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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Scott Jeffrey Miller on the Art of Great Mentorship | The Playbook

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

David Meltzer and Scott Jeffrey Miller, author of 'WSJ Bestselling Author and Host of the World's Largest Weekly Leadership Podcast,’ discusses leadership and mentorship. They talk about how leader, teacher, and coach roles can change based on the mentee's goals. They also discuss the need to accept change, keep learning, and the power of validation using examples from industry leaders like Anne Chao and Gary Vaynerchuk. The episode focuses on leadership, mentorship, and the big impact of recognition and validation.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Entrepreneurs of Playbook. This is David Meltzer, live from the greatest stadium ever created.

0:12.4

That's a billion dollar screen behind me. If you can believe it, anything can be manifested,

0:18.0

including that screen. I'm here with Scott Jeffrey Miller. He's the author of an incredible book,

0:23.5

multiple books, by the way. The ultimate guide to great mentorship, 13 roles to making a true

0:28.8

impact. Welcome to the Playbook Scott. Man, thank you for the platform and this gigantic spotlight.

0:34.0

I appreciate it. I know. I'll see your face up there. Maybe we can work that on the sides.

0:37.5

My wife would say that would be on, on, on, on, on, it'll, it'll advise. It'll advise. Yeah, exactly.

0:43.5

Unlikely and it'll advise. Well, it's not, we can make it likely, but yes, maybe it'll advise.

0:47.9

Anyway, you know, you're an impactful leader. And there's so many different perspectives into

0:54.5

leadership. I'm blessed to have my college football coach here. And he's one of my favorite leaders

0:59.6

in the world. Ironically, one of my other favorite leaders in the world went to Occidental as well,

1:03.8

which is President Obama. So leadership has played an important part since I've been really young.

1:10.6

And it's because of the impact that the leader has had on me. And you talk about these 13 roles

1:17.5

of true impact. I was hoping that we could look at the impactful side of leadership. But before

1:23.9

we do, I'd love you to define, I'm always wondering someone like you has worked with Franklin

1:28.9

Covey and the leadership business for so long, writing so many books about leadership.

1:33.0

How do you define leadership? I think leadership is igniting the spark in someone that they have

1:39.3

dimmed. It might be identifying naming the super genius that they don't know they have. It's really

1:46.0

believing in someone more perhaps than they believed in themselves. Dr. Covey would say that.

1:51.2

I also don't think that everyone should be a formal leader of people.

1:54.8

A formal leader? Right. Everyone, of course, can lead. Culture, strategy,

1:59.2

yourself. But I think it's dangerous in a lot of organizations that oftentimes it's the

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