Great Work Interview: Susan Scott, author of Fierce Leadership
These interviews are a constant source of pleasure for me. I get to talk to people who inspire me, who I think are funky, who I think are heroes. And then occasionally I speak to people who make me jealous. Susan Scott’s one of those people. When I came across her first book, Fierce Conversations, my initial response was to let out a heavy sigh and go … “ahhh – there’s the book I wanted to write.”
Susan leads Fierce, a company that believes that the conversations we have – and don’t have – in our organizations make all the difference. Before founding Fierce ten years ago, Susan had spent 13 years leading CEO think tanks and really honing and being in conversation with CEOs and organizational leaders to figure out what are their challenges, and how can conversation itself be a tool to help unlock the way we work and start evolving what it means to be at work and be in connection with the people around us.
When we recorded the call, Susan’s new book – Fierce Leadership – was on the verge of being released. It’s now out, already a bestseller, and it’s a terrific read that challenges all those “best practices” that suck the life and creativity and capacity out of our organizations.
In this interview we
- look at some of those best practices and kick them around a little
- we rail against the practice of covering your butt
- and we talk about how you go about interrogating reality
Listen to my interview with Susan here
The interviews are all between 25 and 30 minutes long.
You can either download them here as mp3s, or go to iTunes, type in “Great Work Interviews” and you’ll see them all there.
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Tags: Accountability, Author, Business, choices, Leadership, Possibility
Oh my god, this kills! Beyond expectations, this was awesome!
In addition, this was focused on doing great work in a corporate setting, which is a completely different vibe than doing “what you really want,” which can easily veer off into doing work that equals living your dreams…
This was focused on producing results and deriving satisfaction from that while working in a corporate setting, so this really resonated for me.