Join Tina Seelig, Executive Director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars (KHS) as she interviews KHS Founder and Director John Hennessy on leadership. The topics they discuss are drawn from the Knight-Hennessy Leadership Model, which forms the basis of the KHS leadership development program. In their conversations, John shares about his experiences and what he has learned in different leadership roles, including as a faculty member, entrepreneur, president of Stanford University, and founder of Knight-Hennessy Scholars.
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Welcome to Leading Matters, a podcast from Knight-Hennessey Scholars,
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a multicultural and multidisciplinary graduate fellowship program at Stanford
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University that focuses on leadership.
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I'm Tina Seelig, your host and executive director of Knight-Hennessey.
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Throughout these six episodes, I'll talk with John Hennessey about his experiences
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in different leadership roles, including as a faculty member and Entrepreneur,
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president of Stanford University, and founder of Knight-Hennessy Scholars.
John Hennessy:
I remember when I was in the interview for president, I said,
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"look, don't pick me if you want somebody who's going to mind the store, because
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I'm not just going to mind the store.
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I'm going to try to do bold new things for the university."
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I always tell my students, you don't get the job, you get the
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keys to the building, and you got the keys to a very big building.
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You know, once you're inside, you can sort of look at all the opportunities
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there and see where you can take it.
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engaged with Knight-Hennessy Scholars through social media
