The best organizations are not just employing players, they are building something bigger. Their leaders are intentionally creating a culture and continuing to drive and maintain that culture. Kevin sits down with Michael Lombardi, most recently on the coaching staff for Bill Belichick in the New England Patriots' front office, after thirty years working for the San Francisco 49ers, the Oakland Raiders, and the Cleveland Browns (where he was general manager for two years). He shares his thoughts about what makes football organizations tick at the championship level in his book, Gridiron Genius. Although the book focuses on the business of the NFL, Kevin and Michael discuss leadership principles, applicable everywhere. As a leader, you need to understand why you are in that position and help your people visualize success.
In this episode, Michael discusses 1. False duality. 2. Qualities of great coaches.
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This is the 250th episode of Remarkable TV so it only seems appropriate that we use our journey in getting here to talk about the power of process improvement.
In this episode, I’ll share one of the biggest reasons for our success in launching this video series as well as three simple ideas you can use to help process improvement in your life and in your organization.
Asking questions does more for us than just getting an “answer”. Questions can help our decision-making, creativity and innovation and build relationships. Kevin sits down with Warren Berger, author of The Book of Beautiful Questions. Warren is a questionologist and encourages leaders to value the question and take ownership of our questions. Further, you cannot stop with just the “why” The cycle of questions moves you to the “what if” and “how”. They need to ambitious and actionable.
There are more than a few reasons for additional stress during the holiday season… Family, giving gifts, finances, over-commitment…the list goes on…
So today, I’m giving two simple stress relievers to help you de-stress and relax as we head into the busy holiday season.
Tom Murry spent 17 years as the CEO of Calvin Klein and facilitated the brand’s growth from 2.8 billion to $8 billion. Tom joins Kevin to talk about teamwork. Tom believes his success came from surrounding himself with talented folks. Further, he knows to be effective you need to enjoy your work and enjoy your team.
Today’s episode is the fourth in my series based on a talk that I gave to a group of sixth, seventh and eighth graders.
During the talk, we discussed several of the ideas in the new culture that they are creating at the school. They call it GRIT. And this week, I am focusing on the final letter, T, which stands for Trust.
As we kick off 2019, Kevin steps back and reflects on 2018. His guests included a billionaire, Super Bowl winner, NFL Cheerleader, multiple best-selling authors including Seth Godin, Jeffrey Gittomer and Tom Peters who measure in millions of book sales. He shares some general observations from the interviews, as well as those “nuggets” he has applied in both his personal and professional life.
Let us know what you have learned. What is your “Now What”?