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Coaching for Leaders

439: Leading Someone Smarter Than You, with Bonni Stachowiak

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed Bonni Stachowiak is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, a professor of business and management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, Bonni was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. She joins me monthly to respond to listener questions. Listener Questions David asked about how to replace his manager who’s had 20 years of experience. Said wondered what he should do to overcome the fear of leading someone smarter than him. James asked about the best ways to prepare how more opportunities to influence others. Resources Mentioned Leaders Need “User Manuals” – and What I Learned By Writing Mine What If You Had to Write a "User Manual" About Your Leadership Style? Business Model Generation* by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur Related Episodes Seven Principles for Leading People Older Than You, with Bonni Stachowiak (episode 59) An Astronaut’s Guide To Life On Earth, with Chris Hadfield (episode 149) Do This for a Productive Week (episode 180) How to Create Team Guidelines, with Susan Gerke (episode 192) How to Actually Move Numbers, with Chris McChesney (episode 294) The Path to Start Leading Your Team, with John Piñeiro (episode 349) Develop Leaders Before You Leave, with David Marquet (episode 405) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0

It's the first Monday of the month and we are responding to your questions.

0:04.0

This is Coaching for Leaders episode 439.

0:08.0

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential.

0:15.0

Greetings to you from Orange County, California.

0:20.0

This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahophiac. Leaders aren't born.

0:26.0

They're made and this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations.

0:32.0

An important part of our ongoing conversation. through insightful conversations.

0:33.0

An important part of our ongoing conversation on the show is involving you and hearing

0:39.6

from you on what you're thinking about that we can jump in and maybe help with a few new ideas.

0:45.4

Once a month we open up the show to respond to your questions here the first Monday of every month,

0:50.3

and if you would like to submit your question for consideration for a future episode, go over to

0:55.7

coaching for leaders.com slash feedback.

0:58.8

I am joined this month as I am almost always by Bonnie Stoviac.

1:03.2

Welcome back, Bonnie.

1:04.2

Thanks, Dave.

1:05.4

All right, so we've got a bunch of questions

1:07.4

here to tackle this month.

1:08.7

Let's dive right in and see if we can help out David.

1:13.6

David wrote in and said,

1:14.8

I have generally managed one to two people so far in my career,

1:18.9

but I'm about to succeed my boss and move up

1:21.8

to managing five people. My boss has been at this organization for 20 years and has an enormous amount of institutional knowledge.

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