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Kevin Roberts

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
977 total appearances

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"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

as our co-founder, longtime president Ed Fulner would say famously, to add and multiply.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

Let's focus on those things we agree on and those policy issues we disagree on.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

Let's talk about this on the side while we help our guys and gals govern.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

Yeah, a couple of excellent questions in there, and I'll deal with them in sort of chronological order for me in terms of lessons learned as a leader.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

I learned this 25 years ago when I started at K-12 Catholic school, and I went directly from the classroom

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

having been a history professor, history teacher, debate coach to starting the school, which is a way of saying I didn't really know what I was doing, probably thought I knew more.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

No doubt I thought I knew more than I actually did.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

And I thought I could run it as, quote, unquote, my business.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

I was the founder.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

with a couple of friends from high school, one of them a Catholic priest.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

And I realized, oh man, that doesn't work because it's just, it's not that easy.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

And the businessmen and businesswomen we had on that school board told me that, thankfully, in a very friendly way.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

And so I became a real devotee of Jim Collins from Good to Great.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

But in particular, my single favorite book, I'm doing a really small gesture with my hands because that addendum from Good to Great for the social sectors,

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

is I think, well, for me, I will say- I skipped that part, but I remember it.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

All of my for-profit business leader friends say, Kevin, I didn't read that part.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

Because at that point I was thinking, look, I know that I'm called because of my faith to start this school.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

I know that I've got, without any hubris, this is a gift from the Holy Spirit.

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"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

I've got some leadership skills, maybe even some business acumen.

PBD Podcast
"Why Apologize?โ€ - Heritage Foundation CEO Opens Up About Backlash | PBD #742

I'll just go into business.