The Bright SIDE of Leadership with Hamza Khan

In this episode, we bring back a guest from season 1 and interview Hamza Khan. Hamza is a multi-award winning marketer, best-selling author, and global keynote speaker whose TEDx talk “Stop Managing, Start Leading” has been viewed over a million times. He is also the author of two books, The Burnout Gamble and his most recent book, Leadership Reinvented. If you want to learn more about Hamza, check out his website hamzakhan.ca. 

In our episode with Hamza last season, we talked about his leadership experiences, challenging the status quo, as well as his take on burnout being a leadership issue. In today’s episode, we focus on his new book, Leadership Reinvented and go through his belief that Servitude, Innovation, Diversity, and Empathy (SIDE) are the key to 21st century leadership. We hope you enjoy this episode with Hamza Khan.

Welcome to Leading the Rounds

Questions we asked included: 

• Tell us about your new book? 
• What does it mean to you to be a servant leader? 
• How do you look at innovation? 
• How do you reorient yourself to stay on the cutting edge? 
• How can you cultivate diversity if you yourself are not “diverse”? 
• Why is empathy important for leadership?
• What would you add as an addendum to your book? 

Our favorite Ideas: 

• SIDE (Servitude, Innovation, Diversity, and Empathy) 
• “The dark triad of leadership [narcissistic, Machiavellian, and psychopathic] is officially dead” 
•  “Become so good, that you can inspire other people to be better than you” -Hamza 
• “[As a leader] you are at the center of the organization radiating outwards.” -Hamza 
• “If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.” -Jack Welch 
• “Tap into very inspired and wise younger people” -Hamza
• “What we are striving for is diversity of background, experience and perspective.” -Hamza 
  
  

Check out Hamza's new book, Leadership Reinvented online, or at your local bookstore.