The Matt Ware Show

If you think your organization needs all leadership and no management, or all management and no leadership, you are wrong. Matt paints a picture of the tension between these two mindsets and why great leaders embrace both. Left to its own devices, your organization will be unbalanced, because you are not balanced.

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Leadership and management are not the same thing, and they are not enemies. Matt Ware unpacks why no organization will be healthy without both, and why both must be rooted in servanthood. When leaders stop serving, they run the train off the tracks, and when managers stop serving, the train never moves at all.

Are you more naturally on the visionary side or on the logistical side?

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You may be busy doing a lot of things, but are you doing the right things?

In part two of this series, Matt finishes the list of essential functions of organizational leadership, the ones that rarely make it onto the job description. Because the people in your organization aren't following a program. They're following a person.

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You've got the title. Maybe even a job description. But nobody ever told you what leadership actually requires. In part one of a two-part series, Matt breaks down the first five of ten essential functions of organizational leadership.

Part two, covering the next five functions, drops next week. Hit subscribe so you don't miss it.

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Most leaders think leadership is a science with a formula. Matt breaks down why leadership is actually more art than science, and why staying locked into your preferred way of doing things can leave you blind to the shifts happening around you. Learn what it really means to be fixed on your mission but flexible in your methods.

Where do you feel like you're really flexible in your leadership, and where are you really fixed?

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A flight delay in a small town airport turned into a masterclass in leadership when Captain Dale Holland stepped up to lead a frustrated crowd. Matt breaks down what the captain did and why it matters more than the technical skill that gets you in the seat.

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Every good leader Matt Ware has ever known is frustrated all the time. He used to think that was a problem. Now he sees it as part of the job. This week: why your frustration isn't a fault, it's a feature, and how to use it as fuel instead of trying to fix it.

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For our 50th episode, Matt shares an unplanned trailhead encounter with leadership legend John Maxwell. He breaks down what authenticity, presence, and influence actually look like off stage, and why the meeting changed how he leads.

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Every leader eventually runs into someone who tries to manipulate them, and it usually shows up in the words they use.

In this episode, Matt breaks down the two most common words manipulators use, why those words are impossible to satisfy, and the one move that shuts manipulation down every time.

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Matt asks the question he can't stop thinking about: how bad do you actually want it? He breaks down the gap between what we say we want and what our actions prove, then challenges you to get aggressive, stay consistent, stop delaying, and stop excusing.

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