656: The Five Things that Leaders Do with Jim Kouzes

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🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jim Kouzes discusses how everyday professionals can make an impact regardless of their title, role, or setting.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The definitive answer to the question, “Are leaders born or made?”

2) The four components to building a compelling vision

3) Easy ways to sustain your team’s motivation

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— ABOUT JIM —

Jim Kouzes is the coauthor of the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, and over a dozen other books on leadership, including the 2021 book, Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership. He is also a Fellow of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University. The Wall Street Journal named Jim one of the ten best executive educators in the U.S., and he has received the Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award from the Association for Talent Development, among many other professional honors.

• Jim’s book: Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership: How to Make a Difference Regardless of Your Title, Role, or Authority, with Barry Posner

• Jim’s book: The Student Leadership Challenge: Five Practices for Becoming an Exemplary Leader (J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner), with Barry Posner

• Jim’s book: The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations (J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner), with Barry Posner

• Jim’s website: LeadershipChallenge.com

• Jim’s Twitter: @Jim_Kouzes

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “The Name of the Game: Predictive Power of Reputations versus Situational Labels in Determining Prisoner's Dilemma Game Moves” by Varda Liberman, Steven M. Samuels, and Lee Ross

• Software: Kermit

• Software: Grammarly

• Book: "Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know" by Adam Grant

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0:00.0	Welcome to the how to be awesome at your job podcast the show where brilliant
0:05.3	professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at
0:09.4	work. Enjoy more career fun wins meaning and money with your host
0:14.8	Pete LeCaites Hello and thanks for joining us here
0:20.4	episode 656 with Jim Cousis. Jim is a legend and it's so good to be chatting
0:27.0	with him and he is zooms in on the five things that extraordinary every day
0:32.1	leaders do and leadership is such a big fuzzy word. I love the way Jim breaks
0:37.6	down to no seriously these the five things that they're doing and that's
0:40.1	really handy. So learn one the definitive answer to the question are leaders
0:43.7	born or are they made to the four components to building a compelling
0:48.1	vision and three easy ways to sustain your team's motivation. So if you want
0:52.0	to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to as we've
0:54.2	referenced, I recommend you drop on by awesome at your job.com slash ep 656. And if
0:59.4	you're hanging out awesome at your job.com, I think you might enjoy getting
1:02.7	summary write-ups from Jim and all of the guests who have gone before him
1:06.9	either right the day the episode goes live or many time you want on demand
1:12.1	to the vault. We call that the gold nuggets these summaries handy stuff. So you
1:17.4	can sign up for those at awesome at your job.com. Now here is Jim's story. Jim
1:23.5	Cousins is the author of the award-winning and best-selling book The
1:26.3	Leadership Challenge and over a dozen other books on leadership, including the
1:29.5	2021 book Everyday People Extraordinary Leadership. He's also a fellow of the
1:34.3	door institute for new leaders at Rice University, the Wall Street Journal
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