707: The Beliefs of Inspirational Leaders, with Stephen M. R. Covey

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Stephen M. R. Covey: Trust & Inspire
Stephen M. R. Covey is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author and former CEO of Covey Leadership Center. He led the strategy that propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to become one of the two most influential business books of the 20th Century, according to CEO Magazine. He's the author The Speed of Trust and more recently Trust & Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others*.

Despite everything we know about good leadership, a lot of places still operate in a command and control mindset. In this conversation, Stephen and I explore the key ways to shift from command and control to trust and inspire.
Key Points

In spite of all progress, most leaders today are still operating from a command and control mindset.
The carrot and stick approach still dominates most organizational cultures and tactics.
The biggest barrier to becoming a Trust & Inspire leader is when we think we already are one.
People are whole people. The best leaders care for the body, heart, mind, and spirit.
There is enough for everyone. Trust & Inspire leaders elevate caring above competition.
Enduring influence is created from the inside out. The job of the leader is to go first.
All people have greatness inside them. Trust & Inspire leaders work to unleash potential, not control it.

Resources Mentioned

Trust & Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others* by Stephen M. R. Covey

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0:00.0	Despite everything we know about good leadership, a lot of places still operate in a command and control mindset.
0:07.4	In this episode, how to shift from command and control to trust and inspire.
0:13.2	This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 7007.
0:17.2	Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.
0:25.5	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:29.1	This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.
0:33.8	Leaders aren't born.
0:35.4	They're made.
0:36.1	And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom
0:39.3	through insightful conversations. We have all been in situations where we have seen command
0:46.4	and control leadership. And so many of us want to do better than that. We want to make the
0:51.9	shift as today's guest is going to invite us to do to
0:55.1	trust and inspire. But how? How do we actually make that shift? And how do we move ourselves
1:01.6	and our organizations in a way that helps us to lead in such healthy ways? I am so pleased to
1:07.0	welcome today's guest, Stephen M.R. Covey. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal
1:11.7	bestselling author and former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which under his stewardship
1:16.6	became the largest leadership development company in the world. He led the strategy that
1:21.4	propelled his father's book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,
1:26.6	to become one of the two most
1:28.4	influential books of the 20th century, according to CEO magazine. He's the author of The Speed of
1:34.4	Trust and More Recently, Trust and Inspire, How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness and Others.
1:41.8	Stephen, what a pleasure to have you on. Well, thank you, Dave.
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