IAM2090 – Founder and Author Shares His Insights On Effective Leadership and Embracing Curiosity

In this episode, we have Thomas Koulopoulos, chairman and founder of Delphi Group, a think tank, and an influential author and entrepreneur.

The discussion begins with the importance of surrounding oneself with people who challenge and push for growth. Tom shares his remarkable journey, insights into effective leadership, decision-making, and the significance of constantly challenging oneself and embracing curiosity.

The conversation delves into Tom's latest book, ‘GigaTrends,' exploring six tech trends shaping our future.

The episode highlights the power of perspective in leadership, the necessity of decision-making, and the impact of surrounding oneself with challenging voices to foster growth and innovation.

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I think we often surround ourselves with people that allow us to slip into what's comfortable. And while it's nice to have people that you can be comfortable with, I think it's so important to have people that really are going to challenge you, constantly push you.

Intro 00:13

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Gresham Harkless 00:38

Hello. Hello. Hello. This is Gresh from the I AM CEO Podcast, and I have a very special guest on the show today. I have Tom Kalopoulos on the show. Tom, excited to have you on the show.

Thomas Koulopoulos 00:46

Gresh, it is a pleasure to be here with you. Thank you.

Gresham Harkless 00:51

Yes, absolutely. The pleasure is definitely all ours. And before of course we jump in, I want to read a little bit more about Tom so you can hear about some of those awesome things that he's doing. And Tom is Chairman and founder of Delphi Group, a 30 year old Boston based think tank named one of the fastest growing private companies by Inc. Magazine and the founding partner of Acro Manage Ventures, which invests in early stage technology startups. He is also the author of 14 books and inventor with several patents and Inc.com columnist, the past executive director of the Babson College Center for Business Innovation, the past director of the Dell Innovation Lab, and a professor at Boston University.

His insights have been received wide praise from luminaries such as the late Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, D. Hawk, the founder of Visa International, and Tom Peters, who called his writing a brilliant vision of where we must take our enterprises to survive and thrive. His Inc column is read by over a million people every year, and Tom's 14 books include Reimagining Healthcare, Revealing the Invisible, The Gen Z Effect, The Innovation Zone, and Cloud Surfing. His latest book, Gigatrends, looks at the six tech trends that are shaping the future of how we live, work, and play. And he said this in the video when I was preparing for this, which really stuck with me, what Tom actually does.

He says, what I give more people more than anything else, I think it's a lens through which they can see what they do day-in and day-out in a slightly different way. And you, it's so powerful to be able to understand like how we can change our perspective and it doesn't necessarily change our world, but the way that we interact in that world. So I love that you do that, Tom. Excited to have you on the podcast. Are you ready to speak to the I AM CEO Community?

Thomas Koulopoulos 02:27

I am absolutely ready to go. And thank you for that. I think that notion of looking at life through a slightly different lens is so important because we get stuck on tracks and it's just human nature. We keep on looking at things the same way. We see the same things. And if you look at them differently, different things. So yeah, a very cool way to begin, I think.