Adam Outland
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678 appearances
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first heard May 2024
last heard 13 Aug
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A student planning session, that's the next step. If we agree that the value that coaching can bring matches your team, then we will move to a student planning session. It's basically a free one-on-one coaching session with your team. And that is designed to support them, but it's also designed to ask a lot of questions to help explore whether or not they want to be coached.
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We have coaches who have come from entrepreneurial backgrounds and acting backgrounds, so we can pair them with the right fit for them. And then once they partner with their coach, they'll benefit from two coaching sessions a month to really zone in on their personal growth and their skill development.
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Hello, Action Catalyst listeners. We are coming up on New Year's, and I wanted to wish you all a happy New Year. Here at the Action Catalyst, we are looking ahead. This is a time for renewal, refresh of focus, and new commitments for change. I know many people look at New Year's and they think of New Year's resolutions, and they look back historically at all the ones that they never completed.
i think our belief is that that doesn't necessarily mean that we don't have to or get to set goals and set our sights on something that we want to commit to and at the action catalyst one of the things that we're committed to doing is bringing amazing new guests to your doorstep in this next year lessons that we get to learn from some of the successful people that we get to interview on our show and we love sharing those messages with you
So hopefully you're setting new intentions of personal growth and personal development. Because if we're not growing in life, we're going backwards. And we're just so thankful to have all old listeners and so many new listeners. Look forward to sharing with you so much more next year. Happy New Year.
Hello, Action Catalyst listeners. Welcome to Overtime with Outland. This is for episode 471 with author and former CEO of Blockbuster Inc. and 7-Eleven, James Keyes. We had some great takeaways from this episode. And here are just a few of the nuggets that we extracted from him in the interview. Number one, creativity is intelligence having fun.
This is supposedly a quote by Einstein, which James loves. And he explains how innovation arises from curiosity and from applying actual fun to some kind of hard discipline. For example, playing music is a really heavy use of mathematics. He says it's important to try everything, even if you just dabble in it. Why just look at art? Why not practice it?
And then the next time you go to a museum, after you've played around with mixing colors or painting or sculpting, you'll look at a great masterpiece and you'll have such a deeper appreciation for it. This can be applied to anything. Number two, CEO stands for change equals opportunity. I love this point that he made that the role of a CEO is to deal with change, good or bad,
and to confidently make decisions around that change and have the clarity to break complex things into really simple terms and communicate it. Those are the three gifts, change, confidence, and clarity that James says anyone can use to find their own personal or professional success. Point number three, speaking of change, James says leadership is all about change.
Constant, inevitable, lifelong change. Constantly changing as a leader, being able to adapt to different circumstances, different times, different styles, different people. He says that change is at the very root of all commerce, all business. How does any business begin? Someone needed something and someone satisfied that need and got paid for it.
And then that person got complacent and somebody else said, I'm going to change things and give another way to satisfy that need. Commerce begins and competition follows. Change itself isn't necessarily good or bad. It's only the response to change that separates winners from losers. Finally, James shared a very simple system for how he decides where to funnel his time. It's two basic questions.
where am I going to either learn the most or contribute the most? Is it something I will learn from or something where my specific experience and talents can really make a big impact, maybe more than any other individual could in the same position? That's the criteria. Bonus points if it's also something fun. So for this and more, please listen to episode 471 It's really an amazing episode.
Whenever you get a chance to hear someone that's been in a leadership role or two Titanic companies during periods of incredible change, there's a tremendous amount that we get to learn. So for more, episode 471 with James Keys.
The town survived. No one died. Exactly. Exactly.
Today's guest is James Keyes, a longtime business leader currently serving as the chairman of Key Development LLC. His career has included serving as CEO of two Fortune 500 companies, Blockbuster Incorporated and 7-Eleven, His new book, Education is Freedom, The Future is in Your Hands, highlights his passion for lifelong learning and is out now. James, thanks for joining us. Sure, yeah.
Oh no. Okay. It's a nice part about Adam. At least nobody calls you like ad. Yeah. You can't reduce it any further. Yeah. You know, I'm always curious what someone thought was going to be their life path in their early days. And then what some of the twists and turns were that caused it to be quite different than maybe what they expected.
So what path were you thinking you were on and then what changed? Yeah.
But, you know, it's a good early lesson that failure is going to be a part of the journey. But it's a part of the journey. I have a quote from Nelson Mandela that I use all the time. I never lose. I win or I learn. Yeah, the town survived. No one died in that explosion. Exactly. And I learned I was not cut out to be a rocket scientist.
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