#28: Unfolding A Noble Cause - John King

Episode Description

Eric Schleien, the founder of Transformational Leadership Associates, invites John King, the founder of Tribal Leadership, to share about Unfolding A Noble Cause in his classroom. This is an inside look at one of the Tribal Leadership seminars.

About Eric Schleien

Over the past decade, Eric Schleien has trained thousands of individuals, including board members of public companies and several Fortune 500 CEOs. Eric specializes in organizational culture and has become a leading authority on corporate culture in the investment industry.

Eric Schleien has been investing for 15 years and has been using breakthrough coaching methodologies for over a decade. Eric had the insight to combine proven coaching methodologies with shareholder activism techniques to create an entirely new model for shareholder activism that was more reliable and created greater sustainable results in a short period. On average, Tribal Leadership produces a 3-5x increase in profits of culturally troubled companies within an average of 24 months or less. Eric currently resides in Philadelphia, PA.

About John King

 

John is in demand as a keynote speaker and is nationally recognized as a senior teacher, coach, and program leader. Clients of John's coaching practice have been featured on all major television networks and in The Wall Street Journal.

John is part of the leadership development team at Sierra Health Foundation and is on faculty at Collier's University, CB Richard Ellis University, and The California Leadership Institute. John is also a frequent guest lecturer in the Marshall School of Business and the School of Public Policy, Planning, and Development at USC.

 

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Transformational Leadership Associates

This episode is sponsored by Transformational Leadership Associates (TLA) started by Eric Schleien. TLA is an ontological coaching firm that will help transform your culture of your organization within 2 days of training. Over the next 24 months, performance (whether it be profits or fundraising) go up on average of 3-5x. Of course, I am biased since I run the damn thing, but give me a call, and happy to see if I can help you and/or your organization.

Episode Transcript

John (00:00):
what occurs to you about that?
Knowable.
Cause to me means our purpose, my purpose.
So what I'm thinking now is to fosteran environment to serve my purpose.
So what am I doing to createan environment where that
purpose can thrive and grow

Eric (00:15):
exist?

John (00:17):
Yeah.
There's something in the background aboutthat, particularly when it says unfolds
the noble cause I'm towards that end ofthe phrase that is about fulfillment.
On Wednesday we asked thequestion, what is my highest aim?
That is a question that is askingthat what is that would fulfill

(00:38):
so fulfilling by the unfoldingof the, a noble cause of some
sort, what is it that would be.
In your life
that would be fulfilling to youas a human being, as a woman,

(01:02):
as a student or a scholar.

Eric (01:08):
It's so hard to distill that to one thing.

John (01:13):
Yeah.
And you have that's yourfocus on a certain sense.
You know what I mean?
You're headed, you're barrelingdown the road of life.
I don't know that you'vegot the headlights on,
you know what I'm saying?

(01:39):
Not quite well.
If I fulfilled what my life wouldbe over, I wouldn't be fulfilled.
It would be satisfied, but itwould have been a life of meaning,

(02:00):
not an easy question.
So many things that would be fulfilling.

Eric (02:10):
And the first thing that came to mind would

John (02:11):
be my career, just growing my practice.
And then the second.
Starting a family to twovery different things.
Both richly fulfilling.
Yeah.
In the world of, is itpossible to have it all?
Is it possible to have it all?
Is it possible to now fulfillment?

(02:32):
Like in both areas andeven more maybe of course.
That's our point of view.
That's our stand in the matter is thatyes, it is possible to be fulfilled
in all of those areas, family.

(02:53):
Ultimately what's a tribe.
A tribe is a family.
Anyway, it's a family by design andyour career, as it unfolds, if you
were unfolding the noble cause ofyour career, what would that be?
Like

(03:15):
amazing

Eric (03:16):
feeling.

John (03:17):
Yeah.
And I think Phil with contribution.
Yeah.
Being of service.
I can hear it.
Yeah.
So that's what the.
Background questions are about, the,in the inquiries it's too, ticketless

(03:40):
into just considering that if youspent, if you actually allowed yourself
to inquire for 10 seconds a day,that would be a lot compared to the
average person, particularly whenyou know, you're unfolding something.
And then it's really the codeis that it's about fulfillment.

(04:07):
The secret code is thatit's about fulfillment.
That's an advantage to know that.
So if I asked Carlos, what isfulfillment to him, working with his
kids, I'm going to get a completelydifferent answer, but it's still
going to be one who contribution.

(04:28):
And one of service, if I ask Kevin whatwould be fulfillment in his world in his
career, I'll guarantee you that it's goingto be one of contribution and service,
because that's what we're designed for.
That's what leadership is designed.

(04:49):
Leadership is notdesigned for the goodies.
Leadership is designed for the serviceand the contribution that you're providing
for others, maybe in the next generation,