8 Stories for Personal Transformation at Work and at Large – Top Entrepreneurs Podcast

Bob Kaplan, the author of GRAPPLING: Leaders Striving To Improve, a series of short stories that bring executive coaching to life joins Enterprise Radio. The book is based on his decades of experience consulting to CEOs, founders, and other senior leaders.

This episode of Enterprise Radio is in association with the Author Channel.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Bob Kaplan discuss the following:

1. Please tell us what inspired you to write this book.
2. To improve is to grapple with yourself. What are some of the essential things people need to look at to make the challenging work of self-improvement easier?
3. Why do you strongly suggest that using an outside voice – a guide – is important to initiate and sustain change, and how does someone find a suitable guide?
4. How do strong forces—overheated ambition, undue fear, unrealistic expectations, unchecked ego needs, disabling self-doubt—have a way of undermining our intentions?
5. How do we go about finding the “blockers” to change?
6. Why does positive feedback make people feel uncomfortable and how can it be directed to enhance performance?
7. In your book, you introduce the exercise of jotting down ten answers to the question: Who am I? Just a word or two for each. What is the purpose of this exercise?
8. Your 8 fictionalized stories of real-life cases are created to bring the struggle for self-improvement to life. What conclusions do you hope people will take from them?

Bob Kaplan is the author of GRAPPLING: Leaders Striving To Improve, a series of short stories that bring executive coaching to life. The book is based on his decades of experience consulting to CEOs, founders, and other senior leaders. He is founder and president of his own leadership-consulting firm, Kaplan DeVries. He invented and patented a 360 survey, the Leadership Versatility Index, a unique way of assessing leaders. He and his colleagues also take a unique approach to delivering feedback,emphasizing positive feedback as a chance to boost the leader’s confidence. His last book was Fear Your Strengths: What You’re Best Could Be Your Biggest Problem. You can reach him at [email protected].

Website: kaplandevries.com/books

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