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Change Your Brain Every Day

What Makes a Great Leader?

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2017

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Whether it's in the family, in governments, or businesses, all these instutitions are in dire need of great leaders. 

In this episode of Brain Warrior's Podcast, we'll talk to Dr. John Townsend about the secret sauce of raising great leaders. 

Dr. Townsend works with leaders and organizations by providing team and executive coaching, corporate consulting, and by giving conference presentations.  He coaches families and family businesses.  John conducts the Townsend Leadership Program, developing leaders at sites nationwide.   He also formed the Townsend Leadership Coach Group, which trains leaders to run their own training teams.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Donnie Osman and welcome to the Brain Warrior's Way, hosted by my friends Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

0:09.6

Now in this podcast you're going to learn that the war for your health is one between your ears.

0:15.0

That's right. If you're ready to be sharper and have better memory, mood, energy, and focus,

0:20.0

well then stay with us. Here are Daniel and Tana Aeman.

0:24.0

Well, welcome back everybody.

0:30.0

We are with our good friend Dr John Townsend and today we are going to talk

0:36.8

about leadership I know John this is something that's been interesting and important to you for a long time.

0:45.6

It really has Daniel. You know what we found out is that leaders are the same as anybody

0:52.4

else but they also have extra burdens.

0:54.3

There's a hat, you know, all three of us have leadership capacities.

0:57.0

There's a hat where our responsibility.

0:59.2

And so I've always been studying what is the internal makeup of what a good leader does.

1:05.0

Does great at organizations, anything from corporate things to family on businesses,

1:10.0

that sort of thing.

1:11.0

I have an Institute,

1:12.6

the Township, which actually Daniel,

1:15.2

you're one of the fellows of and speaks to our students.

1:18.8

And there's also a pro quo called Townsend Leadership

1:21.0

Program, which is a franchise program

1:23.1

around the country where people get the teams

1:25.4

who get once a month intensive work on leadership.

1:28.4

So it's something I've spent a lot of time

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