671: How to Recognize Remarkable People, with Guy Kawasaki
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Guy Kawasaki: Think Remarkable
Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva and the creator of Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People podcast. He is an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley), and adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales.
He was the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. He has written Wise Guy, The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social Media, Enchantment, and eleven other books. He’s now the author of Think Remarkable: 9 Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference.
We all want to be surrounded by remarkable people in our work. A key piece to building relationships with them is recognizing when they come across our radar screens. In this conversation, Guy and I explore some of the key indicators for recognizing remarkable people.
Key Points
- Remarkable people reflect back to childhood. They recognize the experiences and people that contributed to their success.
- Remarkable people don’t find their passions, they develop them. They know that it’s rarely love at first sight.
- Remarkable people aren’t trying to save the world. They start with small and simple questions that scratch an itch.
- Remarkable people make themselves indispensable. They do the work nobody else wants to do which separates them from the pack.
- Remarkable people interact with a diverse group of people. They want to hear different perspectives and recognize the diversity makes them better.
- Remarkable people have overcome hardships. They’ve challenged themselves to find paths forward through the toughest situations.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, don't we all want to be surrounded by remarkable people? |
| 0:05.0 | One piece to building relationships with them is recognizing when they come across our radar screens. |
| 0:12.0 | In this episode, Guy Kawasaki on some of the key |
| 0:15.2 | indicators for noticing remarkable people. This is Coaching for Leaders |
| 0:20.6 | Episode 671. |
| 0:24.1 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:37.4 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't bored, they're made. |
| 0:43.0 | And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom |
| 0:46.2 | through insightful conversations. |
| 0:48.9 | You know, one of the things that I think we all want in our lives and in our professional relationships is the ability to know, |
| 0:58.3 | be connected with and be influenced by the hallmark of a great leader. Today I'm honored to have a guest with us who himself |
| 1:14.6 | is a remarkable person, perhaps even more importantly though, is so gifted at having built |
| 1:20.1 | remarkable relationships with so many of recognizing people and continuing to learn and grow from them. |
| 1:26.3 | I'm so pleased to introduce Guy Kawasaki. He is the chief evangelist at Kava and the creator of Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People Podcast. |
| 1:35.0 | He's an executive fellow of the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley and an adjunct professor |
| 1:39.5 | at the University of New South Wales. |
| 1:41.9 | He was the chief of Angeles at Apple and a trustee of the |
| 1:45.0 | Wikimedia Foundation. He has written Wise Guy, The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social |
| 1:50.7 | Media, Enchantment, and 11 other books. He's now the art of social media, enchantment, and 11 other books. |
| 1:53.7 | He's now the author of Think Remarkable |
| 1:56.5 | Nine Paths to Transform Your Life |
| 1:59.3 | and Make a Difference. |
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