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Randall Stutman

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  1. “So I don't know exactly, but I've always been a very applied person. I've been interested in organizations most of my adult life, interested in what influences people in organizations, how they manage conflict, what are some of the things that they do in order to excel. And I first started studying conflict in groups as an academic. And then I got very interested in this idea of leadership because it was very obvious that we had a lot of very deeply embedded assumptions about what leaders are and who they are and whether they're innate or whether they're developed and how they emerge in ongoing group conversation and the like. And so that fascination just turned into a lifelong commitment to study leaders. And of course, if you're going to study leaders, you want to study the best of them. And so the first very question was, you know, who are the best leaders by what definition are you defining best?”

    2020-11-10 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #96 Randall Stutman: The Essence of Leadership · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “With it that are very different than what we generally know. So that's kind of the difference between the psychological view and the behavioral view.”

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  3. “Now, interestingly, what I found very early on was that most leaders don't know what they do that other leaders don't do. But by talking to people around them and observing them and the like, you come up with a very different understanding. And that understanding is the way that I like to frame it is it's a behavioral view, which says, here are the specific things, the specific actions and routines that eventually become habits if you're really committed to this, that leadership is comprised of. What I'm a big advocate for is the idea that, of course, excellence in just about everything on the planet, from physical acts and skills like dancing to hitting a golf ball to preparing for an exam, they all have routines to them. Excellence in almost everything has a set of foundational routines. Is it any surprise that leadership also has a set of behaviors and routines that are associated?”

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  4. “Requisite piece that I would say we should all respect our psychology and literally just about everyone's train to think about leadership in that way. But over a really long period of time, having learned a lot of the classic classification schemes and ways of diagnosing and assessing people's differences and so forth, the more experience you have, the more you realize that people don't, they understand themselves better, but they don't change. They don't actually get better at this thing called leadership. And so in contrast, not necessarily as a replacement, but as an addition to the psychological view, a very long time ago when I started studying leaders, I started asking a different question. And the question was not who you are, where did you come from or demographically, you know, what makes you up. What I started asking was a very practical applied question, which is, what do you do that other leaders don't do?”

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  5. “Listen for a very good reasons because people are very different from one another. It's no surprise that leadership and the way that people academically and professionally have looked at leadership focuses on those differences. And so anyone that's ever had a team or had been in a marriage or had a partner or simply had multiple children realize that the differences are market between people. And then what you realize very quickly is that you yourself stand out in very distinctive ways. We're all unique. And so what the psychological individual difference view suggests is that the first step to becoming better as a leader or as even as a person is to understand who you are and then understand the differences on your team with your spouse or with your friends and the like. And then to adapt and flex to those differences. And that makes perfect sense. And in fact, it's a”

    2020-11-10 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #96 Randall Stutman: The Essence of Leadership · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “We study really fabulous leaders and we ask that question what do they do that other people don't do how quickly you can find certain things but I'm always surprised of how many leaders who don't know each other have come from different places, different experiences, different generations and they all do some of the same things that you and I have never been taught to do. And so that's always surprising to me. Every time I find a new admired leadership behavior, I'm always shocked that I couldn't see it before, didn't see it before, and how you ubiquitous it is across most of the leaders that I've ever studied, I just couldn't see it until the pattern emerged. But once it emerges, it's pretty, it's both surprising and very empowering.”

    2020-11-10 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #96 Randall Stutman: The Essence of Leadership · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT