Brad Jacobs

You have to pay attention.

If you have the privilege of being invited to this meeting, you're concentrating on the one person who's speaking at a time.

And you're giving that person your 100% attention.

Your eyes are right on that person.

Your ears are listening right to moving from that person's mouth.

And you're feeling what they're feeling.

And you get really in tune with the person.

And it's such an exhilarating experience for the speaker and for the people listening, for the person speaking.

Imagine how validating that is, Patrick.

that you're in a meeting, you got 20 of your colleagues, of your peers there, and everyone is just looking right at you and really genuinely interested in what you have to say.

It just builds up your confidence.

It also gets you in the flow, gets you in the zone.

And you also feel a certain inspiration and motivation to say important things because you've got all these people paying attention to what you're saying.

So it gets you really in the zone.

And then all the people are listening and it cultivates a flexible mindset, which is so critical in leadership and business, where you're constantly reevaluating your hypotheses based on new evidence, new information.

And that's what those meetings are like.

And people really want to be in those meetings.

Who's the best leader you've ever experienced?

I've had the fortune to have lots of great leaders in the company that I've led.

If I had to point to the best leader, I'd have to say three, because by definition, I thought they were the greatest leaders in the company because I promoted them to be CEO of the three companies.