Building Stronger Bonds: Charles Vogl On Community, Leadership, & Connection In A Dynamic World
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we connect with Charles Vogl, an adviser, speaker, and the author of three books, including the international bestseller The Art of Community. Charles's expertise in advising and developing leadership and programs has had a global reach, with his work influencing many prominent organizations like Airbnb, LinkedIn, Twitch, Amazon, ServiceNow, Meetup.com, Wayfair, and the US Army.
What's Charles's primary goal? To instill strength, resilience, and adaptability in a world that often feels broken…
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- How Charles's experience in the Peace Corps shifted his worldview.
- The principles that help communities form and flourish.
- What "mirage communities" are, and how to identify them.
- The good things that can happen from extending invitations to people.
- The importance of prioritizing local relationships with others.
From radical shifts in the tech industry to global conflict, Charles teaches leaders the practical wisdom and principles needed to build deep community – which has yielded dramatic success across diverse contexts. How can we leverage the world's oldest ideas to connect with the people we care about? Join us now to see for yourself!
Learn more about Charles and his impactful work by visiting his website.
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| 0:28.7 | Here come the geniuses. |
| 0:30.3 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | But Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:37.4 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast. |
| 0:41.3 | I've got a great guest today, Charles Vogel. |
| 0:43.9 | He's an advisor, a speaker, an author of three books, including an international bestseller |
| 0:48.4 | called The Art of Community, which I'm listening to an Audible, and it's really excellent. |
| 0:52.9 | So we're talking about building brand communities, and Charles has been an advisor in the past for Google. He's worked |
| 0:59.1 | with Airbnb, LinkedIn, Twitch, Amazon, ServiceNow, Meetup.com, Wayfair, and the U.S. Army. So |
| 1:05.2 | worked with a lot of different organizations, very diverse ones, very interesting ones. And I think |
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