Five Simple Steps to Leading More Effectively with David Dodson

Leadership is more than a title. Leadership is getting things done. David Dodson spent three years studying successful leaders and identified 5 skills critical to effective leadership: building a team, seeking and taking advice, managing time, obsessing over quality, and setting and adhering to priorities. David joins Kevin to discuss these essential leadership skills. He shares advice on hiring practices and offers valuable tips on time management, including strategies to trim meeting durations. David and Kevin also tackle the unique challenges of steering remote teams in the ever-evolving post-pandemic landscape.

Meet David

• Name: David Dodson 
• David's Story: David Dodson is the author of The Manager's Handbook: Five Simple Steps to Build a Team, Stay Focused, Make Better Decisions, and Crush Your Competition. He is on the faculty of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he guides students in tactical execution. He is a recent recipient of the MSx Teaching Excellence Award and a six-time speaker in the graduation Last Lecture series. He also holds an economics and business degree from Stanford University. In 2000 Dodson co-founded Sanku, which developed the only successful technology to fortify grains with lifesaving micronutrients in rural African mills. The award-winning technology was named as Time Magazine’s 100 Best Inventions and received the IoT Evolution Product of the Year Award by Vodaphone. Sanku was listed by Fast Company as one of the “Most Innovative Companies.” Through this work, Sanku has saved and improved the lives of over five million rural families in Africa.
• https://daviddodsonauthor.com/

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Book Recommendations

• The Manager's Handbook: Five Simple Steps to Build a Team, Stay Focused, Make Better Decisions, and Crush Your Competition by David Dodson 
• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike Jr. 

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