Scott DiGiammarino & Tom Schuh shares their expertise and thoughts on leadership through crisis in the 'Apollo 13' movie. Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module failed two days into the mission.

Tom Schuh, CEO & Founder of Optimum Effect Group, spent over a decade in the military before landing a job in sales with American Express. Despite lacking a college degree or any sales training, he worked his way up the corporate ladder before transitioning into entrepreneurship.

How to interpret the Gallup Q12 Questions and how it affects your business results?

Bucket 1 being things you control, Bucket 2 being things you influence, and Bucket 3 being things you neither influence nor control 

Studies show that people no matter how many positive things you'll say to people, people will normally focus on the one negative thing or the one thing they need to improve upon.  Scott learned in his career that you have to say 9 good things to bounce off 1 bad thing. 

Reasons why good people are leaving your company and here's how to stop them.

Can a leader be more impactful being liked, or being respected?

"Do the right thing to make you better when nobody else is watching."  One of the things that great leaders do positive leaders do motivation leaders do on a consistent basis, is they teach this they instill this in their employees, they instill this in their students. They instill this in their audience. 

What's the number one characteristic a leader needs in order to be successful?

Every once in a while a leader has to pull something out of his behind, if you will, in terms of motivating and firing up the team and bringing the team together for one goal. 

When you're teaching leadership, or you're bringing out those Monday morning motivational quotes, or those inspirational stories, you always talk about principles and values. And you talk about the characteristics that you're looking for and people that people are successful with.

One of the biggest lessons Scott learned is teaching people how to grow and how to think through challenge and solve problems themselves.

People can motivate other people through motivational stories, those inspirational stories that touch people's heart and emotions.

Who's the best motivational speakers that you've ever heard? The inspirational speaker that just knocked your socks off to the point where it changed your life. 

If ask your best friends to describe you in terms of being positive, what would they say? 1 being you're the most negative person in the history of mankind or 10 means you're incredibly positive.

It takes a tremendous amount of leadership and motivation to help people get to the other side and cope with change.

We're going to dissect a movie clip about leadership and how not to lead. The clip we're going to show you, from the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Leadership is not limited to corporate leaders, manager, director, Vice President, SVP, VP, all the way up to the CEO. Leadership is also professors that are trying to leave their students or teachers, trainers, coaches, keynote speakers, anybody who's essentially looking to influence behavior, especially the younger generation.

Great inspirational motivational leaders do a great job at identifying what people are good at, and what they like to do, and putting them in a position to succeed versus bad leaders.

Scott talks about leadership, what great leaders do versus what poor leaders do.

As leaders we can make an incredible difference in people's lives. And when people are feeling down and they are feeling out, and they have a lot of uncertainty, we have a lot of different options about how we handle things.

In interviewing the right candidate, I am always looking for what I call the five Ds. The five Ds were Drive, Determination, Discipline, Desire, and the ability to make great principal based Decisions, especially in the face of adversity. So let's kind of go through each of the five in this episode.