“When you can get outside of yourself and start focusing on others, you'll notice your job satisfaction and communication with your team gets better.”
I’ve always had an entrepreneurial spirit. I’ve always liked making money. When I was 13 or 14 I had a job spraypainting house numbers on curbs. On the first day, I made $90. That was a lot of money in 1966! My entrepreneurial spirit and leadership abilities kicked in and I thought, what would be even more awesome than making all this money was if I had other people to do the work for me. So I hired some 4th graders. It was great; I would do sales and they would do the work of spray painting. I was on my way to living the dream.
And then we started getting complaints. Apparently, I wasn’t as good a leader as I thought. I hadn’t taught the 4th graders the proper way of painting and things spiraled down from there.
My dad put a stop to that business pretty quickly, but that didn’t discourage me.
Like I said, I’ve always had an affinity for entrepreneurial leadership, but for so many years, leadership to me was all about making money. And there are a lot of leaders out there who think that’s all leadership is: telling everyone what to do so you can all make money. But that’s not really what Legendary Leadership is about. You will lose people along the way if you only focus on the business, on how much you make. Truly Legendary Leadership is so much more. It’s about empowering people, focusing on them, and supporting them so you can all walk forward together, instead of you dragging or pushing them along.
Join me today as I share more about what I mean by Legendary Leadership by looking back at some of what I’ve learned including:
- Real-life examples from Legendary Leaders
- How legendary leaders motivate their team
- Pitfalls that chip away at Legendary Leadership
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Episode 113 - Leadership & Mentorship in Dentistry