Will HumphreysVirtual Assistant & Healthcare Recruiting Expert

What is the number one purpose of a leader?

Name: What is the number one purpose of a leader?
Uploaded: 2025-04-08T20:06:28+00:00
Duration: 1 min 19 s
Channel: Will Humphreys
Description: Will Humphreys argues that the number one purpose of any leader is to build more leaders — primarily through recruiting and training team members. He…

8 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Will Humphreys argues that the number one purpose of any leader is to build more leaders — primarily through recruiting and training team members. He frames recruiting as the purest expression of leadership and claims that mastering the ability to attract, retain, and develop people lets a leader outsource other functions and focus on their strengths; leadership at work naturally informs leadership at home. The video is a short, prescriptive monologue emphasizing leadership development as the core leadership task.

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What is the number one purpose of any leader? The reason we exist is for one purpose and one purpose only, to build more leaders. That is what recruiting is. It's leadership development. Because we become better leaders when we build more leaders. And the leader I am at work can't help but be the leader I am at home can't help but be the father, the husband, the son that my family deserves. Recruiting and training team members is the purest expression of leadership that there is. Oftentimes we think of recruiting as just like team building, as like one of many things that we should learn. Because you have so many things to learn. All of us do finance, medical, billing, sales, marketing, recruiting. But I am here to argue a point that if you focus on learning how to recruit and express that leadership power that you have in others, you don't need to learn anything else.
That's a pretty bold statement when you think about it. What I'm saying is if you know how to attract and retain great people and you know how to find people for your need, you can find someone to market, to do your billing. You know how to find companies to outsource to, because at that point you can focus on what you do best. You can find someone to run your company for you. It.