A leader realizes their growth has stalled despite being surrounded by other leaders. They blame weekly golf outings and friends who don't talk about development. The wake-up call pushes them to read more and rebuild their leadership philosophy from scratch.
We had leaders that were trained and knew what to do, and they had a leader that knew how to create an environment that massaged them, but they were doing the training. All of a sudden, 18, 19 months ago when I started this journey, I realized very quickly I got to get a leadership philosophy. I don't have a clue what I'm doing. That's a tough thing to accept. I heard one of the ladies say earlier, tremendous talk she gives, about you gotta always be growing. Well, I stopped growing. I didn't mentally one day say, I'm gonna stop growing. But if you play golf 5 times a week and hang out with a bunch of other people that ain't talking about growing, you just stop growing. Not purposely. And all of a sudden I said, oh my God, I had to get books,
