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The Brian Buffini Show

S2E78 How to Recognize Genius and Why

The Brian Buffini Show

Brian Buffini

Entrepreneur, Brian Buffini, Business, Entrepreneurship, Coaching, Good, Life

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

 

If you want your team to thrive, you have to identify, celebrate and lean into the unique gifts of all team members. In this episode, Brian shares what entrepreneurs can learn from Pat Lencioni’s Working Genius model about increasing a team’s productivity and satisfaction in three major areas: ideation, activation and implementation.

  

YOU WILL LEARN:

·     Why some team members need help starting.

·     Why others find it challenging to activate and push forward.

·     How to support those who struggle with implementation.

 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

 

S2E77, The 6 Types of Working Genius


workinggenius.com

 

“The 6 Types of Working Genius,” by Pat Lencioni  

 

“The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,” by Pat Lencioni

 

S2E13, Unleash Your Inner Olympian - an Interview with Apolo Ohno

 

REALStrengths

 

NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:

 

“If you're a dreamer, you’ve got to either surround yourself, or be aligned to, doers.” – Brian Buffini

 

“If you're an entrepreneur, there has to be some type of creative process in there: you find a need and fill a need.” – Brian Buffini

 

“It's very hard to push from the top down.” – Brian Buffini

 

“You really want people who are doers. You want people who are actually going to go implement and, if you don't have it, you better find it.” – Brian Buffini

 

“It's not weakness to say ‘this is not my strength.’” – Brian Buffini


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0:00.0

Welcome to It's a Good Life podcast where it's all about helping entrepreneurs think, feel, and do better.

0:07.6

This week we were joined by best-selling author Patrick Lentzioni, talking about his new book, The Six Types of Working Genius.

0:15.4

While we're gonna dig a little deeper into the meat of that chat, first off Brian,

0:19.2

welcome to your own show, as always.

0:21.4

What was the biggest insight you got from the call?

0:25.2

Welcome to Dinner in your own house.

0:30.9

Yeah, no, great. Look, I love Pat Lentzioni.

0:33.2

And it's great for me that I know him so well, personally, behind the scenes.

0:37.9

And it's always a joy when someone is behind the scenes, what they are in front of the scenes.

0:42.8

And as we all know, it's a bit rare.

0:46.0

So I know him as a man and what kind of person he is, and the family man he is,

0:50.4

and then how he runs his own business.

0:51.8

And in the world we live in today, we just had this conversation with Apollo Uno,

0:57.2

who came to the building.

0:58.6

And he was just kind of shocked when he toured through Bafini Company.

1:02.3

He's walking through here and he brought his business people and his managers and all his folks.

1:06.8

And he's walking through and he's like, wow, you guys actually do what you say you do.

1:12.0

And it was a genuine shock to him.

1:14.4

Because he knows all these people and he's in the Hollywood scene and he's in the sports scene.

1:19.3

He's been involved in all these different companies and organizations and it's just a rare thing.

1:23.5

And the world we live in today, and this was kind of the Apollo Uno comment,

1:26.2

is nobody asks, what have you done or have you really done it?

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