390: Move From Caretaker to Rainmaker, with May Busch
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
May Busch: Accelerate
May Busch enjoyed a 24-year career at Morgan Stanley, most recently as Chief Operating Officer for Europe. She chaired the firm’s European Diversity Council and was a member of Morgan Stanley’s European Management Committee. She is the author of the book Accelerate: 9 Capabilities to Achieve Success at Any Career Stage*. She’s also the host the Career Mastery Kickstart summit*.
Key Points
Steps to move from caretaker to rainmaker:
- Identify the organization’s most important outcomes.
- Figure out what you can take action on.
- Create a safe space.
- Learn from your network what will move the needle the most.
How to find the organization’s values:
- Observe
- Listen
- Ask
Bonus Audio
Resources Mentioned
- Career Mastery Kickstart Summit*
- Accelerate: 9 Capabilities to Achieve Success at Any Career Stage* by May Busch
- Eisenhower Grid
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| 0:00.0 | Are you a caretaker or a rainmaker on this episode the distinction between them and if you should how to make the shift? |
| 0:07.7 | This is coaching for leaders episode 390 |
| 0:11.7 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:17.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahovia. Leaders aren't born. They're made. And this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader. |
| 0:38.0 | When I think of leaders not being born but being made. One of the distinctions that certainly comes up for me |
| 0:46.0 | is moving from being a caretaker to being a rainmaker and if you haven't thought about that distinction I hope today's conversation will really challenge you to think about where you are today, where you want to go and how you most importantly can take the first step to get there. I am thrilled to welcome today my guest May Bush |
| 1:06.8 | May enjoyed a 24-year career at Morgan Stanley across investment banking capital markets markets, and firm management. |
| 1:14.2 | She was most recently chief operating officer for Europe where she was responsible for the development |
| 1:19.5 | and implementation of the firm's business strategy in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. |
| 1:25.0 | She's chaired the firm's European Diversity Council and was a member of Morgan Stanley's |
| 1:29.6 | European Management Committee. |
| 1:31.6 | May is also senior advisor and executive Residence in the Office of the President |
| 1:36.0 | and Professor of Practice at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State |
| 1:40.3 | University. She lectures on leadership and works on interdisciplinary |
| 1:44.4 | initiatives across the university with an emphasis on leadership, |
| 1:47.8 | entrepreneurship, and enhancing the engagement between business and academia. She is the author of the book Accelerate Nine Capabilities to achieve success at any career stage |
| 1:58.0 | and she's also the host of the Career Mastery Kickstart Summit launching later this month. |
| 2:04.1 | May, I'm so glad to welcome you to Coaching for Leaders. |
| 2:08.1 | Thank you so much, Dave. |
| 2:09.8 | I am looking forward to sharing everything I know to help everyone who's listening. |
| 2:15.6 | Well I am glad to get to continue our conversation. |
| 2:18.8 | We've been talking over the last few months and as I was reading through your book the chapter that jumped out to me was |
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