358. Inside the Mind of a CIA Operative with Jeffrey Sanow

The Greg McKeown Podcast

Greg McKeown

Education, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Greg engages with Jeffrey Sanow, a former CIA senior intelligence officer, to explore the nuances of decision-making under pressure and the art of interpersonal communication. Jeffrey shares insights from his career, highlighting strategies for effective manipulation and persuasion, the importance of understanding others, and the balance between professional skills and personal relationships. Follow Jeffrey on LinkedIn Check out Jeffrey's Website Join my weekly newsletter. Learn more about my books and courses. Join The Essentialism Academy. Follow me on LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube.

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1:21.1	Welcome back, everybody. I'm your host, Greg McEwen, and in this show, we are taking a deep dive into the power of really being able to understand what's going on and to make sure that we are addressing the right issues, rather than putting all of our energy into the wrong things, unintentionally, of course.
1:45.2	We are exploring this through interviews, through stories, through strategies.
1:50.1	And today I am thrilled to bring a guest to the show whose career is so unusual,
1:58.0	who has thrived in the most challenging of circumstances, this is Jeffrey Sano,
2:03.6	a former CIA senior intelligence officer, which just produces all sorts of visualization.
2:10.6	But he's a global security expert, a strategic leadership speaker whose decorated career has taken him to the front lines of some of the
2:18.9	most intense operations in the world. Whether it's leading efforts against weapons of mass destruction,
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