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Aug 2024
35m 37s

How you can bring out the best in others

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About this episode
We are back! To kick off the season, Anne and Frances provide some simple but impactful insights that can help you be the best leader you can be. They describe a powerful framework for creating the conditions for other people’s success by setting high standards and devotion. Frances shares the right and wrong ways she’s been a leader for her students, and Anne contemplates the impact of a growth mindset when it comes to leadership, parenting, and love.

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