Bob Wright, Former Vice Chairman of GE and CEO of NBC
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Bob Wright, who served as vice chairman of General Electric and president, CEO, and chairman of NBC and NBC Universal from 1986 to 2007.
Prior to that, he served as president of General Electric Financial Services and before that as president of Cox Cable Communications.
Bob’s had a diversified career in law, general management, marketing, and television and has been inducted into the Advertising, Broadcasting and Cable Halls of Fame.
He is also the co-founder of Autism Speaks and founder of The Suzanne Wright Foundation
Bob’s major focus right now is on The Suzanne Wright Foundation and his CodePurple campaign which are both fighting pancreatic cancer.
In this conversation we touch on leadership, passion and accountability.
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| 0:00.0 | Leadership comes from being able to create objectives, |
| 0:05.0 | explain to people why they're there, |
| 0:07.0 | and then explain how we're going to get there, |
| 0:10.0 | in which case, where is your part in it and then the execution becomes the critical |
| 0:16.2 | issue getting it done and having you know chopping it up into pieces that are |
| 0:21.2 | bite size. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm Michael Jervay. |
| 0:35.7 | And by Trade and Training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist, |
| 0:39.4 | and also the co-founder of Compete to Create. |
| 0:42.8 | And the whole idea of this podcast |
| 0:44.4 | is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery |
| 0:47.1 | to better understand what they're searching for, |
| 0:50.3 | to understand their psychological framework, |
| 0:51.9 | which is how they understand themselves and events and basically their worldview. |
| 0:56.0 | And then we also want to dig to understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft. |
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