The Leadership Lightning Round - Being a Thoughtful Leader with Ian L. Paterson, Eh!

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Episode Transcript

Glen (00:02):
It's the lightning round! Brought to you by Trench

Leadership (00:06):
A Podcast From the Front.
Guests on Trench Leadership areasked five random
leadership-related questionswith the goal of having a little
fun, being a littleself-reflective and connect with
the listeners on a morepersonal level.

Simon (00:33):
And, without further ado, let's get to the questions.
So, um, listen, I this has beenfantastic, but before we get
doing things here and we westart to roll this out, everyone
loves to hear about thelightning round questions, so,
if you're okay with it, I'd liketo roll into that point.
What do you think?

Ian L. Patterson (00:46):
Let's do it! Fantastic!

Simon (00:48):
So, folks, as everyone remembers the lightning round, I
do give some information to theguest ahead of time, but I do
not give them the five questions, and so it is completely open
for everyone.
So you ready to go in?
Yep, fantastic.
So question number one who, inyour opinion, is the leader best
suited to take us into thefuture?

Ian L. Patterson (01:09):
The future is quite uncertain and, as we've
seen over the last couple ofmonths, it's changing quite a
lot.
My bias is technology and Ithink, if I use the recent

(01:30):
fervor and excitement around AIas an example, I might pick
Satya, who's the CEO ofMicrosoft, as the person who's
currently most able to speaktruth, to power around what the
true capabilities of AI actuallyare versus what's a little bit
of hype.
So right now, today, I'll saySatya.

Simon (01:44):
Okay, fantastic.

Question number two (01:45):
Cup half full or cup half empty?

Ian L. Patterson (01:50):
Half full.
Question number

Simon (01:51):
number three who do you look to for leadership Admiral
inspiration?

Ian L. Patterson (01:57):
Fantastic,, question actually I four
What it earlier.
So, admiral Mike McConnell,visionary pioneer when it came
to cybersecurity, he was thedirector of the National
Security Agency right at the endof the Cold War and had to
oversee really a change of theUS intelligence apparatus from
the Cold War mindset to a futureof real-time interconnected

(02:23):
network connectivity.
A future of of real timeinterconnected network
connectivity.
Um and uh.
I've been fortunate enough touh, get to know him for for many
years.
Um and uh, uh, and he'sprobably who I'd pick.

Simon (02:35):
Fantastic Question number four what would you like to
improve about your leadershipstyle?

Ian L. Patterson (02:41):
Uh, that's a good question.
I'd like to see uh more leaderscreated around me.

Simon (02:47):
Okay, okay, fantastic.
And the last question what doyou think is your leadership
strength?

Ian L. Patterson (02:54):
Probably speed .

Simon (02:56):
Okay, okay, fantastic.
Well, that was a lightninground.
What'd you think?

Ian L. Patterson (03:00):
It was good, Although thankfully there wasn't
a shot clock.
Uh I, there was a bit of adelay on some of my answers.

Simon (03:06):
That's all good, but the important thing is to think
about it.
So we're totally fine, we'vegot it.
We got the answers.
They were fantastic.
Thanks so much for that.
A

Glen (03:14):
That's it.
That's all you have beentreated to five
leadership-related questions andthe responses from this week's
guest.
We hope you have enjoyed thisedition of the Lightning Round
brought to you by TrenchLeadership, a podcast from the
front.
Take care and rememberleadership without passion

(03:38):
limits the depth of your vision.