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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Florent Groberg: Deputy VP & Business Director at Boeing and Medal of Honor Recipient | #ThePlaybook 252

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Florent Groberg, Deputy VP & Business Director at Boeing and Medal of Honor Recipient, shares his insight on: [2:23] - How the challenges he faced after immigrating to the United States helped him to shape a resilient mindset [4:12] - Why you need to put your ego and pride to the side in order to be an effective leader [7:31] - The one message he always shared with his teams before deploying on a mission [14:15] - How learning about his uncle sacrificing his life for his beliefs taught him the importance of living a selfless life Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On this episode of the playbook, I have Florent Groberg, deputy vice president and business director at Boeing,

0:06.5

and the Medal of Honor recipient. And we talk about putting your pride to the side and why you need to put your eagle and

0:14.4

pride to the side in order to be an effective leader. Join me for all this and more

0:19.1

on the playbook. This is Entrepreneurs The Playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest

0:26.3

athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional Playbook

0:32.4

to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.

0:37.5

I'm your host, David Melzer.

0:40.0

This is Dave Melzer with entrepreneurs to Playbook and I am so excited. I got a hero here for the

0:45.7

playbook. Hello, Grovert, he is a Medal of Honor recipient from President Obama.

0:51.2

I'm a huge fan of his. He has sacrificed and invested so much in our country for our country.

0:57.1

He now works for Boeing as a VP of sales and marketing, more traditional role, but also also motivational speaker.

1:03.4

Hello welcome to the playbook.

1:05.6

Thank you for having David.

1:08.0

It's an honor.

1:09.2

No problem is that a spaceship you're in right now?

1:11.5

I wish. I wish I'm in I'm in the vehicle right now my wife's

1:16.1

actually the doctors and so she wanted me to drive her and I can't go in so this is

1:20.9

my new office. Yeah I get it man and I'm blessed this is my very

1:24.7

first day back in my own studio I'm all by myself but normally I'm in a closet.

1:28.8

But you're no stranger to exterior circumstances or change affecting the way that we perform.

1:39.1

And so I wanted to have you on to talk about some of the key components of mindset that you've utilized under some very anxious conditions.

1:49.0

Far more challenging than will exist today, maybe getting into a little bit of your background,

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