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How to Play for Greatness with Skip Bowman

The Remarkable Leadership Podcast

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Challenges of Virtual Leadership and Personal Interests

This chapter discusses the challenges of virtual leadership and highlights the importance of visual communication in building trust. It also includes personal interests of the guest and a book recommendation.

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There's also the time lag problem that voice and sound are slightly lagged, which isn't good for us because we're not trained for that. Our brain becomes tense and fierce suspicious when we have a gap between sound and visions. So there's a lot of things at a micro level that are really tricky here. So the only way to solve that is again to go bold in, right? If you're going to go bold on virtual leadership, one, you did a good camera. You need some grid lighting. You look amazing, by the way, and that's really matters because I can build trust you because you're being vulnerable in the way you're lit because I can see you. I can and I've got lots of leaders who seem to be doing their like the dark lord out of Star Wars, right? Yeah, yeah. It's what a hood on. Yeah, in witness protection, right? Yeah. So I want to shift gears, Skip, before we show up a couple of different kinds of questions. We've talked a lot about psychological safety, talking about about growth mindset. And so I'm curious, it's actually a question I ask all of my guests. But I think maybe especially of interest given of what our conversation has been. What do you do for fun? You're asking an old, you're also asking all the has three children on the age of three and a half. Well, so the last part of what you do, hopefully, at least part of it's fun. Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, this is, you know, personally speaking, I think one of my, yeah, I don't really have I have a hobby, which is my wife and I bought an old French farm. So I mean, three or four years ago, we're renovating it. So we turn into place, you can rent out. And that was just a project. I mean, we love and people say, oh, is that a business set? I don't know. I mean, I want to learn French again. I want to, I love old buildings. So for me, you know, and of course with the three small kids, you know, we're trying to build up a whole world around that. And so I'm in dad mode. And so that's pretty much what I what I spend and enjoy a lot. Because to me, spending time with the kids, trying to try to renovate, learn French. These are things that I for me, challenges hobby. I just, you know, I can't, you know, I'm not very good on this so far. I mean, I'm not watching cricket because I really like that game. But but in principle, I'll I'll start thinking about, OK, what can we renovate here? So I have a life that is is authorship and researching my next book, et cetera. But otherwise I love I love projects, learning French is one of them, learning everything about, you know, old buildings and architecture. That's that's something I do. I just my brain just loves learning. I just love that. I can't I can't resist it. So so in all of that, you did you did sort of end with I love learning. So reading is one of the ways we learn. What's something skipped that you've read recently or maybe that you're reading right now? I'd have to say I reread Dan, Dan, your coils, the culture code. I can really recommend that book. I think it's a great book. The the the funny thing is that he actually refers to other researchers and writers. And I actually think he tells a story. So it's a bit, you know, there's a really good authors that like game. But to be honest, I think dad, Coel tells the story about her research almost in a more more intriguing way. I think it's a fantastic book. I would highly recommend it. I bought it for my wife who's just started the new roles. And so you have to read this. This is such a good book. It's such a good, well told story and very solid research. And I can't recommend it higher than that. Best book I've written in a while.

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