240: Expert Interview: Turning Weeders to Leaders, with Jeff McManus

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Cultivating and connecting a team of people is a lot like growing a garden, says landscape specialist Jeff McManus. Once the vegetable falls off the plant, it starts to rot. If it's not attached and growing, it's rotting.” At Ole Miss, the people who care for the plants are showing the importance of cultivating each other. The creator of Weeders to Leaders, Jeff is director of landscape services at the University of Mississippi, affectionately known as “Ole Miss.” The program sprang from his love of growing plants, but quickly came to be about growing the people that grow the plants.

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 240. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:18.4	Every day I interview someone around the world who has discovered his
0:21.7	talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. Once a
0:28.5	week, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal development or business development
0:33.5	who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners along their journeys.
0:38.3	Cultivating and connecting a team of people is a lot like growing a garden,
0:43.3	according to landscape specialist Jeff McManus.
0:46.3	Once the vegetable falls off the plant, it starts to rot.
0:50.3	If it's not attached in growing, it's rotting.
0:52.3	At Ole Miss, the people who care for the plants are showing the importance of cultivating each other.
0:58.5	Today's guest tells us how.
1:01.0	Welcome, Jeff.
1:02.5	Hey, Don. Great to be with you today. Thanks for having me.
1:05.3	It is our pleasure.
1:07.0	Jeff is a popular speaker and trainer for local, state, and national organizations and industry.
1:13.2	His first book, Pruning Like a Proof, has garnered attention for its fun and simple approach to the Gardner's Dilemma Pruning.
1:20.4	You can receive his blogs at Jeff McMannas speaking.com.
1:24.7	Jeff's news book, Weeders to Leaders, is in process. So, Jeff, today, as we've
1:30.2	talked about prior to this interview, you're going to be talking about this leadership issue and what
1:34.6	you've learned about it and some of the ideas you developed. And so the theme of our discussion is
1:39.1	turning weeders to leaders. So take the floor and just tell us what you think about that.
1:44.1	Well, absolutely, Don.
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