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Leadership Inspirations – Defeat is Only a State of Mind

“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.”

Bruce Lee (1940 – 1973)

Chinese American actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director and producer, screenwriter, and founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement; considered one of the most influential martial artists of the 20th century and a cultural icon

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 53 – An Interview with Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

Special Edition 53 – An Interview with Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership examines what it takes to achieve real and meaningful organizational change in a way that improves overall performance and ultimately enhances the bottom line. During our discussion, Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership: A Blueprint for Real Organizational Change, share with us his insights, approaches, and real-world experiences regarding:

  • the importance of having earnings as a transformational goal and how to link that goal to an organizational change
  • personal qualities, characteristics, and attributes transformational leaders embody
  • the ‘secret sauce’ of transformational change and how a leader creates it
  • basic building block steps to achieving real organizational change
  • signs the organization has achieved a true transformation and won’t revert back to past habits or the way it used to be done
  • achieving and maintaining a balance of both personality and style and knowledge, skills, and experiences among members of the senior leadership team
  • when inheriting a leadership team, how to identify who on that team should stay, who should go, and what role each person should fill

Additional Information

In addition to the incredible insights Randy shares in Transformational Leadership and this special edition podcast are the resources accessible from his website, www.DobbsLeadership.com.   Randy’s book, Transformational Leadership, can be purchased by clicking here.

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About the Authors

Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership, is a Senior Operating Executive at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; one of the largest and most successful private-equity firms in the United States. Randy rose to become a CEO in a General Electric Company business with the encouragement and coaching of high-level executives including the legendary GE Chairman, Jack Welch. In a string of GE positions of increasing responsibility, Randy excelled as a turnaround specialist who transformed every organization he led and established a winning record of improved earnings. More recently, Randy used the same ‘secret sauce’ to transform and improve earnings as CEO of Philips Medical Systems, North America, and USIS, a leading global security services provider, where he led 7,000 knowledge workers to a new understanding of how to work together to achieve business results. To read Randy’s complete biography, click here.

Executive Vision – Leading in an Interconnected World: Transportation

Executive Vision is a five part series created by CNBC and sponsored by Credit Suisse. Within each episode, Melissa Francis, Simon Hobbs, and a group of distinguished guests discuss what it takes to be a visionary leader; guiding their companies to success within the rapidly changing global marketplace.


Distinguished Guests

  • Robert Crandall, Former CEO, American Airlines
  • Tony Fernandes, CEO, Asia Air
  • John Krafcik, CEO, Hyundai Motor America
  • Anand Mahindra, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra
  • Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla Motors
  • David Neeleman, Founder, JetBlue
  • Dr. Beverly Scott, CEO, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

Leadership Inspirations – The Will to Prepare

“The will to succeed is important, but I’ll tell you what’s more important – it’s the will to prepare.”

Bobby Knight

  • nicknamed The General, his teams won 902 NCAA Division I men’s college basketball games – more than any other head coach;
  • his Indiana Hoosiers won three NCAA championships, one National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championship, and eleven Big Ten Conference championships;
  • coached the USA men’s Olympic team to a gold medal in 1984 – becoming one of only three basketball coaches to win an NCAA title, NIT title, and an Olympic gold medal;
  • named National Coach of the Year four times and Big Ten Coach of the Year six times

Decision-Making Best Practice 11 – Evaluate the Front Page Headline

StrategyDriven Decision Making ArticleTransparency motivates. Transparency shapes. Transparency drives. Decisions made in full view of those who would provide critical judgment – shareholders, regulators, employees, and the public – provides a powerfully strong guiding force that demands decision-makers fully vet the business and ethical implications of each option and soundly support their ultimate selection. Not every decision can or should be made in the public view. However, every decision-maker can challenge their team and themselves with the question, How would this decision read as a New York Times front page headline?


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