Selfishness

There's this element of selfishness that has to come out of us all, right?

As an entrepreneur, it’s about, "I own the company. Everything's all mine. Look at all my flashy stuff," right? NO.

If you want to scale an organization and build a legacy-based organization, one that is in multiple states or countries, it cannot be about you at all.

I've done every single position in each one of my companies at least once, all because I'm looking for a place to understand what the role entails. So when something comes up, I'm able to go to that team member and say, "I understand what your role entails. I understand our metrics. I understand what's holding you back. I think you're doing an awesome job at X, Y, and Z. We’ve got to focus on this one thing here. By the way, you're an awesome person. I can't wait to work with you some more. Let's make sure we knock out this thing in the middle, okay?" And in almost every case, it's not an attack. It's a mentor relationship. At our production meetings each week, we started live streaming on Instagram every so often. I got part of my team in a room and I'll just start talking to the team.

And that's what real leadership is to me. It's the real leaders who do it first, real leaders may do it messy, but real leaders also care.

Check out my latest podcast episode with Johannes Escudero where we discuss more ideas about positive leadership here.