493: The Inner Journey of Leadership with Dan Rockwell
Read to Lead Podcast
Jeff Brown
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Just about a month ago, I featured a business fable here on the show. Today, I am pleased to feature another. This one is cowritten by an author who’s appeared here before (John David Mann). However, my guest today is the other half of that co-author duo. His name is Dan Rockwell. If his name […]
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Read to Lead podcast, episode 493. |
| 0:13.0 | To put it bluntly, I really sucked at leadership in so many ways, and I thought I was great at it and I wasn't. |
| 0:21.5 | If you could go back in time and talk to your younger self, what would you say? |
| 0:26.7 | Today's episode, sort of a version of Ebenezer Scrooge or maybe it's a wonderful life as we explore a new book from Dan Rockwell. |
| 0:36.2 | Hi, I'm Jeff Brown and this is the Read to Lead podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | The podcast is dedicated to your personal and professional growth. |
| 0:43.9 | It's a place where I believe that intentional and consistent reading is key to success in your business and in your life. |
| 0:49.4 | And to that in, we interview an author each week and talk about his or her latest book and their unique insights |
| 0:54.3 | on a plethora of topics. Our guest today, I hinted at it a moment ago, is Dan Rockwell. He's |
| 1:00.3 | co-written a book along with John David Mann called The Vagrant, The Inner Journey of Leadership, |
| 1:06.2 | A Parable. I'll be asking Dan to share about why skills, talents, and drive are not enough to guarantee success, |
| 1:13.6 | how the talents and strengths you have can deceive you when you lack self-awareness, |
| 1:18.5 | how to combat the distorted assumptions we often have about other people's perceptions of us, |
| 1:23.8 | and much, much more. |
| 1:25.1 | It's going to be a truly enlightening discussion. |
| 1:27.3 | I was thrilled last week to receive dozens of emails from people, and much, much more. It's going to be a truly enlightening discussion. |
| 1:35.5 | I was thrilled last week to receive dozens of emails from people who had received a free book from me in the mail. |
| 1:38.4 | Actually, it was sent to them, courtesy Harper Collins. |
| 1:43.9 | It's a new book by my friends Kyle Bucket and Chris Mefford called Leadership is Overrated. It's a book that me and over a hundred |
| 1:45.7 | other people are going to be reading together on into October, and then on October 12th, we are going |
| 1:51.6 | to join together to discuss the book, not just with each other, but also with the authors, both |
| 1:57.5 | Kyle and Chris, as our special guests. Now, even though you may not have received a free copy of leadership is overrated, |
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