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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

552: The Foundational Principle that Separates Good Leaders from Bad Ones with Pat Lencioni

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Patrick Lencioni explores so many leaders fall short--and how to resolve it.


You'll Learn:

1) The mentality that separates great leaders from the rest

2) Why you shouldn’t be afraid of micromanaging

3) How leaders can have more joyful difficult conversations


About Patrick:

Pat is the founder of The Table Group and the author of 11 books which have sold over 5 million copies and been translated into more than 30 languages. The Wall Street Journal called him "one of the most in demand speakers in America." He has addressed millions of people at conferences and events around the world over the past 15 years. Pat has written for or been featured in numerous publications including Harvard Business Review, Inc., Fortune, Fast Company, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek.

As CEO, Pat spends his time writing books and articles related to leadership and organizational health, speaking to audiences interested in those topics and consulting to CEOs and their teams.

Prior to founding The Table Group, Pat worked at Bain & Company, Oracle Corporation and Sybase. Pat lives in the Bay Area with his wife and four boys.


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Transcript

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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 McChitis.

0:16.0

Hello, thanks for joining us for episode 551

0:21.4

with Pat Linconey.

0:22.4

Pat's going to share the fundamental thing

0:25.0

that separates the great leaders from the not so great leaders.

0:28.2

You'll learn one, the mentality that separates great leaders from the rest.

0:32.0

Two, while you shouldn't be afraid of, quote,

0:34.7

micromanaging, end quote.

0:36.4

And three, how leaders can have more joyful difficult conversations.

0:41.5

So if you want to check out the show notes or transcript or

0:43.1

links to as we've referenced, tap in your podcast app players show notes or

0:47.3

episode description or drop on buy awesome at your job.com slash F51.

0:53.0

Now here's Pat's story.

0:54.2

Pat is the founder of the Table Group and the author of 11 books

0:57.2

which have sold over 5 million copies

0:58.8

and been translated into more than 30 languages.

1:01.1

The Wall Street Journal called him one of the most in-demand

1:04.2

speakers in America. He's addressed millions of people at conferences and events

1:07.8

around the world in the past 15 years and Pat has written or been featured in

1:11.2

numerous publications including Harvard

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