Matt Higgins: Burn the Boats

FranklinCovey On Leadership with Scott Miller

FranklinCovey

Business, Management

4.9 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Episode 320 | If you’ve ever fully committed to a goal or venture without any backup plan, you know what it’s like to persevere in choppy waters. It’s a philosophy embraced at a young age by Matthew Higgins, a very successful serial entrepreneur and author of the book Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential. Matthew focuses on key principles of entrepreneurship and leadership that can lead to success, including eliminating any possibility of retreat and fully dedicating yourself to achieving your goals. Matthew also points to the importance of self-awareness and recognizing that everyone has their own journey to focus on that should never be defined or determined by external validation. Execute Your Strategic Goals and Create Breakthrough Results: Rather than just a theory, The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a proven set of principles designed to help leaders consistently achieve breakthrough results. This shareable guide gives an overview of each discipline to help you get started on achieving your goals by executing on your priorities.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Franklin Covey's twice weekly podcast on leadership with Scott Miller.
0:16.6	I'm your host, where every Tuesday and Friday, I have the ongoing privilege now for six
0:21.3	plus years, 350 episodes taped where I have the honor of sitting here and shining the
0:27.8	Franklin Covey leadership spotlight on some of the world's most renowned influencers,
0:33.1	best-selling authors, business titans, Harvard school, fellows and professors, people that
0:38.8	have survived major tragedies or made major discoveries that make all of our lives as
0:44.7	leaders more effective.
0:46.8	Perhaps each of you are either a formal leader in an organization leading people.
0:51.2	Perhaps you are an informal leader in your family with your friends on a committee on
0:55.8	some kind of service organization.
0:57.6	This podcast is designed to invest in you each week and sometimes we highlight Franklin
1:02.1	Covey's internal thought leaders as the most trusted leadership firm in the world and
1:06.7	other times we'd like to pick people out that we think have a great point of view.
1:10.8	Today, our guest wrote perhaps the best titled book in printing, Burn the Boats.
1:17.7	His name is Matt Higgins.
1:18.8	You know him as a serial entrepreneur, he is a frequent guest shark on Shark Tank.
1:24.5	He is a frequent lecturer and teacher at the Harvard Business School and today he's
1:29.7	going to teach us a lot of lessons about entrepreneurs.
1:32.4	What are the common principles that people align with and often violate on their path to
1:37.4	business success, Matt Higgins, welcome to on leadership?
1:41.7	Thanks for having me and thanks for the shout out on my title.
1:44.5	It's very true, sir.
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