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Jim Burns

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
374 total appearances

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Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

And so, uh,

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

Um, I, I created a company, uh, that I, it's called C LLC.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

It was strategy and execution excellence.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

And, um, I still have the company and I'm, I'm working with Harkness development and I'm the chief operating officer for Harkness, but, um, C is still an entity.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

And the reason that I started that was because it's strategy, C LLC, S E E strategy and execution excellence.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

Hmm.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

And what I saw out there through my career was that some people were really good at strategy and really good at visioning, but they didn't execute.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

They didn't get into the details.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

They weren't the type of person that wants to be collaborative, which on any big project you have to do.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

So they set the vision, they set strategy, and they might be fantastic at that.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

Mm-hmm.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

But when you bring that together, because you can't just be good at strategy or it's just a plan on the shelf.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

You can't just be good at execution because then you execute things that you that don't matter.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

And so and I think that's part of that's that's one of my why is it's like be able to see the bigger picture, to envision what's not there and what it can become and then bring that to fruition.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

I think as I'm one of the things in personal growth, right, you've got to be self-aware.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

You've got to know as a leader what you're good at, what your gifts are, right?

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

Listen, I think if you don't know your strengths and your weaknesses, then you're going to create problems.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

Yeah.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

So you can be great.

Mick Unplugged
Emotional Intelligence: Jim Burns Reveals the Hidden Advantage in Leadership

You can be a great manager of people and have great people skills, but you're not going to have you don't have the financial acumen.