Game Changers with Molly Fletcher is our podcast designed to help you maximize your influence and unleash your potential. Each episode, we take you behind the scenes with peak performers to learn what makes them tick and discover how you can apply their lessons to your life. Join Molly each week to hear from her special guests— top athletes and coaches, transformative CEOs, brilliant thought leaders, and entrepreneurs and trailblazers from around the world. Subscribe now on iTunes or Google Play.
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What can losing your sight teach you about vision? With a TED Talk that’s been viewed over 2 million times and a new book, Eyes Wide Open, Isaac Lidsky shows us why it isn’t external circumstances, but how we perceive and respond to them, that governs our reality.
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Show Notes
- Isaac’s eclectic bio: childhood actor; Harvard graduate; U.S. Supreme Court clerk; speaker; author; CEO (1:45)
- How progressively losing his sight changed his perception of reality (3:55)
- An inside look at his book, Eyes Wide Open (6:09)
- Shifting from anger and “why me” to positivity (7:43)
- How fear keeps us on the sideline (9:18)
- From childhood actor to graduating Harvard at age 19 (13:51)
- His Hollywood experience as “Weasel” on Saved By the Bell (15:08)
- How his blindness makes him a better leader (18:00)
- Welcoming triplets and the joy of fatherhood (21:34)
- The progress scientists have made towards restoring sight (22:47)
- What’s next for him (25:42)
Resources / People Mentioned
- Isaac Lidsky- Speaking
- Isaac Lidsky’s TED Talk: What reality are you creating for yourself?
- ODC Construction
- Isaac Lidsky- IMDB
- Saved By The Bell
- Sandra Day O’Connor
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
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- Eyes Wide Open by Isaac Lidsky
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Known simply as “The Growth Guy,” Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO) and has been called one of the “Top 10 Minds in Small Business” by Fortune. On this episode, Verne talks about how to scale your business, the common barriers to growth, and why we need less management and more coaching.
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Show Notes
- What inspired him to dedicate his career to growing businesses (2:06)
- His purpose and how it allows him to stay focused (4:30)
- Why to be careful with following your passion (4:41)
- We don’t need more managers, we need more coaches (5:59)
- No one has ever achieved peak performance without a coach (6:54)
- How a leader behaves like a coach, not a manager (7:20)
- Habits of valuable employees (10:14)
- Commonalities of successful companies (11:57)
- The key to Warren Buffett’s success (13:04)
- Leaders are readers; leaders are learners (13:23)
- Common barriers to success and growth (14:10)
- Advice to people ready to take the next step in their business (16:17)
- What to do when you go from being a lean start up to an agile scale up (17:35)
- Daily habits of great leaders (18:19)
- You need a village of support to help you succeed (22:30)
- His biggest fear (27:27)
Resources / People Mentioned
- ScalingUp.com
- Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish
- Scaling Up by Verne Harnish
- The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time by Verne Harnish
- Cal Newport
- Entrepreneurs’ Organizations
- Gazelles
- Bill Gates & Bill Gates’ Think Week
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Mark Cuban
- Warren Buffet
- Charlie Munger
- Steve Jobs
- Tim Cook
- Berkshire Hathaway
- Alan Murray
- Larry Page
- Regis McKenna
- Michael Dell
- Shark Tank
- John D. Rockefeller
- Jonathan Ive
- Boone Pickens
- The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Great by Choice By Jim Collins
- Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal
- Ready, Fire Aim: From Zero to 100 Million by by Michael Masterson and Sean Pratt
- The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
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