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Episode #352: Patrick Lencioni - The Five Key Actions Of Excellent Leaders
Notes:
- Leaders who sustain excellence =
- Humility - They don't feel they are more important than others, but they realize that their words and actions carry more weight.
- "Leadership is a privilege... It's about serving others. A lot of leaders lead because they think it looks cool."
- "Leadership has to be about what you can give, not what you can get."
- Exploring the two leadership motives:
- Reward-centered leadership: the belief that being a leader is the reward for hard work, and therefore, that the experience of being a leader should be pleasant and enjoyable, avoiding anything mundane, unpleasant or uncomfortable.
- Responsibility-centered leadership: the belief that being a leader is a responsibility, and therefore that the experience of leading should be difficult and challenging (though certainly not without elements of personal gratification).
- One of the questions to ask yourself:
- “How do you see your job in terms of verbs?” — what do you do to really help the business?
- The leader must be a constant, incessant reminder of the company’s purpose, strategy, values, & priorities. You’re not only the CEO, you’re the CRO.” Chief Reminding Officer
- The actions of great leaders:
- Running great meetings
- Managing the executive team
- Managing the executives as individuals
- Having difficult conversations with people
- Constantly communicating and repeating key messages to employees
- "The CEO should have the most painful job in the company."
- For the mid-level manager -- "Am I waking up with the right rationale to do this job?"
- Love is a verb:
- Time
- Affection
- Discipline
- "Leadership is not a noun, it's a verb."
- Running great meetings:
- "Meetings are the central activity of leadership. Bad leaders have other people run their meetings."
- Good meetings have debate and conflict. People are able to be passionate without consequence. The leader prioritizes what will be talked about.
- CEO's are responsible to build teams. Your job is to build teams based on trust
- When receiving a message from a cynical leader who says "You don't understand." Our response? "No, we're not going to be that way. The ones who do the hard work change the world."
- Micro-managing vs. Accountability:
- "There is an abdication of management. You should know what your team is doing."
- Parenting: "The great news about being a parent is it's humbling."
- The leader must be the chief reminding officer:
- "Constant, incessant, reminder of the company's purpose, strategy, values, and priorities. You must over-communicate."
- Marriage advice:
- "Be completely humble, vulnerable, especially in front of the kids. Engage in healthy conflict. When people can't argue, that's a problem."