Leadership in Hard Times and Innovating to Win with Jon Bolen

Shownotes(00:43) Intro(2:40) Introducing Jon Bolen(3:30)  What is Jon reading?(6:29) Jon’s unique approach to leadership through the pandemic(11:27) ENTOUCH’s culture(13:33) What does ENTOUCH do?(18:56) Will the pandemic have an effect on the way people think about climate change?(21:53) Setting boundaries while working from home(25:24) Keeping a strong culture without going in to the office(27:58) ENTOUCH’s innovation in its fieldQuotes“The recognition that this is the time we’re being called to be leaders.  This environment isn’t going away...So it’s our job to help [our clients] through that, not sit on the sideline with other people waiting for it to be over.”  (9:33)“When we think about climate change, we’re always thinking about cars and smokestacks, and you know, all of the sort of dirty technologies. We never really wrap our heads around the idea that the offices we go to work in, and the houses we live in are actually the largest culprit.  And the simplest way to impact your energy consumption in a building is to make it smarter.” (15:23)“Climate change is going to create this long term test on our resiliency, and it’s going to take technologies like ENTOUCH to enable the facilities teams to battle that.” (18:15)“It wasn’t uncommon at all for one of us to hear a conversation on the other side of the room and kind of lean back and think ‘You know, I think I can add value to that.’  Go over, and it turns into two to three people jumping in front of a whiteboard and solving a problem that otherwise might not have gotten solved.”  (26:11)“I think all companies have to think through, how do we create that really, really neat lightning in a bottle that you get when really smart people collaborate; and do it virtually.” (27:20)LinksShawn BlackJon BolenENTOUCH  Book Recommendationshttps://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs/dp/1250067057 https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283