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President & CEO, Dale Carnegie
Continuous learning is about developing. It’s about my
development as a CEO and a person, while also investing
in my team’s and my employees’ development. This is
going back to this conversation about psychological
safety. Things are not always going to go the way that we
want. We’re going to have setbacks. We’re going to have
misses.
“What Dale Carnegie does is it
provides a common language
and framework for organizations
to thrive together, to interact
together, and develop a positive
culture together.”
How do we react in those tough situations? I often say
The Dale Carnegie Principles are easy when things are
easy. But when things are hard, that’s when you need to
lean into these strategies and say, okay, what can we learn
from this? How do we pivot from this? How do we get
people together to know that we’re going to get through
this? How do I create that kind of inspiration, that vision,
as a CEO?
At the end of the day, it can be lonely and hard to be a
CEO, and if we’ve focused on continuous learning, if
we’ve defined failure not as the failure to miss a goal, but
the failure to learn, then we’ve created an organization
that can constantly pivot, take chances, and grow.
Final thing is one sentence: your advice to CEOs. And
you can’t say, put your whole company through the
Dale Carnegie! What would be one sentence of advice
to CEOs?
Joe Hart began his career as a practicing
attorney. After taking a Dale Carnegie Course,
Joe reassessed his career path and future,
ultimately leaving the practice of law, going to
work for a top real estate company, and then
founding an innovative e-learning company
called InfoAlly.
After selling that business five years later,
Joe became the president of Asset Health, a
US-based health and wellness company—all
before becoming the President and CEO of Dale
Carnegie in 2015. In 2019, the CEO Forum Group
named Joe as one of twelve transformative
leaders, giving him the Transformative CEO
Leadership Award in the category of the People.
He is the host of a top global podcast, “Take
Command: A Dale Carnegie Podcast”, and he
speaks around the world on topics such as
leadership, resilience, and innovation, among
other things. Joe and his wife, Katie, have six
children, two dogs, and one cat. He is an active
marathoner, having run many races,
including Boston, New York, Chicago, Berlin,
Detroit, and Toronto.
Bring out the best in other people and they will create the
best results for you.
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