Character Trumps Competence
Let’s Talk Family Enterprise Podcast – Episode #3
Host: Ruth Steverlynchk, LLB (Hons.), FEA
Guest: Greg McCann, Founder and Principal, McCann & Associates
This episode of Let’s Talk Family Enterprise explores the idea of character and its importance for family enterprise advisors. Greg touches on the four gears to modulate in order to better your practice as an advisor – problem-solving, feedback, coaching, and validation.
Mentioned in this episode
When Your Parents Sign the Paychecks: Finding Success Inside or Outside the Family Enterprise
Author: Greg McCann
This book is about self-development and awareness for individuals and includes tools that can help a family get along better and have a more successful business.
Who Do You Think You Are? Aligning Your Character and Reputation
Author: Greg McCann
Since many of the best employers hire on character and develop skills, how your character measures up may well determine whether you get the job. In this book, explains how your character can enhance or derail your career, as well as your personal life, romances and friendships.
The Road to Character
Author: David Brooks
Looking to some of the world’s greatest thinkers and inspiring leaders, this book explores how, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, they have built a strong inner character.
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life
Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn
Feedback That Works: How to Build and Deliver Your Message
Author: Sloan R. Weitzel
Providing feedback to others about their performance is a key developmental experience. But not all feedback is effective. This guidebook demonstrates how to make the feedback you give more effective so that others can benefit from your message.