975: Elevating Leadership through Radical Humility with Urs Koenig
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Urs Koenig reveals how to level up your leadership through the five shifts of radical humility.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why leaders win more when they’re humble
2) Two tricks to getting better quality feedback
3) How to make any tough conversation less intimidating
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— ABOUT URS —
Urs is a former United Nations military peacekeeper and NATO military peacekeeping commander, a highly accomplished ultraendurance champion, a widely published professor, bestselling author, and a seasoned executive coach and keynote speaker with more than three decades of experience helping hundreds of leaders and dozens of executive teams unlock new levels of achievement across four continents.
He is the founder of the Radical Humility Leadership Institute and speaks frequently on the topic of leadership to corporations and associations across the globe. His message of Radical Humility in leadership has inspired teams from across the spectrum, including Amazon, Starbucks, the Society of Human Resource Management, Vistage, the University of Melbourne, and Microsoft.
He holds a PhD in geography and a Master of Science from the University of Zürich, Switzerland, and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.
Urs is the loving father of two teenage boys who make commanding soldiers look easy. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
• Book: Radical Humility: Be a Badass Leader and a Good Human
• LinkedIn: Urs Koenig
• Website: UrsKoenig.com
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• Book: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Anniversary Edition) by Alfred Lansing
• Book: Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell
• Past episode: 707: Amy Edmondson on How to Build Thriving Teams with Psychological Safety
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| 0:00.0 | An HR study showed that humble leader actually more likely to get promoted themselves. |
| 0:12.3 | Why? Because they're talent incubators. They grow and build their people up and as such they become more successfully just themselves. So who do I promote? I promote the people who build other people up. |
| 0:24.0 | People challenge me sometimes as a humble leader. You're just weak. |
| 0:29.0 | You're emotional doormat, but no, to actually humbly invite feedback and share what I'm working on myself. |
| 0:34.4 | I need to be fundamentally confident in myself. |
| 0:37.4 | To have a fundamentally strong sense of self. |
| 0:41.2 | Humility is not for the meek or the week so it is tough right so there's no two ways about it we need to make ourselves uncomfortable to actually grow |
| 0:58.0 | That's worse Kainek. He's a former United Nations military peacekeeper and NATO peacekeeping commander. Now he shares his message of radical humility through his work at the Radical Humility Leadership Institute. |
| 1:04.3 | Wars has spent over three decades helping hundreds of leaders and executive teams unlock new levels |
| 1:09.5 | of achievement. |
| 1:10.5 | Here he shares some of that wisdom also found in his new book, |
| 1:13.7 | radical humility. |
| 1:15.1 | So you'll learn one, why leaders win more when they're humble, |
| 1:18.5 | two tricks to get you better quality feedback, |
| 1:21.8 | and three, |
| 1:22.9 | how to make any tough conversation less intimidating. |
| 1:26.6 | I'm Pete McChitis. |
| 1:27.7 | This is how to be awesome at your job. |
| 1:29.2 | And now, here's worse. |
| 1:38.6 | Ours, welcome to how to be awesome at your job. Thanks Pete for having me and looking forward to the conversation. |
| 1:41.7 | Oh, me too, me too. |
| 1:43.1 | You know, I was a model United Nations student |
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