Pat Scopelliti on "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

One Book That Changed My Life

You wouldn’t think a book called “The Little Prince” could have powerful business insights, but when we talk about improving performance, accountability and the radical honesty required in goal setting, there’s a ton we can extract from it.

The book gets to the heart of failure analysis, and for repeat guest, executive leadership and recruitment coach, Pat Scopelliti, it inspired a completely different approach to setting goals.

In this episode, he shares the massively life-changing insights from this book, and the power of perfect self honesty.

Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode

The power of failure analysis

When you set a goal, and you don't hit the units you set, the underlying causes have to be identified with radical honesty and then corrected and then the goal has to be reset, this time with the honesty of your performance.

Shooting for a performance ceiling vs. committing to a bare minimum

Once you’re radically honest about your performance, you get better at estimating your goals. Ideally, you should be able to set goals based on what you know you can do - and commit to a bare minimum as opposed to always trying to set a ceiling and constantly jumping up to reach it.

How to train people to trust and rely on us

When we set a goal and we’re in a relationship with other people who depend on our output, we have to learn how to analyze our failures so we can improve our performance and make our output predictable to them.

Guest Bio

Pat is The Consigliori. He is an executive leadership and recruitment coach. Every Don needs his Consigliori. His failures must be analyzed, his successes celebrated. His limitations must be identified, fought, defeated and obliterated. His strengths and potentials must be fully employed, grown, leveraged and fulfilled. No Don can complete this ongoing mission without the right aid, at least not as powerfully as he will with his Consigliori's help. For more information, visit https://www.theconsigliori.com/.