512: Retraining Your Brain for More Effective Leadership with Matt Tenney
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 13 November 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Matt Tenney discusses how mindfulness vastly improves the way we lead and relate with others.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) How an emphasis on goals hurts your leadership.
2) A monastic practice that improves engagement.
3) Why mindfulness is the ultimate success habit.
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— ABOUT MATT —
Matt Tenney is a social entrepreneur and the author of Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom. He is also an international keynote speaker, a trainer, and a consultant with the prestigious Perth Leadership Institute, whose clients include numerous Fortune 500 companies. He works with companies, associations, universities, and non-profits to develop highly effective leaders who achieve lasting success by focusing on serving and inspiring greatness in the people around them. Matt envisions a world where the vast majority of people realize that effectively serving others is the key to true greatness. When he’s not traveling for speaking engagements, he can often be found in Nashville, TN.
• Matt’s book: Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom
• Matt’s book: The Mindfulness Edge: How to Rewire Your Brain for Leadership and Personal Excellence Without Adding to Your Schedule with Tim Gard
• Matt’s website: MattTenney.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Study: “From Jerusalem to Jericho: A Study of Situational and Dispositional Variables in Helping Behavior” by John M. Darley and C. Daniel Batson
• Personality: Richard Davidson
• Book: Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson
• Book: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills |
| 0:08.0 | 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 512, Matt |
| 0:22.0 | Tenny. Matt is sharing how you can use mindfulness |
| 0:24.5 | to improve your leadership. |
| 0:26.2 | So you'll learn one, how an emphasis on goals |
| 0:28.6 | can hurt your leadership, two, a monastic practice |
| 0:31.3 | that improves engagement, and three three why mindfulness is the ultimate |
| 0:35.1 | success habit. So if you want to take a look at the show notes or the transcript or the |
| 0:38.5 | links to items we've referenced it's over at awesome at your job.com slash |
| 0:41.6 | F-512. Now here's Matt's story. |
| 0:44.4 | Matt Tenney is a social entrepreneur and the author have served to be great leadership |
| 0:48.1 | lessons from a prison, a monastery, and a boardroom. |
| 0:50.6 | He's also an international keynote speaker, a trainer, and a consultant with |
| 0:53.8 | a prestigious Perth Leadership Institute whose clients include numerous Fortune 500 companies. |
| 0:58.8 | He works with companies, associations, universities, and non-profits to develop highly effective leaders who achieve |
| 1:03.7 | lasting success by focusing on serving and inspiring greatness and the people |
| 1:07.5 | around them. Matt envisions a world where the vast majority of people realize |
| 1:11.4 | that effectively serving others is the key to true greatness. |
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