{"id":7256,"date":"2010-10-08T04:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhyatt.com\/my-thoughts-on-leadership-philsophy-and-practice-an-interview.html"},"modified":"2010-10-08T04:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T09:00:44","slug":"candid-answers-to-tough-leadership-questions-an-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullfocus.co\/candid-answers-to-tough-leadership-questions-an-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Candid Answers to Tough Leadership Questions: An Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last spring, <a href=\"http:\/\/owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt\/About\/owen-newsroom\/press-releases\/bradford-to-continue-as-dean-of-owen.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jim Bradford\u2019s Bio\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Bradford<\/a>, Dean of <a href=\"http:\/\/owen.vanderbilt.edu\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Owen Graduate School of Management\" rel=\"noopener\">Owen Graduate School of Management<\/a>  at Vanderbilt University, interviewed me on my leadership philosophy and practice. He asked some tough questions. I tried to be as candid as I could be.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"565\" height=\"424\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12216646&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12216646&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"565\" height=\"424\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I intended to share the video here on my blog a few months ago, but it got lost in the shuffle. However, I thought about it today and thought you might enjoy seeing it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This was filmed before a live audience of students and faculty on April 26, 2010 at Owen for a program called \u201cInside the C-Suite.\u201d (\u201cC-Suite\u201d means <em>Corporate Suite.<\/em>) This is me, live, and unscripted\u2014for better or for worse.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Bradford is really the star of the show. He asked me a series of great questions. In this interview we discuss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">What I learned from a personal business failure.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">Why growth can sometimes be your undoing.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">How we define our business at Thomas Nelson.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">How the recession has affected the book publishing business.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">Why you must run a big organization like a small one\u2014in order to survive.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">The biggest issues I am facing as a leader. What keeps me up at night.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">How Web 2.0 has changed the expectations of younger employees in the workforce.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">How I have personally struggled to achieve work\/life balance.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">A situation where I had to take a difficult ethical stand that almost cost me my job.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">How social media fits into my role as a CEO and why I think it is critical to my company\u2019s success.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">Why corporations should embrace social media as something that furthers corporate transparency and accountability.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">Why I believe in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildingchampions.com\/\" title=\"Building Champions Web Site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">executive coaching<\/a> and have employed a coach for years.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">The practical value of humility in leadership.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">How I have learned to challenge the status quo.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">Why you must go first as the leader and walk your talk.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">The importance of <em>intentional<\/em> living and leadership.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">How do I stay focused on my most important priorities.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">My favorite leadership book.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">My least favorite leadership buzzword.<\/li>\n<li class=\"singlespace\">My best advice to new leaders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vanderbilt is doing a great job with its students, especially in the business school. I have the distinct privilege of lecturing there two or three times a year. If you are thinking about getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt\/Programs\/emba\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Executive MBA Program at Vanderbilt\u2019s Owen Graduate School of Management\" rel=\"noopener\">an Executive MBA<\/a>, I heartily recommend their program.<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000033; font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:16px;\">Question: What do you wish Dean Bradford would have asked me?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last spring,  Jim Bradford , Dean of  Owen Graduate School of Management   at Vanderbilt University, interviewed me on my leadership philosophy and practice. &#8230;  How social media fits into my role as a CEO and why I think it is critical to my company\u2019s success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,655],"tags":[410,229,148,1558,33,1559,263,1560,1561,1562,99],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Candid Answers to Tough Leadership Questions: An Interview<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dean Jim Bradford of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University asked me some tough leadership questions. 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