Michael Bungay Stanier is a renowned author of best-selling books on coaching, including 'The Coaching Habit.' In this conversation, he shares insights from his latest work, 'How to Begin,' addressing how to tackle fear and embrace ambition. He emphasizes the importance of setting 'Worthy Goals' and provides a three-step foundation for starting projects effectively. Michael also discusses the balance between ambition and contentment, focusing on personal growth and the power of commitment in achieving meaningful goals.
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Feed the Good Wolf, Starve the Bad Wolf
Consider what you feed your "good wolf" and what you starve your "bad wolf".
We often default to adding, but change can come from removing or stopping things.
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Decenter the Self
Actively cultivate love and service, not fear, in your work.
Shift your focus from acquiring more to removing fear.
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Managing Anxiety through Mantras
Michael Bungay Stanier uses mantras to manage pre-book launch anxieties.
These include "remember the joy," "I don't mind what happens," and "we've already won."
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In 'Manifesto for a Moral Revolution', Jacqueline Novogratz shares inspiring stories from change-makers worldwide and reflects on her own experiences to guide leaders in creating positive change. The book offers principles for integrating purpose and profit, generosity and accountability, and emphasizes the importance of moral leadership in a divided world.
The Coaching Habit
Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
Michael Bungay Stanier
In 'The Coaching Habit,' Michael Bungay Stanier provides a straightforward and effective approach to coaching. Drawing on his extensive experience training managers worldwide, he introduces seven essential coaching questions designed to help managers unlock their team's potential. These questions include the Kickstart Question, the AWE Question, the Lazy Question, the Strategic Question, the Focus Question, the Foundation Question, and the Learning Question. The book emphasizes the importance of saying less and asking more, fostering a collaborative and empowering work environment. It combines practical advice with research in neuroscience and behavioral economics, making coaching a daily, informal part of managerial work rather than a formal event.
Immunity to change
How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization
Lisa Laskow Lahey
Robert Kegan
This book by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey explores the concept of 'immunity to change,' which refers to the subconscious resistance people have to making significant changes, even when those changes are clearly beneficial. The authors introduce a practical framework, the 'Immunity to Change Map,' to help individuals and organizations identify and overcome hidden commitments and big assumptions that prevent change. The book emphasizes the importance of mindset transformation and adaptive improvement over mere technical skill development, providing tools and case studies to facilitate lasting personal and organizational change.
The Second Mountain
The Quest for a Moral Life
David Brooks
In 'The Second Mountain', David Brooks explores the concept of two mountains in life: the first mountain, which represents individual success and ego-driven achievements, and the second mountain, which symbolizes a life of deeper meaning, commitment, and contribution to a greater good. Brooks argues that our society's extreme individualism has torn the social fabric, and the path to repair is through making deeper commitments to a spouse and family, a vocation, a philosophy or faith, and a community. The book is both a personal reflection on Brooks' own life journey and a broader social commentary, offering practical advice and stories of people who have lived joyous, committed lives[2][4][5].
Michael Bungay Stanier is the author of 6 books that have, between them, sold more than a million copies. He’s perhaps best known for his self-published book, The Coaching Habit, which is the best-selling book on coaching this century and is already recognized as a classic. He founded the training and development company, Box of Crayons, which has taught coaching skills to hundreds of thousands of people around the world and he created a book in partnership with Seth Godin which raised $400,000 for Malaria No More.
In this episode, Eric and Michael Bungay Stanier discuss his new book, How to Begin.
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