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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

421: Why Great Leaders Have No Rules with Kevin Kruse

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Author Kevin Kruse offers wise--yet contrarian--pointers  for leaders.   You'll Learn: Arguments for closing your Open Door policy Why to set guardrails instead of rules How to be likeable without striving for being liked   About Kevin: Kevin Kruse is Founder+CEO of LEADx, the first and only AI-powered executive coach and leadership success platform built with IBM Watson. A successful entrepreneur, Kevin has won both “Inc 500” awards for fast growth and “Best Place to Work” awards for employee culture. He was previously the founder or co-founder of several companies with successful exits. Kevin is also a Forbes contributor and a New York Times bestselling author of nine books including Employee Engagement 2.0, Employee Engagement for Everyone and We: How To Increase Performance and Profit Through Full Engagement. Kevin’s next book, Great Leaders Have No Rules: Contr arian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business (Crown Publishing) will launch on April 2, 2019.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep421 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.0

Hello, and thanks for joining us for episode 421 with Kevin Cruz. Kevin has got some contrarian pointers for

0:25.3

leaders so you'll learn one arguments for closing your open door policy,

0:28.9

two why does that guard rails instead of rules and three how to be likable without striving for being liked.

0:35.2

If I check on the show notes, the transcript with the links to items we've referenced,

0:38.0

it's over to awesome at your job.com slash F-421.

0:40.8

Now here's KavidS sorry. Kevin Cruz is the founder and CEO of LeadX, the first and only

0:45.0

AI-powered executive coach and leadership success platform built with IBM Watson.

0:49.7

A successful entrepreneur, Kevin has won both Inc 500 awards for fast growth and best

0:54.2

place to work awards for employee culture. He was previously the founder or co-founder

0:58.0

of several companies with successful exits. Kevin is also a Forbes contributor and a New York

1:03.2

town's best selling author of nine books including employee engagement 2.0,

1:06.7

employee engagement for everyone, and we how to increase performance and profit through

1:11.3

full engagement. Kevin's next book, Great Leaders Have No Rules,

1:14.7

Contrary Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business

1:18.2

from Crown Publishing launched mere days ago.

1:21.2

So thanks to Kevin for sharing his time with us and thanks to our sponsors. Check

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them out. Here is Kevin. Kevin, thanks so much for joining us here on the How to Be

1:30.8

Awesome at your Job Podcast. Well, I don't know if I'm going to be able to be awesome level,

1:35.0

but I'm going to do my best and it's an honor to meet you and finally here live.

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