
#029: Give and Take, How to Start Giving, & Avoiding Pitfalls
10/17/17 • 42 min
Episode #029 Give and Take
Join Paul and Ken as they discuss the best methods of giving and why it’s important to receive (take) as well. Learn from their insights on giving and receiving as a leader and how it affects you and your team. Everyone should learn how to be a giver and a receiver.
Insights:
- Give within your talents and passion
- Be generous with your money AND your time and talent
- If you want to have a lasting legacy, then practice the art of generosity
Tips and Challenges:
- Have fun giving
- Learn to say no
- Allow yourself to receive
- Pay 3 honest compliments a day
Show Links:
- Give and Take by Adam Grant
- Milken Global Conference
- Military Leadership Circle
- Lincoln, the movie (2012)
- Japanese tunnel system for drainage
- Andy Stanley
- When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett
Be sure to check back every other Tuesday for a new episode and head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe!
Got a question you’d like us to answer? Email us at [email protected]
Episode #029 Give and Take
Join Paul and Ken as they discuss the best methods of giving and why it’s important to receive (take) as well. Learn from their insights on giving and receiving as a leader and how it affects you and your team. Everyone should learn how to be a giver and a receiver.
Insights:
- Give within your talents and passion
- Be generous with your money AND your time and talent
- If you want to have a lasting legacy, then practice the art of generosity
Tips and Challenges:
- Have fun giving
- Learn to say no
- Allow yourself to receive
- Pay 3 honest compliments a day
Show Links:
- Give and Take by Adam Grant
- Milken Global Conference
- Military Leadership Circle
- Lincoln, the movie (2012)
- Japanese tunnel system for drainage
- Andy Stanley
- When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett
Be sure to check back every other Tuesday for a new episode and head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe!
Got a question you’d like us to answer? Email us at [email protected]
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#028: Creativity, How to Foster it, & How to Make Time
Episode #028 Creativity
Creativity is necessary for a business or a team to thrive. We need new ideas and innovation to provide potential solutions to our problems. And it’s the leader’s job to create an environment that fosters and encourages creativity. Listen to Paul and Ken share their thoughts on creativity, how it applies in leadership and some tips on how to encourage members of your team to be creative.
Insights:
- Being creative is finding uncompromising solutions to near impossible problems or questions
- Creativity should evolve
- Characteristic of creative people is making the impossible possible
Tips and Challenges:
- Ask good questions and give feedback
- Do not be afraid to fail and learn from mistakes
- Take time intentionally to brainstorm and plan carefully for problem solving
Show Links:
- It’s not about the Shark by Daniel Niven
- Jaws story
- Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
- Winning the Brain Game by Matthew E. May
Be sure to check back every other Tuesday for a new episode and head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe!
Got a question you’d like us to answer? Email us at [email protected]
Next Episode

#030: Leadership Books & Movies Part 1
Episode #030 Leadership Books & Movies Part 1
Successful people read and learn from books; they provide invaluable insight on a person’s life work or research, allowing you to become better. In this episode, Ken and Paul draft their top 10 leadership books that changed them and they way that they lead and think.
Books:
- Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek - Paul
- Start with Why by Simon SInek - Ken
- 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell- Paul
- Drive by Daniel Pink - Ken
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand - Paul
- Give and Take by Adam Grant - Ken
- Boundaries for Leaders by Henry Cloud - Paul
- Think Like a Freak by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt - Ken
- Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson - Paul
- Great by Choice by Jim Collins - Ken
- Find your Why by David Mead, Peter Docker, and Simon Sinek - Paul
- David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell - Ken
- Poke the Box by Seth Godin - Paul
- Turn the Ship Around by L David Marquet - Ken
- Circle Maker by Mark Batterson - Paul
- The Next 100 Years by George Friedman - Ken
- The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey by Hal Burrows, Ken Blanchard, and William Oncken - Paul
- The Starfish and the Spider by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom - Ken
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