on going. And this week, our guest is Ram Sharon.

He's a renowned business consultant and author whose books have sold over

four million copies. Fortune Magazine calls him the most influential consultant alive, and

it's easy to understand why when you listen to this episode. He knows how to get right to the

heart of an issue, and as you'll hear today, it starts by asking

really smart questions.

Asking incisive questions is a superpower of every great leader, and I know it's going to spark

big growth and change for you.

So here's my conversation with my good friend and soon to be yours Ram Sharon you know Fortune

magazine has called you the most influential consultant alive that's high praise what

process do you use when you take on a new assignment? Yeah. So David, the way it happens to me is that people call me. I don't call them.

I have never made a cold call. And so when they call me, there is a fundamental rule of life.

You try to help somebody. To help somebody life you try to help somebody to help somebody

try to find out what is somebody's challenge or somebody's problem so I don't

have a prepared solution and say here is my solution what's your problem I like

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