In your experience, is it more effective to start with trying to get somebody to zoom out and see that bigger picture or instead try and just find small actionable things? Well, I think that what I try to get people to do is that if they're doing something, I mean, in some ways, I feel like I'm not going to say my job is easy. But we all have blind spots. And I always say too, that people's greatest weakness is their greatest strength overused. Because you can only rise as quickly as you can develop the people under you.
Today Josh speaks with Terry B. McDougall about courage, fear, corporate leadership, and living a fulfilling life.
Terry is an executive coach, speaker, and best-selling author of Winning the Game of Work
After more than 30 years of corporate business experience leading marketing efforts in senior management roles, Terry chose to become a coach to concentrate on helping leaders step fully into their potential to lead satisfying careers.
Some of the other topics we dive into are:
- The external trappings of success.
- The negative feedback loops of work stress and pain avoidance.
- Childhood trauma, high achievers, and external validation.
- Unhealthy coping mechanisms, setting governors and detoxing from corporate life.
- The operating costs of poor leadership.
- Fear detachment and the illusion of job security.
- Self-moderation and critical self-talk.
- The future of work in the corporate world.
- Courage, anxiety, and letting go.
- And so much more.
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Music by Kirby Johnston – check out his band Aldaraia on Spotify