Alex Budak | Becoming a Changemaker: Leading Positive Change at Any Level
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this enlightening conversation, we're joined by Alex Budak, a professor at Haas Business School and the author of 'Becoming a Change Maker'. Alex shares his unique insights on micro leadership, the dynamics of champions, cynics, and fence sitters in our ability to make change, and the importance of taking a long-term perspective.
Alex Budak is not just a faculty member at Berkeley, but also a global director, entrepreneur, and changemaker who has helped countless students lead positive change in their communities. His book, 'Becoming a Change Maker', is a research-backed guide that helps individuals harness their potential to make a positive impact.
In this episode, Alex discusses his experiences of leading change, the concept of micro leadership, and the importance of building trust in ourselves. He emphasizes that change isn't just for your career, it's also for your personal life. He shares his belief that while leaders might be scarce, leadership is abundant. He encourages us to see leadership not as a title, but as an act, and to seize the leadership moments that appear around us every day.
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| 0:00.0 | I put up two words on a slide which simply says go fail and students kind of start looking |
| 0:05.8 | around like what's going on and I go to the next slide and it says okay you have 15 minutes, |
| 0:10.4 | you have to leave the classroom and you have to go ask for something and get a note you |
| 0:14.7 | have to get rejected before you can come back. |
| 0:17.7 | So again I imagine these really high cheating students used to succeeding in most of what |
| 0:20.7 | they do and they start acting they started responding sabbatically so like they start beating |
| 0:26.5 | hard to beating fast to start sweating a little bit and I go okay I'll be at the front |
| 0:29.7 | of the room if you need any coaching any mentorship I'll be here but yeah go leave the |
| 0:32.6 | classroom go ask for something and get rejected the students shuffle nervously out of the |
| 0:37.6 | room when they come back the energy is just off the charts so much so that at once had |
| 0:42.8 | it next to our professor come over and ask to keep the noise down because students were |
| 0:46.0 | just so pumped up from this experience when we look at the people who are most successful |
| 0:51.5 | we tend to think wow they have a ton of successes probably not that many failures but actually |
| 0:56.3 | what we see is that many of the people who succeed a lot also have a ton of failures |
| 1:01.8 | and so the question isn't did they just get lucky and just sort of hit a home run with their |
| 1:05.2 | first bet but rather we're just willing to go up to the plate again and again and again |
| 1:09.2 | and amidst all those failures we're some really good successes as well. |
| 1:17.6 | I'm Strenie Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the |
| 1:22.1 | stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who've started movements |
| 1:26.4 | built driving businesses written best selling books and created an insanely interesting art. |
| 1:30.9 | For more check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakablecreative.com |
| 1:38.8 | Alex welcome to the unmistakable creative thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
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