S7 Ep6 : The Art of Give and Take | Jeff Spahn

Jeffrey Spahn is the founder and president of Leading Leaders Inc. For more than 20 years he has researched, coached and inspired top business executives and their teams through the distinctive collective leadership process of We the Leader. Jeff’s journey into leading leaders was sparked by experiences of collective flow in high school and as a letterman on the University of Michigan football team. His business degree from the University of Michigan and doctorate from the University of Chicago ground his practice in sound scholarship. Jeff’s most recent publication is the book, We the Leader, published by McGraw-Hill.

Key Takeaways:

• We are all both leaders and followers
• Collective flow comes from explicitly stating shared intentions to foster connection
• Mutual investment within a community allows us to see others as valuable and vital
• Ask questions – be curious
• Practice dialogue – stay open to new ideas
• Try things and take risks to foster new connections
• Assert your beliefs – don’t impose or withhold – and be ready to let them go
• Reframe difference from something to avoid or attack to an opportunity to create
• Authenticity requires community – to be authentic you need to allow others to be authentic

Guest’s Media Recommendations:

• Mary Parker Follett – Prophet of Management: A Celebration of Writings from the 1920s (book) edited by Peter F. Drucker

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Find Guest’s work:

• Jeff Spahn’s Website: https://wetheleader.com/

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