Episode #362
In high-stakes missions and business, tools and techniques matter, but team behaviors ultimately drive outcomes.
Great leaders modulate authentic emotions for the moment; enthusiasm and affect are contagious and shape team performance.
Humility and learning from failure are essential—avoid arrogance and complacency, heed red flags, and be willing to turn back.
There's nothing as contagious as enthusiasm.
It's behaviors that drive results.
Arrogance is believing that the rules do not apply to you.
Chris Warner is a climber, entrepreneur, and leadership educator. He’s led over 230 mountaineering expeditions in Asia, North and South America, Africa, and Antarctica.
He guided the first-ever reality TV show on Mount Everest, filmed an Emmy-nominated documentary about his team’s K2 climb, and pioneered new routes throughout the Himalaya.
In 1990, Chris started a business with $592 and grew it into the first national chain of indoor climbing gyms. When he retired as CEO, the company had 1,000 employees serving 2 million customers annually.
Today, he’s an investor in private companies, a mentor to CEOs, and a real estate developer in Aspen, Colorado.
During his 25+ years as a leadership educator, he’s worked with Google execs, NFL and NHL teams, Fortune 500 firms, Silicon Valley startups, and thousands of CEOs and their senior leadership teams.
What you’re about to hear in this episode are stories from a man who has lived through probably the most unbelievable leadership challenges that I’ve heard of in the six years of the Success Through Failure podcast.
Tune in and discover how someone like Chris climbed his way to the top, backed by some actionable tactics that you can use in your own climb to the summit. Listen now!
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