The big idea: If you build leaders, the business happens.
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Leadership vs management the podcast
welcome to leadership talk
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the official waymaker podcast where we
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explore
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how your organization can achieve more
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by doing less
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welcome to leadership talk the official
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way maker podcast i’m your host craig
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hunman
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with me as always is stuart leo ceo and
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founder of
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wayne maker how are you mate good
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morning craig i’m
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i’m great um uh you know it’s it’s it’s
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uh
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it’s winter time here in australia which
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means
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yeah it’s not rest it’s not really in
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queensland though
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i know but you know we did have a
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thunderstorm just then it’s beautiful
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blue skies now
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hey uh life is pretty good isn’t it at
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20 something degrees in winter
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so you and i have been actually talking
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for probably the last
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hour and i thought we’ll probably
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actually hit record
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[Music]
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yeah capture some of these insights what
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do you think
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yeah absolutely i think that’s um uh
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maybe what our listeners don’t always
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understand is that
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before most podcasts there’s probably
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about 20 30 40 minutes of just hello how
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are you going
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um so uh yeah we do get to the point
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where we go whoops we better record a
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podcast yeah we probably actually
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probably should record but um
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so and we were talking about uh a whole
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bunch of stuff
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um around the idea of leadership and
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we wanted to talk today on this podcast
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about
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liv well leadership 101 but from a
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waymaker perspective
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yeah yeah um and and i think that’s
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because i mean waymaker as a platform
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is designed to help you be
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a better leader and to help you build
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better leaders
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so it’s uh at its heart
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um we know that better leaders build
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better organizations
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and um build self-sustaining
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organizations
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um yeah so that’s that’s really at the
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very core
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and heart of what we’re doing yes
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waymaker is software
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and waymaker is a toolkit of stuff but
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at its essence if we’re not helping
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people
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um become leaders and be better leaders
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then i don’t think we’re doing our job
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and so yeah that’s the big idea for
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today that’s awesome and
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obviously stew that if you’ve got a
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great business idea and you start a
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business or
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obviously you’re a great leader right
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yeah i think
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sure i think the
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um the fear sometimes in talking about
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leadership
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um is most people go i’m not a great
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leader
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i can’t talk about leadership and that’s
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like
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people going well i’m not a great cook i
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can’t talk about cooking
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no everybody loves to cook
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we all lead in different ways in
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different levels in different things
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as we go about our day you know
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leadership um
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it’s a skill it’s a muscle that we use
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um
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i’m not sitting here pretending to be
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the world’s greatest leaders if i lined
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up all my leadership mistakes
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against all my leadership successes i’d
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probably cry and go home
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but i think leadership is one of those
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things that if we
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don’t talk about um we’re not leading
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and and so we need to
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we need to grab the bull by the horns
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and go okay one of the
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ultimate things that powers an
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organization
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is this gift of leadership that um that
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we have
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as people and how do we grow it and
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build it how do we become students of
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leadership
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in order to be better leaders and one of
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the things that i’ve heard said about
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a lot of bosses and ceos over time not
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not specifically the ones that i’ve
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worked in but you know you just hear
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this
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saying that oh they’re a great manager
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but they’re not a great leader
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what’s what’s the difference how yeah
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how do we pull that difference apart
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um so i think i think this is this
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speaks to the essence of a lot of what
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we’re going to talk today so let’s set
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this context
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we come from the viewpoint that
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leadership and management are two very
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different things
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and the problem is
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people execute the skills of leadership
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and management
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and sometimes we confuse
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the skills of leadership in the skills
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of management and i think we should put
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it this way
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a human being leads and manages
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all at the same time and it’s at
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different
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times is flexing the muscle of
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leadership versus flexing the muscle of
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management
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if i could put it that way and so if we
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put a real quick definition
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um to what leadership and management is
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um
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uh and and i think we’ve absorbed this
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from from great leaders before us this
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isn’t our own
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thinking but leadership is simply
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getting somebody from point a to point b
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um so how do we get somebody or a group
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of people
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from point a to point b i love that um
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it’s that thinking is what sits at the
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very heart of our methodology the
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experience curve
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beginning of point to end of point point
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a to point b
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how do we get a group of people from an
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idea
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to mature market leadership and
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that’s that’s that’s the great
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excitement of organizations management
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is actually helping people do the right
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things at the right time in the right
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way
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on the journey from point a to point b
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and that’s two very different things and
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um they require two different different
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skill sets
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to get people from point a to point b
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and i think what often happens is we
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look at individuals and people and we go
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they’re a great leader but not a great
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manager they’re a great manager and not
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a great leader and
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and all good leaders should be good
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managers and all good managers should be
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good leaders
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and uh and that is a sometimes
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controversial statement is that is that
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in some wonderful magical world
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[Laughter]
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yeah he’s this world we prepared earlier
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well no no it’s not some of the best
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leaders i’ve
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worked for with or around have been
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considered the lowest levels of
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management in an organization
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and so what we can’t confuse
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is oh they’re the ceo or they’re the
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business
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x person therefore they’re the leader
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well no a leader is just somebody who
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gets
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somebody or a group of people from point
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a to point b um
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and and this the skill of management is
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helping them do the right things at the
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right time
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in the right way uh along that journey
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and so
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um we should we should recognize that
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great leadership and great management
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actually is a skill that needs to sit in
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every member of the organization
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um not what is often called the
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leadership team
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or you know that’s just i i really hate
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that term
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um because you you run an organization a
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business
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that is a leadership team um uh
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come up with another term for it uh
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because you create this wall between
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people who think they are leaders and
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who think they’re not leaders if there’s
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somebody in that organization that has a
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responsibility to meet an objective
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then they are leading and managing to
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get to that objective
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and organizations that i’ve just had um
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you know a great opportunity to thrive
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in and you would
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you would probably think back in times
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like this yourself
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is when that culture permeates that
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there isn’t this one group of people who
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are leaders and this other group of
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people who are doers
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but rather leadership is a skill a
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muscle that we learn and do
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and management is a skill a muscle that
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we learn and do
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and when we do that we transform our
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thinking we change our mindset
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and we begin to think differently about
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how we work with people
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and that i think is the very first step
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in thinking about leadership
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this great um philosopher once said
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stuart lee
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sorry for laughing if if you build
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leaders your business happens
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i think um yeah because i think by
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default good leaders
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do recognize good management um
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and i think we should put a definition
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to that um
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or an explanation to that yeah leaders
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lead
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people managers
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are men or people manage systems
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i stumbled across my own things let me
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say that again leaders lead people
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and people manage systems right
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we we do not manage uh people
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and we do not lead systems
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so leaders lead people
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people manage systems
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people never manage people
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and people never lead systems and if we
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should never
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should never should never yeah if we get
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that ass about
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uh yeah then we tend to end up on our
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ass and so yeah
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i think often um if we look back on our
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own
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errors or mistakes in leadership and
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management often it’s where we get those
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two things wrong
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and so the 101 in leadership and
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management
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leadership getting people from a to b
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management helping them do the right
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things on the right way
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leaders lead people people manage
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systems
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but leaders never manage people
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and we leave bad
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leaders when we feel managed and not
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led and so i think um
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i’ve done that to people they’re my
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mistakes in the past and i’ve had that
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done to me
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and and that they’re the mistakes i’ve
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felt in the past and when i’ve done it
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the right way around
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it’s transformational to the
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relationship
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it’s when we are humans first and
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workers second and that’s that’s
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transformational often
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to many organizations to get that
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foundation right
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and and so let me just repeat it again
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um leadership is getting people or
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somebody from point a to point b
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management is making sure they do the
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right things in the right way at the
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right time
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leaders lead people and people manage
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systems but people
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never manage people
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and people should never lead systems uh
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when we get that ass about we end up on
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our ass
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so i think if we establish that as
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foundational thinking then we’ve got
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somewhere to go
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that’s cool so we we’re um
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we’re talking about like maybe a
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different approach to leadership
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through waymaker so the the waymaker
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way the waymaker approach
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approach to leadership and you’ve got
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some
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well we have some some some frameworks
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to think through
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in terms of the waymaker approach to
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leadership yeah and look
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um our job is to give you a platform
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a software platform and a methodology
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what you do with it uh up to you you can
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choose to use this as much or as little
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as you like but we’re here to help you
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hopefully this helps you do the right
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things in the right way and helps you
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lead people towards better goals
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and so we talk about a waymaker mantra
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and waymaker is designed
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under the context of this mantra so
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the waymaker mantra is
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show the way build the system train the
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leader
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hold them accountable and help them win
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it’s it’s a
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five-step mantra
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and it actually intertwines the ideas
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and skills and muscles of leadership and
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management
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through that mantra so i’ll say it again
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um that the waymaker mantra is show the
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way
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let me say that again show the way i’ve
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got to remember my own mentor show the
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way
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um build the system train the leader
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hold them accountable
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help them win and we should unpack that
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a little bit because
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i want to show how the platform has that
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ethos baked into it so it helps you be a
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better leader and helps your
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you build better leaders awesome all
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right well let’s start with show the way
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then
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well easy um easy easy
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the the first um the first way we show
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the way
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is is actually when you turn on waymaker
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you take your first diagnostic
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and you end up with a benchmark we call
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it an x-score
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and it plants you on a curve and we
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talked about getting from point a to
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point b
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point a in waymaker is an idea this
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organization was once an idea
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point b um is
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it’s probably more like point z but it’s
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market leadership it’s the top of the
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curve ready for the next
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point a and so we want to help people
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organizations get from point a to point
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b and so the very first thing we do is
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show the way
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and to show the way you have to know
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where you are
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on the way and so our diagnostic
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reveals a benchmark and that benchmark
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is an x score
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and you’re going to find a score
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somewhere between 20 or 30 percent
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up to 80 90 100 depending on how good
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you are
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if you’re in your early stages of
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maturity
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you’ll be around 30 40 50
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on the experience curve if you’re
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demonstrating maturity
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then you’re going to be much higher but
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we don’t just leave that as an
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organizational level
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maturity curve um if you’ve been
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listening to any of our podcasts and
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it’s great to hear feedback from
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listeners who have actually you’ll know
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that when we talk about
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um the the system of business
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that it’s actually a system of systems
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and that we we break that up into
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vision market strategy business model
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customer experience and employee
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experience and so
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we then allow that way to break down
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into eight curves and
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eight experience curves vision curve
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market curve
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strategy curve business model curve
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sales marketing service and employee
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expert
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employee experience curve and so there
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is circa
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250 ish data points across those curves
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um which when when you take that
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diagnostic
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is giving you a point on each of those
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curves to start from
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so the very first thing we do is we show
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somebody where they are
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not an individual button organization um
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uh so we we think the the first thing
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you need to know in getting from point a
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to point b
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is where you are between point a and
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point b
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that’s kind of helpful and then if you
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then know
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what the next steps are
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which are really the best practice
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activities on the experience curve
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you can actually start to look ahead and
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go oh my most likely next steps in sales
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or marketing or service
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are these three four or five things so
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we’re showing the way
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and we want leaders to pick up that
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mantra and go are we showing the way
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are we showing you what’s next are we
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are we lifting your eyes forward to how
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you
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improve and how your team improves and
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how the organization improves
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in order to get to our vision and our
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goal make sense great
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yep and so when we talk about build the
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system which is the second point
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are we talking about the system that
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we’ve built for organizations or are we
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saying
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now that you know now that you know what
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your next few steps are now you go off
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and build a system
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yeah the point is that um good
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leadership is about replacing yourself
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and so step one is show the way so you
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have a set of skills
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let’s say you’re an organization of one
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and you hire the next person
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they come in day one what are you gonna
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do you’re gonna start to show them
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how to do the tasks and the things that
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you want them to do
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so you’re going to show the way you’re
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going to start to transfer skills
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so in our methodology skills always
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leads systems and right and so we
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have a set of skills and we go great how
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do we
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um compound the effect of those skills
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we build a system
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so we’re going to show the way um we’re
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going to
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build a system we’re then going to train
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a leader and so
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the very first thing we’re going to do
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is recognize that we need to systemize
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some of the skills we have
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and so when we talk about skills and
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systems on the experience curve
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we’re talking about skills as things i
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know how to do
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and systems as processes tools
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or software that help us do something
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more effectively
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so a tool or a process is like a hammer
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um
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great i’ve got a hammer do i have the
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skills to hit the nail on the head
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great a skill a system a hammer is a
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system
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um it’s a tool it’s a process it’s
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and so we we think about systems like
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tools
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and so as i get more advanced i might
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move from hitting a hammer
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to maybe um
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breaking up concrete now i need a
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jackhammer i’ve got a way more powerful
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hammer you get where i’m going i won’t
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go any further
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because my analogy so this knowledge is
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going to break down
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[Laughter]
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so um our mantra you could go to a
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wrecking ball you could go to a wrecking
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ball after that thank you
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yeah yeah right up to dynamite blowing
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up a building yeah
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sorry uh i think you get the point yeah
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the
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the message here is the mantra is um
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show the way
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build the system train the leader so
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where how do we transfer skills out of
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me
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and and i’ve got to lead and i’ve got to
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manage
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so i’m going to show this person where
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they’re going and i’m going to give them
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the skills
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to how to do the right thing in the
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right way at the right time cool
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yeah that’s a system does that make
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sense yep
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and and so when we’re talking about
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training the leader then we’re
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we’re talking about how to uh equip them
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to use the tools
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um most effectively to reach point b
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yes correct yeah and in doing so
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um there’s a there’s a hard skill and a
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soft skill transferred
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the hard skill is i know how to pick up
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the hammer and hit it
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the soft skill is oh i’m beginning to
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understand what you’re doing
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you’re you’re teaching showing helping
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me understand how this hammer works to
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build the house
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i see the house and and so the soft
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skill
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is really where the leadership starts to
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to grow and so
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we should never think about building the
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system and training the leader as
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just pure functional um because if we
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are to
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build the system and train the leader we
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should teach them how to do it for the
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next person
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and um and so when i come in and see
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oh this is how i use this tool i’m being
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trained on how to use it
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i’m only effective if i can do that for
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the next person
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and otherwise we actually haven’t
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we haven’t transferred leadership we
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haven’t taught leadership we haven’t
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showed them
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showed them how to help another person
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get from point a
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to point b we haven’t replicated
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ourselves so leadership is in the
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business of replication and compounding
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okay can we park on train the leader
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just just for a moment seems so
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this episode is all about leadership um
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stu you talk about the five functions of
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a leader um
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and so that might actually be a really
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cool framework to talk about well how
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how might we actually go about training
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leaders or equipping leaders
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to get to point b yeah and look this
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um this isn’t rocket science it’s just a
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little mantra
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to be honest i’ve i’ve learned and
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adapted over the years
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and i try and practice myself and i’ve
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noticed it as
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as i moved into coaching and consulting
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with other senior leaders
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that the biggest problem we have as
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leaders
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is time to step back um time to get out
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of the doing
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and into the thinking and so this little
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five function it’s just
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it sits neatly under the waymaker way
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which is just as a leader you need you
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need to think you need to plan
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you need to inspire you need to equip um
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and you need to empower
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um and it’s really basic
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but that first thing is thinking and you
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could almost take your diary
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and you could look at it and you could
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go how much of my diary
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is actually spent on thinking time
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and most of the leaders that
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that i listened to in those early days
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of of listening around how their
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organization is going is
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is actually just swamped i don’t have
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time to think
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and in fact one of the first rules of
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war
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is to disorient your enemy it’s you know
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go and read the art of war disorienting
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your enemy is one of the first steps
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and most powerful steps to make them
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useless
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and so some of the greatest battles um
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in history have been won from the
22:14
smaller force disorienting the larger
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force
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and so many of our leaders and people
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leading
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get disoriented because they don’t step
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back to re-orient um
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why am i doing what i’m doing what am i
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achieving in doing this
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how are we going what’s working what’s
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not what are the
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divergent voices saying what are the
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who’s who’s arguing against me who’s
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telling me different things to what i
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want to hear what’s that what’s going on
22:43
where’s the market moving what are our
22:45
customers really saying
22:46
um what’s the bs coming up the line that
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i need to ignore and
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what’s the truth coming through that
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i’ve got to grab a hold of and you know
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all those things
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take time and my worst periods of life
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have been periods when i’ve been over
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scheduled over hyped over busy
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and my best and most profitable times of
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life
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have been when there’s been margins at
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the edges
23:12
and because that’s the time
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to think which leads to better planning
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so this think plan inspired
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thinking time thinking actually helps
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you be a better planner
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um bringing the right people around you
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thinking about the right things to do
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um and once you’ve planned you’ve got to
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go and sell that plan
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hopefully you’re able to inspire others
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who have been involved in thinking
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through that planning with where that’s
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going to get us
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it’s the leadership bit and then we’ve
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got to
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um what do i say equipment in power
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which is very much the
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okay who’s on board what what skills and
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systems do you need
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um great you’ve got them now get on with
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it
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um and so that little kind of five
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functions of leadership
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is a little mantra that i try and live
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by and catch myself around and
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help others in our team and and
24:04
community live around too
24:06
so rewind 20 years ago stu we you and i
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were very good at
24:10
time spent thinking with it
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with a red wine we were quite
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disciplined at the thinking stage
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i think planning a few less distractions
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at the time
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yeah we had no kids that was wives
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children yeah businesses
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all that sort of stuff but um it’s
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really great to see that you know
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waymaker has
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actually like gone through the whole
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five and here we are empowering
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people to go and do it themselves well i
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hope so yeah i know it is cool
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but yeah look i think um
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uh i think when you’re young and ideal
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you do have time
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to think and imagine and come up with
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world-changing ideas
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you’ve got to have reality checks on
24:53
those and
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think about how to manage through them
24:56
you know we’re talking about leadership
24:58
and management and
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you know i i often tell the story when i
25:03
lived in
25:04
corporation world which was some of the
25:07
best and worst times of my life but so
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often
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a leader a ceo would come in and
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sell a vision to us and they’d go hey
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we’re going to have an amazing year
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we’re going to sell so much it’s going
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to be amazing
25:21
we’re going to be the market leaders and
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blah blah blah blah
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and um somewhere in there
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uh would drop out that our targets had
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increased
25:34
um but our resources had decreased
25:39
and that the reality of the equipping
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for the vision um uh
25:46
didn’t exist and right and and
25:49
and what was appearing was a gap and you
25:52
know in this podcast and in the
25:53
waymaker world we always talk about you
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know the enemy is the gap
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would be this chasm between somebody
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thinking they’re doing great leadership
26:03
things which is selling big visions
26:06
but then doing really bad management
26:08
things by going
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okay we’re not going to give you the
26:13
skills and the resources to get there
26:15
and when you create that gap when
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when you don’t manage well which is
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equipping and empowering people
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um sorry um providing people with the
26:26
right skills and systems
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um to do the right things at the right
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time
26:30
um then you all you create is just
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uh that’s that’s just that’s just ivory
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tower talk
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um and and so the idea of leadership is
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to
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think plan inspired but to provide the
26:45
right level of skills
26:47
and resources and tools to get the job
26:50
done
26:51
no builder in his or her right mind
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walks up to a building site and says
26:55
we’re going to build a house
26:57
and then says but we don’t have hammers
26:58
drills timber and materials
27:01
and you know just imagine what would go
27:03
on if that happened
27:05
and if you take that and you put that
27:07
into typical organization land and
27:09
corporate world
27:10
how often does that happen and so part
27:12
of waymaker is helping
27:14
um educate people on the ridiculous of
27:17
that moment
27:18
so they can actually reap the benefit of
27:21
great leadership
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and great management um and achieve more
27:25
while doing less
27:27
so we’ve talked about showing the way
27:29
build the system train the leader and
27:30
that actually
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what you’ve just talked about takes us
27:33
to our fourth point we just hold them
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accountable and i just have a question
27:36
on that one before you
27:37
start roofing is um it’s it’s both
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it’s both uh downwards in the
27:44
organizational chart and upwards i would
27:46
imagine like the accountability
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is is both ways that’s right uh
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and and that’s how waymaker um helps
27:54
organizations because
27:58
it’s transparent it’s accountable um
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anybody i’ll talk talk about us as
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waymaker
28:05
anybody inside waymaker can see
28:07
waymaker’s
28:08
long-term strategic goal and all our
28:10
short-term
28:12
goals to get there and
28:16
you can see your name you can see what
28:17
it is you can see the progress towards
28:19
it
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it’s accountable that that’s why we love
28:22
the the foundational methodology of of
28:25
okrs as a goal-setting methodology
28:27
it’s transparent it’s accountable it’s
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clear at any given moment in time
28:32
i can see exactly where an individual is
28:35
at and that individual can see exactly
28:37
where i’m at if we’re all climbing the
28:39
mountain getting from point a to point b
28:42
then we all need to know where each
28:43
other’s at that’s kind of the first rule
28:46
of
28:46
outdoor air isn’t it um if you can’t see
28:50
your team
28:50
stop walking um so if you can’t see your
28:54
team and what they’re doing
28:56
stop get on the same page and get going
29:00
were you in boy scouts just out of
29:02
curiosity i i
29:04
did what our school’s equivalent was it
29:06
was called outdoor education and i i
29:08
liked it
29:08
i took it all the way through to year 12
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before uh before uni
29:12
and then i spent a year in england
29:14
actually being a boy scout
29:17
kind of throwing a seat i didn’t
29:18
thirteen years around yeah it was lots
29:20
of fun
29:22
backwards back when i looked like yeah
29:24
yeah yeah that’s it
29:26
didn’t we all didn’t we all uh show the
29:29
way
29:29
build the system train the leader hold
29:31
them accountable and then lastly
29:33
help them win um
29:37
you only win if the people around you
29:40
win
29:40
that’s where this is getting to you know
29:42
waymaker is
29:44
set up to quickly diagnose gaps
29:47
in skills and systems across the system
29:50
of business
29:51
to set a roadmap of where we need to get
29:53
to and then to
29:55
make clear all the goals that need to
29:57
happen
29:58
and and that’s that means that if i have
30:02
a goal
30:03
and there’s three people around me with
30:06
goals
30:07
and let’s say i’m leading them as a team
30:10
then
30:10
i need to make sure that they’ve got the
30:13
right goals
30:14
and that those goals actually lead
30:16
towards my goals being achieved
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that’s kind of common sense if we’re all
30:22
moving together
30:23
doing different things but in the same
30:25
direction then we achieve more
30:27
if we’re all doing different things
30:29
moving in different directions
30:31
then we’re all doing more and achieving
30:33
less and we need to
30:35
do less and achieve more we need we need
30:37
to make sure we’re all working
30:39
in the same direction um and working
30:41
well so
30:42
the the whole point of helping them win
30:45
um
30:46
is baked into waymaker this philosophy
30:48
of
30:49
people who have goals around you you
30:51
actually need to help them win with that
30:53
goal
30:53
um so we we talk about roadblocks in
30:56
fact
30:57
question one in the seventh question is
30:58
what is our vision um
31:00
is it driven by our purpose and what
31:02
roadblocks exist
31:04
um to to stop us getting there and and
31:07
um part of our basic fundamentals in the
31:10
system
31:11
of waymaker the platform is to surface
31:13
roadblocks
31:15
is this goal still progressing well
31:19
does it have a roadblock if it has a
31:20
roadblock then bring that to the team
31:23
um if you if you are blocked then bring
31:26
that to the team
31:27
and let the team help you unblock that
31:29
it and this is the shift in kind of 20th
31:32
century
31:34
mindsets into 21st century adaptive
31:36
mindsets
31:37
it used to be a sin to go i don’t know
31:40
or
31:40
i’m not achieving and so you’d kind of
31:43
shut up
31:44
and try and hope nobody noticed um
31:48
it’s not a sin to stick your hand up and
31:50
go i’ve got a roadblock
31:52
what we thought four weeks ago we could
31:54
achieve something’s changed
31:56
i can’t fix it but i think if we come
31:59
together and the two or three people
32:00
around
32:01
we can all fix it together um great
32:04
let’s fix it
32:05
uh and remove the roadblock and so you
32:07
know leader’s job
32:10
in equipping and powering is to remove
32:11
roadblocks if you get the roadblocks out
32:13
of the way
32:14
of your team then they can get their job
32:15
done and if
32:17
if you’re not actively removing
32:18
roadblocks then your team isn’t telling
32:20
you about the roadblocks they’re having
32:22
which they’re guaranteed to be having
32:26
then you know the communication’s down
32:28
the focus is down
32:29
it’s you’re just going to get to the end
32:31
of the quarter going why didn’t we get
32:32
there
32:33
oh because this this this and this and
32:35
suddenly the whole thing descends into
32:36
disaster
32:37
um so rapid
32:40
surfacing of roadblocks under the
32:43
context of help each other win
32:46
because there’s only one way to play the
32:48
game and that is
32:49
to win and in order to win you’ve got to
32:53
win
32:53
together one person doesn’t win a team
32:55
wins um
32:57
uh i’m i’m getting on my high horse now
32:59
but i’ll slow down
33:00
yeah yeah no that’s
33:03
that’s awesome and i mean the whole the
33:05
whole point of the waymaker platform is
33:07
to help business owners be better
33:09
leaders to identify these things to step
33:11
through these
33:11
these five uh points that we’ve just
33:13
talked about show the way build the
33:15
system train the leader hold them
33:16
accountable
33:17
help them win stu there is a course on
33:20
the waymaker academy
33:21
called leadership and management do you
33:23
want to just speak into that briefly
33:25
before we finish today yeah i mean
33:29
our vision is to um
33:32
help leaders build better organizations
33:36
which means helping them build leaders
33:38
and so
33:39
uh waymaker academy is
33:42
we call it bite-sized brilliance to help
33:44
you along your way and
33:45
and every user on waymaker has
33:48
free access into wi-maker academy
33:51
there’s only one
33:52
current paid course and and that’s to
33:54
get your advisor certification if you’re
33:56
coaching and consulting on the platform
33:58
um everything else is is free and we
34:01
intend to keep it that way we’re growing
34:03
that every month dropping new content in
34:06
so jump in search leadership and
34:07
management there’s foundational
34:09
leadership management 101 what we’ve
34:11
been talking about
34:12
if you’re a leader or a manager share it
34:14
with your team um
34:16
get them to jump through it you know
34:18
it’s it’s super simple stuff and
34:20
um these are the things that uh someone
34:22
jokingly said to me you can do in the
34:24
coffee shop
34:25
on the bus on the way home or sitting on
34:27
the toilet um
34:29
it’s it’s a it’s a short course that’ll
34:31
take you no no more than
34:33
five to 15 minutes to get through
34:37
and that will help you instill
34:40
um the inspiration of where you’re going
34:42
and also equip and empower them to think
34:44
about leadership in a new and better way
34:48
that’s awesome always as always stu it’s
34:50
uh it’s great to chat to you about all
34:52
things leadership management
34:54
world-changing uh paradigms etc etc
34:57
um but we would encourage anybody who’s
35:00
listening to jump on waymaker.io sign up
35:02
for a free trial you can access that
35:04
leadership and management course
35:06
you know when you sign up for the free
35:07
trial right so um
35:09
jump on there do the free trial can’t
35:11
see your subscription doesn’t matter
35:13
it doesn’t matter you know what um do we
35:16
care of course we care
35:17
but if that’s helped you then fine do
35:20
that
35:20
do that and if you can’t afford your
35:22
subscription just reach out to us and
35:24
talk to us we’ll help you anyway
35:25
oh look at that all right well stu um as
35:28
always it’s great to chat to you
35:30
i love talking about how to achieve more
35:31
by doing less and we’re going to do that
35:33
again in our next episode
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Waymaker.io is designed to help you build better leaders
Better leaders build better organizations.
Waymaker is a software platform and a methodology, that will help you be a better leader and then build better leaders.
How?
Quite simply, every quarter everyone helps find gaps, plans how to close those gaps and then owns their own goals (OKRs) to get the job done.
Team member are learning to see the future, become aware of their gaps, think about how to close them, work on skills and systems to close them and own the outcomes.
Let’s bust a myth, we don’t have to be experts to talk about leadership.
This can be a conversation you can have in your organization, at whatever level of leadership you’re at.
Leadership & management are different things, but never exclusively apart
Our view at Waymaker is that leadership and management are two very different things.
But, they are never exclusively apart. In the podcast we talk about how as employees we can default into talking about a person as a ‘manager’ or a ‘leader’.
This sets up a false idea of what leadership and management is.
A human leads and manages at the same time.
At different times they are flexing the muscle of leadership, and at other times flexing the muscle of management.
Sometimes they’ll flex both together to do the heavy lifting!
What is leadership & management?
Leadership is simply getting someone or a group of people from point a to point b.
Management is doing the right things, in the right way at the right time, along that journey.
This is the thinking that sits at the very heart of our framework, The Experience Curve.
Great leaders can exist at all levels inside an organization
Hierarchy is deceptive. Great leadership and great management can and should exist at every level of the organization.
There is not just one group of people who are leaders at the top of the organization, rather, the skills and systems of leadership and management can and should be developed at every level.
Leaders lead people, people manage systems
In the podcast we explore the principle that as people we never manage people and we should never lead systems.
Rather, leaders lead people and people management systems.
If you are inspired or passionate about leadership and management, access the Leadership & Management course and playbook in Waymaker Academy.
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The Waymaker mantra is:
“Show the way,
build the system,
train the leader,
hold them accountable,
and help them win.”
Contained within this one phrase are:
The fundamentals of leading and managing
We show the way to those around us.
This means as leader’s we have wrestled with the problem ourselves.
We do not demand someone to ‘figure it out for themselves’ and then get on with the job, rather as leaders we empower those, we lead with the illumination of how so they can see us make it happen.
The application of skills and systems
We put a system into place (a process, a tool or some technology) that helps the next leader repeat the process with high quality, and overtime improve and get better.
The respect of learning
We put learning materials together to help the next leader gain the wisdom we have.
The responsibility of accountability
If a job is worth doing, it’s worth being held accountable.
Excellence comes from setting, holding and lifting standards.
The joy of servant leadership
Great leaders help others win.
If you help the next leader win, you have made your job easier and that of your team members.
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