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121: How We Could Book Series Part 1: Love People Up - Sharing Favorite Insights and Quotes from My New Book

121: How We Could Book Series Part 1: Love People Up - Sharing Favorite Insights and Quotes from My New Book6 days ago32 min

In this episode, Alex discusses his favorite quotes and insights from his new book, How We Could. He goes deeper into everything that influenced what he wrote about in Part 1 and why he thinks it's important for your leadership and your team. This is Part One of a 3-Part Book Series discussing the biggest breakthrough insights from each part of the new book, from Alex's perspective.

Pre-order How We Could for you and your team (official release date is September 22nd): https://www.realitybasedleadership.com/pre-order

Episode Highlights:

00:00:20 Welcome back and two weeks from the launch of How We Could

00:01:29 Why Alex decided to do a three-part series through the book

00:03:03 Certification event announcement for November 12th and 13th in Dallas

00:03:11 A leader's story of using the framework during a sudden team transition

00:09:01 Introducing Part One, Loving People Up, and the structure of the book

00:11:23 The difference between empathy and sympathy

00:16:37 The keys to validating someone's experience and being a soft place to land

00:20:17 How rushing to fix a problem robs someone of the chance to evolve

00:26:36 Every frustration holds a call to greatness