Mark Tercek: The Nature Conservancy CEO

Some interesting insights from this episode: 

• We all have an inner environmentalist inside of us. 

• His executive coach taught him some valuable lessons early on including how to listen better and how to not sweat out the details. 

• In the nonprofit world, he had to learn how to understand employees' psychic income and use that as motivation to drive behavior. 

• Saving nature isn't just the morally right thing to do, it's also the smartest investment we can make. 

• Learn how he pivoted his 4,000 employee organization from pure land conservation toward embracing climate change as a top priority. 

• "Excellence is matching ambition with a good dose of reality." 

• We all have a tendency to overestimate risks in our lives. The returns are greater than perceived and the risks less that perceived.  More of us should just go for it.