Leveraging the Wisdom of Others with Craig Lemasters
b'Craig Lemasters is an author, entrepreneur, investor, and board member with more than two decades of success in executive leadership positions. He\\u2019s now dedicated to helping senior leaders get unstuck on the major growth challenges to their businesses. Craig previously served as the CEO of the Atlanta-based Assurant Solutions, a subsidiary of the Fortune 500 Assurant, Inc. During his tenure, he led Assurant\\u2019s digital transformation and expansion into a global enterprise with a presence in 25 new markets around the world. He has a new book called Unstuck that will be released this summer.\\n\\nLEADERSHIP INSIGHTS\\n\\n- The number one criterion for successful wisdom-based learning is humility.\\n- Define your destination, identify the 3-4 buckets of wisdom you need to get to the destination, and find the people who have done those things to extract their knowledge.\\n- Knowing what your team\\u2019s knowledge is in a certain strategic area is important. If it\\u2019s a new destination, usually that knowledge is pretty low.\\n- We were supposed to learn really hard things from wise people in one-on-one settings or in small groups.\\n- Create \\u201ceco-systems\\u201d of your life: Your current job, the job you want, etc. Determine the knowledge and experience you need and what areas you currently lack. Then find those who are excelling in those areas to help you!\\n\\nQUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION\\n\\n- What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? Belief. We can find purpose in most things if we pause to find that purpose.\\n- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: \\u201cA leader is\\u2026\\u201d Humble, intentional, and gritty.\\n- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? Is there somebody on your team that you wish would resign today?\\n- What book would you recommend to leaders? Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth\\n- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Intentionally leverage the wisdom of others.\\n- As a general life principle, is it better to ask \\u201cwhy?\\u201d or \\u201cwhy not?\\u201d \\u201cWhy not?\\u201d because it causes you to question some of your own beliefs.\\n\\nWebsite:\\nhttps://www.craiglemasters.com\\n\\nFind Craig on social media:\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/unstuckbook (@unstuckbook)\\nLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-lemasters-72507321/ ( in/Craig-Lemasters)'