Achieving Results: Todd Davis on the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Leadership
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What is the mission of your company and why is it important?
What I have found, Ryan, is once everyone understands the mission of your company, it's easier to get them excited and highly engaged in doing whatever part they have to move that mission forward.
This is Right About Now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. We are the number one business show on the planet with over 1 million downloads a month. taking the BS out of business for over six years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping necks and cashing checks? Well, it starts right about now. What's up, guys? Welcome to Right About Now. We're always talking about what's important now. Hey, you know we're always right, too. Well, at least our guests can be. I don't know if I'm always right, but I've always got an opinion. And, you know, here's what I know. There are some things that are tried and true. And I really like effectiveness. I love it because I own a business.
I love for me to be effective. I like for my listeners to be effective because that's us helping you. And that's why I've got leadership consultant. And he's he's. You know, I've been a part of a book and a guide and coaching. You've probably heard of this. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. He is Todd Davis. What's up, Todd?
Hey, how are you, Ryan? Thank you for the invitation.
Yes. Hey, I like effectiveness. You know, I mean, anybody that's been with the company as long as you have has to know a thing or two about that, if nothing else, right? Exactly. Exactly.
I'm not perfect at it, but I at least have the instruction manual.
I know if we all, you know, what do they say? But doctors sometimes have the worst health habits. But, you know, but something tells me you've got as being, you know, the chief people officer for the number of years that you've been or were. And now, you know, leadership consulting, you know, I'm sure you apply a lot of what you teach, if I had to guess. I do. I do. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. I think myself, I'm 47, and I think our audience, we skew, we have it all over, 25 to 50 skews male. I think if you're anywhere in the last, in my range or around there, that book rings familiar, if not been on the reading list. I mean, it's just, it's really stood the test of time, hasn't it, Todd? Yeah.
It really has. It was Dr. Stephen R. Covey wrote the book about 35 years ago. It has sold over 40 million copies to date and continues to sell thousands of copies every month. And I had just real quick here, I had an interesting experience two weeks ago. I was in another state. And working with a client and a gentleman came up to me after and said his – and this gentleman was probably mid-50s – said his son who had just graduated college in Portland called him the night before and said very seriously, hey, Dad, I just read the greatest book. I'm going to send it to you. It's called The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Yeah.
How do the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People remain relevant today?
But we both started laughing because, to your point, the book's been around forever. But this young college grad was just finding it so empowering and so useful today. And so, yeah, it's a timeless classic, if you will, because it's based on principles of effectiveness.
Yes, exactly. And I do think – In a world where with YouTube, the proliferation of new media, we have all these tactics at hand, right? There's all these things to do and lots of people coaching what to do. But you can do a lot of things and not be effective. It's a really key component because I think sometimes we get in the tactics habit and the check in the box. But it's like, what was the outcome of all those tactics? That's what I've always loved about the book is the effectiveness. Yeah.
It's so true. I like to explain it as if you visualize the compass over the clock is how we get effectiveness. In other words, yes, it's important to get a lot of things done, and it's important to get things done within a timely manner, but what are the things we're getting done? And are we getting those things that are really going to move our lives or the lives of our team or our organization forward? And so it's the compass first, you know, the direction we're headed over the clock. Clock's important. Got to have deadlines, but let's make sure we're heading in the right direction first. And that's how I think of and how we define effectiveness at FranklinCovey.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the mission of your company and why is it important?
0:00–3:09
2
How do the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People remain relevant today?
3:09–10:02
3
What is the balance between serving employees and clients?
10:02–16:57
4
How can leaders enhance employee engagement?
16:57–23:18
5
What role does organizational culture play in effectiveness?
23:18–29:15
6
How can understanding employee motivations improve business outcomes?
29:15–34:15
7
What are the timeless principles of effectiveness?
34:15–36:28
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