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In today’s episode, we have with us one of the top mesmerizing leaders who is a very well known author and writer. Randy Pennington publishes for top magazines and has written powerful books for the business industry.

Randy talks about how we can make the change that we are constantly experiencing in different areas of our lives work for us and get great results. He also teaches powerful principles of change and leadership that will surely get us through the process of change and come out winning.

So what are you waiting for? Listen to this episode now and learn more about it with Tim Shurr and Randy Pennington.

Quotes:

“Leadership isn’t about the position. Leadership is about your ability to influence others.” – Randy Pennington

“The best leaders earned volunteered commitment.” – Randy Pennington

“It’s much easier to make that decision when you’ve covered the basics” – Randy Pennington

“There is a sense that you have to step up and trust doing what’s right.” – Randy Pennington

“Part of leadership is understanding the risk, mitigating that risk where you can, and being resilient on things that go wrong, just because they’re not expected.” – Randy Pennington

“If you don’t fight for a conscious culture that’s positive, then it’s easy to succumb into all the negative influences” – Randy Pennington

“Digital is just the tool. Transformation is the goal.” – Randy Pennington

“The best leaders use metrics as a guide to improve and transform and change behavior and performance.” – Randy Pennington

“There’s only three things that we can measure: Activities, results, and perceptions.” – Randy Pennington

“The present should be guided more by the future than the past.” – Randy Pennington

Mentions:

https://www.facebook.com/TimShurr/

https://mesmerizingleadership.com/

On My Honor I Will, by Randy Pennington

Make Change Work, by Randy Pennington

Dr. Ross Purrow

In Search Of Excellence , by Tom Peters

The Huffington Post

https://www.huffpost.com/author/randy-821

https://www.cio.com/author/Randy-Pennington

Show Notes:

(00:27) Greetings

(00:42) Introduction of Randy Pennington

(01:10) What makes a great leader

(02:30) The basis is “Trust”

(03:40) The courage to do the right thing

(06:29) What has to happen to have the courage

(08:58) Understanding the risk

(09:52) Positive Productive Paranoia

(11:21) Generosity

(14:10) How Randy started

(21:12) Making a conscious effort to build a positive culture 

(23:55) Change doesn’t care 

(24:32) Transformation is the goal

(28:31) Metrics as a report card 

(29:17) Metrics as a guide

(31:28) Individuals need to have KPIs too

(31:51) Activities, results, and perceptions

(38:48) Change is hard to do

(42:37) Always looking to what the future can be

(45:00) Where are the waters and where are the hostiles

(48:56) Be more aware of what’s coming in the future

(49:53) Strike a strong balance between mastery and curiosity

(50:32) The theory of the adjacent possible