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Bill Roedy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
279 total appearances

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Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

Every child born now will grow up in a world of AI. So this changes everything. And you have to adapt your leadership, I believe, to that sort of change. But even more importantly than that, so I do have, you know, 20 different leadership principles. I'm happy to go through them all.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

Every child born now will grow up in a world of AI. So this changes everything. And you have to adapt your leadership, I believe, to that sort of change. But even more importantly than that, so I do have, you know, 20 different leadership principles. I'm happy to go through them all.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

And you should choose the ones that you're good at first and double down on those because that's what you're going to be strongest in. But you should try and do all of them. But the last one, being adaptive, is so key because you have to use different leadership principles for what the situation is. I'll give you an example. Winston Churchill, we talked about him earlier.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

And you should choose the ones that you're good at first and double down on those because that's what you're going to be strongest in. But you should try and do all of them. But the last one, being adaptive, is so key because you have to use different leadership principles for what the situation is. I'll give you an example. Winston Churchill, we talked about him earlier.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

And you should choose the ones that you're good at first and double down on those because that's what you're going to be strongest in. But you should try and do all of them. But the last one, being adaptive, is so key because you have to use different leadership principles for what the situation is. I'll give you an example. Winston Churchill, we talked about him earlier.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

So, you know, his record was not as great as most people think it was leading up to World War II. He had, you know, his hits and misses. World War II presented an opportunity to be tough and resilient and to create hope for So those leadership principles worked particularly well for that situation.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

So, you know, his record was not as great as most people think it was leading up to World War II. He had, you know, his hits and misses. World War II presented an opportunity to be tough and resilient and to create hope for So those leadership principles worked particularly well for that situation.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

So, you know, his record was not as great as most people think it was leading up to World War II. He had, you know, his hits and misses. World War II presented an opportunity to be tough and resilient and to create hope for So those leadership principles worked particularly well for that situation.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

And I think likewise, when you encounter a situation around the world, a challenge that requires strength, then that's your leadership principle. Another one may require compassion. Then you need to employ that particular principle. So it does have new. I think leadership does have nuance. But probably the most important thing is it's so easy to make a list of leadership principles.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

And I think likewise, when you encounter a situation around the world, a challenge that requires strength, then that's your leadership principle. Another one may require compassion. Then you need to employ that particular principle. So it does have new. I think leadership does have nuance. But probably the most important thing is it's so easy to make a list of leadership principles.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

And I think likewise, when you encounter a situation around the world, a challenge that requires strength, then that's your leadership principle. Another one may require compassion. Then you need to employ that particular principle. So it does have new. I think leadership does have nuance. But probably the most important thing is it's so easy to make a list of leadership principles.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

I was never a natural leader because I researched and I read and went to West Point. I can make a list all day long of leadership principles. The key is wake up in the morning and do them or do one or two. Have the discipline, the discipline to actually employ those leadership principles.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

I was never a natural leader because I researched and I read and went to West Point. I can make a list all day long of leadership principles. The key is wake up in the morning and do them or do one or two. Have the discipline, the discipline to actually employ those leadership principles.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

I was never a natural leader because I researched and I read and went to West Point. I can make a list all day long of leadership principles. The key is wake up in the morning and do them or do one or two. Have the discipline, the discipline to actually employ those leadership principles.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

Well, I, I, it is hard to only pick one. I'll pick one from childhood. Um, you know, watching my mother go from job to job. and realizing that life was not easy, but that she worked very, very hard. The work ethic to me was a redefined moment.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

Well, I, I, it is hard to only pick one. I'll pick one from childhood. Um, you know, watching my mother go from job to job. and realizing that life was not easy, but that she worked very, very hard. The work ethic to me was a redefined moment.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

Well, I, I, it is hard to only pick one. I'll pick one from childhood. Um, you know, watching my mother go from job to job. and realizing that life was not easy, but that she worked very, very hard. The work ethic to me was a redefined moment.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

You know, I didn't have any particular athletic ability or academic ability even, but when I ran track, I ran as hard as I could and I trained like Forrest Gump and somehow was able to have great success at a statewide level. And I tell the kids this all the time because I was the slowest person in the room or outside on the track. And suddenly, you know, we got fourth in state.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

You know, I didn't have any particular athletic ability or academic ability even, but when I ran track, I ran as hard as I could and I trained like Forrest Gump and somehow was able to have great success at a statewide level. And I tell the kids this all the time because I was the slowest person in the room or outside on the track. And suddenly, you know, we got fourth in state.

Redefiners
Music with a Mission: Former MTV International Chairman and CEO Bill Roedy on Leading with Purpose

You know, I didn't have any particular athletic ability or academic ability even, but when I ran track, I ran as hard as I could and I trained like Forrest Gump and somehow was able to have great success at a statewide level. And I tell the kids this all the time because I was the slowest person in the room or outside on the track. And suddenly, you know, we got fourth in state.