Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's on leadership series.

My name is Scott Miller and I serve as you know as your weekly host and interviewer.

You know most weeks when we invited guests to come on we follow a very similar format.

And when I say most weeks, I mean every week

since the inception of this Leadership Podcast,

which by the way I mentioned is the fastest

growing and largest weekly newsletter

dedicated to leadership from Franklin Covey.

Most weeks we bring an author on and the production team picks a book that they've written,

whether it be from a CEO, a best-selling author, a business tighten, or someone who might be a social scientist or a researcher

dedicated to a problem that we think our clients, our subscribers, might be interested in.

It might be how to be a better frontline first level leader. It might be issues

that unit level leaders are challenged with, building a high trust culture,

executing on strategy. We go deep into a book. And here's what happened. This week our guest is

going to be the renowned and prolific author John Gordon, who many of you know from

the famous book The Energy Bus. But can you believe John Gordon has written 18 books, seven of which

are international bestsellers? He's approaching 5 million copies sold. So I'm on the plane

several days ago finishing their energy

bus. I'd read two or three of his books and I text my colleague Drew Young who is

the booker for our show. And I say Drew I have an idea. I want you to call up John

Gordon in anticipation of his interview and ask John, would he be willing not just

to talk about the power of a positive team and the energy bus, but would he be

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