700: Three People Who Will Help You Grow, with Andrew C.M. Cooper

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Andrew C.M. Cooper: The Ethical Imperative
Andrew C.M. Cooper is an executive leader and apologist for compassionate business practices. He led as a history-making first Millennial and Black executive to serve as General Counsel of UPS Airlines, the world’s largest logistics airline with over 20,000 employees. His team was essential to the success of Operation Warp Speed, the United States’ pandemic vaccine relief effort. He's the author of The Ethical Imperative: Leading with Conscience to Shape the Future of Business*.

We all know the power of relationships to help us grow. However, we don’t always seek out some of the non-traditional relationships that might help most. In this conversation, Andrew and I discuss three types of people we often overlook that will help us grow.
Key Points

Many of us invest in organic, traditional relationships. Those are important, but not sufficient in such a dynamic world.
Invest 30% of your time into relationships that will add skills, knowledge, or insights you can’t develop yourself.
Shifters observe well, read between the lines, and help us adapt in uncertain and changing situations.
Connectors will help your expand professional affiliations. Having a connector in your corner can be as helpful as being a connector yourself.
People who first appear as sharks may be benevolent antagonists. Listen for what others around them say to determine who might challenge you in healthy ways.

Resources Mentioned

The Ethical Imperative: Leading with Conscience to Shape the Future of Business* by Andrew C.M. Cooper

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0:00.0	We all know the power of relationships to help us grow, and yet we don't always seek out some of the
0:06.0	non-traditional relationships that could help most.
0:09.9	In this episode, three types of people we often overlook that will help us grow.
0:16.4	This is Coaching for Leaders episode 700.
0:21.2	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential
0:29.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:32.0	This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.
0:37.2	Leaders aren't born, they're made.
0:39.6	And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations.
0:45.7	So much of great leadership, by the way, not just great leadership, but being a helpful caring human being is about relationships, the relationships that are so key to us.
0:57.8	And many of us know some of the key relationships that we should have of being a mentor, of sponsoring others, the traditional things we think of.
1:06.6	But sometimes we don't think about the non-traditional relationships that are so important in our professional lives.
1:13.0	Today, an invitation for us to think about some of the non-traditional ways
1:18.0	that we can engage in relationships that not only are helpful to us,
1:22.0	but helpful to others, our organizations, and bringing more
1:25.8	consciousness into leadership.
1:27.6	I am so pleased to welcome Andrew Cooper.
1:30.5	He's an executive leader, an apologist for compassionate business practices.
1:35.0	He led as a history-making First millennial and Black Executive to serve as General Consul of
1:40.0	UPS Airlines, the world's largest logistics airline with over 20,000 employees.
1:45.9	His team was essential to the success of Operation Warps Speed, the United States Pandemic
1:50.3	Vaccine Relief Effort.
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