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Coaching for Leaders

329: The Way to Capture the Power of Moments, with Chip Heath

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Chip Heath: The Power of Moments

Chip Heath is the co-author, along with his brother Dan Heath, of three bestselling books including Decisive: How to Make Better Decisions in Life*, Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard*, and Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die*. Their new book is The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact*.

Key Points

  • Very few people have a great first day at work.
  • Transitions matter to people.
  • Creating meaning is something we don’t do nearly enough.
  • Good change efforts are elegantly simple.
  • “Frankly, there isn’t anyone you couldn’t learn to love once you’ve heard their story.” -Fred Rogers

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0:00.0

Leaders are charged with looking to the future, but we also need to engage in the moment.

0:06.0

On this episode, the power of moments and how we can ensure more experiences have extraordinary impact. This is coaching for leaders episode 329.

0:17.0

Produced by Innovate Learning

0:19.4

Maximizing human potential.

0:29.4

Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. 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.

0:44.0

We talk a lot on this show about the importance of consistency,

0:49.0

the importance of leadership over time and being effective over the long run and having that long

0:57.0

term vision and all those things are so critical for leadership and in addition, the power of moments taking the time to be intentional about how

1:08.8

individual moments can matter.

1:11.0

And today's guest is really going to challenge us. He's already

1:13.8

challenged me and some of his work on how to think about how do we utilize

1:18.7

moments more effectively and how do we not only do that better for ourselves but do that better for ourselves, but do that better for our organizations, the people we have

1:26.3

the privilege to lead, and of course for our families too?

1:29.2

I am thrilled to welcome Chip Heath to the show today.

1:32.0

Chip is a professor at Stanford's Graduate School of

1:34.7

Business. He teaches courses on business strategy and

1:37.8

organizations and he is the co-author along with his brother Dan Heath of

1:42.0

three best-selling books including decisive

1:44.7

how to make better decisions in life, switch how to change things when change is hard,

1:49.9

and made to stick how some ideas survive and others die.

1:54.5

Made to Stick was named the Best Business Book of the Year

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