#35: Bill Haslam—Leading with Empathy When Your People are Divided
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🗓️ 30 August 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Some believe being a strong leader means having all the answers and ruling with an iron fist. But unfortunately for them, they don't last long. It's only when you lead with empathy and compromise that you build trust and buy-in within your organization. In this episode we talk with former Tennessee governor Bill Haslam, author of the book Faithful Presence, about how to lead, even in the most turbulent times, with an open mind and not by your emotions.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Business Made Simple Podcast with Donald Miller and Dr. JJ Peterson. |
| 0:07.0 | Today's guest is my friend Bill Haslam. Bill was the governor of Tennessee for eight years. |
| 0:12.1 | We just had the governor of Tennessee on the show Bill Lee. Bill Haslam is a different |
| 0:16.8 | governor of Tennessee. He was the governor of Tennessee before Billy. Governor Haslam has a book |
| 0:20.4 | out called Faithful Presence, which I have actually read twice. I really, really liked the book. |
| 0:25.6 | Today we're going to talk about faith and leadership and business and how they interplay and |
| 0:31.1 | all the gray are in between and what's going to be great is it's not preachy. We're not asking |
| 0:35.6 | you to go to church. This is just a practical guy talking about how his faith influences his |
| 0:42.0 | leadership in a practical common sense way because really the tension is you're a Christian leader |
| 0:49.8 | who leads a lot of people who do not identify with that religion and what in the world do you do. |
| 0:55.2 | That's a, I mean, that's a tough conversation. It's a tough thing to know. You're a tough |
| 0:58.2 | thing to do. And I thought Governor Haslam did it extremely well as a leader and I'm so thankful |
| 1:04.6 | he talked about how he did it and why he did it the way he did it in his book Faithful Presence. |
| 1:10.9 | So here's my conversation with Governor Bill Haslam. |
| 1:17.0 | Governor's great to have you back. It is so fun to be back on your show. |
| 1:20.7 | What do you call it? What do you call a governor who, we call you governor forever, right? |
| 1:25.2 | Yeah. What do you call it? |
| 1:26.3 | You know, the Australian say rooster today, Feather Duster tomorrow. So you could say Feather Duster. |
| 1:33.1 | Well, it's good to have you back. And since you've left office, we should just catch people up. |
| 1:37.6 | Since you've left office, what have you been doing? |
| 1:39.2 | Several things, you know, obviously wrote this book. I've been kind of re-engaging in light. |
| 1:43.7 | You know, you kind of set a lot of things aside when you're in office from your own personal |
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