Matthew Kelly is a fellow Australian based in North America. He is a real force for change in the world of great work and following your dreams. In his 12 books, his consulting work and speaking work (he’s spoken to over 4 million people in the last 20 years!) he addresses how we fulfill the best version of ourselves.
Matthew has sold millions of books, including The Dream Manager, The Rhythm of Life and The Seven Levels of Intimacy. He has also created the The Matthew Kelly Foundation to spread his strategies on how we become the best version of ourselves and to help high school kids figure out what they’re going to do with their life.
In this interview we talk about:
- The insight that people don’t exist for organizations. Organizations exist for people.
- The 12 dream areas: physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, psychological, material, professional, financial, creative, adventure, legacy and character
- How to get members of your team to become dream managers for each other
- Why you need your own dream manager, whether you’re the janitor or the CEO
Visit www.floydconsulting.com or www.thedreammanager.com to learn more.
Posted on August 18, 2010
Here are three questions you might consider. Great Work questions, if you will:
Did I live?
Did I love?
Did I matter?”
They are the mantra at the heart of Brendon Burchard’s work and of his book Life’s Golden Ticket. The book tells of a tipping point in Brendon’s life when he not survived what should have been a fatal accident. Now, still a young guy in his thirties, Brendon has written a couple of books, built a seven-figure business and is a masterful speaker, running huge seminars helping to connect people to a sense of purpose and action.
In our conversation we talk about:
- That near-death experience and the moment of discovering those three key questions
- Why love isn’t just a “nice to have” – but it’s the only way significant change can happen
- The importance of presence and forgiveness
- And an alternative way of thinking to “I need to get more stuff done.”
Listen to my interview with Brendon Burchard
You can find out more about Brendon at www.brendonburchard.com
Posted on March 24, 2010
Brian is the Chief Philosopher of Philosophers Notes, a website and business I discovered about a year ago and think is absolutely terrific. Brian’s role as Chief Philosopher is to study and share the the world’s greatest wisdom. He has picked the hundred best, wisest, smartest books, he has articulated the thousand best ideas in those books and from those he has extracted the ten core principles behind the real works of wisdom that guide us and shape is in our 21st century.
What makes this sweeter still is that Brian is also a brilliant entrepreneur. He founded an organization called E-Teams that grew, was massively successful and sold it in 2000 to The Active Network then came back and founded another brilliant online company called Zaadz which is now known as Gaia.com and which is also terrific – it’s like a Facebook or LinkedIn for people who want to save the world and change the world.
This is a really juicy call, full of ideas and in it we talk about:
- How you know if you’re ‘following your bliss” (and what Carlos Castaneda has to say on the point)
- One of the deepest choices of life: do you step forward into growth or back into safety
- A brilliant mapping system to help you keep track of your path
- And what Brian learned from Jim Loehr about projecting his shadow
- The importance of ritual
And of course, a whole lot more.
You can find Brian at www.PhilosophersNotes.com and follow him on Twitter at @_Brian_Johnson. (And if you do so, you’ll see he’s just announced he’s getting married. Woo hoo!)
Posted on February 24, 2010
Before Mary Saunders became Executive Director of the TWU Leadership Institute, she rose to the rank of Major General in the US Army and in particular held a position of Vice Director for the Defence Logistics Agency where she was responsible for a workforce of over 22,000 military and civilian personnel, both overseas and in the US.
In our interview she brings together a range of very interesting perspectives on Great Work and on leadership: her military experience, her work in a complex and large-scale system, the international element of her work and the fact that she now leads and teaches an organization that actually promotes leadership in the world.
In this interview you’ll:
- hear Mary describe her first big leadership test when she ran a unit in Japan – and the tactics she used to move it from Good to Great
- learn a simple but powerful way to celebrate success
- hear Mary discuss The 90 Day Rule – and why that matters when you’re starting a new role
- discover the importance of accountability and how crucial it is to Great Work
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Posted on December 4, 2009
