3772: An Excerpt from the book The Compass Within by Robert Glazer on Leading with Core Values

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🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3772: Robert Glazer shares how discovering and defining his core values transformed his leadership from a patchwork imitation of others into an authentic, values-driven approach. By aligning decisions and relationships with clearly defined principles, he unlocked his potential as both a leader and a person, and reveals why true leadership requires authenticity, self-awareness, and clarity of values. Get free access to Robert's Core Values course when you buy a hardcover copy of his book by October 17. This course has helped thousands of leaders identify their core values. To claim it, buy a hardcover copy and register it through this form. Quotes to ponder: "Level 5 leadership can only be built on a foundation of authenticity and self-awareness, a foundation that only comes with a clear understanding of one’s core values." "When you don't know or can't articulate what's most important to you, it’s hard to show up authentically for your team and hold people accountable." Episode references: The Compass Within: https://geni.us/values Robert Glazer official site: https://robertglazer.com Good to Great: https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.6	This is Optimal Living Daily, an excerpt from the book, The Compass Within, by Robert Glazer,
1:08.0	and I'm Justa Mollock.
1:12.8	Welcome to Optimal Living Daily or the OLD podcast, where I read to you from some of the best articles I can find and get permission from, but today featuring a book excerpt,
1:18.7	and I'll keep the intro short, tell you about the author right after the reading, so for now,
1:23.2	let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.
1:29.9	An excerpt from the book, The Compass Within, by Robert Glazer.
1:35.7	Leading with Values.
1:37.5	At some point when I was leading a larger team for the first time,
1:41.2	I realized that my leadership style wasn't genuine.
1:45.6	Like a lot of new managers, I emulated many of the best practices modeled by the finest leaders I had previously worked for
1:51.2	or studied. I was also trying to do the exact opposite of what some of the worst leaders I had
1:56.6	the misfortune to work with had done. Some of these practices worked for me, some did not. Some felt
2:03.0	entirely unnatural. My leadership style was a patchwork quilt rather than something cohesive and
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