Sean: What are some of your top three or five leadership lessons for leading yourself and the team that you could share with us today?

Craig: Look, I'm always about the evolution of yourself, so I've invested, and not everyone has the capital to do that. So you need to lean into podcasts like, you know, listening to your podcasts, my podcasts, whoever, to continue to grow and evolve your mindset, your skillset. Everything about yourself needs to be a constant and never-ending form of growth. If you're not growing, you're dying, as I say.

Craig: So I think the best leaders in the world are continually improving and leading by example. So if I was leading a team of 100 people, for example, I want to be leading by example to start with, and leading by example is doing the activities that I expect those people to do. So there's no point in me just being that authoritarian leader where I'm just telling everyone what to do all the time. I want people to say that "Hey, Craig rolls up his sleeves. He's putting in the hours. He's continuously been doing things to improve our organization as a thing." So I think leading by example is critically important.

Craig: Having a world-class team around you is, you know, you want to have an advisory board of good quality people to bounce ideas off. So I learned through reading the book from Ray Dalio, one of the wealthiest people in the world called Work-Life Principles, and he talked about the concept of triangulating decision making.

Craig: And what he meant by that was simply - let's put it into a health context. Let's say that you had been given a poor diagnosis from your physician about your health and the strategy that they were going to use to intervene, to try and help you in that situation. So he took that as really good advice. But let me just get another opinion from a highly credible person, and let me get one more opinion from a highly credible person.a

Craig: And by having three different perspectives on his situation. He was able to form a view I'm not going to go to on the operating path. What I'm going to do this person, he said, "You could probably change your lifestyle if you do this, and you could do this, and then you could potentially manage it." So he said, I'm going to go down that path first, and then we can intervene if I need to. Take that whole idea into a business. And that's a priceless idea in terms of being a great leader as well.

Craig: And I think the best leaders in the world are those 'build people up.' So building that relationship, helping them grow and evolve, understanding the why’s of their desires, what's going to make them tick, give them more opportunity. They're looking for more opportunity, and building this is sort of like a build them up model rather than a corporate ties. Hey, I don't want you to take my job model. It's helping people grow and evolve to fulfill their potential. So let's hear some insights into what I say is really important. I think good leaders are always trying to innovate and use the world's best practice, whether that's bringing new technology to the table, whether it's, you know, it might be a, you know, introducing a month, a weekly update, you know, team meeting or something like that. So continually, to innovate and bring in the world's best practices is important as well.

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