Michele Rigby Assad: What Are You Fighting for?

FranklinCovey On Leadership with Scott Miller

FranklinCovey

Business, Management

4.9 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Bestselling author and former CIA agent Michele Rigby Assad encourages people to think introspectively about their answer to that question in her book, Breaking Cover: My Secret Life in the CIA and What It Taught Me About What’s Worth Fighting For. Michele joins On Leadership to share her unique journey into the CIA, discussing the importance of understanding different cultures and religions and the challenges she faced in gaining the trust of individuals she was interrogating. She talks about how many of her stories taught her lessons that she hopes can empower others on their own paths to accomplishing their own unique personal and professional goals. Do you know how you communicate? Take our Difficult Conversation Assessment to gain insight into which of three conversation styles you use and learn how to navigate conversations with effectiveness and authenticity.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to a new episode of On Leadership with Scott Miller.
0:15.0	That's me. I'm your host each week. This podcast is sponsored by Franklin Covey, the
0:18.6	world's most trusted leadership organization now for six years in nearly 400 episodes.
0:24.8	We release episodes on Tuesdays and Fridays, both in audio and video formats, where we try to
0:31.0	make you a better leader.
0:32.0	We interview business
0:33.4	Titan, CEOs, thought leaders, best-selling authors, celebrities,
0:36.5	actors, researchers, scientists, soloprenewers, entrepreneurs,
0:40.8	people who have lived through and survived unspeakable tragedies that have
0:45.2	summoned the courage and perseverance to teach you the lessons that they have
0:49.6	learned from it. All this is to pour into you as a better leader, however you choose to define that
0:55.6	role in your life. Perhaps you are a formal leader of an organization. Maybe you are a mid or senior
1:01.0	level manager or perhaps you're a first time leader on the
1:03.8	front line. Maybe you're not employed and maybe you are in a leadership position in a
1:08.0	not-for-profit or in your home as the primary provider or caretaker. Whatever is, Franklin Covey is dedicated to helping you
1:14.4	live out and maximize your own great purposes.
1:19.1	Today we have a little bit different kind of interview because typically we speak to leadership business
1:24.5	marketing branding communication experts. Today we're interviewing a CIA
1:31.7	agent a former spy if will, that has written this remarkable book called
1:36.5	Breaking Cover.
1:39.0	The tagline is my secret life in the CIA and what it taught me about what's worth fighting for joining
1:47.3	us from her home in Florida's Michelle Rigby Assad.
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