Archive Episode #42: Harness Tension to Promote Innovation w/ Judith Germain

What’s the difference between influence and manipulation?

How has COVID created the need for a new leadership breed?

How do you lead those who don’t want to take risks to do what’s right?

These and other fascinating questions are addressed when Judith Germain, the Mindful Maverick, joins the Rabbi and the Shrink in this archive episode..

https://www.linkedin.com/in/judithgermain/

https://themaverickparadox.com/

1:00 What is the Maverick Paradox?

What kind of leader will risk everything to do what’s right and give up everything to defend it?

Why do companies hire mavericks and then resent them?

You can be a maverick by personality or by vision

Maverick leader is who you are and what you actually do

Everyone can be a maverick leader

5:00 We all have the potential but we don’t all have the will

“Maverick leaders will swim upstream like a salmon even though they know there’s a bear waiting for them

7:30 How do you lead those who don’t want to take risks to do what’s right?

All of human experience is paradoxical

Leaders need to be consultants and promote an antifragile culture

12:00 How do we help mavericks grow?

The difference between extroverted mavericks and introverted mavericks

Patience is a learned trait

Manage the tension between independence and interdependence

Authentic leadership is getting others to want to do the right thing

15:00 What’s the difference between influence and manipulation?

It comes down to intention

Eventually people revolt against manipulation

Maverick leaders are great storytellers

What’s the difference between socialized mavericks and extreme mavericks?

19:00 It’s lonely being a maverick

Pull yourself out of the fight to carry on the fight

When does tension lead to innovation?

How has COVID created the need for a new breed of leaders?

25:00 If you’re not being challenged, something is wrong.

Unanimity is overrated

If a maverick stops arguing, it means they’ve stopped caring

29:00 Four different personalities

Conformist, maverick behaviorist, socialized maverick, and extreme maverick

Balance the good of others and the good of themselves

What are the defining characteristics of a maverick leader:

Determined

Reputation -- character and competence

Influence

Versatility

Execution

Narration

Differences with a sense of common vision drives success

34:00 Trust is built or undermined over time

Principled leadership inspires trusting followership

Grover Cleveland

Unreasonable expectations sabotages the system

Ethics always begins with accountability

Only through passionate engagement and constructive disagreement can we get closer to the truth

45:00  Word of the day:  iconoclast

Challenge the conventional wisdom

When politics becomes religion, there can be no ethical debate

Strike the balance between civility and being contrarian