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The Glass Ball You Can’t Drop

Name: The Glass Ball You Can’t Drop
Uploaded: 2025-05-11T16:32:45+00:00
Duration: 41 s
Channel: Will Humphreys
Description: A brief leadership lesson by Will Humphreys using the metaphor of juggling balls to explain prioritizing family over business. He contrasts a fragile…

11 May 2025 · 1 min

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A brief leadership lesson by Will Humphreys using the metaphor of juggling balls to explain prioritizing family over business. He contrasts a fragile "glass" ball (family) that must never be dropped with a resilient "rubber" ball (business), advising leaders to treat business setbacks as less catastrophic so they can protect family and learn from work mistakes.

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Here's one leadership lesson that changed everything. A leader once told me that juggling a business and life and a family is like juggling different balls in the air. But he taught me that one of those balls is rubber, and one of those balls is glass. The glass ball that we can never drop is our family. The rubber ball that can bounce is our business. So there are two types of fires in business. There's the dumpster fires and the house fires. Let's not treat them all as the same. We got to remember the ball will bounce, especially with the dumpster fires. If we can make sure to protect that glass ball and learn the lessons of leadership in that rubber ball of business, the happier we become.