The podcast by project managers for project managers. Great leaders are built from the inside out. Leadership training typically focuses on the externally visible behaviors of leadership; however, in this episode, we consider the parallel journey a leader should take internally to become an authentic leader. Darren Reinke describes how great leaders need to be introspective and develop self-awareness to become the great leaders that they aspire to be. Table of Contents 02:06 … Meet Darren04:31 … The Inspiration for the Book05:58 … Great Leaders from the Inside Out07:14 … Use Your Values to Anchor Your Decisions09:45 … Forge Unbreakable Bonds12:54 … Maintain and Regain Focus15:48 … Deciding What You Can and Can’t Control17:26 … Formative Experiences Influencing Leadership21:06 … Embrace Patience22:57 … Crushing Your Doubt25:35 … Reflect on the Positive26:41 … Positive Visualization28:35 … More Leadership Advice31:44 … A Savage Principles Field Guide33:06 … Get in touch with Darren34:14 … Closing DARREN REINKE:  ...you have to be willing to be introspective and look inside yourself because that’s where I think so much of the richness lies, and unlocking that allows you to be great.  And the third thing is being willing to put in the hard work to actually activate that sense of intention, activate that sense of self-awareness so that you can become that great leader that you aspire to be. WENDY GROUNDS:  Welcome to Manage This, the podcast by project managers for project managers.  I’m your host, Wendy Grounds, and joining us is Bill Yates.  Remember you can still claim your Professional Development Units by listening to this podcast.  Listen up at the end of the show for more information on that. BILL YATES:  You know, Wendy, Velociteach has a lot of different ways to earn PDUs.  Some are free, like this podcast that we’ve been doing now, this is, what, Episode 143? WENDY GROUNDS:  Almost six years.  January it will be six years. BILL YATES:  Yeah, it’s amazing.  Also early in my career with Velociteach we started mobile learning, and we offer, gosh, tons of authors, maybe two dozen or more authors who have courses just to help project managers get better at their job.  Those are good for PDUs.  Then of course we have amazing instructors who lead classes that can also be used for PDUs.  So we offer them different ways, and we’re delighted to be able to bring in great authors like Darren Reinke to discuss his book and give somebody a chance to earn a PDU. WENDY GROUNDS:  Darren is founder of Group Sixty.  It’s an executive coaching and training company focused on building great leaders; and, as he says, building great leaders from the inside out.  He’s also the author of a book called “The Savage Leader,” and it’s a new book that provides a blueprint for becoming a leader through the adoption of 13 Savage Principles. BILL YATES:  Yeah, these 13 Savage Principles.  I wish we had time in the podcast to go through all of them.  But, hey, then you wouldn’t want to buy the book. WENDY GROUNDS:  Right.  We’re not going to give it all away. BILL YATES:  That’s right.  But we’ll touch on them.  And we’ve asked Darren to think about the ones that are most important to him and that he thinks would help the project manager the most.  He’s got tons of insight, tons of advice in the book.  I can’t wait to dig into it with him. Meet Darren WENDY GROUNDS:  Hi, Darren.  Welcome to Manage This. DARREN REINKE:  Great to be here. WENDY GROUNDS:  Before we get into talking leadership, I wanted to ask you a little bit about your forays into project management and your background in executive leadership.  Can you tell us how it’s kind of built up to where you got to the book? DARREN REINKE:  Absolutely.  So I’ll go back in time a little bit.  But growing up probably one of the very few fun facts about my life is my parents are both veterinarians, which that’s a whole ‘nother story.  And for me,