This is the Read to Lead podcast episode 382.

Hi, everyone. This is Daniel Pink, author of To Sell is Human, and you're about to enjoy another fascinating episode of the Read to Lead podcast with my friend Jeff Brown.

Looking for guidance on discovering what interests you, how to communicate your unique gifts to

others, or networking the right way, identifying your leadership style, and crafting a powerful

message. We'll be covering this and more today on the Read to Lead podcast, the podcast dedicated to your

personal and professional growth. My name is Jeff Brown. I'm your host, and I believe that if you

want to achieve true success in your business and in your life, then intentional and consistent

reading is a must. The idea behind the podcast is to serve up to you each and every week the key insights and main ideas from the book we're digging into.

And that book today is called Develop, Seven Practical Tools to Take Charge of Your Career, and it's written by Ted Fleming.

I'll be asking Ted to share why he believes most people don't take a systematic approach to their career

development, what the seven tools in his book's subtitle are designed to do, his two-factor

theory of job satisfaction that says it's possible to love and hate your job at the same time,

and lots more. If you happen to be enjoying this on the day it releases August 3rd, 2021,

I'm exactly one month away, four weeks away from the launch of my own book, Read to Lead,

the Simple Habit that expands your influence and boosts your career. I've spent the last week

building a launch team made up of listeners just like you. And a part of that process

was filling out a brief application. And one of the questions on that application was why do you

want to be a part of the launch team? The answers varied widely, but they were all so incredibly

encouraging. I thought I'd just share a few of them with you real quick. One says, I've been a fan of

Jess for years and would support anything that he's doing. Thank you so much for that. I appreciate that. I want to give of my time as an exchange for the time he offered me during a mentoring session some time ago. Also, I'm a firm believer in the power of avid reading and lifelong learning. I can't wait to read the book. Here's another one. Selfishly, I want to be one of the first to read Jeff's book.

Another person says the Read to Lead podcast has changed my life.

Before listening to the podcast, I read no more than 20 books in my lifetime, but after

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