This is the Read to Lead podcast, episode 496.

If you want to have a high-performing organization, there is no getting around the fact that you are going to be letting people go.

Because even the very, very best people at hiring,

hire it maybe 75%. There is no shortage of great business leaders, and there is also no shortage

of news articles and TED talks touting the very specific traits that make them all great. They're

passionate, they're creative, their disruptors. The list goes on and on, and with it, so does the idea that

great leaders have to be inherently different than everyday workers. But David Dodson,

veteran entrepreneur, board member, and investor turns that assumption on its head. As he explains

that great leaders aren't superheroes with magic DNA, they all follow a simple set of steps that are within anyone's

ability to acquire. Hi, I'm Jeff Brown, and this is the Read to Lead podcast, the podcast that's

dedicated to your personal and professional growth. I believe that if you want to achieve true

success in business and in life, that intentional and consistent reading is a must.

I'm here to help you find more and better books and walk away with the key insights and

main ideas from those books, straight from the authors themselves.

My guest today is indeed David Dodson.

He's written a book called The Managers Handbook, Five Simple Steps to Build a Team,

stay focused, make better decisions, and crush the competition. I'll be asking David to share

what his decades of experience as a CEO has taught him about hiring the best people and how to

best on board those people, better ways to give performance feedback in such a way that it actually has an impact.

What he's learned over the years about what it takes to be intentional with your time and plenty

more. Over 100 people in my Read to Lead community have received a free copy of a book you'll be

hearing more about in just a couple of weeks called Leadership is Overrated.

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