944: Becoming a Leader that People Want to Follow with Jon Rennie

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Former submarine officer Jon Rennie outlines the leadership principles that make people want to follow you.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to deepen your connection with your team

2) Why to let your colleagues fail more

3) Your fastest path to standing out

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— ABOUT JON —

Jon is the Co-Founder, President & CEO of Peak Demand Inc., a components manufacturer for electrical utilities. He is a former U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer who made seven deployments during the end of the Cold War.

Before starting Peak Demand, he led eight manufacturing businesses for three global companies. He is the author of three best-selling leadership books and hosts the Deep Leadership podcast.

• Book: All in the Same Boat: Lead Your Organization Like a Nuclear Submariner

• Book: I Have the Watch: Becoming a Leader Worth Following

• Website: JonSRennie.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

• Book: First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Jim Harter, Marcus Buckingham, Gallup Organization

• Past episode: 149: Getting Consistently Good Behavior with S. Chris Edmonds

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.0	Without a crew, this ship is just a hunk of steel sitting in the harbor, right?
0:11.0	It takes a crew to bring a ship to life. It takes people to bring our businesses
0:16.1	alive, our plans to life, the things we're trying to do. A lot of times people get promoted into management jobs and they sort of go back to what they were used to doing as an individual contributor.
0:28.5	They do emails, they go to meetings, and they forget that it's about the mission and the people. Leadership is a people
0:38.0	business. It's about people. So if you are doing and not leading, then you're really not doing your job as a leader.
0:48.0	That's John Rennie. He's a former US Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer who made seven deployments during the end of the Cold War and since then he's led eight manufacturing businesses and authored three leadership books.
0:59.0	I'm Pete McKitus, this is how to be awesome at your job. And now, here's John.
1:03.9	John, welcome.
1:05.0	It's good to be here, Pete.
1:06.6	I am excited to have this conversation.
1:08.3	I'd love for you to kick us off with a riveting tail
1:12.1	from your days in a nuclear submarine during the Cold War.
1:16.6	Bring us into the scene.
1:18.3	Well, can you imagine 155 guys getting on board a submarine,
1:22.4	then locking the hatches for a hundred days where you deploy out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean for 100 days and
1:30.7	You're with the people that you deploy with you have to get all these very difficult
1:34.8	things done we had 24 nuclear missiles a nuclear reactor and the average age was
1:39.3	about 20 years old and I did that seven different times in my life so it's kind of an interesting
1:45.2	experience it's certainly a great place to learn how to deal with people how to get along
1:49.5	with people absolutely and geez you know John do people ever just go nuts down there like how does that work how do we prevent for that because that seems like there's a reasonable probability that at least a couple of those folks would just mentally lose it.
2:06.8	I don't know if I could handle it. Like, how do you train for that?
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