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FranklinCovey On Leadership with Scott Miller

Rajiv Shah: Making Big Bets

FranklinCovey On Leadership with Scott Miller

FranklinCovey

Business, Management

4.9851 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Collaboration with those you may not always agree with is more important than ever before. That is one of several key takeaways from Raj Shah, who currently serves as the President of The Rockefeller Foundation and is the author of Big Bets: How Large Scale Change Really Happens. Raj emphasizes the importance of being an optimist, finding fresh and innovative solutions, recruiting committed partners, and fiercely measuring results. Raj also discusses the need for leaders to build authentic relationships, be vulnerable, and make smart decisions. 3 Leadership Actions to Amplify Your Organization's Impact: Download our guide for three actions your leaders can take today to transform your teams' efforts into high-value results.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's twice weekly podcast on Leadership with

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Scott Miller. That's me I'm your host and interviewer each week in our sixth year

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350-plus episodes where every week we shine the megawatt spotlight that is Franklin

0:26.0

Covey the world's most trusted leadership company of course co-founded by the

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iconic author and thought leader Stephen R. Covey, you know him as the leader of our firm initially

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and the author of the seminal book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

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Each week we try to bring to you valuable and practical conversations around being a better leader.

0:46.7

Some weeks we focus on marketing, operations, culture, someone's life journey, a researcher or scientist that may have toiled in

0:55.4

obscurity and found something valuable for it to make you a better leader.

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Perhaps you are an entrepreneur, entrepreneur, sol pernour, maybe you are in the Sioux

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suite of a global company or you are at your home leading your family full time.

1:09.6

We hope this podcast resonates with you. Our guest today is the iconic and

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prestigious author advisor Raj Shah. He currently serves as the president of

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the Rockefeller Foundation, not too chabby, he is the author of of the really happens, hold on to this because beyond his remarkable academic credentials as a doctor,

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he's had a remarkable career of public service in the not-for-profit philanthropic foundation world working in the White

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House and helping America spread hopefully healthy democracy around the world.

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Raj welcome to our leadership.

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Thank you, Scott. It's great to be with you.

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Raj, I'd like to start and ask you to seriously check your humility because you have a

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remarkable career. Would you take a few minutes?

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Literally, walk us through your academic journey.

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Talk about some of the highlights and roles you played with the Gates Foundation

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