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The Greg McKeown Podcast

240. Strategic Quotients with Rich Horwath (Part 1)

The Greg McKeown Podcast

Greg McKeown

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt an intuitive insight pull you towards a particular direction? Have you ever had an experience that you knew was right even though you didn't yet have evidence to support it? Well, today is part one in a two part series with Rich Horwath. Rich is the founder and CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute where he serves leadership teams as a strategy workshop facilitator, executive coach, and strategic advisor. By the end of this episode, you'll have the tools to figure out what you do well, and what you can stop doing in order to be more effective. Learn more about Rich here: https://www.strategyskills.com/about/about-rich-horwath/ Join my weekly newsletter at GregMcKeown.com/1mw Learn more about my books and courses at GregMcKeown.com

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0:00.0

Welcome back everybody I'm your host Greg McEwan and I am here with you on this journey

0:10.8

to learn how to be able to design a life that really matters.

0:16.2

Have you ever felt an intuitive insight pull you towards a particular direction?

0:22.7

Have you ever had an experience that you knew was right even though you didn't yet have

0:29.0

evidence to support it? Well today is part one in a two-part series. By the end of this

0:36.0

episode you will feel greater confidence in trusting the intuition in your life so

0:42.6

that you can solve problems that are hidden below the surface. Let's get to it.

0:59.0

Thank you to everyone who is subscribed to this podcast and if you are not one of those

1:19.6

people subscribe right now pause subscribe and then make it easy on yourself to get new

1:26.1

episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. Rich welcome to the podcast. Greg thanks very much

1:33.8

great to be with you today. You talk about a strategic quotient something that people need

1:41.0

in order to be able to what what is this and why does it matter? Well for many years

1:45.9

we've heard IQ is important to in order to get hired we need to have the intellectual

1:50.8

capacity. Then for many years now we've heard of EQ the emotional quotient the emotional

1:56.1

intelligence so it's not enough just to have that smart aspect we've got to also be able

2:01.5

to connect with people to read the situation to understand our emotions and adapt. Now

2:07.8

we want to talk a little bit about what does it mean to get to that next level that C

2:12.2

sweet level that executive level yes we need IQ yes we need EQ but what the research is

2:17.8

finding is we also need that SQ that strategic quotient the ability to think to plan and

2:24.2

to act strategically not once a year when we do strategic planning but on a continuous

2:29.8

basis. When you say the research shows that what research is behind this work on SQ?

2:36.6

So currently we've got about 2,300 people that have taken the SQ people from large organizations

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