What Great Leaders Do
Episodes about this book
3 episodesCNLP 840 | The Dangerous Side of Leadership: Andy Stanley on Being "Special" And Letting Influence Go To Your Head
The entire episode is built around Andy Stanley discussing his book What Great Leaders Do with host Carey Nieuwhof. Topics covered include why innate leadership ability is a stewardship and a danger, the insidious formation of a protective inner circle ('the court'), the trap of becoming addicted to being 'special,' and practical guardrails Stanley uses. Nieuwhof calls it his favorite of Stanley's books and says he ordered copies for his whole team.
CNLP 834 | Everything You Know About Multisite Church is Wrong! What the Largest Multisite Study Ever Done Actually Found with Warren Bird and Sean Morgan
Guest Sean Morgan says he is currently reading Andy Stanley's new book and calls it phenomenal. He draws on a story from it about Intel's Andy Grove, who asked a board member what a new CEO would do differently and then acted on the answer—an example Sean connects to the value of bringing fresh leadership perspective to organisations.
707: Andy Stanley & Sam Kaufman - Problems to Solve, Tensions to Manage, The 3 Questions Behind Every Great Decision, and The 7 Essentials of Enduring Leadership (What Great Leaders Do)
Andy Stanley appears as a guest to discuss his book, covering the distinction between problems to solve and tensions to manage, three decision-making questions (what is considered impossible in your industry, what would the next leader do, what would a great leader do), why clarity rather than certainty is what people need from leaders, and stewarding leadership influence responsibly. Sam Kaufman attests that the problems-vs-tensions framework materially changed how Insight Global operates.
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