Leadership is Leverage: When Leaders Become the Bottleneck
True leverage is about multiplying leaders!
In this solo episode, BJ explores the concept of leadership and leverage and shares why he believes that leaders are actually levers. Tuning in, you’ll hear all about what to consider when thinking about leverage, the power of discerning leverage properly, and how the 80/20 rule can help leaders.
BJ delves into the importance of leveraging and protecting your time before discussing the difference between responsible and irresponsible leverage. BJ even talks about systems, why they’re imperative, and why bad systems are problematic. Finally, we touch on the idea that people aren’t leverage, their growth is.
To hear all this and even be challenged to consider how you are discerning your leverage, be sure to listen now!
Key Points From This Episode:
- What leadership actually is and why leaders are levers.
- BJ explains the 80/20 rule and what it means for leaders.
- Responsible leverage versus irresponsible leverage.
- The difference between true leverage and fake leverage.
- Three things to ask yourself this week to be a better leader.
Quotes:
“Leverage without discernment and wisdom turns into burnout, overextension, anxiety, or – using people instead of developing them.” — BJ Kraemer
“Leadership requires us to constantly ask, ‘Where am I spending time that someone else can grow into [or] – that I might be able to delegate to somebody? – Where am I holding onto work that’s preventing scalability? Where might I be confusing activity with impact or results?’” — BJ Kraemer
“Time is the only resource that you can’t get more of.” — BJ Kraemer
“If your organization or family relies on your heroic effort to function, you don’t have a leadership problem, you have a systems problem.” — BJ Kraemer
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