A Prescription for Your Success - with Dr. Pete Leddy #108
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
“Success in a business isn’t something that happens to you; it’s something you’re a part of.” — Pete Leddy
Growing up the eighth of ten children in a working class family in Chicago, Pete Leddy was fascinated by human behavior from an early age. With a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology, he’s helped employees at companies large and small tap into their strengths, find their purpose and achieve their goals.
In this Takeover Tuesday episode, Dermot Buffini interviews Pete Leddy to learn more about his journey, his perspective on success and his best advice for people at all stages of their careers. You’ll learn the three must-have mindset principles of successful individuals, how thinking of your skills and knowledge as a product will differentiate yourself in your market, and why a thirst for learning is essential at any stage of your career. He also shares the best advice he’s ever heard, which is sure to help you live a happier, more inspired life.
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Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:
“Success, for me, means an individual is doing what he or she aspires to do.” — Pete Leddy
“If you have dreams, a purpose you want to fulfill, but you don’t have a plan, then you’re a dreamer. If you’re out there day-to-day, hunkering down and getting projects done without a vision or purpose, you’re rudderless.” — Pete Leddy
“Success in a business isn’t something that happens to you; it’s something you’re a part of.” — Pete Leddy
“I need the human spirit in my life. I need to feel that energy.” — Pete Leddy
“My purpose on this earth is helping other people transform beyond what they ever expected they could do.” — Pete Leddy
“Engaging others in your journey is the most important thing you can do.” — Pete Leddy
“What really matters to people regardless of their generation comes down to having a fulfilling work environment. The more we draw boundaries, the more dangerous it becomes.” — Pete Leddy
“Lead at the individual level.” — Pete Leddy
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to TakeOver Tuesday. I'm your host, Dermat Bafini. And as you know, once |
| 0:22.0 | a month I take over the Bryan Bafini show and I interview people that have been there |
| 0:26.5 | and on that people who have achieved superior performance in different areas of life. |
| 0:31.9 | Now last month on TakeOver Tuesday you heard from a good friend of mine, one of America's top |
| 0:36.8 | CEOs Greg Bucir. Now if you didn't get a chance to listen to that episode, I highly recommend that |
| 0:41.5 | you go back and listen to the DNA of success. It's episode number 104. Greg had so much great stuff |
| 0:47.5 | to share and I think you'll get a lot of great information out of that. Now as I said on that |
| 0:52.3 | podcast, you know I was introduced to Greg through a game of golf and Greg had been the CEO of a |
| 0:58.0 | publicly traded company for over 11 years and I was a new CEO and I wanted to ask him for some of his |
| 1:02.9 | tips, some ideas and he was a great source of information, mentorship and in our lunch he said to |
| 1:09.8 | me, he said, you know what, you need to meet a friend of mine, someone who I've worked with for |
| 1:14.0 | many many years had great success with in every one of our companies and I think he'd be a great |
| 1:19.2 | person for you to meet with as you're talking about the work that you do and thinking about it for |
| 1:23.3 | the future and ultimately at the end of the day you help people and you're going to grow and you're |
| 1:28.0 | going to be successful because of how well your people at the Athenian company do. So he introduced me |
| 1:33.3 | to our guest today, Mr. Pete Letti. Now a piece has served on so many incredible companies as an |
| 1:39.2 | executive and advisory capacity, major major brands from Pepsi to Dell and we're going to dig into |
| 1:45.5 | some of his successes and the organizations that he's helped. He also has a PhD in industrial and |
| 1:52.0 | organizational psychology. Now basically what that means is that Pete's expertise is helping companies |
| 1:57.7 | achieve their highest potential by developing its people and what I love about Pete is that he |
| 2:02.4 | just doesn't have a head for business, he has a tremendous heart for people and Pete's here today |
| 2:07.7 | in the studio with us to give us some routines, some tips, some methodologies for success both |
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