705: A Few Ways to Stay Relevant, with Steve Dennis

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Steve Dennis: Leaders Leap
Steve Dennis is a strategy consultant, advisor, speaker, and author focused on transformational leadership and the impact of digital disruption. He is the president of SageBerry Consulting and host of the Remarkable Retail podcast. He's the author of the book Remarkable Retail and his newest book Leaders Leap: Transforming Your Company at the Speed of Disruption*.

Every leader needs to stay relevant in order to serve well. In this conversation, Steve and I explore the mindset and tactics that will help us lead in the context of an ever-changing world.
Key Points

Self-sufficiency is a virtue, until it’s not. Learning to ask for help is a key practice for leaders.
Be cautious about a deserving attitude. High expectations may be correlated with low resilience.
Seek insight everywhere. It’s no longer sufficient just to gain ideas from direct competitors.
Turning pro means showing up and doing the work, especially when we don’t feel like it.
We must go through discomfort, not around it. Radical acceptance of truth will help you stay relevant in changing times.

Resources Mentioned

Leaders Leap: Transforming Your Company at the Speed of Disruption* by Steve Dennis

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0:00.0	Every leader must stay relevant in order to serve well.
0:04.0	In this episode, the mindset and tactics that will help us lead in an ever-changing world.
0:10.0	This is coaching for leaders, episode 705.
0:15.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:20.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your
0:28.8	host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born. They're made. And this weekly show helps you discover leadership
0:36.3	wisdom through insightful conversations. One of the things that I think we all want, both as leaders and also as human beings,
0:44.8	is to be relevant, to do things that are going to be helpful for others, to help our
0:49.2	organizations and to serve in a way that I know so many of us have a heart to do and yet it's more challenging than ever to stay relevant to know what's happening to not miss the next thing in a world where so many of us and our work is being
1:04.7	disrupted in new ways. I'm so glad today to welcome a guest expert who's going to
1:09.4	help us to really look at the perspective on this of how we can stay relevant and what we can do that will serve others more effectively.
1:17.5	I'm so pleased to welcome Steve Dennis to the show.
1:20.3	He's a strategy consultant, advisor, speaker, and author focused on transformational leadership and the impact of digital disruption.
1:28.0	He's the president of Sageberry Consulting and host of the remarkable retail podcast. He's the author of the the Remarkable Retail Podcast.
1:33.0	He's the author of the book Remarkable Retail
1:35.0	and his newest book, Leaders Leap,
1:38.0	transforming your company at the speed of disruption.
1:41.0	Steve, what a pleasure to have you. Well, it's a pleasure to be here.
1:45.1	Thanks for having me on, Dave. Earlier in your career, you were an executive at Sears and you and I are of the age that we know exactly what Sears is and how relevant it was as an organization and some people listening are going to be saying Sears? What's that?
2:01.0	I wondered if you could just maybe briefly paint a picture of Sears and what it was what it is today
2:08.0	but I'm I'm curious like what that experience was like at being an executive and organization that was becoming less relevant at the time you were there.
2:18.0	Yeah, well, it's a lot about a long strange trip it's been I think in a lot of regards but yeah I started my career my retail career at Sears in 1991 and just a few years earlier Sears was the biggest retailer on the planet. Most noted for having these large department
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