David Dodson: ...leadership is about being a teacher

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Find out how you can become an effective leader in virtually any kind of organization! Our guest is David Dodson, who is a veteran entrepreneur, board member, and investor. He teaches one of the most sought-after courses at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and he’s the author of the book, "THE MANAGER’S HANDBOOK: Five Simple Steps to Build a Team, Stay Focused, Make Better Decisions, and Crush Your Competition". His website is https://davedodson.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black. Whether you're the boss of your own
0:15.5	business or someone else's or an employee, chances are you have some thoughts on what makes a
0:20.4	great manager and what
0:21.4	makes a bad one. On this episode, we'll look at how almost anyone can become an effective leader
0:26.2	in virtually any kind of organization. Joining us with his expertise is David Dodson, who is a veteran
0:32.2	entrepreneur, board member, and investor. He teaches one of the most sought-after courses at Stanford University's
0:38.9	Graduate School of Business. And he's the author of the book, The Managers Handbook, Five Simple
0:45.5	Steps to Build a Team, Stay Focused, Make Better Decisions, and Crush Your Competition.
0:51.8	David, thank you so much for joining us. Of course, I love talking about
0:55.3	this. So this is great. Yeah, and tell us why you decided to write this book. Why did you feel
1:00.2	this was necessary? I wrote the book because as a entrepreneur myself, I was always looking
1:08.2	over my shoulder at people who just were better at getting stuff done than me.
1:12.8	I didn't necessarily think they had a better strategy, a better product, but they were going 80 miles an hour.
1:18.2	And I felt like I was going 60 miles an hour.
1:20.5	And then when I was asked to join the faculty at Stanford University, and I was working more with students and shifting more towards the investor side, I was seeing
1:28.6	it over and over again from the stands watching other managers. And I just became obsessed with
1:33.6	why are some people just able to go 80 miles an hour while the rest of us are going 50 miles an hour?
1:39.3	And I spent about three years just looking at everybody, studying, asking questions until I could kind of
1:45.1	figure it out. And you came up with these five steps. And I'm curious of all the tips and
1:51.0	tricks that you learned, what made you choose those? I didn't choose them, actually. I observed them.
1:58.2	And I was, it started out. I wasn't going to write a book. I just was obsessed with this sort of
2:04.1	notion of why are some people so much better at getting stuff done. And as I observed other,
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