A few weeks ago, I got a question from a Work on the Edge Listener. On today’s show, I’ll take a crack at answering the question in true Work on the Edge fashion.

The question I got was this: How do you become authoritative without authority?

This is an excellent question, and one that many people would probably like an answer to. But in that question I sensed that there was actually a different question that the person wanted to ask but didn’t.

In the episode, you’ll learn:

* What question I think this person was really asking

* Why this person asked a different question that the one they really wanted answered

* Why there’s a stigma against telling someone you want to be a leader

* The REAL job that most Americans won’t do

* Why even people at the top actually lead from the bottom

* How you actually serve more people than you realize

* Why new members of a team often have additional “tasks”

* Why deciding to help someone is nothing special

* The simple way to make hard decisions easier

* Why it doesn’t matter if people like you

* About my attempt to become the 2nd best thing to being a Navy SEAL

* And much more

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