ML37 – Is Fear Driving Everything in Your Business? with Cort Dial

When Intel, Chevron, Disney, and Apple want to cultivate a new breed of leader, they turn to Cort Dial. By guiding individuals through frank self-evaluation, personal change, and the pursuit of extraordinary performance, Cort creates All-In Leaders, high achievers who recognize the power of human connection. He is the author of 2016’s #1 business book according to Globe & Mail, Heroes and Heretics

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Episode Summary: Is Fear Driving Everything in Your Business?

  • It’s all a relationship business. Customers know, like, and trust you.
  • The Catalytic Leader- someone people want to be around
  • Mantra- Baseball is for a season, character is for life
  • If you look through history, leaders often begin as heretics, people thought they were crazy
  • A heretic is a time traveler. Someone who can go to the future and come back and tell us what it’s going to be like
    • Examples: Jobs, King, Kennedy, Galileo
    • All great leaders do this
    • People willing to change to be a part of that future
  • All-in leaders capture the hearts and minds of their people to focus maximum attention and effort on a cause or movement
  • What happens when we make promises we can’t deliver on?
    • No one has to apologize for making results that are history making
  • We have been convinced that there are limits to what we can accomplish, this just isn’t true
  • Leaders are not created at leadership conferences
    • Leadership happens when circumstances cause them to grow and act as a leader
  • Enroll people through conversation
  • A frank self-evaluation
  • Emerging trends in business
    • Fear- it is driving almost everything is business today
    • Starts with leaders looking internal, what do they need to change?
  • Be fearless yourself and reward people who ask tough questions
  • The most common mistake businesses are making today: obsession with growth
  • Enrollment is the ability to create a space where we can make an authentic choice

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Learning From Leaders: 

Current Book: 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings: How to Get By Without Even Trying by Sarah Cooper

Best Movie Ever: Harvey

Leadership Superpower: Enrollment

Motivational Mantra:

[shareable cite=”Cort’s Father”]The only free person is one where he can say “no thank you” to an invitation and not give a reason why[/shareable]

[shareable cite=”Cort Dial”]The only leader who needs to change is you[/shareable]

Best Book Ever: Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness A Philosophy for Leaders by Peter Koestenbaum

Additional Items Mentioned

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About the author

Jake Carlson is a popular speaker, accountability partner, and host of the Modern Leadership podcast. Jake built his business while traveling with his family around the world. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn. Read more about him here.