Chris Collins tells Bill that patience isn't a leadership virtue when it comes to process. Instead, leaders should hire the right people, push tempo, correct mistakes immediately, and stress-test systems. Waiting for outcomes to work themselves out is passive; real leadership means active intervention.
Bill asks how to be more patient with the process and to strike the balance between manifesting my reality and trusting it will all play out the way it is meant to.
So this is a question from our app that when you get the I am leader book, which I wrote, you activate the book. And there's a community in there and we interact with each other. There's leadership courses, 17 laws of leadership, and some incredible people to interact with.
And I am answering Bill's question. We call this leadership therapy. Even though I'm not a therapist, I have a lot of experience in leadership and fixing businesses, and I wrote a book on leadership. So there you go. Well, Bill.
I don't know that patience.
Is the thing that you want. Also. I'm not leaving anything to chance. Like, I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in leaving things to chance and to letting things evolve. And a lot of times, like when you go in to fix a business.
Patience is the last thing you want to have because, like, people revert back to their way of doing things and the way they're doing it isn't working. And that's why we're there, right? That's why we're there as leaders, or that's why I'm there is to fix what isn't happening. And so their habits, their behaviors are not creating the outcome that we want. So I'm not going to be patient. I'm not going to leave anything to chance. So, for example, you know, we need to hire a chef and two waiters. And I say, you know, did we, did we run the ad? Are we interviewing people? No. Or I just Google and our ad doesn't come up. I'm not, I'm not going to be patient about, like, things gotta move. Like, okay, where are the new menus? Where's the new pricing strategy? Where, like these, these things have to happen. And if, if you're trying to achieve a mission or a goal as a leader.
You, you aren't going to get there by leaving it to chance or being patient. Now, you want to be strategic. You want to be strategic and you want to be realistic about what is possible and be realistic about, you know, if you give old Bobby here, who, who can't find his way out of a wet paper sack task to do that is way above his skill level.
That's, that's more of an issue of personnel and who you're delegating to, you know, right seat on the bus kind of a thing. And so I don't, I don't think patience.
Is what we're looking for. Like, I think reality in. In being. Being honest about what is possible. But we only learn about ourselves by trying to push and trying to do better, trying to do more stress testing our systems, seeing how creative we can be, see how we react in different situations.
And, you know, doing that without panic. I'm not. I'm not.
Trying to.
Lead us in the direction that, oh, panic and chaos is the answer, but.
Being right up against it, pushing as hard as you can and watching everything and being very strategic and correcting in the moment, being very honest in the moment about what's going on and not, you know, being passive and letting things go for a day or two days or even ten minutes. Like, it's. It's a tempo, right? We're trying to create a tempo, and we're trying to create some momentum. So.
I'm not leaving anything to chance. So I don't know that anything is the way it's meant to be. That's not how I think. I. I think I'm creating that outcome. It's not fate. It's not luck. And.
Being realistic is. Is a virtue, but patience is not something that I subscribe to whatsoever.
