S3E4: What is Leadership? with Robert Hargrove

Robert Hargrove is the Founder of Masterful Coaching, Co-Director of the Harvard Leadership Research Project, and author of many landmark books. Find out more here.

Robert Hargrove and his team have decades of experience, have impacted 1000s of leaders and produced undeniable results.

Clients include CEOs and team members in Exxon Mobile, Nike, Fidelity Investments, Phillips, AbbVie, and many Silicon Valley-type firms, as well as owner-operator businesses.

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Leadership is about love and caring

• Great leaders radiate empathy
• Which leads to a sense of responsibility 
• Ennobling ideals and enduring values mean more than what many businesses stand for
• We should benchmark leaders based on how many lives they’ve changed, not dollars they’ve made
• Let’s stand for something bigger than success
• We need role models who stand the test of time
• A leader’s job is to make something happen that wasn’t supposed to happen

Writing books

• Painful process
• Takes much longer than you ever thought it would
• Life is more than “making the doughnuts”
• Every day is an act of creation
• It’s something that can have an impact
• “Masterful Coaching” was written in 1995

Guiding principles for a leader

• Find your hero
• Take a stand for something greater than yourself
• Lead with the power of your words
• The power of teams is greater than individuals
• Results now
• Coach rather than cop
• Growth through adversity

Growth through adversity

• Leaders grow through crucible experiences
• Great adversity can lead to transformation
• Harry Truman called his troops back after they ran away
• Character is destiny - Truman studied leaders and battles

Masterful Coaching

• Become the leader your business needs by realizing the impossible future
• Be daring to create a legendary company
• Did you make a difference?
• Great leaders have integrity, empathy, responsibility, drive, humility and self-reflectiveness

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Transcript

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Jason Wick: Alright, e everybody welcome back to another episode of leadership voyage. I'm lucky enough to be here with which I've already learned the entertaining Robert Hargrove. It's nice to meet you today, Robert.

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Robert Hargrove: Hi! Nice to meet you as well.

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Jason Wick: Thank you.

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Jason Wick: Robert.

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Robert Hargrove: We have a very warm

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Robert Hargrove: personality work.

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Jason Wick: Appreciate that. Thank you.

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Robert Hargrove: I say that

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Robert Hargrove: the face never lies, so you can tell a lot about what people's who people are by their face

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Robert Hargrove: and by what and by what they say. There was a famous American writer, Ralph Waldo Emerson. You probably heard about him, he said. Everything you say reveals you. So whatever you say, it's revealing a lot about your vision, your values, your your personal and cultural history. So

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Robert Hargrove: I'm ready to go.

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Jason Wick: That's good. I know we're gonna have fun. I already feel it. And that's a pretty interesting comment from Emerson.

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Jason Wick: Have you had a

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Jason Wick: an anonymous experience we would share about somebody recently where you you learned something about their face, and it it didn't go well.

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Robert Hargrove: No, but I did have an interesting experience in the grocery store yesterday.

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Jason Wick: Okay, tell us.

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Robert Hargrove: Well, there was a there was a woman standing right in front of me at the market basket grocery store, a very famous grocery store in the

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Robert Hargrove: and she was in the 12 person, the 12 item checkout line.

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Robert Hargrove: and she was looking at me and smiling, and she had a very guilty expression

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Robert Hargrove: and I but she had a nice face, kind of like you, warm and smiling, and and

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Robert Hargrove: I said, what do you feel so guilty about? And she and she said, well, as you know, I have more than 12 items. You know there are certain people that would feel guilty about having more than 12 items. I would probably just try to sneak it in. I said, Oh, okay, that's right. You don't need to feel guilty about that with me.

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Jason Wick: That's funny.

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Robert Hargrove: She said, well, I do. I said, well, I want you to know something. You have some really great qualities.

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Robert Hargrove: And then we sat there, another not sat there, stood there another 1530 s. He said, well, what are my great qualities?

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Robert Hargrove: And as I was telling you and preparing for the for the podcast

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Robert Hargrove: I'm I've spent a career studying people's faces, whether it's on the the London

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Robert Hargrove: Tube, the New York subway, the the airport restaurants, golf courses. And so I said, Okay, number one, you've got good character.

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Robert Hargrove: I said, number 2, you've got good humor. Number 3. You're pretty smart and 2, you haven't. Lot 3, 4. You haven't lost your humility, and on top of that you're a good worker, and someone that would be that, not a prisoner of pettiness. I said. She said, wow! You really made my day. Actually, she said. I made her day just when I said she had good qualities, but I think probably if you went and studied that

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Robert Hargrove: well, if you went and met that woman and went out to dinner with her or got to know her. Probably most of the things I observed would be true.

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Robert Hargrove: It doesn't always apply.

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Robert Hargrove: But yeah, in many cases.

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Jason Wick: I think it's really admirable, and something that we could model, though the way that you were just so

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Jason Wick: direct with someone in a positive way, and and we can help someone else kind of

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Jason Wick: realize something positive about themselves in the example that you just shared. I don't know that a lot of us take the time

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Jason Wick: to do that with a stranger. I think that's really cool. So thanks for sharing.

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Robert Hargrove: That the you know your podcast is about leadership.

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Robert Hargrove: And I think what real leadership really comes down to at the end of the day, and this is not to sound sentimental is love.

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Robert Hargrove: They have to. It has to be in your blood. The same with a coach to wanna help people, and you're making me think of a great quotation from Mother Teresa. She was walking through a neighborhood in India, and someone asked her why she was there. She said, I'm here because people are starving. And she said, what are they starving for? They're starved for love.

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Robert Hargrove: So when I was with that woman yesterday, that's what I did wherever I go. I'm much more authentic, I think when I'm out in the world, in, in, in the supermarket line, or the home depot, or an airport than I am pontificating

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Robert Hargrove: Internet Linkedin or social media folks. I I can be myself.

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Robert Hargrove: I love people, I I I love people, and I I look at I don't. I kind of look at like

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Robert Hargrove: The lot of times where I don't have to say something. I notice something about someone advice. I don't. It's not even appropriate for me to say something.

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Robert Hargrove: or a little bit unusual or weird. I I say it. Anyway, my son, my son goes like this to me, or gives me a.

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Jason Wick: Cut it out, Dad!

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Robert Hargrove: He's always doing that. I'm always getting a kit.

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Jason Wick: Right. I I love it, though the the leadership is love side of things, and it does resonate with me. And love is something that we basically have in almost unlimited supply. If you want to think of it that way, right? It's a choice to show how we wanna express that. So I like it.

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Robert Hargrove: giving people a hug, and and telling them how much they love them, but they radiate empathy and empathy leads to to sense of responsibility for other people and doing once doing something to help.

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Jason Wick: well, I love the opening we're having, although I will want to go, wrote back real quick, because people don't even know who you are yet. Robert. Robert is the founder and CEO of masterful coaching, and we'll get into a little bit of that. But also the co-director of the Harvard Leadership Research Project for the last. What's it been like? 100 or 200 years now that you've been been the co-leader of the Harvard Research.

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Robert Hargrove: Yeah.

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Jason Wick: Project.

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Robert Hargrove: I use that? Yeah, people are impressed with that. But I have been been in that role for quite a long time founder of the Harvard Leadership Project, and

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Robert Hargrove: so, and the author of Masterful Coaching and founder of a company called Masterbook. I've had quite a long and storied career. A lot of people tell me when I do these podcasts, I think it's because they think I look old. They say, you know, you've been around for a while I said, What the hell does he mean by that? So I've had so much experience. When I started out my career I was trying to pretend that I had more experience

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Jason Wick: Have less experience.

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Jason Wick: Well, I'm not gonna focus on how much experience. But I wanna focus on one important experience here. I read about you that you were awarded the distinguished, the medal for distinguished public service for some type of work that you did at the Pentagon. I believe it's the highest award.

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Robert Hargrove: Yeah.

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Jason Wick: What does that mean to you to have received that.

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Robert Hargrove: just to share a little bit with you about my background.

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Robert Hargrove: I lost my, and I went to a special briefing for the Secretary with the Secretary of Defense. This is during the Iraq War.

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Robert Hargrove: and I lost my computer bag at the end of the briefly, I couldn't find my computer bag. My son's the same way. He's always leaving something behind.

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Robert Hargrove: I'm I've I've replaced many ski masks and gloves and things like that. So one of the so the the room is full of 3 Star and 4 Star generals, and one of the 4 Star generals

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Jason Wick: Seriously.

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Robert Hargrove: As I was walking around the Pentagon, I noticed that all of these great generals and admirals and men and women in uniform.

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Robert Hargrove: they stood for something that I didn't see that people in the business world stood for.

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Robert Hargrove: They stood for a higher cause or higher higher value. They stood for our our enduring ideals, and there are nobly ideals and enduring value. They were patriotism a a lot of times what I found with people in business, although I I love business people.

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Robert Hargrove: is that they stand for sort of an abundance of self, interest, power, and money. But I saw these people stand for something greater than themselves. And when they gave me the award for what I did to basically, I tried to help the Pentagon run more like a business

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Robert Hargrove: in service of the men and women who put on the cloth of the nation.

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Robert Hargrove: as opposed to being, you know, someone else scratching around, you know, trying to make a buck.

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Robert Hargrove: I know I stood for something greater, and I felt I was recognized for that.

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Jason Wick: Yeah, that from what you're saying, it sounds like that was really important to you to be kind of put in this different category of believing in something greater. I'm I'm wondering if if businesspeople, more business people, were believing in something greater than their own self interest. On the whole, what

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Jason Wick: what would the result look like to us as.

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Robert Hargrove: The orders are.

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Jason Wick: Clients.

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Robert Hargrove: Yes, an interesting

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Robert Hargrove: We put on a pedestal those people who are billionaires. Right? Yeah, we, we, the someone's

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Robert Hargrove: credibility as a leader is determined by how many billions of dollars they have, and I read this week that that

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Robert Hargrove: Steve Bomber, formerly of Microscop, who used to be

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Robert Hargrove: Bill Gates, executive assistant. He had a hundred 50 billion dollars, and poor old Bill Gates, he had a hundred 75 million or 190 million. And it it's somewhere in my mind. I said, Okay, well, he's pro. He's worth more as a leader. Bill Gates is worth more as a leader than this guy.

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Jason Wick: That's interesting.

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Robert Hargrove: And so I think we're really hung up on

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Robert Hargrove: not by how many billions of dollars, but by how many millions of lives that change?

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Robert Hargrove: that have moved on from wanting to be famous for for how much financial capital they could accumulate to wanting to be famous for doing something that actually makes a difference in the world.

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Robert Hargrove: I mean, ray Dallow spends a tremendous amount of time coaching and mentoring people. Bill Ackman was

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Robert Hargrove: Is designed to make the average person rich. I read the other day that he's he has a plan that everyone in America to be a millionaire by the time they're 30. If we only invested.

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Robert Hargrove: I I don't remember the amount. But if we, if we invested something like 25 billion dollars a year. Every person in America could be a billionaire by the time they were 30. So and they're using social media as a way to.

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Robert Hargrove: they use leaders, and Ceos and managers used to use their organization as a way to have an impact. Not leaders are going beyond that, using the power of social media to have an influence way beyond

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Jason Wick: I like that. If I hear you right, it's it's the we should value the impact of one's work more than their net worth.

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Robert Hargrove: That's a very probably a better way of saying it. I I pretend to put everything in grandiose terms. Value the impact

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Robert Hargrove: And again, that's leadership.

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Robert Hargrove: Yeah. You know the George Washington.

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Robert Hargrove: when you got finished with. When he got finished with the Revolutionary War. He had, he? He owned, the Mount Vernon plantation.

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Robert Hargrove: but he was. He was. He didn't have a lot of money.

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Robert Hargrove: and the same with many other

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Jason Wick: Yeah, interesting.

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Jason Wick: I wanna change gears a little bit. I'm I'm really enjoying just how we're kinda going with the flow in this conversation. I'm really enjoying it in all seriousness. But something I wanted to ask you about, because you have this body of work in writing. As far as I can tell you've written at least a dozen books or so.

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Jason Wick: What do you learn from the process of writing a book.

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Robert Hargrove: as the guy in the rocky Balboa movie, the

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Robert Hargrove: predicted. You learn pain. It's a very painful process. It's a process kind of like being a ballet dancer when you finally get on stage and perform the the ballet, everyone thinks it looks easy. Look you, you're brilliant. You're wonderful, but if they look at what you had to go through, it's a lot of pain.

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Robert Hargrove: and it takes it takes much longer than you ever thought it would.

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Robert Hargrove: But in another way.

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Robert Hargrove: For me life is

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Robert Hargrove: is not just getting up in the morning and going to work and making the donuts. There used to be a commercial in the boss here from place called Dunkin donuts. There was no like guy that woke up and said, gotta make the donuts gotta make the donut for me every day

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Robert Hargrove: is an active creation. So writing a book for me is an active creation.

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Robert Hargrove: But I had an interesting experience. I'd like to share with you.

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Robert Hargrove: Week, just this week, which was very fulfilling. First of all.

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Robert Hargrove: I can put in writing. I can say something in writing.

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Jason Wick: That's going to be really important.

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Robert Hargrove: We're not. I'm not gonna say.

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Robert Hargrove: The future is AI.

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Robert Hargrove: I'm not gonna say that, although that actually, it fits my my book, my book, Masterful Coaching, is about how to become the leader.

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Robert Hargrove: When I wrote that book it was before the M. It was before the iphone.

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Robert Hargrove: The direct report said, is is vice President, or whatever he was. Then the CEO friend said, what what difference did he make?

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Robert Hargrove: for those American ideals and values that I talked about in the beginning. Okay.

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Jason Wick: That's that's a wonderful way to wrap it all around.

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Jason Wick: Wrap it all together.

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Jason Wick: Integrity, empathy.

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Jason Wick: Wonderful.

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Jason Wick: So before we let people know where they could go to learn more about you, I'm sure they've gotten a good glimpse here, and it's been really, it's been a lot of things, Robert. It's been fun, entertaining, educational, inspiring all at once, which I think is the best package we could ask for. Frankly.

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Jason Wick: if people want to learn more about what you're up to, we'll give them a chance to to you. Give you a chance to tell them where to go and and whatnot. But the question I ask everybody to end our conversations is, what is something that you've learned recently.

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Robert Hargrove: I learned that.

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Robert Hargrove: writing books and not enough time shaking hand, getting outside the building.

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Jason Wick: Something. Yeah.

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Robert Hargrove: Hands. I think I'm actually better at that. I that's what I really love to do.

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Robert Hargrove: not as doing what you've being, who you've always been or doing what you've always done. But see, see, like, see, your future is one of is a a providing new openings for possibility and and

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Jason Wick: Great advice, and that's consistent to me with what you're saying. Masterful coaching is trying to champion this idea of creating the impossible future, or whatever the exact wording you said was, but I love that. It's a it's an open, ended idea, moving forward, not just looking backwards. So thank you.

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Jason Wick: Okay? So for people who are really into what we're talking about today might want to look into more of your work, maybe eventually someday, shake your hand. Where should they go to find it?

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Robert Hargrove: They might find Sammy in the grocery store, and I tapped them on the shoulder and say, it's me.

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Jason Wick: Is that that may happen.

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Robert Hargrove: Well, okay, let me say this because we do want to hear from people we don't want to. I just don't want to be someone pontificating on a podcast, I like to help people.

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Robert Hargrove: That's pretty easy

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Robert Hargrove: There's the book masterful coaching.

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Robert Hargrove: master coaching.com has a lot of different leadership programs that people people are interested in for leaders at all levels. And and I'm going to give you my executive assistance. Phone number

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Robert Hargrove: So if somebody wants to call us up and get some free coaching on Tuesday.

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Robert Hargrove: You call that number, and we can make the make the whatever arrangements are necessary on free coaching. Tuesday. That's great. (617) 953-5252.

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Jason Wick: Okay, I'll have all of that in the in the show notes as well. So Robert Hargrove, on Linkedin masterful coaching website, masterful coaching.com. The book is masterful coaching, and then we'll have the phone number for the free coaching Tuesdays. That sounds wonderful.

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Robert Hargrove: Let me just add one other thing.

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Jason Wick: Sure.

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Robert Hargrove: all that I am, and all that I can be, and it's largely due

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Jason Wick: Oh!

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Robert Hargrove: For the space that you created for me to be

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Robert Hargrove: Okay.

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Jason Wick: Wonderful.

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Robert Hargrove: Right.

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Jason Wick: And hopefully, others will get the best out of that collaborative effort. Then, when they listen to this conversation, that's wonderful.

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Robert Hargrove: Alright thanks, great to meet you. And let's talk sometime. I'd like to hear more. I'd like to learn a few things from you about podcasting.

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Jason Wick: That sounds fantastic, Robert. Thank you so much for your time today. We're all good to appreciate that. Thank you so much.

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Jason Wick: Bye, bye.