James Patterson and Patrick Leddin: Disrupt Everything—and Win!

FranklinCovey On Leadership

FranklinCovey

Business, Management

4.9 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Bestselling author James Patterson and leadership expert Patrick Leddin join us to explore resilience, disruption, and thriving in uncertain times. They discuss lessons from their diverse careers, the importance of repeated practice in building resilience, and how to embrace change with courage and creativity. From stories of family businesses to navigating the rise of AI, this episode offers practical wisdom and inspiring insights on leadership and impact. Identify and inspire impactful behavior amid disruption. Take our self-assessment to reveal your unique positive disruptor profile: https://disrupt.franklincovey.com FranklinCovey’s world-class learning solutions—delivered Live-Online, On Demand, or Live In-Person—are designed to build exceptional leadership skills and enrich your culture at every level of your organization. To learn more, email us at [email protected], visit franklincovey.com, or call us at: 1-888-868-1776

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0:00.0	there are a couple models in the book, and one is the disruptive loop.
0:02.4	It's just very simply, it's a very simple process,
0:04.5	but basically says that what we found is we were studying people,
0:07.1	you start to see it repeat time and time again, you go, okay,
0:09.1	there's something here, there's a pattern here that we're finding.
0:11.7	And what it is is that when a disruption hits,
0:15.2	instead of just reacting to something or ignoring it or hoping it goes away,
0:19.0	these people tend to step back and discern.
0:30.6	Hello and welcome to Franklin Covey on leadership. I'm your host, Will Hodling, Franklin Covey's head of product. In these conversations, we speak with many of the world's most
0:35.6	respected leaders about the mistakes, methods, and mindsets that led them to become the people they are today. We hope that their hard-earned insights help accelerate you on your journey. Today's guests are James Patterson and Dr. Patrick Lenned. James Patterson is the best-selling author of all time, with over 425 million copies sold.
0:56.7	He is astoundingly prolific, with over 100 New York Times bestsellers, including a Guinness
1:02.0	World Record 61 number one bestsellers.
1:06.0	He is co-authored books with Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, Michael Crichton, and now he adds Dr. Patrick
1:12.0	Lenned as his latest co-author on Disrupt Everything and Win, which was released today.
1:18.2	Dr. Lenned is a Franklin Covey senior advisor on culture and leadership in the Wall Street
1:23.0	Journal bestselling author of The Five Week Leadership Challenge.
1:27.1	Dr. Lenn was previously an associate professor
1:29.2	of Vanderbilt University where he led the disruption project. Before that, he was a captain in the
1:35.0	US Army's 82nd Airborne Division and a senior consultant at KPMG. In today's conversation,
1:41.2	we'll cover their unique backgrounds, the key models, frameworks, and stories from their book released today, the solution that we've partnered together to build and more.
1:51.7	To learn more about this new solution, disrupt everything, visit disrupt.franklandcovy.com and complete your disruption assessment today.
2:01.1	Dr. Patrick Lenned and James Patterson, welcome to Franklin Covey on leadership.
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