296: What Gets Between You and Greatness, with Lolly Daskal
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Lolly Daskal: The Leadership Gap
Lolly Daskal is the CEO of Lead From Within and was designated a Top-50 Leadership and Management Expert by Inc. magazine. She is the author of the the new book The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness*.
Key Points
- If the situation isn’t working, what can you change about yourself?
- Ask yourself what type of person you need to be in a situation.
- There are aspects of ourselves that come out in times of stress.
- When you’re aware of your actions, you can choose how you’re going to act in the next moment.
- Allow your employees to teach you.
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| 0:00.0 | There are lots of things that hold many of us back from being more effective leaders, |
| 0:05.0 | and probably the biggest thing that holds most of us back is ourselves. |
| 0:09.5 | On this episode, what gets between you and greatness. This is coaching for leaders |
| 0:14.5 | episode 296. Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:23.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:29.0 | This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Daveahophiac. Leaders aren't born, they're made and |
| 0:36.9 | this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader and I'm glad you tuned in today |
| 0:45.4 | if for the first time welcome if you're returning you'll hear today the voice of a |
| 0:50.4 | really talented coach that I know is going to get us all thinking about how we can |
| 0:56.5 | be a more effective as leaders and really to zero on one of the the mantras of course you hear from me often is that leaders aren't |
| 1:04.4 | born they're made there's a continual learning process that all of us |
| 1:08.3 | experiences leaders and I'm really glad that today's guest is going to |
| 1:12.0 | challenge us in some new ways on that and today's guest is Lolly Daskill. |
| 1:16.1 | She is one of the most sought after executive leadership coaches in the world. |
| 1:21.4 | Her extensive cross-cultural expertise spans 14 countries, |
| 1:25.2 | six languages, and hundreds of companies. She is the CEO of Lead from Within and was designated |
| 1:31.0 | a top 50 leadership and management expert by Inc magazine. |
| 1:35.1 | Her writing has appeared in HBR, Inc.com, Fast Company, Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and many others. |
| 1:42.3 | And she is the author of the new book just about |
| 1:45.8 | to be released the leadership gap what gets between you and your greatness. |
| 1:50.3 | Lolly I'm so glad to welcome me to coaching for leaders. |
| 1:53.0 | I've been looking forward to this. |
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