Leadership 

  • Books are derivative and repetitive
  • Books are stumbling blocks
  • Almost all books never include the actual application process
  • Almost all books exclude the very people it applies to
  • Andy almost never uses the word “leadership” because of these things

Principles of Leadership

  • He includes the principles of leadership instead of regurgitating the same words from every leadership book
  • Quotes Patton with “the most important quality of a leader is the willingness to make choices”
    • Might be good for a military leader who decides how and when and who goes into a battle, calculating loss vs win etc,
  • Think about your qualities of leadership and being aware and applying them will affect your destiny, recognize and understand your leadership traits

Natural Leadership – to desire the best lives for others

  • So are you a natural leader? Yes, everyone is
  • Leadership is relating beliefs and convictions to others through your energy and sticking to your convictions
    • EX: with friends and someone asks which restaurant?  Everyone replies they don’t care.  One person speaks up and that’s where they go.  Why?
      • Everyone likes this person and they had the guts to speak up
  • We all have the desire for our friends and families to live their best lives
  • We offer them sound advice to influence them to make good choices about their lives
  • The very essence of leadership is to lead people in a certain direction and the desire to see good for others
  • We need an ever-increasing amount of influence to achieve our desires
  • We need to understand how others think and encourage each other first
  • What kind of home do we want to create for our customers?
    • One with highly energetic, kind, helpful people or the opposite?

Harnessing Your Leadership

  • Needs two things: 
    • One: perspective about yourself
    • Two: likeability
      • This increases your influence
      • Provides a platform for what you have learned
      • You can have all the right answers, but if no one likes you, your answers don’t matter

Be the leaders your family, friends and customers deserve.