John Donovan, AT&T Communications CEO
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 17 October 2018
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with John Donovan, CEO of AT&T Communications.
He’s responsible for the bulk of AT&T’s global telecommunications and video services businesses, including AT&T’s Business, Entertainment, and Technology & Operations groups.
AT&T is a global leader in telecommunications with 100 million U.S. consumer connections and millions of businesses, from the smallest companies to nearly all of the Fortune 1000.
John manages over 250,000 people. Think about that for a second.What’s the key to running an organization this large?
For John, it starts with knowing his values and what he stands for.
This creates a certain space that allows him to be grounded and present more often.
In this conversation, John shares how he got so clear on who he is and what he’s striving for.
It took some difficult, lonely work to sort it out and I hope you are currently embracing that same process.
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| 0:00.0 | So the analogy between sports where you do so much work and business, they're identical because it's still about relationships and performance and everybody being their best self. |
| 0:10.0 | So if you're your best self, then you can help others be their best self. |
| 0:15.0 | And then all of a sudden you get around an organization who are operating as their best |
| 0:19.6 | selves, then there's the magic. |
| 0:21.6 | It's, I'm happy. I love it here and we're winning. We're |
| 0:26.5 | doing extraordinary things. That's the goal whether you're going to you know to |
| 0:32.1 | work this morning or whether you're going over to the field, you know, welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervais, and by Trade and |
| 0:52.1 | Training a Sport and Performance Psychologist as well as the co-founder of |
| 0:55.9 | compete to create and my partner in that venture is head coach of the Seattle Seahawks Pete Carroll and the whole idea behind this |
| 1:03.7 | podcast is to learn from people who are on the path of mastery and that's it. It's like |
| 1:08.3 | we want to find people who understand the nuances of their craft and what we're working to do is better understand |
| 1:15.0 | what they're searching for, their psychological framework and how they see the world of themselves in it, |
| 1:19.6 | and we want to understand the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft. |
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