Raise Your Game: Lessons Learnt From Benjamin Franklin

Jun 04, 2017 1 Min Read
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Roshan Thiran, CEO of Leaderonomics shares lessons learnt from one of his personal heroes, Ben Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States. Franklin believed there was no such thing as impossible and went on to believe everything is possible.

Listen in as Roshan shares some leadership lessons he picked up from reading Franklin’s 13 virtues and how Franklin’s quest to take on the biggest challenge of his life on fixing himself resulted in arguably the greatest leadership lesson of all time.

 
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Read its corresponding article: Are You A Believer Or A Skeptic?
 

 
Related post: Leadership Nuggets: Achieving The Impossible With Jamie Andrew
 

If you would like to engage with Leaderonomics for your organisational needs in terms of corporate training, email us at info@leaderonomics.com. To know more about what Leaderonomics do as a social enterprise, check out www.leaderonomics.org. For our other Raise Your Game podcasts, click here.

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Roshan is the Founder and “Kuli” of the Leaderonomics Group of companies. He believes that everyone can be a leader and "make a dent in the universe," in their own special ways. He is featured on TV, radio and numerous publications sharing the Science of Building Leaders and on leadership development. Follow him at www.roshanthiran.com

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