Lead with Heart

So, I mean, I have a bias for the word inspire. Inspire, you know.

To me, to make that an action rather than a result. You know, to inspire. I love that. Which is. You think how to. It's. It's a. It's a. It's a standard by which you have to live by. Right. Did you inspire someone today? Yeah, you know, I have a thing. I've abandoned it lately, but I had two fishbowls in my room, and we can calculate, you know, we know the average lifespan. We know our average lifespan. It's, you know, whatever the number is.78 or whatever it is. So you can actually easily calculate the number of months, weeks, or days that you statistically have left on this planet. Right. And so I bought a bag of marbles, and one marble represented each week that I have left on the planet, and I filled up the exact number based on the statistics in one fishbowl. And.

It'S more inspiring than doomsday.

I mean, it's just statistics. Yeah. No, no. But at the end of every week, I would ask myself.

I actually got it down to the day, but at the end of every week, I'd say, was this a week worth living? Did I do something to inspire someone? And it's my own standard, and if the answer is yes, I move it to the other fishbowl. If the answer is no, I throw away the marble because I wasted it. Right.

And that's why I love the word inspire. I believe it is a standard to live by. And inspiration is how we make other people feel. It's not, did you do something? I did something good today. I gave money to charity. That's not what it is. It's how did I make someone feel? And did they feel that their life is even better, even for five minutes, because of something. Because of their interaction with me? Right. And then genuine care, I think, is the second part of it. Right. Yeah. Inspire the world to lead with genuine heart. Right? With genuine heart. And again, I think that sets you up for values. And it's proprietary. I've never heard anybody talk about genuine. People talk about innovation and, you know, integrity. Like, those are generic words. But genuine heart is something you can own. And so how do you amplify genuine heart? What are the standards of leading with genuine heart? What does it mean to lead with genuine heart? What are the values that mean that. Are you giving out a genuine heart award to the person in each property who exemplifies. And by the way, the way to do that is to ask their teammates to vote for them not come from leadership. Like, who inspires us to lead with genuine heart to the degree that we want to be more like our own colleague. Because a peer review is actually more powerful than a review from up on high. Because, really, we're all working for one person's approval where a peer review is. My team loves me, and we're not angry when somebody wins that award. I deserve that. Because I voted for him. Because I voted for him. Right. And it sets a standard for the rest of the team. So I think peer review, where we allow our own people to choose who within our group, who within our team, has inspired us to lead with genuine heart. And the irony is, they may not be your best individual performer, but they're probably your best natural leaders. It doesn't necessarily always line up with performance.