What if leadership isn’t about titles, but about creating new capabilities others can observe? In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller break down the shift from bureaucratic management to self-leadership in the networked economy. Learn the four-step process to transform uncertainty into confidence—and why focusing on problems is the death of innovation.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

• The four-step process that always makes you an inspiring leader.
• Why a goal isn’t a destination.
• The big difference between a role and a job.
• Why there are no orders in the network economy.
• How Dan is finally revealing his process in a new book.
• Why unique skills are generally wasted in bureaucracies.

Show Notes:

Self-leadership starts with creating new capabilities—not waiting for permission.

Anytime you’re doing something that creates a new capability, and other people observe you doing that, that's leadership.

Your activity of creating a new capability gives others the confidence that they too can have the courage to create a new capability.

The pandemic created a network economy.

Great technologies like Zoom have enabled people to work remotely.

Many management activities within a company can now be handled by apps.

Bureaucracies punish boundary-crossing, while networked teams reward it.

When people get possessive about their territory, it shuts down creativity.

Instead of trying to fix problems (or worse, just complaining about them), create solutions that make problems irrelevant.

Confidence comes after courage—not the other way around.

Resources:

Growing Great Leadership by Dan Sullivan

The Self-Managing Company by Dan Sullivan

The Team Success Handbook by Shannon Waller

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy

The 4 C’s Formula by Dan Sullivan