S2 Episode 11 - Ethics, Service, and the Call to Lead

Purpose Highway®

HIGHLIGHTS

04:39 Joe's childhood in Tacoma and enlistment in the Airforce

08:20 Creating opportunities in the military and growing into leadership roles

12:03 Leadership is service, but who are you serving?

18:04 Service liberates oneself from the existential vacuum

21:18 Sacrifice and service: Finding meaning and developing purpose

28:17 Ethical dilemmas vs ethical lapses

33:29 Secular and non-secular ethics must factor in human nature to be effective

37:04 Find your leadership values and develop your self-awareness

40:07 Curiosity as a character trait creates emphatic leaders

41:13 Connect with Joe

QUOTES

12:25 "My leadership philosophy is service, and then followed by recognition, and then after recognizing the people that deserve the recognition, then it's improvement. So it's growing people, but that foundation is service."

19:29 "I no longer have to serve myself to help myself get promoted or anything, so I think it was a great, liberating feeling. But I think some people never get that feeling because it continues to want to stroke their ego."

28:24 "Ethical dilemmas are when you have two values that are contradicting... and now you're having a problem with picking what the right answer is, where ethical lapses you know that that's the wrong for... and you did it."

33:08 "I think that treating people with courtesy, respect, withholding judgment, these are things that are universal. It's not just in the Christian beliefs system. It's very much across."

39:13 "If you're not self-aware, you are not going to make an effective leader. That is the first step. Developing that emotional intelligence is a huge part and a foundational part of emotional intelligence is self-awareness."

To find out more about Joseph, please see the links below.

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jybogdan
• LinkedIn (Llama Leadership) - https://www.linkedin.com/company/llama-leadership
• Website - https://www.llamaleadership.com/
• Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-llama-lounge/id1507339010

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