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FranklinCovey On Leadership

Safi Bahcall: Take Your Loonshot

FranklinCovey On Leadership

FranklinCovey

Business, Management

4.6215 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Join physicist, entrepreneur, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Safi Bahcall for a conversation about nurturing crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries. Safi outlines the five laws of Loonshots, including Mind the False Fail, Listen to the Suck with Curiosity, and Create an Innovative Structure. Innovate Like A Champion: Learn the real job to be done by identifying four common types of struggle.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's on Leadership Podcast. I'm your host and

0:15.6

interviewer Scott Miller and each week I'm privileged to talk with some of the world's

0:19.6

leading thought leaders, researchers, business titans, best-selling authors, and sometimes

0:25.0

people who may even not be a household name, but they connected some research or survived

0:30.1

a trauma recovered from that and can tell us how to improve our lives as leaders, as individual

0:36.2

contributors, as parents, as uncles, aunts, grandparents, and neighbors. And I'm privileged

0:41.4

to continue to host this podcast on behalf of the world's most trusted leadership firm,

0:46.1

the Franklin Covey Company. I'm also privileged to be the author of the ten volume series

0:51.4

called Master Mentors, published by Harper Collins, volume one that features 30 transformative

0:57.6

insights from guests drawn from this podcast in the first year. A paperback book, Easy

1:02.4

Breezy, you can actually listen to an audio and view it on video by visiting vidlitvideobux.com.

1:10.2

Volume two has just been released with 30 new master mentors, 30 new insights from this

1:15.7

podcast. And who knows, maybe today's guest might be willing to have me feature him in

1:19.8

volumes four or five on its way to a ten volume series. I think you would enjoy the Master

1:25.4

Mentor series. Today's guest is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author, the renowned

1:30.4

physicist, the McKinsey former consultant and coach. You know him as Safi Bukal. His book

1:38.4

is called Loon Shots. You've seen this book in every bookstore, every airport bookstore

1:44.0

around the world. The book is called Loon Shots. How to nurture the crazy ideas that win wars,

1:51.3

cure diseases and transform industries, joining us from Washington DC, Sophie Safi Bukal.

1:58.6

Thanks for joining us. Thanks to let it to join you, Scott. Hey, glad to have you here today.

2:03.5

This book is fascinating. This is kind of one of the books where you don't read it in one

2:08.0

sitting. You read a couple of pages. You put it down and you think about the application

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