The Futuristic Framework for Exceptional Performance | Chris Deaver

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Speaker 3 Fear, I see, as this potential energy. Limits of that go way beyond our own capabilities.
Being brave can be really unleashed and amplified when we're being brave with others.

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Speaker 7 Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the show. It is tremendous to have you here, and we have a fantastic conversation for you today with Chris Deaver.

Speaker 7 He is the co-founder of Brave Corps, a leadership and culture. consulting and coaching company.
He is the co-author of the book Brave Together, which I'm going to give my highest recommendation to.

Speaker 7 And I'll tell you guys, this is one of the most tactical, in-depth, applicable kind of culture leadership conversations we have ever had on this show.

Speaker 7 Chris really dives into this idea of co-creation and what it means for developing the successful company cultures of the future.

Speaker 7 We talk detail, we talk applicable strategies that you can put in your business today.

Speaker 7 I highly recommend you pick up Chris's book. We'll have it in the show notes or the description, wherever you're watching or listening to this show.

Speaker 7 We'll have a link to both Brave Course page where you can learn more about Chris and his work, as well as his book, Brave Together, which again, I highly recommend you pick up this book.

Speaker 7 If you are a leader, if you are trying to build a company with a culture that can go beyond where you alone can take it, right? We can only take our companies so far alone or with disjointed cultures.

Speaker 7 But when our people align together, when our people take ownership of what we're doing, when they feel that they're part of the creation process, you can go 10 times, 100 times.

Speaker 7 You can go farther than you could have ever imagined.

Speaker 7 And Chris outlines exactly how to do that and how he's implementing these strategies in Fortune 500 companies, Fortune 500 companies across the U.S.

Speaker 7 through his coaching company.

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Speaker 7 Dude, incredibly excited to have you on the show.

Speaker 7 Love your work. Love your mindset.

Speaker 7 I've actually done some diving on my own just as I started reading your stuff and I started asking, I want to start with the word bravery.

Speaker 7 And it's not a word that's used a lot today. I think it's often, I don't know, it's often misunderstood, but I don't think people really dive into what bravery means.

Speaker 7 So you use this word a lot in your work. What is bravery today? And how does it apply to our businesses as either entrepreneurs, leaders, et cetera?

Speaker 7 How does it apply to that in the context of our work lives?

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's a great question. And thanks again for having me on, Ryan.
I'm excited to dive in. And,

Speaker 3 you know, I think the thing we usually hear in

Speaker 3 whether any kind of self-help or leadership material or just conversation, usually we think about being brave as the counter to fear. And there's truth to that.

Speaker 3 But usually we think about it just as an either or, right? We're either having, you've got fear or being brave. But really,

Speaker 3 fear, I see as this potential energy, right? That has way more potential than just

Speaker 3 getting us out of the negative. And there's so much more to what it can do.
And the limits of that go way beyond our own capabilities.

Speaker 3 So usually we think about it in just the individual personal context. But being brave can be really unleashed and amplified when we're being brave with others.

Speaker 7 How does bravery

Speaker 7 relate to the concept of ego? You put this phenomenal

Speaker 7 proclamation out. I was reading through your LinkedIn.
And when I hit this,

Speaker 7 I have it up on the screen now.

Speaker 7 And I'll make sure in the show notes for everybody, I'll include the LinkedIn post so one, you guys can connect or follow Chris and also see this document that I'm looking at. But

Speaker 7 I've been a firm believer for a long time that what holds us back in almost every aspect of our lives is the ego, right?

Speaker 7 It can be a positive, but it oftentimes is corrupted into something that ends up having negative consequences for us. So

Speaker 7 how does bravery apply to the negative aspects of ego and overcoming them, if that's even how we relate it?

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 that's

Speaker 3 a great question. And we all have a tendency to

Speaker 3 lean into ego at times. We're human beings, we're people.

Speaker 3 And I think especially in the world of when we're trying to do something different, whether it's as an entrepreneur building our own business or inside a company, being an intrapreneur.

Speaker 3 The reality is you've got to have confidence in what you're doing.

Speaker 3 But ego really starts to get in the way at times when we don't even know it.

Speaker 3 And so yeah, the letter was,

Speaker 3 it's really a statement to ego.

Speaker 3 It's a breakup letter. It's like, hey, we're done.

Speaker 3 And I think especially with the pandemic, it showed kind of the true colors about

Speaker 3 how little ego serves us and how much of a disservice it is to us. But to give one example, just highlight, I think how this really plays out.
You look at NBA teams, and these are people who

Speaker 3 show up

Speaker 3 at that level, pro level, and they've all been told, they've all worked hard enough to be the best.

Speaker 3 And you're bringing together a group of people who have been told or who have earned being the best. And so suddenly what happens, though,

Speaker 3 and because of kind of the marketing engine of NBA, They pick out one person, one or two guys, typically, and they'll say, hey, if this is a star, if they don't play well, you know, we're not winning, or it's not, you know, things aren't going as great as we want, whatever.

Speaker 3 Right? But all the pressure is on this one person. And what it does is actually,

Speaker 3 it actually causes issues. And we looked at the data on this, and you know, take, for example, John Morant with

Speaker 3 his team.

Speaker 3 The team actually statistically plays better without him.

Speaker 3 LeBron James, I know it's going to sound surprising because a lot of people love LeBron, but the Lakers, statistically speaking, they play better without him.

Speaker 3 And, you know, Michael Jordan, he's probably an argument for the other.

Speaker 3 And, you know, I will say the caveat there is when LeBron's on fire, when he's playing well, when he's playing selfless, it, you know, it pulls the team together.

Speaker 3 And likewise with, you know, we saw with the Warriors in their peak time and, you know, Jordan as well when they when he, I mean, but I think the point is, is that, and I guess the reason there is you have a bunch of players who are saying, hey, well,

Speaker 3 they assume that they're the best. They're being told they're not, right? Because there's this one person.

Speaker 3 But that's the challenge with ego in our lives: is like suddenly, you know, somebody's got this kind of competitive notion of like who's better, you know, or we're competing against,

Speaker 3 you know, this unseen force in our lives that we feel like we can never attain, right? And that's also a problem.

Speaker 7 Yeah,

Speaker 7 it doesn't surprise me a lot, LeBron, because I can't stand LeBron. But

Speaker 7 I'm more of a Kobe Michael guy.

Speaker 3 I'm with you.

Speaker 7 For anyone who follows me on Instagram, they know that every time I see a Michael Jordan, LeBron James comparison, I always post it into my stories because I just, I can't.

Speaker 7 Michael, to me, was

Speaker 7 obviously had his failings as a leader of that team for sure in some of the ways that he went about things. And I don't want to even say failings.

Speaker 7 I'd say friction points is probably a better way to put it. Certainly not the leadership style that everyone would recommend in their company.
However,

Speaker 7 he did two things that I find that I just keep coming back to when I'm comparing the two, which is he was always focused on the goal, and his numbers didn't matter to him.

Speaker 7 He almost never knew how many points he had. He cared about winning the game.
And if he could take the shot and win the game, he would take the shot.

Speaker 7 But if there was someone better to take the shot, then he would pass the ball or he would set the playup.

Speaker 7 Or in multiple cases, they won games on last-second shots by other players in which he was actually the diversion. And that was set up by him.
And like, that to me,

Speaker 7 when... when you have a guy who you would think, and he had an ego, obviously.
I mean, Jordan knew he was the best and thought he was the best at all times.

Speaker 7 But when you also see that that person is willing to set that aside in moments where it's necessary, it's like you'll put up with all the other stuff or some of the, maybe some of the friction because you know that when the rubber meets the road, they're going to be there for you.

Speaker 7 So is it is it humility? Is it loyalty? Like, what does the other side of ego look like for someone who goes, okay, I maybe I do oftentimes operate with ego. Where are the places?

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Speaker 7 That I should start thinking about to overcome some of this.

Speaker 3 Yeah, absolutely. And I think Michael's a great example because in many ways, because

Speaker 3 to your point, well, first of all, whenever that conversation comes up with him, he always defers, right?

Speaker 3 He won't claim. He's never claimed being the goat, which...
is fascinating in and of itself.

Speaker 3 And actually, his response to that question, we include this in the book, is this where he says, you know, that's the wrong question. The right question is, is, what's the greatest team of all time?

Speaker 3 And then he flashes his rings, right? And to your point, that was his focus, right? And there's a moment in the last dance, I think it's, you know, in episode seven.

Speaker 3 This is my favorite part of the whole thing. And they're kind of cornering about his leadership approach, right? Which sometimes was tough on them.

Speaker 3 But he always said, I don't, I never expected more of them than I expected of myself, right? Which is leadership. And his will to win, what What he says in that moment, too,

Speaker 3 he says, you know, some people didn't like my methods or, you know, don't like my methods, but what I really wanted, I always wanted to win.

Speaker 3 He said, but I really wanted most was I wanted the team to want to win and to feel what that felt like. And then he starts to get emotional, he like tears up.

Speaker 3 And he goes, turn the camera off, you know, but that's like his soul. And I think there's so much power in that because he is laying his ego aside, right?

Speaker 3 And that in that moment, what he's doing is saying, hey, I'm willing to make the hero sacrifice. And, you know, we talk about the hero's journey.
We love the part at the end with the rewards.

Speaker 3 And, you know, we get all the stuff and

Speaker 3 get the money and the fame. But the part that people don't like as much because it's painful is the hero's sacrifice.

Speaker 3 And to your point, you know, for him, that's deferring to Pippin or passing to Steve Kerr for that game-winning shot. And those are the kinds of things.

Speaker 3 Or, you know, going in, he's got the flu, right? He's sick.

Speaker 3 You know, it's crazy stuff.

Speaker 3 But I think those are the kinds of things where we look at ourselves and say, you know,

Speaker 3 the answer is going to be we're going to have to make some kind of sacrifice. Right.
And I think sacrifice is a principle that is unfortunately kind of getting lost.

Speaker 3 It feels like, but it doesn't have to be. Like we can find power in making the sacrifices, you know, for our future and, you know, especially for others, right, for the team.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I love that. To me,

Speaker 7 in the companies that I've either founded or run myself, something that I try to reiterate to the team, and this is a learned lesson.

Speaker 7 I don't want to say like this is just something that was intrinsic inside me, not many, many failed conversations and meetings and leadership moments to get to this mindset.

Speaker 7 But, you know, I used to say to the team every day, you know,

Speaker 7 I'm here to support you.

Speaker 7 Like you tell me what your problems are. And as the CEO, as much as it's in a vein that I can help, I'm here to put you in your best position, right?

Speaker 7 It's not about me being on top of the mountain and just preaching down to you all the things.

Speaker 7 We catch ourselves in that, like why salespeople won't pick up the phone or, you know, like do their job.

Speaker 7 You know, we get frustrated in moments, but ultimately it's if you, if you can spin that back on how am I.

Speaker 7 How am I impacting them not picking up the phone or not following up with a prospect? What is my role in that? Am I not giving them the right tools? Are they not properly trained?

Speaker 7 We often don't sink down to that level. It's like this, and you address this.

Speaker 7 I don't know if it's in the book or the, I can't remember if it's in the article or not, but you've addressed this where it's like,

Speaker 7 just because I told you to do, like, it's your job, do your job, right? That mentality of like, just do your job, that... That doesn't motivate anybody.
And you have

Speaker 7 the co-creation process that you outline in your your book the framework and I want to get into that like to me what you outlined is the solution like the guys everybody needs to read this book I'm gonna have the link in the in the in the description like this is in my opinion the leadership style for max results like it absolutely is so talk to me a little bit about this concept of of co-creation where it came from and how it plays into getting the most out of your team yeah absolutely and you know first off you know to your point co-creation is the next big wave.

Speaker 3 It's already happening. And, you know, we ask ourselves, even things with technologies, like, how do we, how are we,

Speaker 3 who's going to win in the AI space? Well,

Speaker 3 the key to this is

Speaker 3 co-creation, right? And we look in the past, we're like, well, efficiency was the focus. You know, we look far enough back.
Effectiveness and this big wave of co-creation is key.

Speaker 3 To your point, it's like if you show up, if we show up as leaders or entrepreneurs and it's employer-employee, right, people do not respond well to that anymore. And granted,

Speaker 3 people are still employees, don't get me wrong, but if you show up as co-creator

Speaker 3 with your people and they're a co-creator, you unlock magic, right? And

Speaker 3 there are examples of this throughout time. I think Steve Jobs is a great archetype because he was both at times.
And there was, you know, he got fired from his own company.

Speaker 3 That was a big kick in the teeth.

Speaker 3 All the great leaders probably had a version of that. Yep.
But the difference that it made, the difference that happened was,

Speaker 3 you know, he was driving people towards objectives, oftentimes, in that kind of push-pull way, even though he was focused on innovation and a lot of things he was doing well.

Speaker 3 But there was a shift that happened where you had kind of a rough Steve that turned to change Steve.

Speaker 3 And Ed Catmell, who worked with him, you know, he founded Pixar with Steve, worked for Steve for 26 years, the most, the longest of anybody. And

Speaker 3 he's a good friend, Ed is.

Speaker 3 And his observation was about this,

Speaker 3 the hero's journey, that when Steve was kicked out of his company and in the wilderness, effectively,

Speaker 3 he learned things

Speaker 3 at depth because he had to look internally. And there's this mirror test of he was asking himself, what do I need to do differently? Instead of like blaming other people,

Speaker 3 it was, hey, what do I need to do differently as a leader? And the things that he learned from that, it gave him a sense of compassion and empathy that he didn't have.

Speaker 3 And what would happen is then he would show up in meetings. The statements that we usually read, those power quotes, like, I don't hire people to tell them what to do.

Speaker 3 I hire them to tell me what to do. This has changed Steve, right?

Speaker 3 He'd show up in meetings. This would be shocked to a lot of people.
He'd be sitting there and he would take a position, you know, maybe a hard stance on something.

Speaker 3 And then he'd hear people out, they'd say something, and he'd flip 180, right? And then people in the room would say, what?

Speaker 3 Like, you know, because most, most of the time, you know, CEO or leader of the company, they've got to have it right the whole time, right? They got to stick with their guns.

Speaker 3 But C would say, no, actually, that's the best idea. I'm pivoting because he's right, right? Or that, or she's right.
And I think that that's a good example of co-creation. And

Speaker 3 the best companies do this. The best brands do it.

Speaker 7 I love that example. I mean, especially because people have this image of Steve Jobs ranting and raving and pounding desks and throwing computers and screaming at people when

Speaker 7 his best, none of that was his best work. I mean, it may have been some of his early get-off-the-ground work, but Apple's escape velocity wasn't until he turned into what you just described.

Speaker 7 I mean, it's 100% the case. You know, I think

Speaker 7 the idea of a hierarchy is

Speaker 7 you know, almost like a four-letter word these days. But the way I always approached it was

Speaker 7 you need to have a hierarchy of responsibility so that people know what their roles are and what they're responsible to get done.

Speaker 7 But then a call it a flat communication and kind of creativity format where people can bring ideas and stuff. That to me feels like the only way.
But to your point, and this is my next question,

Speaker 7 in order to do the second part,

Speaker 7 the flat communication and creativity, you have to be willing to change your mind.

Speaker 7 You have to be able to listen to people and go, Well, we were thinking about doing it this way, but what she just described, you know, maybe we need to pivot, or maybe we need to delay this project, or maybe we need to bump it up in a row, or whatever.

Speaker 7 I need to reposition based on this new information.

Speaker 3 Why

Speaker 7 do leaders struggle, especially younger, newer leaders, not necessarily in age, but to the position? Why do they struggle so much with

Speaker 7 changing their mind?

Speaker 7 Is it ego? Is it a lack of confidence? Like,

Speaker 7 why do we feel like we always need to have the answer as a leader?

Speaker 3 Yeah, well, we have this problem in our,

Speaker 3 I would say, I mean, it's broad, right? And if you look at, I mean, trends historically, you always have civilizations go through these phases of, you know, building up a sense of knowledge, right?

Speaker 3 And then, and we've had it, you know, in multiples, right? You have the internet, you have access to information, and

Speaker 3 we've leaned in the science, science of management, but also the science of functions, right, of expertise. And so

Speaker 3 we talk about this in the book, is like there's an expert model, right, that we'd like to lead with expertise, lead with competency.

Speaker 3 But what happens in a world where information and knowledge has been democratized fully? As in, you can go to Google, you can go to

Speaker 3 ChatGPT and find answers to any question. So I'm not coming to a manager or a leader or a functional leader to really you know, find the answers to X, Y, Z or all of it.
Maybe some particulars, right?

Speaker 3 And we still need vertical, we still need

Speaker 3 depth of vertical expertise. That doesn't change, but

Speaker 3 that's not the future. It's not the full answer, right?

Speaker 3 The best answer is going to be: hey, if those things are already there, and if we can get depth of perspective, what we really need to do is connect dots, right?

Speaker 3 We need to connect dots and connect dots across our team and build

Speaker 3 essentially perpetual motion, right? In science, they talk about it can't be done. Well, in business, it can, but but it's through people, right? Perpetual motion.

Speaker 3 You know, Tesla tried to create a perpetual motion machine. Da Vinci tried.

Speaker 3 For bio accounts, they failed. We don't know.
We haven't seen those. But what you can do in a team, in a culture, and

Speaker 3 at Apple or Pixar, they call it Braintrust, is you build a team that can wrestle with challenges. They can have debates.
It's all healthy approach. Best ideas win.

Speaker 3 And it's a situation where you're just constantly iterating, right, together and building new products and services and testing those.

Speaker 3 And what's more important in today's world where everything's changing all the time, this disruption that we've experienced over the past year or two weeks, right? It's not going away.

Speaker 3 We're going to see probably over the next decade just as much or more disruption that we've experienced. So how do you deal with that? It's less...

Speaker 3 It's less a linear approach of being in the proverbial canoe, just gently floating along versus like you're in a raft, a river raft, right? It's shaking and everything's moving.

Speaker 3 And then, to your point, then it's about being like, like Bruce Lee would say, right? Be like water. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 7 I, uh, it's funny you bring up Bruce Lee. I love Bruce Lee.

Speaker 7 There's another quote that he has that I apply to leadership all the time, which is the value of the cup is its emptiness. And I've shared this proverb on the show before, or

Speaker 7 anecdote or whatever it's called.

Speaker 7 he he in his book he he shares this story that he was told back when he was in in China

Speaker 7 about

Speaker 7 a Zen master has a student approach approach him and wants to spend time with the Zen master so they sit down and they each have a cup of tea in front of them and the student starts talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and finally the Zen master stands up and grabs the teapot and starts pouring tea into the student's cup until the cup overflows and the student jumps forward.

Speaker 7 What are you doing? And he said,

Speaker 7 and this is where Bruce Lee got his quote from that he uses,

Speaker 7 the value of the cup is the emptiness. You have to approach these situations.

Speaker 7 You may have an idea in your mind that you, I think we should go in X direction, but when you show up to the meeting, If you're only thinking about X,

Speaker 7 there could be 10 opportunities that you don't even hear because you've already determined the answer before listening to everyone there.

Speaker 7 And it's always been shocking to me the people that want to just, well, you're only a receptionist or you're only a salesperson. What do you know about service?

Speaker 7 Or, you know, you're in the accounting department. You know, what do you know about sales? And it's like, except maybe they do.

Speaker 7 Maybe they've bought something before and have a feeling about the way that you're handling it. And to let those ideas fly away to me feels insane.

Speaker 3 You know,

Speaker 3 is

Speaker 7 again,

Speaker 7 I always come back to this idea of ego.

Speaker 7 Are we being,

Speaker 7 are leaders feeling territorial because of all the change? Like the standard best practice of what a leader does is starting to be changed. It's more dynamic.

Speaker 7 Is it I'm worried about losing my position?

Speaker 7 Am I worried about not

Speaker 7 adapting? Sorry? Like,

Speaker 3 why,

Speaker 7 how do we break this down in a way that allows someone who is, and maybe this is your framework and we can jump into that, but how do we break someone down who's sitting there going, you know, I don't know how to live in this world.

Speaker 7 If I don't make this decision, then the board's going to question me. Or

Speaker 7 if I'm not presented as strong and confident, then people are going to undermine me or come after my position, right? Like, I think everyone's having these thoughts all the time,

Speaker 7 but we have to get past it. So, so how do we start to make those moves?

Speaker 3 Yeah, great question. Yeah, I think

Speaker 3 first we have to be open to it. I like your analogy of the cup, right?

Speaker 3 The negative space. We've studied the best leaders that are leading that co-creative future now

Speaker 3 and may have been doing it for years. The difference is for them is

Speaker 3 they aren't out to flaunt their expertise, right? And not for ego reasons, right, either, to your point.

Speaker 3 In fact, they don't look at it like ego. And I think, you know, kind of the

Speaker 3 Zen

Speaker 3 master kind of is a good analogy for this, right?

Speaker 3 Is they're sitting back, they're asking powerful questions, they're listening, they're taking the time because they know there's also that potential energy that needs to turn kinetic, right?

Speaker 3 And that has way more power when they unlock it in people because that person or those people in the team

Speaker 3 you know, they can start to spin the flywheel and things can start to move that would never otherwise happen if they were relying on the expertise of one person.

Speaker 3 You know, that's the old, I said it's the old world. It's not even the currency that that or the kind of electric current that exists today, right? So to believe that that's true is actually

Speaker 3 it's a problem right out of the gate. People aren't, they're going to be bumping their head against the wall.
And to assume that that's still true and things are, you know, we know they're changing.

Speaker 3 extremely fast. And that's not the best.
That's not the only reason to do it. It's like, well, because we're talking about macro changes.
And I think of it like, if you're going to lead the future,

Speaker 3 but

Speaker 3 there are teams that have been doing this for years. And you look at like, I mean, on simple terms, it's look at look at bands, right? Why do some bands come and go?

Speaker 3 I mean, having one big hit, that's kind of a big deal. But most bands will have one and they're gone, right? It's like they're five minutes of fame and it's over.

Speaker 3 This could be true of a lot of fields.

Speaker 3 But with that, with the bands that have transcended time, right, over years or over decades, like the Beatles, the way they did it was the way we're talking about.

Speaker 3 They let their ego, you know, they pulled, it was ego off the table, building blocks on the table, and they were building all the time.

Speaker 3 And the Beatles, when they split up, you know, they were good, but it was never the same, right? And you look at U2, they've transcended time. And, you know, they have

Speaker 3 constantly changed

Speaker 3 and upgraded their work.

Speaker 3 And, you know, I read Bono's autobiography, and he says, this is so fascinating to me, I think, because it really gets to the heart of what we're talking about.

Speaker 3 And there are timeless truths to this principles that it's rooted in. But he said, when we started out as a band, we knew that it was about birth, life, death, and then rebirth.

Speaker 3 And that that was a cycle we were going to plan for with intention. And I think there's something about that in terms of a product, a service, right?

Speaker 3 Because we can get very stuck on, or a way of doing things, right, that we assume that's the way.

Speaker 3 And I'd say that's been true of their albums that have been hits,

Speaker 3 with the exception of Disco Teke, which they made a public apology for.

Speaker 3 But everything else, you're like, wow, how are they doing this? Transcend time. Well, we call it, we also, there's a notion here.
And they experience it.

Speaker 3 I think the great bands do this as well, is it's shared flow. The great teams in basketball, the great teams in any sport,

Speaker 3 the great teams in any company experience shared flow. But a lot of times, we talk about flow, right?

Speaker 3 You're creating art, you're playing sports, you're doing whatever you love that makes your heart sing.

Speaker 3 But what happens when that's shared with others and it's in unison, and you're creating this collective force, right, that's co-creative? You can unlock things that you've never done, right? As

Speaker 3 you couldn't possibly do as individuals.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 7 What are the right questions or what is a question or a type of question

Speaker 7 that

Speaker 7 when we show up as a leader and we want to start developing this culture, say we don't have it today or we're just not intentional with it, what are some of the right questions or types of questions that we could scribble down on a notepad to show up at our next meeting for to start to bring this in, to start to establish this, to start to make it part of what we do?

Speaker 3 Yeah, first is

Speaker 3 embrace the notion of questions, right, versus answers. Lead with a question.
We have a podcast called Lead with a Question. We actually inherited that principle from Ed Catmull, right, at Pixar.

Speaker 3 And he told us about his journey. And his was the typical, you know, he had answers for everything.
He's a smart guy, PhD.

Speaker 3 So when he was leading these teams, everybody came to him with answer, you know, questions. He'd fire off answers.

Speaker 3 But he realized now it took him going on a meditation retreat for seven days, encouraged by his wife. He did this, and

Speaker 3 it changed him. After two or three days, it was like, and all he could do was ask questions and listen.

Speaker 3 Those are the rules of the meditation retreat. And he said it drove him crazy.
He wanted to quit, right? But it changed his life when he stayed into that.

Speaker 3 And it also changed his leaders, changed him as a leader. And so leading with a question

Speaker 3 is a powerful way to unlock meetings, right? Turn them or reimagine them right as brave conversations.

Speaker 3 Because how do you invite, how do you, how do you, you know, and having that empty space is important first, but how do you fill that? And how do you give people that space?

Speaker 3 You know, you could send a question in advance of a meeting, right, a week in advance. They do this at Pixar.
And, you know, Inside Out 2 is great proof of this.

Speaker 3 They have a brain trust that are rolling. And you watch these movies, it's like, go so deep.
It's, you know, and we're talking, usually we talk about soft skills versus hard skills.

Speaker 3 And you're like, okay,

Speaker 3 you know, that debate. But actually, we're talking about deep skills, right? You build your core.
And when you build your core at a deep level and you're brave,

Speaker 3 you expand into the universe with other people because you understand the nature, kind of human nature better.

Speaker 3 So I'd say lead with questions. And then in the conversations you're in, lead it with questions.
You know, that's, it's just, it's a great way to start with, start it out.

Speaker 3 And then you said, you asked what questions specifically. Well, we have a set of a series of golden questions.
And this is amazing. We've actually tested these.

Speaker 3 You can ask, so if you're wondering, like, hey, you know, what could spark something, right? If I want to change a conversation, if I want to change a relationship, try these, right?

Speaker 3 One golden question that I love is,

Speaker 3 and we tried, so we met somebody, I connected to a guy on LinkedIn, and he was asking for career advice. I was like, okay, I'll chat with him.

Speaker 3 I posed this question, and it was simply this.

Speaker 3 You know, in the back of your mind, in the back of your heart, what's something unfulfilled that you'd still like to achieve?

Speaker 3 And you know, that opens people up. It kind of creates a spell, right? But it gives people space to fill that cup, you know, that shared cup.

Speaker 3 And this example, you know, it's an engineer at Silicon Valley Company, and you know, he went on for 45 minutes or an hour. It just spilled kind of everything that was going on in his life.

Speaker 3 I didn't even know the guy to begin with, but we were diving into his world. And we created a connection.
We started to build things together.

Speaker 3 You know, these are things that can be unlocked with the power of a question. Another one is, what are you most excited about right now?

Speaker 3 Right? And

Speaker 3 in a meeting, in a conversation, in a group, with a team, usually we tend to just play on the surface.

Speaker 3 And how was your weekend? And these things. That's okay.
I think it's good to give people that initial space. But diving into these kinds of things, and this could also mostly be one-on-one.

Speaker 3 We just create all kinds of different connections at a different level, right? A different depth. We think of trees, right? How do they operate? Well, on the surface, we look at them and we say, well,

Speaker 3 I got to figure it out. There's one there, there's one there, there's one there.
Actually, the roots underneath are all intertwined and connected. So there's an ecosystem.

Speaker 3 And so, why wouldn't we want to build that? What happens when you do, right? And what does that unlock? Well, I mean, we've seen the results of this in, let's say, brands, you know, shoe brands.

Speaker 3 We've studied

Speaker 3 comparing

Speaker 3 consumer perspective and culture. And these things are fully aligned so that when they invest in their culture, let's say, okay, and we did a study of this, Nike,

Speaker 3 Adidas versus ASICs and Skechers, for example. They've invested in their culture differently, Nike and Adidas.
In fact, on average, they're about 80% to 90% positive, their cultures.

Speaker 3 ASICs and Skechers, 60 to 70%.

Speaker 3 Now they posed a question with our, we partnered with a team called Verbe

Speaker 3 and our company called Verbe, and they asked consumers the question you know which what shoes essentially like getting at this heartbeat of the culture but the experience with the brand itself you know what shoes make you feel like you belong the most

Speaker 3 and their answer was you know 80 to 90 percent Nike and Adidas 60 to 70 percent sketchers and ASICs

Speaker 3 this is fascinating because the same things that are happening internally to the companies are happening externally now notice the difference though in the impact of revenues.

Speaker 3 So, the difference between that 20 to 30 percent

Speaker 3 is over 4x.

Speaker 3 In some cases, 10x, right? Some quarters. So, it's massive.

Speaker 7 So, what I just heard you say, just so I have this in my head, is that the internal

Speaker 7 enjoyment of working for a brand mirrors the consumer connection to that brand.

Speaker 7 So, the companies that have great cultures where the people feel empowered and they enjoy working and challenged and all those kind of things, they're

Speaker 7 simultaneously receiving the same kind of feedback from their consumers because it plays through the way the customer service person answers the phone, the way the marketing person puts the language together.

Speaker 7 It all flows through in terms of the enjoyment and satisfaction and fulfillment that someone's getting from that particular brand and connection.

Speaker 7 And while, and then that actually leads to not percentage increases, but actually multiples of increase in revenue to the companies that are skewing towards the higher side.

Speaker 3 That's right.

Speaker 7 That's incredible. I mean, guys, if you're listening to this,

Speaker 7 just think about what Chris just described.

Speaker 7 And we spend so much time crafting marketing messages and sales hooks and lead funnels and whatever, whatever your business is, whether it's D2C or service or B2B, whatever it is.

Speaker 3 Yet,

Speaker 7 if as leaders, we just spend all our time creating a company,

Speaker 7 not a ping-pong table good culture, but a culture where people are actually challenged and fulfilled and felt like they were heard,

Speaker 7 that immediately applies to the product that you're putting out and probably answers most of the questions that you have about those things to begin with. That is absolutely incredible.

Speaker 7 That's incredible.

Speaker 3 Yeah, well, you might say too, like, well, that's Nike, or that's Apple, that's Pixar. That could be true, except that we've also worked with smaller teams, smaller companies, right?

Speaker 3 Startups, mid-sized, smaller. And I'll give you an example, right? I work with a client.
He's got a co-founder, got a team of about 100, 150 people.

Speaker 3 And he says, you know, they're about a $15 million business.

Speaker 3 You say, what's your goal? I want to go to 50 to 45 million, right? In three years and then exit. That's an awesome.
Decent goal.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 Do your people know that? We also ask them, oh,

Speaker 3 what do you mean? Well, you said that they feel like, you know, you're, well, they're not committed.

Speaker 3 It's like, well,

Speaker 3 then you realize, like, oh, wait a minute. Okay.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I guess they do know that.

Speaker 3 So there's a connection there, right? You're on a beach, you know, sipping your pina colada in Kiki West. They're seeing you, you know, mentally, right?

Speaker 3 Now, of course, he's doing work, but the goal, that's his focus. Like, that's his, the North Star that he had is not their North Star.

Speaker 3 Like, they're not going to benefit like that from, you know, doing their work.

Speaker 3 Maybe they get some stock, who knows, but not a lot. So, or comparatively, to him.
So, the question became, well, how can you look at this differently?

Speaker 3 It's not about, okay, you can still have an exit strategy, fine, but what if you build that perpetual motion? And by the way, if you ask any of these people, they've actually been asked.

Speaker 3 So, Steve Jobs, if we had him on the show, or, you know, we'd have to get him on the other side, but Ed Capital, right?

Speaker 3 They'd say, What's your favorite product you've ever worked on, right? Or your best product? What's your best movie? What's your best this, right?

Speaker 3 Most people would pick, well, Toy Story or iPhone, right? Of course, these are amazing.

Speaker 3 They say, The culture, right? Why? Because the culture is the perpetual motion machine that's producing those things, the better ones every time. So, this guy, we partner with him.
We said, zoom out.

Speaker 3 Let's think about that relationship with your co-founder. He's, because at first, it's like, hey, do some team building with my team.
Now, let's let's zoom out.

Speaker 3 What are the first principles of your future culture? Right? Now I'm talking like

Speaker 3 this is the, you know, interstellar version of your culture. You're coming off the DeLorean, right? 10 years, 20 years, 30 years from the future.
What are people saying about this? What do they feel?

Speaker 3 What do you observe? Oh, people love what they do. We're high growth, right?

Speaker 3 It's just unbelievable success that we're seeing in this company. Okay, focus on that and build your brain trust

Speaker 3 where you shape these first principles. And I'm talking about first principles as in.

Speaker 3 You're going to land, do a self-landing rocket like SpaceX.

Speaker 3 It's not just what materials do you need, right? Aluminum, some other parts, and this and that.

Speaker 3 It's like, no, actually, the way they approach that, or Elon Musk approaches that, and the team is to say,

Speaker 3 What are the first principles of accomplishing this, right? Which is we got to deal with gravity, right? We have to deal with there are certain materials that work and that don't.

Speaker 3 We have to deal with forces, right? Newton's laws, all these things. So those are the first principles.

Speaker 3 And the interesting part is, Ryan, is that, and for everybody, it's like most leaders, most entrepreneurs haven't wrestled with these questions at all. And that's okay.

Speaker 3 I mean, there's an upside to that. Because I think we're all asking that, we are asking the question is, We do, we all want to work in places that we love.
Yeah. Right?

Speaker 3 We all want to be in those experiences where you feel something different, where you feel like you're doing the work, the best work of your life, right? Where your heart sings.

Speaker 3 And so that was the challenge to this leader. And we did some coaching over the course of a year.

Speaker 3 Get this.

Speaker 3 He calls me about a year later. We launched our website, BraveCorp.co.

Speaker 3 And my friend actually pings me, my co-author, Ian Claussen,

Speaker 3 and he says, hey, have you been on the website?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 Hey look on there, and Tim Cook Cook had just downloaded, he just joined, you know, downloaded our e-book and was on our website. You know, I did some work at Apple there.

Speaker 3 And, you know, he was aware, apparently. But so that was cool.

Speaker 3 I get a call, right? I said that screenshot of that to this client, and then he pings me and is like, hey, can you talk right now? So, yeah.

Speaker 3 He said, hey, that culture work we did, it's been transformative. Because people love their work.
We're high growth.

Speaker 3 It's unlike anything I've seen before. He goes, and by the way, we just had a million-dollar day yesterday.
So they went from 15 million to 150 million a year

Speaker 3 in one year. They went public as a company.
They sold. Now he

Speaker 3 does a lot of things, spends a lot of time with his family and buys houses in Hawaii.

Speaker 3 But he has a culture that's a perpetual motion machine. So he's proud of what's there.
He's still an advisor to it and just loves seeing what they've built.

Speaker 3 And by the way, the people that felt uncommitted, they love being there. They don't have a nutrition problem.
They have a problem of they get, you know, the best talent.

Speaker 3 They just got to sort through who they want.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 7 Whenever people ask me questions about hiring and culture and stuff like that,

Speaker 7 one of the first questions I ask them is like, would you want to work there?

Speaker 7 Like, would you think about what your people do?

Speaker 3 Would you want that job? Like, the way it's set up.

Speaker 7 And, you know, sometimes the answer is yes, sometimes no. It all depends on what's going on.
But like, I think

Speaker 7 we get so caught up

Speaker 3 in

Speaker 7 whatever our personal goal is or the big goal that we have that we don't slow down and go, well,

Speaker 7 I have a sales team,

Speaker 3 but they all hate working it.

Speaker 7 Their environment's not good. The tool's not good.
I haven't trained them enough. I haven't answered their questions.
We don't have REITs, whatever the things are.

Speaker 7 They're hating their job. In my mind, they're just seven salespeople, you know, salesperson one through seven.
And I'm looking at their numbers. But

Speaker 7 would you want to go sit in that seat? Like, if you were a salesperson at that point in your career, would you want to sit there?

Speaker 7 And if the answer is no, like right away, we know that something's wrong. You know, I listen to the

Speaker 7 I like to delineate between listening to books and reading them.

Speaker 7 I hate when people say they read a book, but they really listen to the audio.

Speaker 3 I don't know why.

Speaker 7 But I was listening to the Walter Isaacson's book on Elon Musk. And particularly to the Rockets, there's this question that that Elon would ask that

Speaker 7 it just has always captured me. Like, especially when they were the early days of SpaceX with the rockets,

Speaker 7 they, you know, they tried to buy rockets, a Russian rocket, and they tried, you know, they didn't have the ability to generate their own rocket at that time, so they were trying to find rockets from other places.

Speaker 7 And they immediately ran into hiccups based on what you were describing around the realities of the situation and what they were trying to achieve. And he would say,

Speaker 7 he would explain to the head of engineering what needed to happen as an outcome. And he would get an answer often, well, it doesn't do that, or it can't do that.
And he would respond,

Speaker 3 what if it could? Like,

Speaker 7 explain to me what you would need if it could do that thing.

Speaker 7 And that question,

Speaker 7 it drove so many of the innovations and tweaks and things that they then, you know, that was actually what spurred

Speaker 7 when they created their own rocket plant to divide, to, wow, to manufacture their own rockets.

Speaker 7 That was actually the question that created that because he kept asking what if it could, they kept telling him what they needed to actually make what he needed a reality.

Speaker 7 And they eventually just decided, we're going to have to create this ourselves.

Speaker 7 So like you think about that, his initial plan, and this is exactly what you're explaining, his initial plan was to never manufacture his own rockets. That was never part of the original plan.
But

Speaker 7 by asking questions, as you describe, by listening to the answers,

Speaker 7 the inevitable and only solution was they had to manufacture themselves because literally it didn't exist in the world what he needed, or at least all the parts.

Speaker 7 So, how do you get to, as you describe your client, with 15 to 150 instead of his five-year goal of 45 or whatever it was?

Speaker 7 All the iterations, changes, improvements, whatever, that that were necessary to make that much of a leap forward could only happen

Speaker 7 by

Speaker 7 believing that you don't have all the answers and leading with questions. I just, guys,

Speaker 7 this is incredibly powerful stuff. So in the book, you outline

Speaker 7 these six principles.

Speaker 7 And guys, I'll have links to all this stuff in the show notes and YouTube. And Chris will obviously direct you at the end as well if you just want to go there directly.

Speaker 7 So don't feel like you have to, you're going to miss this stuff but

Speaker 7 I wanna I want to end our conversation around

Speaker 7 this idea

Speaker 7 of our mission

Speaker 7 this is a place when you know specifically talking to culture talking to alignment like

Speaker 7 You described it perfectly.

Speaker 7 The mission as seen by your client when he first came to you, right? He's working hard, but he's doing it on a beach and he's trying to to get the 45.

Speaker 7 That mission is completely misaligned, or maybe doesn't exist to everyone else on the team, or most of the rest of the team. So

Speaker 7 we start to ask questions. We go back to first principles.

Speaker 7 What is the actual implementation look like at a high level, right? Like,

Speaker 7 how do we start? Once we kind of know what we want our culture to be, how do we then start to align our people to that mission and that culture?

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's a great question. And I will say about the book, and I agree with you, like, you know, audio versus

Speaker 3 reading,

Speaker 3 we've got all options for our book. We've got audio version.
We've got the

Speaker 3 regular, and we have actually a lit video book that came out recently that has a lot of visual that just captures the essence of the book in about 30 minutes.

Speaker 3 So that's something else to be able to do. Wow, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 But yeah, to your question, I think we talk about, so there's two principles that come to mind, you know, from

Speaker 3 kind of the philosophy of co-creation, which is create context.

Speaker 3 Oftentimes we think about creating content. And

Speaker 3 there's a lot of opinions about this, just produce more content, more, more, more, more, and more.

Speaker 3 But what we see in greatness, in the best leaders, the most co-creative leaders, the co-creators. that are really shaping the future is that they're creating context.

Speaker 3 Steve Jobs said that the storyteller has the most power over the future. And that's true.
And so

Speaker 3 what story are you telling? What story are you telling yourself as a leader? So part of it is being clear about that.

Speaker 3 You know, once you've set the tone with leading with questions, building off first principles, but they're accustomed to your future, right?

Speaker 3 So those first principles, and you're co-creating them with others. So you build this engine of a brain trust.
And this is all ensuring the key people are in the room or the Zoom room.

Speaker 3 And you keep that vehicle in place, right? The perpetual motion of that brain trust moving forward. But the key, the biggest key in all of this, I would say, is

Speaker 3 you live it. So you live these principles.
And what starts to happen is, because culture is what is,

Speaker 3 yes, it's big and it's what an organization, you know, as an organism,

Speaker 3 as a person, if you call it, a culture, how it lives, how it breathes, what it does,

Speaker 3 how it acts. But really, it all starts, especially, this is the power of a founder, an entrepreneur, is you set that tone.

Speaker 3 I coached Michael Dell,

Speaker 3 CEO at Dell, and he was transitioning from,

Speaker 3 I'd say, a rough version of himself, very tactically oriented to scale, right? And being more, having a broader view of the business, a lot of things we're talking about.

Speaker 3 And that shift required a different mindset, a different approach. But he was really open to those changes.

Speaker 3 And I think if you can be open to what those changes are, you just are in constant reflection, right?

Speaker 3 Steve talks about, he talks about the mirror. We talk about the mirror test in the book, and that's key on a regular basis.

Speaker 3 But then as far as driving towards an objective, you have that North Star, and that's a drumbeat that goes constant through the organization.

Speaker 3 I think one of the biggest parts, too, is when you look at this future, the future principles of that experience, right, that what it feels like to be in the culture you want to experience, then you have to ask yourself the hard questions.

Speaker 3 What am I doing right now, or today, or this past week, or the past few months or year that is incongruent with that? What are the things in my own habits or patterns of the team that

Speaker 3 aren't working towards that objective or those objectives? And that's what really Follow True North is. You set the true north, right? And sticking to that.

Speaker 3 You have to be willing to make the sacrifices to shave off those things. And this is one of the hardest things to do because it's painful, right, sometimes.

Speaker 3 And it involves sometimes a sense of rebirth where you're saying, you know what?

Speaker 3 That rough version of me, you know, but I think of it like it's like a rough stone rolling, right?

Speaker 3 It's rolling down the mountain, but the parts that are chipping off, you don't really need them anyway, right? Look at Michelangelo. He goes in, he gets a piece of marble.
Yeah, it's like, well,

Speaker 3 you don't just, you know, hit one time and it turns into this masterpiece. You chip off everything that's not.

Speaker 3 And so as to become essentially super leaders of the future or co-creators that are inspirational and are the kind of quality that leaders were talking about, and I'm talking about both the impact of the results you want to have, but also the innovation engine that makes it legend, right?

Speaker 3 Is that you're willing to maybe ask the inverted question.

Speaker 3 To your point about you know, the inverted question with the space and the cup is maybe it's not not about what do i need to become what are the characteristics i need to become as a leader it's what things do i need to shave off

Speaker 3 right in comparison to this beautiful future of these first principles that we've imagined what it can be right this culture that is truly amazing and that's that's the difference because then that that becomes the bridge right the bridge is wow And people will notice, right?

Speaker 3 And even if somebody's been kind of an a-hole in the past, right? I mean, we talk about Steve. That was brutal, right?

Speaker 3 And the stuff that Hollywood loves to talk about and all these bad boy behaviors, but that's not what got him into the future, to your point, at scale, right, with Apple or with Pixar.

Speaker 3 It was all about compassion and empathy, things that, by the way, he learned on a personal level, right? He got married, settled down, had kids.

Speaker 3 And not that everybody has to do that, but I think the point is that

Speaker 3 there are a few key building blocks to this. One is, because we ask ourselves, what is culture? How do we influence it?

Speaker 3 Well, and you can actually see these just a high-level example in a few leaders that embody this. So one is

Speaker 3 shared wisdom. That's leading with questions.
That's a building block for the future. Tim Cook does this extremely well.
He sits back, he asks questions, he listens.

Speaker 3 Deep empathy, right, which is essentially compassion. And you're making others the mission.
It's a selfless force. Satya Nadella at Microsoft does this extremely well, right?

Speaker 3 He learned it on a personal level. His wife,

Speaker 3 great example, their son had struggle palsy, spent a lot of of time with his son, and this transformed him, right?

Speaker 3 And we all have experiences that we can tap into, but we usually create barriers or firewalls to that to get to from private to public. But the reality is we got to break those down.

Speaker 3 And you bring those experiences and you bring,

Speaker 3 I mean, let's call it it. What is it? You know, love, right? What's the most brave thing to do? Is to be compassionate.
And the last one is being powered by principles.

Speaker 3 And a great example of this is Jensen Wong at NVIDIA. It's not just the fact that they're killing it, right, and they're changing

Speaker 3 the entire industry or defining this industry of AI, and they're standing up billion-dollar businesses overnight.

Speaker 3 It's the fact that the guy sits in a room with the Stanford students and he says, I'd love to see you guys suffer.

Speaker 3 They've been through a lot of kind of entitled experiences. And it's not that he's saying that because, hey, I want to just see pain.
And, you know, there's this notion of like, no pain, no gain.

Speaker 3 I don't think that's the future. The future is we all have enough pain.
We don't have to go looking for it.

Speaker 3 But if you turn it into power, and his point is there's joy in suffering because suffering will come, but you also choose those experiences, like with the SpaceX example, these things that are extremely hard, right?

Speaker 3 These impossible challenges. And then you just figure out, well, what are the obstacles? Rather than saying, it's impossible or it's not, what are the obstacles?

Speaker 3 And then you just delete them and you're there, right? You've just done the impossible. And they're doing doing it all the time.

Speaker 3 So I think those building blocks of shared wisdom, deep empathy, being powered by principles like sacrifice and like joy in suffering is so powerful, right?

Speaker 3 It's contrarian, paradox, but it's powerful.

Speaker 7 The book is Brave Together. I couldn't recommend it enough.

Speaker 7 I think everyone who's listening, if you're not following along with Chris's work,

Speaker 7 this is the future. This is the roadmap.

Speaker 3 Like, I just,

Speaker 7 I

Speaker 7 so aligned with what you're doing. I had never put it into the context that you did.
And, um,

Speaker 7 dude, I'm just so happy that we've had a chance to meet and chat. And, uh, dude, you got a, you got a fan for life in me.
So I, I, I appreciate it. I appreciate your time.

Speaker 7 Um, where's the best place for people to connect with you and go deeper down the rabbit hole?

Speaker 3 Thanks so much, Ryan. It's been great, this conversation, and really.
Appreciate it. Yeah, so LinkedIn is a great place to connect.

Speaker 3 You know, bravecore.co. we have a lot of resources there.
People could download the proclamation or the letter to ego. They can download snippets from the book or articles.

Speaker 3 There's a lot of places, the book's been highlighted. Forbes, Fast Company, the Next Big Idea Club has a good kind of take on the book.
It's a shorthand version of it.

Speaker 3 That's Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Grant, part of that.

Speaker 3 I think just

Speaker 3 love to connect.

Speaker 3 I love hearing people's stories stories and, and how we can be better co-creators and lead the future.

Speaker 7 Awesome. Appreciate you, Brad.

Speaker 7 Let's go.

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Speaker 9 cards, and oh, those stuffed animals the girls want.

Speaker 3 Great, and I'll grab the string lights and some.

Speaker 3 How about I grab some cough drops? This is not just a quick trip to Walgreens.

Speaker 9 I'm fine, honey.

Speaker 3 Well, just in case, you know what they say. Tis the season.
This is help staying healthy through the holidays. Walgreens.

Speaker 3 Are you ready to get spicy? These Doritos Golden Sriracha aren't that spicy.

Speaker 3 Sriracha sounds pretty spicy to me. Um, a little spicy, but also tangy and sweet.
Maybe it's time to turn up the heat. Or turn it down.

Speaker 3 It's time for something that's not too spicy. Try Dorito's Golden Sriracha.
Spicy.

Speaker 3 But not too spicy.