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Sketchy Ideas Episode 30: Leading By Definition

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2:37 Diving into today’s topic - Brad’s attempt

  • Attempt to define what leadership is
  • “Defining leadership has a whole bunch of grey area” -B
  • A spectrum w/ layers
  • “It’s important to define leadership for yourself” -B
  • The book that Brad references: “Leadership Challenge” by Kouzes and Posner
  • Studying leadership helps you become more self-aware

    • 4:57 Michael’s thrust into leadership

    • Took on a role at a company
      • Supervisor (of everything)
      • Managing supervisor vs. Leading by example (coaching, mentorship, inspiring)
      • People are internally motivated
        • “As a leader, you need to tap into someone’s internal motivation to align with the company to produce great outcomes” -M
        • People often fall into the mindset where they separate how they want to be lead vs  how they lead others
        • “Great salespeople tend to make bad sales managers” -B
          • In sales, you lead customers
          • That doesn’t mean you’re good at leading salespeople
          • Who is a leader to you?
            • Why do they come to mind?
            • “We realize what great leaders are because we’ve experienced being lead by a great leader” -M
            • We can define leadership in reflection more easily than theory

              • 9:00 Step further

              • It’s important to be able to grow as a leader
              • Without leadership growth, the company doesn’t grow
              • Ways to define leadership:
                • By experience - being led by a great leader
                • By outcomes - a great leader making your life better/successful
                • As a business owner, you want great leaders to make better outcomes for your company
                • Leadership is not the ONLY way to grow a business, but it is definitely not the easiest nor hardest way to do so
                • Great leaders need to have self-awareness
                  • Know yourself, the situation, and how to adapt the two together
                  • Leaders have a preferred style and a default style

                    • 16:44 Basics of defining leadership (Choosing to follow & more success & got what they need from you)

                    • “If you don’t have any followers, you’re not a leader” -M
                    • A great leader has followers that are choosing to be there
                    • You don’t choose to follow your manager, but you choose to follow a leader
                      • It May look the same day to day, but you’ll notice the difference when pressure is applied or in high-stress situations

                        • 19:40 Future topic?

                        • Are social media influencers considered leaders?
                        • Followers are choosing to follow them and can push their “leader” to better successes

                          • 24:00 Servant Leadership

                          • Asking people if they need help
                            • Car troubles - do you need a ride somewhere?

                              • 25:00 Styles of leadership

                              • You need to define what leadership looks like at your company
                              • Too many styles of leadership can cause problems
                                • Not necessarily bad leaders, just different styles of leadership
                                • Results-driven
                                • “If everyone were robots, management would be awesome” -B
                                  • More consistency
                                  • No feelings/emotions
                                  • No work/life balance

                                    • 32:12 Closing remarks

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