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Leadership Impacts Everyone Around You - So How Are You Leading?

12 Aug 2022 · 1 min

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In this brief talk, the speaker argues that society lacks proper education on genuine leadership, which is often confused with titles, salaries, and hierarchical power. He emphasizes that true leadership influences individuals directly rather than abstract groups, noting the well‑known insight that people leave organizations because of the people, not the organization itself. The speaker stresses the importance of helping others discover their authentic leadership potential while also learning to distinguish what leadership is not, thereby fostering more effective, people‑focused leaders.

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No. Leadership is so important to me because I feel as though we don't have much education around it. And when I mean education, I'm not talking about necessarily going get a degree or anything like that, where I think those things are useful. I think we don't have a lot of people who are really geared to being true leaders. We like the idea of leadership. We like the idea of being in charge. We like the idea of the salary, the corner office, the hierarchy of me being on top of it. Right. But we don't really recognize the true impact of what leadership has. Leadership affects people, not groups of people. You think your audience may have already heard it, had it said once before, people don't quit organizations, they quit people. That is a true thing. That's a true statement. Leaders can impact organizations significantly. They impact individuals. They impact literally everyone around them. And I think that just helping people to become better leaders, recognizing their true leadership potential, but then also differentiating what leadership is not, is very key, that I really try to help people differentiate.