716: How to Share an Inspiring Vision, with Adam Galinsky

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Adam Galinsky: Inspire
Adam Galinsky is the Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics at the Columbia Business School. He co-authored the book Friend & Foe and his TED talk, How to Speak Up for Yourself, is one of the most popular of all time with over 7 million views. He's the author of Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others.

Leaders can delegate many things, but vision is not one of them. Most every leader needs to be able to articulate the future. In this conversation, Adam and I explore the building blocks to get better at inspiring others.
Key Points

Every leader has the potential to be inspiring. We can choose to get better.
Whatever a leader says, either positive or negative, will be amplified.
When values are brought front and center, they inspire behavior that creates a better future.
Inspiring leaders offer a big picture, optimistic view of the future.
Make visions simple and vivid. Simplicity is the key to inception. Use strong imagery that brings details to life.
Repetition is essential for a vision to take hold. The more often we hear something, to more likely it becomes our own truth.

Resources Mentioned

Inspire: The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others* by Adam Galinsky

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0:00.0	Leaders can delegate many things, but vision is not one of them. Most every leader needs to be able to articulate the future. In this episode, the building blocks to get better at inspiring others. This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 716.
0:19.1	Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.
0:27.5	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:30.7	This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahofiak.
0:35.2	Leaders are born, they're made. And this weekly show helps you discover leadership
0:40.0	wisdom through insightful conversations. We know that one of the charges we all have as leaders
0:46.9	is being able to convey a vision, a vision of the future and what's important. And we all know an inspiring leader who's
0:55.9	done that for us. And yet it is something that many of us struggle with. How do we do a better job
0:59.9	at being able to convey a vision and to lead with an inspiring vision? Today, a conversation
1:06.3	that's going to help us to do that better. And the good news is so much that we can learn on how to get
1:12.6	better at doing this. I am so pleased to welcome Adam Galinsky. He is the Vice Dean for
1:17.4	Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the Paul Colello Professor of Leadership and Ethics at
1:22.7	the Columbia Business School. He co-authored the book Friend Info, and his TED Talk,
1:26.8	How to Speak Up for
1:27.5	Yourself, is one of the most popular of all time with over 7 million views. He's the author
1:32.9	of the new book, Inspire the Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others. Adam, what a pleasure
1:39.6	to have you on. Thank you so much. The pleasure is all mine. I read your book and the word I come away with
1:46.4	for myself and for others is hope that we have a choice. We can learn to get better at this. And you
1:53.4	have the message when you're thinking about being an inspiring leader that each and every one of us
1:59.7	does have the potential to be inspiring.
2:02.2	We can learn this, can't we?
2:03.9	We sure can.
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