225: Discover Your True North, with Bill George

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Bill George: Discover Your True North On this episode, we learn how to discover your true north with Bill George, one of America’s most seasoned business leaders. Bill is a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and the former Chairman and CEO of Medtronic, the world’s leading medical technology company. He is the author of several bestselling books including True North*, Authentic Leadership*, and most recently Discover Your True North*. Quotes Your life story defines your leadership. –Bill George Leadership is your choice, not your title. –Bill George Leadership can be lonely, and the only way to overcome that loneliness is to surround yourself with truth tellers and people who care about you. –Bill George Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	You hear a lot of advice on this show on what you can practically do to become a more effective leader.
0:06.0	And yet that advice won't be anywhere as helpful if you don't know exactly what you value and where you're going.
0:15.0	On today's show, how to discover your true North
0:18.0	with one of America's most seasoned business leaders.
0:21.0	This is Coaching for for leaders episode 225.
0:24.8	Produced by Innovate Learning Maximizing Human Potential.
0:29.9	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:37.0	This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.
0:41.0	Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show will give
0:45.9	you access to the best thinkers, resources, and actions to help you develop your leadership
0:52.2	skills.
0:52.7	And I'm so glad that you've tuned in
0:54.8	because one of the great privileges that I get
0:58.0	in posting the show is to be able to connect you
1:01.8	with some of the folks out there who are really the most proven
1:05.6	leaders have done some fabulous thinking on leadership and not only have done
1:10.4	thinking about it but have a tremendous track record of leading
1:14.2	organizations and helping make the world a better place through leadership and
1:18.1	today's guest is a wonderful example of that I'm really pleased to welcome to the
1:22.1	show Bill George Bill is a senior fellow of that I'm really pleased to welcome to the show.
1:23.0	Bill George, Bill is a senior fellow at the Harvard Business School
1:27.0	and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic,
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