078: On Mission: Your Journey to Authentic Leadership
In this episode, I sit with co-authors Sean Georges and Dr. John Buford to talk about their recently published book titled, On mission: Your Journey to Authentic Leadership. The book serves as a resource for personal leadership development, crafted by Sean and John, two former marine officers with a combined 80 years of leadership experience in military, business, nonprofit, and education.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Authentic leadership is both authenticity in the human being who is influencing another person in the direction of a shared mission and authenticity in who they are and how they engage
- Leadership does not work the way an org chart looks. It is relationship driven, mission focused, and can work in any direction within a hierarchy
- If you want to gain commitment, influence others, and change ways of thinking, your people must know you care for them. We call that leading with love
LEADERSHIP RESOURCES
Leadership Jam Sessions' Executive Producer, James Christie
When James is not busy leading commercial teams in the biopharmaceutical industry, you can find him behind the scenes orchestrating all that happens for his brainchild - The Leadership Jam Session Podcast. As our Executive Producer, James' background of more than 20 years in Marketing, Sales, and Training, combined with a passion for business and leadership education, have all inspired the very direction we take with delivering our content. James holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University.