Chad Silverstein (speaker) discusses a leadership pitfall where leaders rely on habits and defensive claims of already doing required behaviors. He argues that effective leadership requires doing more than the habitual—emphasizing, reinforcing, and visibly initiating change so others become believers. The segment stresses modeling desired behaviors but amplifying them ("putting the stamp, the exclamation point") to convey passion and conviction.
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This is a common pitfall I think clients could go through on a regular basis, which is that you're doing certain things and you've made certain disciplines a habit, and you know, you're doing certain things that need to be done. And then when you're challenged to do things that you're already doing, you can say and be very defensive and say, I already do that. And you should be able to do that. But for leading anything worth fighting for, you're going to have to do more. So when I hear initiate in day 336, it's not that I'm not creating the culture by being the change that I want to be. It's not only just doing the things by showing people, modeling the way, it's doing more of them. It's emphasizing it. It's putting the stamp, the exclamation point, and it's driving it home. And so if you have a belief and you are behaving in a way that's aligned with what you believe about the way you want to lead your team about the way you want to handle certain situations, that's keep doing it and do more of it. Do more of it. And I think that that helps become you become a believer to people, because they not only see it, but they see how passionate you are and they see how much you believe in it. And I think there's a big difference. It's a nuance, but that's a big difference. When you have a leader that can initiate that way and you know, again, be the change you want, but be even more of it.