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Pastor Bob ThibodeauOn this podcast we interview fellow entrepreneurs who are willing to share their stories, their trials and their triumphs in business, all in an effort to help you avoid the same obstacles and to achieve success faster.
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Pastor Bob ThibodeauNow with today's guest, here is your host, Pastor Bob Thibodeau.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Hello everyone everywhere.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Pastor Robert Thibodeau here.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Welcome to the Faith Based Business podcast.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2We are so blessed that you are joining us today.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Hey folks, Pastor Bob here.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2We're back today in part two of just an absolutely fabulous interview with Stephen Falk, author of the Switched On CEO how to Think Like a World Class Leader.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Now, he has been dropping value bomb after value bomb in this interview and I went through his book.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I'm so excited about his book.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And this interview is even more fabulous.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I've been taking notes as we go too.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I recommend you get a hold of his book and go through it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Stephen has put together an absolutely wonderful program in this Switched on CEO and his expertise is on getting you to run the business better and have people join it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I'm not going to sit here and explain it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I want to jump back into the conclusion of this interview.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Let him explain it as we go because he does a lot better job at it than Pastor Bob could do.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Alright, let's jump back into the interview now with Stephen Falk.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Well explain the importance of this concept and how it can be used to help foster greater information sharing, really, without putting anyone on the defense.
Stephen FalkSure.
Stephen FalkSo let's, let's grab Wildfire for a second.
Stephen FalkRight.
Stephen FalkAnd so they have a briefing every complex fire.
Stephen FalkSo there's 400 people standing at 7 o'clock in the morning waiting for their briefing.
Stephen FalkAnd the briefing's like 15 minutes.
Stephen FalkAnd so there is no time for fluff.
Stephen FalkThere really isn't.
Stephen FalkSo they go through ops, they go through communications, they go through weather, they go through all the different.
Stephen FalkEach person gets a little sound bite.
Stephen FalkSo it'll be very easy just to skip all the three lane highway protocols and just deliver the message.
Stephen FalkBut you know what?
Stephen FalkIf they do that fire will be ranked very low on the level of engagement and morale and there'll be mistakes made.
Stephen FalkSo literally this is how hard it is for like an instant commander on a fire to use our model.
Stephen FalkThey show up at 7:00 in the morning or 6:30, depends on, you know, when the sun's rising.
Stephen FalkSay okay, let's get out the gator.
Stephen FalkThank you very much for being here today.
Stephen FalkOkay.
Stephen FalkTwo ducks and a deer walk into a bar.
Stephen FalkBut you're thinking that's no different than what a hypnotist does on the stage.
Stephen FalkThey're capturing people's attention and in a random way.
Stephen FalkAnd it takes like two ducks in a bar and two ducks and a deer walk into a bar.
Stephen FalkWait one steamboat and then the duck said the bar.
Stephen FalkThe deer said, done.
Stephen FalkWhat's happened?
Stephen FalkYou've now taken 350 people that are just came off a text with their family or just looked at their crypto account or just are wondering, wow, why am I so hungover like, or feeling their store like they're all over the map.
Stephen FalkRight.
Stephen FalkYou don't have any teamwork standing there.
Stephen FalkAnd with one stupid joke in lane one, you've now gathered everybody together and then from there they go.
Stephen FalkOkay, let's go to weather.
Stephen FalkOkay, weather, what do you got for us?
Stephen FalkAwesome.
Stephen FalkWhat do you got from comms?
Stephen FalkWhat do you got from our stakeholders?
Stephen FalkWhat do you got from this?
Stephen FalkOkay, so what's the aerial plan for today?
Stephen FalkGreat.
Stephen FalkWhat's the.
Stephen FalkEveryone have a great day.
Stephen FalkOh, wait, just before you go.
Stephen FalkSo two rabbits were talking to each other.
Stephen FalkIt sounds so dumb, but you're actually merging into the, the, the transactional information and you're merging out.
Stephen FalkIf they would be taking like, like, you know, feedback.
Stephen FalkAar review of that fire or what do you think of this incident commander?
Stephen FalkThey'll go five star review, best commander in the world.
Stephen FalkHe's like, just loved how she, how she.
Stephen FalkI just felt energy all the entire 60 days in the fire.
Stephen FalkLike, why Some stupid opening and closing joke.
Stephen FalkSo as much as it sounds basic, it's skipped by most CEOs.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yep.
Stephen FalkAgain, the risk management is like, oh, you know, I wouldn't want to show that, you know, the vulnerability of telling a joke.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah, yeah.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And you know, going back to the military side, I've been in these briefings where, you know, we got a new mission order coming out.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2You know, the, the leaders, you know, the unit leaders report up here at 1500 hours because you got to get briefed by the Colonel what's going to take place.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And we're sitting there like, yeah, well, you know, how's everything going?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And you know, how's family?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Have you been talking to everything?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And then the Colonel walks in, everybody shuts up, goes, all right, here's what we got, you know, and yeah, boom, straight into it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Any questions?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2All right, move out.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Make it happen.
Stephen FalkI, I had, I did an experiment at where switchback is integrated into, into agency administrator training for interagency wildland fire.
Stephen FalkSo it's a five day training that happens every year in Santa Fe.
Stephen FalkIt's amazing.
Stephen FalkSo there's like 18 speakers that fly in and do their thing.
Stephen FalkAnd then, then switchback is like drip fed throughout the whole process where we do some training, but we do also interpret what's going on.
Stephen FalkWe close out the day.
Stephen FalkAnd, and so day one, it's like, okay, so switch back.
Stephen FalkYou're gonna see on the agendas, throw out his whole thing.
Stephen FalkSo I'm not sure how to introduce some Stephen folks.
Stephen FalkSo he's in the back there.
Stephen FalkSo, Steve, why don't you just get.
Stephen FalkWhy don't you just get it going right?
Stephen FalkSo I'm already mic'd up, and now I have this opportunity to bond with 100 people in the room in the next 30 seconds.
Stephen FalkSo I could say, well, you know, two ducks and a deer walking into the bar, but I'm not there yet because they don't know me yet.
Stephen FalkSo I just go, I turned my mic go, okay, this is gonna be awkward, but has anyone wanted to hug a Canadian and never had the opportunity?
Stephen FalkI started walking to the front room, going through all the tables.
Stephen FalkMen and women started popping up out of their seats like Montana men with belt buckles and rang their jeans go.
Stephen FalkWell, I've never hugged a Canadian.
Stephen FalkWell, I've never hugged a Canadian.
Stephen FalkAnd so hug, hug, hug, hug.
Stephen FalkI get like eight hugs by the time I get to the front.
Stephen FalkThe room's mine.
Stephen FalkThe room is mine.
Stephen FalkIt's like, how, how simple yet how strategic that one.
Stephen FalkAthletes.
Stephen FalkAnd what you're communicating is, I'm not a robot.
Stephen FalkYou're a human.
Stephen FalkI'm a human.
Stephen FalkWe're gonna, we're gonna talk about some deadly serious stuff like reducing fatalities and injuries on fires because of our mindset.
Stephen FalkBut in the meantime, let's make a connection.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And that.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2That's awesome.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I might have to use that one.
Stephen FalkPeople yelling from the back room, you're never gonna hug me.
Stephen FalkAnd then I'm like, oh, would you rather, like, have a little smooch on the neck?
Stephen FalkAnd they're like.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And out of all the speakers that day, they went back and told the story about that one.
Stephen Falk100.
Stephen Falk100.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Stephen FalkAmen.
Stephen FalkYes.
Stephen FalkSo how, as.
Stephen FalkAs leaders, how do we, how do we use neuroscience and some system systems thinking around communication just to leverage, you know, the.
Stephen FalkA Connection with people.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah, yeah.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And keeping them from taking that defensive posture of like, okay, what's he gotta say?
Stephen FalkYeah, you'll never crack this nut, you know.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Oh, yeah.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2You can see it from the stage too.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2You can see everybody.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2When someone gets all the arms go across and lean back in their seat, you know.
Stephen FalkHey, Bob, you know one of my favorite things to do if I'm in a bigger room like that is, is and there's multiple speakers, I'll flip the room because like switchback, we don't use PowerPoint or anything like that.
Stephen FalkWe just, I just use flip chart paper and I just need a flat wall and enough lighting on the wall to make it happen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2So.
Stephen FalkOkay.
Stephen FalkOkay.
Stephen FalkStephen Falk is now doing, you'll be doing the next hour, switchback.
Stephen FalkAnd I'll get up and say, yeah.
Stephen FalkEveryone stand up, stretch your backs.
Stephen FalkOh, by the way, turn your chairs around.
Stephen FalkWe're gonna be working from the back of the room.
Stephen FalkAnd all those back room dudes are like, well, I hate this training.
Stephen FalkI can't believe we're having to sit in this, in this room for two days.
Stephen FalkBut I was like, what?
Stephen FalkThey're now front row seats again.
Stephen FalkIt's like, it's, it looks like I'm just being cheeky or.
Stephen FalkBut it's so strategic because at the end of the day, we as a company, we've decided who do we need to love the most.
Stephen FalkIt's the late adopters.
Stephen FalkIt's the resistors.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah.
Stephen FalkAnd so how do we reach them?
Stephen FalkWell, they're in the back of the room in the shadows.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah.
Stephen FalkAnd so when, when.
Stephen FalkAnd we're not intimidated by those, those people, we're fascinated.
Stephen FalkWe actually literally love them.
Stephen FalkRight.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Stephen FalkAnd so when you flip a room, all of a sudden they're your front row audience and they're like, okay, bring it on there, Stevie boy.
Stephen FalkWhat have you got for us?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2That's awesome.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2That is awesome.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2That's.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Man, I'm glad I'm recording this because I'm going to be using some of this stuff.
Stephen FalkOh, yeah, by the way, it's all trademarks, so.
Stephen FalkNo, I'm just kidding.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Now you mentioned when I was talking about some of the things I was doing in the military about a T bone crash on a three lane highway.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Now we talked about the merging in the three lane.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2So explain that T bone crash syndrome and what it's all about and how to avoid it.
Stephen FalkSure.
Stephen FalkSo you can T bone probably in here.
Stephen FalkThe two most common crashes, the first one is what we described already where you just come in, no hellos, no fist bump, no eye contact.
Stephen FalkIn fact, you don't even look up from your screen.
Stephen FalkYou start communicating to someone that's walked into your office and you just go straight to the transactional daily business that is actually, that's.
Stephen FalkOr if you're the one that's actually trying to get intel from somebody, you don't, you're not emerging.
Stephen FalkYou just go straight to the what do I need?
Stephen FalkWhat are the facts?
Stephen FalkAnd, and people say, well, we don't have time for that.
Stephen FalkAnd it's silly to, to, you know, meander around the, in on the, you know, on the pleasantries, but it really isn't.
Stephen FalkThere's really good science behind it.
Stephen FalkSo that's the first T bolt.
Stephen FalkThe second T bone is the people that all thought that they wanted to be a counselor, but they never became one.
Stephen FalkAnd so without even like building trust or the appropriate location or time, they just go, so Bob, you're being married for what was it, 40s, how many years?
Stephen FalkTell me about a fight that you've had in the last year that really rattled you to the core.
Stephen FalkYou're like, hold on there, buddy.
Stephen FalkHey, you know, that's a no, that's a go zone.
Stephen FalkBut not now and not you.
Stephen FalkAnd, and so there, those are the two classic T bones, people that just go straight to, to the daily business and people that jump over all the regular trust building processes and they want to get personal intel from people.
Stephen FalkAnd, and the second one, they're, they're well intentioned, but they're, but they're being idiots.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah, Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Stephen FalkAnd I mean, I get confronted that that way sometimes.
Stephen FalkEven in the lobby of the church is a dangerous place.
Stephen FalkPeople come with their big old eyes after church going, so Steve, how's it going?
Stephen FalkAnd they're like, easy, easy, easy.
Stephen FalkWe haven't spoken for a month, we barely know each other.
Stephen FalkI'm not going to tell you about, you know, cash flow issues in my company.
Stephen FalkLike, it's like.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah, I heard you once speaking at that conference in San Jose.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2How much did you make?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2You know?
Stephen FalkOh, that's a perfect example.
Stephen FalkThat's a perfect example.
Stephen FalkYeah.
Stephen FalkAnd you know, the people that's, that basically unpack that three lane highway and they see it for the first time, they go totally busted.
Stephen FalkEspecially the T boners that go to the lane three.
Stephen FalkAnd because they're good intention, their hearts are right.
Stephen FalkThey just, they just have never seen the progressive science of.
Stephen FalkYou start with small talk, you go to the daily Business, you go to the stuff that matters more.
Stephen FalkYou go back to daily business, go back to small talk.
Stephen FalkAnd that's the natural flow of building trust and team.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen the minute.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2That's why.
Stephen FalkOne, two, three.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2That's why I said, yeah.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2That's why I said, you know the example I gave about walking into the office with the sergeant, you know.
Stephen FalkYeah.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And because.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And when we, before the recording started, I told you, where were you 40 years ago when I could have used this stuff?
Stephen FalkI've had grown, grown.
Stephen FalkTypically men punch me on their shoulder and say where were you like 20 years ago?
Stephen FalkAnd I wouldn't have screwed up my kids.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Well, you know, and being in leadership though isn't always, you know.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Well, sometimes I wonder why anybody want.
Pastor Bob ThibodeauTo be in leadership.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2But there's always, always going to be those, let's just say, quote unquote, difficult conversations that you outline in your book that that will need to take place with subordinates from time to time.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And you outline a method that after I read it it just makes complete sense.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And I wish I'd have known about this again 40 years ago, but you just kind of outlined it a second ago.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Explain how to handle those difficult conversations.
Stephen FalkWell, again, what.
Stephen FalkThanks for asking.
Stephen FalkBut there's I, I always think of it like.
Stephen FalkRemember I was a family therapist that drew pictures and so when I think about a difficult conversation, it's always going to be this.
Stephen FalkYou're going to lean towards two sides.
Stephen FalkYou're either going to be too passive and not have it or you're going to have it in a very unempowered way as a leader or you're going to be too aggressive and just come through the be a bull in the china shop.
Stephen FalkThose are the two defaults.
Stephen FalkSo there's something in the middle that's sweet.
Stephen FalkBut in order for it to be sweet, I think you need to create a.
Stephen FalkIt's called, in anthropological terms it's not a closed system.
Stephen FalkIt's not a chaotic system.
Stephen FalkIt's an open flexible system.
Stephen FalkMeaning a closed system is where you can't get in because it's completely closed.
Stephen FalkA chaotically open system is there's too much inputs and outputs.
Stephen FalkThere's not enough sort of boundaries on the system.
Stephen FalkSo with a difficult conversation you have to visualize it that this person needs pre warning.
Stephen FalkThey need time to have their adrenaline spike and have it drain and maybe even sleep on it before they have the next opportunity to talk.
Stephen FalkYou want to eat the elephant one bite at a time and then you need to Have a really good opening and close.
Stephen FalkSo it's almost like the three lane highway.
Stephen FalkWhere, where let's say you need to have a difficult conversation, Bob, with one of your employees and you say, okay, here it is.
Stephen FalkYou say, tomorrow at 2:00 in the afternoon, I'd like to sit down with you for about 20 minutes.
Stephen FalkThis is the topic we're having accounting differences of opinion.
Stephen FalkOur accounting isn't making sense.
Stephen FalkAnd so I, I, we need to look at this and particularly with this one client.
Stephen FalkSo now you get in context, you put, you put the topic into it and say, and say, and this, we're not, our company is not about blaming our country.
Stephen FalkOur company is about learning like what's, what is it, is it a system failure?
Stephen FalkIs it, is it a character failure?
Stephen FalkLike where, where is that?
Stephen FalkWhere's the problem?
Stephen FalkWe don't know right now, but you and I, we're going to sit down tomorrow at 2, we spent 20 minutes looking at it.
Stephen FalkMore than likely we're not going to figure it out in those 20 minutes, but we're going to get the ball going.
Stephen FalkAre you good with that?
Stephen FalkAnd they go, I'm good with that.
Stephen FalkAnd for sure you'll leave their office and they'll have a rush of adrenaline.
Stephen FalkThey go, bob's blaming me, thinks I'm stealing from the company.
Stephen FalkI'm no good, I don't have what it takes.
Stephen FalkI hate this company anyways.
Stephen FalkThey'll have all those back brain operating system responses, but within 24 hours that's all drained out.
Stephen FalkThey maybe even talk to their spouse at home and they say, yeah, you should do your homework, figure this out what happened in September with accounting, with that client.
Stephen FalkSo then when you sit down and you go through, you're not going to say two ducks in the ear.
Stephen FalkYou know, you're not starting with a joke, but you're maybe starting with a handshake or maybe saying, hey, can I get you a drink of water?
Stephen FalkThen you sit down together.
Stephen FalkLane one, you establish like that piece, Lane two is, is that business as usual.
Stephen FalkBut now you can have an opportunity to have what's called Lane three tickets show up.
Stephen FalkSo they're going to say, oh yeah, I am.
Stephen FalkYou know, the truth is, I didn't reconcile last month with that client.
Stephen FalkI was just swamped.
Stephen FalkLike my mom got sick and remember I took those four days off, went back to Boston and dealt with her and came back and I just need to confess, I kind of winged it.
Stephen FalkOh, okay.
Stephen FalkBut Lane three gave you the intel as to why?
Stephen FalkI'm not saying it's not excuse or.
Stephen FalkIf they stole from you, they probably need to be let go.
Stephen FalkLike there's, like there's consequences to bad things that happen in life.
Stephen FalkHowever, that little bit intel of a sick mom in Boston and the fact that they kind of winged it so they closed the month off without actually reconciling the bank and the, and the books.
Stephen FalkAnd as a result that client was wacky.
Stephen FalkAnd I know I'm just making up an example right now, but.
Stephen FalkAnd then, and then you go to.
Stephen FalkOkay, so the power of success is team and people can change.
Stephen FalkSay.
Stephen FalkOkay, so what do we need to do?
Stephen FalkDo we need to, you know, bench strength your department a bit more so that other people can, you know, close off the month better?
Stephen FalkYou know, if you're not available, like, what's our solution?
Stephen FalkWork towards solution.
Stephen FalkMaybe do a bit of a check in the whole time.
Stephen FalkHere's the weird thing, whole time you're never asking how are you feeling?
Stephen FalkIt's more like how are you thinking?
Stephen FalkBecause feeling will go directly into blaming you or self pity to themselves and wait a second, that's a back brain.
Stephen FalkTypically an exaggerated response in the heat of the moment.
Stephen FalkYeah, you want to keep it in that metacognition area which is thinking about our thoughts, thinking about our systems.
Stephen FalkI know it sounds mechanical, but it's amazing.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Stephen FalkTo keep it in that zone to find resolution.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2That's awesome.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2That's awesome.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And one other thing I did want to ask you about and to share with us is what you call the three Ps and why they're important in helping us to basically lead effectively in making rational decisions.
Stephen FalkBob, you're gonna have to remind me where my three Ps are.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I gotta find the book then.
Stephen FalkOkay, I'll find the book too.
Stephen FalkWe'll both study it.
Stephen FalkSounds fascinating to me.
Stephen FalkI really like the sound of it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Hey, man.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah?
Stephen FalkWhere are my three P's?
Stephen FalkThat's awesome.
Stephen FalkWas it close to the end of the book or front of them?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Probably.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2It was probably towards the end of the book.
Stephen FalkOkay, let's see.
Stephen FalkHere we are.
Stephen FalkDoes everybody just.
Stephen FalkJust relax.
Stephen FalkThose of you listening right now, just relax.
Stephen FalkThis is the human side of any experience.
Stephen FalkI bet you it was really good.
Stephen FalkToo bad I didn't index my ideas in this book.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Oh, there it is.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I knew I have a book.
Stephen FalkWe're close at hand here, here and I.
Stephen FalkSo everyone, this is a little study session here.
Stephen FalkWe're just not.
Stephen FalkThat's not highlighted.
Stephen FalkThis was this this is part of, like, if you use this as a teaching.
Stephen FalkThis is what CEOs hate the most.
Stephen FalkBut they.
Stephen FalkWell, not winging it, being sort of in.
Stephen FalkIn their minds, being blindsided.
Stephen FalkRight.
Stephen FalkAnd so it's.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2But.
Stephen FalkBut here, this is part of living in a.
Stephen FalkIn a transformational relationship.
Stephen FalkLike, it's.
Stephen FalkIt's okay to have Bob ask.
Stephen FalkHey, booked your three P's.
Stephen FalkI love them.
Stephen FalkI'm like.
Stephen FalkAnd just tell the truth.
Stephen FalkOh, gosh, I can't remember what those three P's are.
Stephen FalkThat's.
Stephen FalkThis sounds good.
Stephen FalkI joke a little bit about it, and then we try our best to find it.
Stephen FalkAnd even if we don't find it today, our applause.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Was that one of them?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I don't remember.
Stephen FalkThat's so good.
Stephen FalkLet's.
Stephen FalkLet's say we don't even find it, right?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Okay.
Stephen FalkYou and I.
Stephen FalkDo we lose integrity with our audience by not being able to find it?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2No, absolutely not.
Stephen FalkShould we be embarrassed and be kicking ourselves to the curb going, oh, man, you know, imposter syndrome.
Stephen FalkYou don't know.
Stephen FalkYou wrote a book and you can't remember your three P's?
Stephen FalkLike, like, no, no.
Stephen FalkIs it.
Stephen FalkHave we committed a crime?
Stephen FalkNo.
Stephen FalkHave we, you know, defamed anybody?
Stephen FalkNo.
Stephen FalkAnd so this is just part of the.
Stephen FalkThis is actually what builds team.
Stephen FalkBecause.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Stephen FalkBecause at this point, Bob and I were just like, we're just.
Stephen FalkWe're humans having a conversation that's going to definitely bless your audience, and your audience is actually going to find this very relatable.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Stephen FalkAnd.
Stephen FalkAnd this is no different than, like, your spouse giving you the gear.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Here it is.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I got it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I got term, permanent, pervasive and personal.
Stephen FalkAnd what's the content?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2What page you mentioned?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I don't have the page number down there.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2But I remember.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I remember reading.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2But permanent, pervasive and personal.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Because I had it in my notes.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2The concept of three Ps, permanent, pervasive and personal, and how they impact our ability to lead effectively and make rational decisions.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Patterns of negative thinking.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Does that make sense?
Stephen FalkI.
Stephen FalkI can make something up.
Stephen FalkWant me to make something up, Randall?
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I just knew I had it wrote down somewhere.
Stephen FalkI didn't have my notes, but it sounds really good.
Stephen FalkIt sounds like a real smart guy wrote it.
Stephen FalkPermanence.
Stephen FalkWell, beginning with it's.
Stephen FalkThey all both start with the letter P.
Stephen FalkI.
Stephen FalkI'll make something up for you, Bob, just for fun.
Stephen FalkReady?
Stephen FalkHere we go.
Stephen FalkSo, permanent people that don't have a healthy sense of neuroplasticity that people can change.
Stephen FalkThey think they, they think it's whatever they've done, whether it's a mistake or a habit or whatever, it's permanent.
Stephen FalkThe truth is there's very little that's permanent.
Stephen FalkPervasive is.
Stephen FalkI don't know.
Stephen FalkI catch you, Bob.
Stephen FalkI can't make it up for you, but it was fun trying.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Well, I, I stumped the expert.
Stephen FalkThis is when I've interviewed CEOs, they say, you know what the, the biggest, their greatest fears this moment right here, because all the way through their careers is they've always been the subject matter expert.
Stephen FalkLet's say they came through finance, so they became an accountant and they came to, became the CFO and then became the CEO.
Stephen FalkSo, so they're, they're, they were an expert in finance, all of a sudden now they're the CEO, which means they have to be finance, legal, hr, operations, risk management, safety, and they'll have an executive that plays every one of those roles out with them.
Stephen FalkWhat they don't have at their fingertips is the ability to pull out the three P's and say, here's the three P's, boom, boom, boom.
Stephen FalkBecause they are not an expert anymore other than in managing and building the team, the trust of the team, making sure that the team are telling the truth to each other, coming up with a collective plan so they can present to the board.
Stephen FalkAnd so most CEOs haven't developed that skill set or mindset to be a leader of people rather than the leader as an expert.
Stephen FalkAnd that is probably the biggest sort of rub or failure or angst that a CEO or leader will have is that all of a sudden.
Stephen FalkAnd the ones that want to still maintain an expert and go, man, that's it.
Stephen FalkI am never going to be blindsided again by the three psychological.
Stephen FalkThey will lose their families over it because they'll study till 1 o'clock in the morning for the meeting of the next day.
Stephen FalkBut the truth is they could have slept like a baby if they had built trust among their executive.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Stephen FalkThere's that overcompensation or an acute sense of lack.
Stephen FalkIf you think you got to have all the answers all the time and you're the actual technical answer person you're going to work yourself to, you're going to burn yourself out of work and you'll probably lose your family and you'll think of yourself as a hero.
Stephen FalkOr you can take a step back and say, no, the power of success is in team.
Stephen FalkMy new job, even though I'm maybe not qualified because a lot of CEOs come out of an engineering background as well.
Stephen FalkSo they've been really, they've been technical experts their whole careers and they, and they haven't actually paid attention to the human, the human factor dynamic that much because it's more blueprints and CAD drawings than it is about what the dynamics going on within, you know, the people on the ground and the end up here and this, this, like they're not, they're not thinking.
Stephen FalkThat's not what's, what's sort of floating their boat.
Stephen FalkAll of a sudden now they're in CEO position and that is their job is managing the people dynamic.
Stephen FalkAnd so I think Switchback offers a really balanced, common sense toolbox for CEOs to be able to go, okay, I need to lay down the fact that I'm an engineer and now I'm a leader of people.
Stephen FalkI've never even wanted to be a leader of people.
Stephen FalkEver since kindergarten.
Stephen FalkI've always been like, my, my creation is better than yours and it doesn't matter if I hurt your feelings.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah.
Stephen FalkSo now all of a sudden, I've actually got a massage truth out of people in the context where everyone's hiding the data and they've got to now, you know, be able to communicate to each other in a way that builds a team of teams.
Stephen FalkAnd then, guess what?
Stephen FalkWe don't get blindsided.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Praise God.
Stephen FalkHowever, at the end of this, this, this, when we shut this off, I'm going, right, in my book, I'm finding the three Ps, and I'll have a great answer for you.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Well, I, I can help you out with that because it's not in your book.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2It was on an interview you did and he talked about the three piece.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And so I was like, well, that's interesting because I do my research.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I, you know, I just don't, you know, And I was like, oh, that's a good question.
Stephen FalkWell, thank you, thank you for that.
Stephen FalkBecause now I'll be real.
Stephen FalkI'll be like, man, I just watched.
Stephen FalkI could be watching cartoons with my grandkids, but I'm like, looking for the three P's in my book.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2You, you'd be doing a T bone crash on your assistant, say, find the three Ps in my book.
Stephen FalkNobody ever questions whether a CEO is smart.
Stephen FalkThey're all going to be.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Supposed to be.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah.
Stephen FalkNo, but they are.
Stephen FalkYou don't get to that spot without being smart.
Stephen FalkYou don't get to be A leader without being smart.
Stephen FalkThe question is whether you are a fascinated now with the people side of your job.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah.
Stephen FalkAnd whether you're willing to tool up into that world.
Stephen FalkThat's.
Stephen FalkThat's it.
Stephen FalkAnd for that, all of us need to take a giant dose of humility.
Stephen FalkBecause the tools that got us to this new role are not necessarily the tools or the mindset that's going to help this role flourish.
Stephen FalkYou are no longer a technical expert.
Stephen FalkNow you're an expert of people.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Stephen FalkI've seen fantastic examples of that transition, by the way.
Stephen FalkSome people just crush it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And others.
Stephen FalkDon'T, and others don't.
Stephen FalkI remember we worked with a crown corporation in Australia in forestry and wildland fire.
Stephen FalkAnd that CEO, he was like the finance guy.
Stephen FalkPretty, pretty quiet.
Stephen FalkQuiet and non confrontational.
Stephen FalkBut he recognized I need to be that guy that people come to.
Stephen FalkSo he, when he got his office, he designed it as a place where people could visit.
Stephen FalkHe made himself a commitment.
Stephen FalkHe said, I am not going to sit at my desk when someone comes in the room.
Stephen FalkAnd then here it is ready.
Stephen FalkHe told himself this.
Stephen FalkDistractions are now my primary job.
Stephen FalkSo someone says, hey, Steve, you got a minute?
Stephen FalkHey Bob, you got a minute?
Stephen FalkIn his mind, he says, absolutely.
Stephen FalkYou are my primary job.
Stephen FalkMe, like working on my presentation for the board.
Stephen FalkThat's a secondary piece of homework that I do kind of on my own time, but listening to people and hearing them out.
Stephen FalkAnd of course, you have to have great boundaries.
Stephen FalkYou say, absolutely, I've got seven minutes.
Stephen FalkCome sit down.
Stephen FalkI'll even set my clock because I do have a meeting at three.
Stephen FalkSo the go seven minutes.
Stephen FalkDo we have time for a joke?
Stephen FalkMaybe not.
Stephen FalkOkay, so tell me what's up.
Stephen FalkSee, that alone is a joke.
Stephen FalkJust saying that.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Yeah.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2That's right.
Stephen FalkThen you lean forward and say, what do you have?
Stephen FalkWhat do you have for me?
Stephen FalkSay, oh, man, this, you know, this ranger district is just like, we're under the pump.
Stephen FalkThings are not going great.
Stephen FalkWe had did a community meeting and went totally south.
Stephen FalkWe basically have people throwing fireballs at us at the community meetings.
Stephen FalkLike, well, I'm not sure.
Stephen FalkI might even lose my chief forester out of the deal.
Stephen FalkLike, this is not good.
Stephen FalkAnd go.
Stephen FalkSo what's your plan?
Stephen FalkWhat's your thought?
Stephen FalkHow can I support you?
Stephen FalkAnd then you come back in and say, just the fact that we're talking about this means that we're going to sort this thing out.
Stephen FalkThank you for bringing.
Stephen FalkYour bringing it to me.
Stephen FalkThanks for not holding it back.
Stephen FalkI know it's sometimes not necessarily embarrassing, but you don't want to show the soft underbelly to what happened at that, at that community meeting.
Stephen FalkBut there you did it.
Stephen FalkGood for you.
Stephen FalkAnd I'm here to help.
Stephen FalkOkay, so we don't have a time for a joke, but that's seven minutes.
Stephen FalkAnd you get up, take their hand, pat them on the shoulder on the way out, and they go, best leader I've ever had.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2That's right.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2That's awesome.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2That's awesome.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Steve, this has been great and I appreciate you sharing all this with us.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2How can someone get in touch with you to ask a question, receive more information on your programs, your trainings and all that?
Stephen FalkWe're pretty old school because our clients are mostly government agencies and like private, like aerospace, like on people that are flying helicopters.
Stephen FalkAnd so it's switchbackos.com so OS stands for operating system.
Stephen FalkSo it's really easy to remember switchback os.com and then of course, there's just a contact me, contact us.
Stephen FalkAnd surprise, surprise, it comes into my inbox as well as my IT and my business partner.
Stephen FalkBut anyways, it'll come right onto my desk.
Stephen FalkAnd, and, and I last thought, take a page out of Mother Teresa's playbook.
Stephen FalkAnd so some people asked her interviews, would say, how do you do it?
Stephen FalkHow do you, how do you serve in Calcutta?
Stephen FalkAnd then you meet with presidents, like, what's.
Stephen FalkLike, how do you sort it out in your brain?
Stephen FalkAnd she said, easy eight.
Stephen FalkShe's a life of prayer.
Stephen FalkBut then she says, I stopped for the One.
Stephen FalkAnd so I'm letting you know, if you send us an email, contact us, I'll stop and read your email and I'll respond because that's stopping for the one.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Stephen FalkAnd then if Boeing is the next email, I'll stop for Boeing.
Stephen FalkAnd if, and if, you know, Montana Wildland Fire is the next one, I'll stop for them.
Stephen FalkIf it's Bob next, you stop for Bob.
Stephen FalkAnd so that's a model where, where you just trust even in God's email management system that you have the provision to stop for the one.
Stephen FalkAnd if you feel overwhelmed with stopping for the one, you probably just need more bench strength.
Stephen FalkSo maybe you need an assistant that helps you stop for the one.
Stephen FalkOr maybe you need a team of 300 that helps you stop for the one.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Well, Steve, I appreciate your time.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And how can someone get a copy of your book Switched On CEO how to Think like A world class leader.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I take it it's on Amazon?
Stephen FalkYes, that's the very best place to find it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Okay.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2All right.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And I'll put in the show notes giant copies.
Stephen FalkLike if you want like 100 copies, then you should definitely contact me because I get author copy price.
Stephen FalkRight.
Stephen FalkAnd so I can then ship to a different address and offer a really great discount.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I'll put links all this in the show notes below.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Folks, I want to thank you for joining us today as Stephen Falk shared some incredible insights into the power of neuroplasticity, the battle of the brains, the role of teamwork and leadership transformation.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2If you're ready to implement the strategies that he's discussed today, like reframing your limiting beliefs and managing back brain triggers and fostering a culture of resilience, you need to connect with him right now.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Don't wait.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2You don't know what tomorrow brings.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2You need to be ready for this as soon as possible.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Let's put it like that.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Okay.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2By applying these principles, you can unlock better communication, improve decision making, and have a more dynamic, engaged workplace.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Immediately visit switchbackos.com to connect with Stephen and his team right now.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Just drop down the show notes, click the links right there.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2They're all, they're all there for you to connect with Stephen and his team.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Just take action.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Do it now.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Don't let those X's in the back of your brain hold you up.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Amen.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Take, take, move to the front.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Click the links down below right now.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Be sure to click the link to order his book switched on CEO as well.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Discover how his tools can transform your leadership and team dynamics right now, today.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2And don't miss the opportunity to take your growth to the next level.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Praise God.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Stephen, I want to thank you again for taking the time out of your busy schedule to come on the program and join us today.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Man, I learned a lot and I just.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I just appreciate you taking the time to do it, brother.
Stephen FalkYeah, thank you.
Stephen FalkAnd I'm glad.
Stephen FalkThose three P's just blessed you right to the core.
Stephen FalkIn fact, that might be the most memorable part of our whole conversation and honestly the most transformational.
Stephen FalkSo by the way, you're hired.
Stephen FalkYou can do the grad, the best promo ever.
Stephen FalkSo thank you so much for your kind words.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2I appreciate it.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2You have a blessed day, folks.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2That's all the time we have for today for Steve Falk.
Pastor Bob Thibodeau 2Myself passed by reminding you to be blessed in all that you do.
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