812: Bill George on How Emerging Leaders Can Succeed Today

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Former Medtronic CEO and current professor, Bill George shares foundational principles for excelling as a leader in today’s world of work.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) What a “true north” is and why it’s so critical

2) The top three distractions leaders must overcome

3) Powerful questions to clarify your purpose

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— ABOUT BILL —

Bill George is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic. He joined Medtronic in 1989 as president and chief operating officer, was chief executive officer from 1991-2001, and board chair from 1996-2002. He is currently a senior fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has taught leadership since 2004.

Bill is the author of: Discover Your True North and The Discover Your True North Field book, Authentic Leadership, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis True North, Finding Your True North, and True North Groups. He served on the boards of Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, Novartis, Target, and Mayo Clinic.

He received his BSIE with high honors from Georgia Tech, his MBA with high distinction from Harvard University, where he was a Baker Scholar, and honorary PhDs from Georgia Tech, Mayo Medical School, University of St. Thomas, Augsburg College and Bryant University.

• Book: True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership

• Book: True North: Leading Authentically in Today's Workplace, Emerging Leader Edition

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Researcher: Richard Davidson

• Book: Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond by Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge

• Past episode: 371: The Keys That Make a Great Team with Don Yaeger

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.0	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.6	to flourish at work.
0:10.1	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete Makaitas.
0:19.1	Hello and welcome to episode 812 with Bill George.
0:22.8	Bill shares some really inspiring perspective and wisdom on foundational principles for
0:28.6	excelling as a leader and really just frankly being inspired and inspiring and living a life
0:35.4	and career that you love and are proud of.
0:38.0	So great stuff from Bill.
0:39.3	You'll learn one, what is a true north and why it's so critical to the top three distractions,
0:45.5	leaders must overcome and three powerful questions to clarify your purpose.
0:49.6	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that
0:52.0	we've mentioned, please drop them by awesome at your job dot com slash ep 812 as an episode
0:57.8	812 get it and you'll access those resources there as well as full text transcripts.
1:04.8	Every episode tagged by the topic and competency covered the gold nugget email summaries
1:09.5	of the actionable wisdom, a lot of good stuff at awesome at your job dot com.
1:13.0	Now here's Bill story.
1:14.6	Bill George is the former chairman and CEO of metronik.
1:17.3	He joined metronica 1989 as president and chief operating officer and was chief executive
1:21.9	officer from 1991 to 2001 and board chair from 1996 to 2002.
1:27.3	He's currently a senior fellow at Harvard Business School where he has taught leadership
1:30.2	since 2004.
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