# Bill George

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What Is Your True North? | How Great Leaders Shape You

Send us Fan Mail What is your True North, and will it guide you when leadership gets difficult? In this episode of The Leadership Buzz, I draw on Bill George’s True North and stories from my 37 years in the Air Force to explore how our values shape the way we lead. Titles may give us authority, but…

Hiring Is Changing: Why Human Judgment Still Matters in the AI Era: ManpowerGroup

Hiring managers are struggling to find the talent they need, while job seekers face one of the toughest markets in recent memory. Jonas Prising, Chair and CEO of ManpowerGroup, explains what is driving these pressures—from the economic cycle and geopolitical shifts to major demographic changes. He…

Inside Premier Bee Products: From Bee Yard Ideas to Manufacturing

What does it look like when beekeeping equipment moves from an idea in the bee yard to full-scale manufacturing? In this Beekeeping Today Podcast Short, Jeff Ott takes listeners onto the production floor at Premier Bee Products in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Premier founder Jeff Johnson explains ho…

Casino Royale (2006)

Shaken or stirred? Do we look like we give a damn? Randy and Kris are joined by special guest Bill George of the Should I Go See It? podcast to revisit Casino Royale (2006). This gritty reboot of a beloved franchise took many fans by surprise when it dropped twenty years ago, but our special guest …

Community-Based Design & the Whole Child Model - A Conversation with Cynthia Robinson-Rivers and Jeff Wetzler

Most school reform efforts claim to be "research-based." But fewer are genuinely built with the people who have to live inside them every day. Building on some of the themes that I explored with Iwan Syahril on a recent episode, this week we're diving deeper into community-based design. Rather than…

Bill George: Becoming the Leader You’re Capable of Being

What does it really take to become a great leader—and reach your full potential? This episode is an interview I conducted of Bill George, the former Chairman and CEO of Medtronic and a professor at Harvard Business School. Bill is one of the world’s leading voices on authentic leadership, and in th…

The Hardest Leadership Lesson: Let Someone Else Be the Hero

Being the person who saves the day feels good. But letting someone else do it can make you a better leader. MEA founder Chip Conley joins Derek Gehl to talk about one of the hardest changes in his career: moving from hero to coach. Chip shares how he is learning to step back, trust his team, and m…

484: Bill George - Becoming An Authentic Leader By Discovering Your True North (Former CEO of Medtronic)

Text Hawk to 66866 to receive a carefully curated email from me each Monday morning to help you start your week off right! Full show notes at www.LearningLeader.com Twitter/IG: @RyanHawk12    https://twitter.com/RyanHawk12 Bill George is a senior fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has taug…