A leader refused to take over his team's board presentations during bank mergers, even when a senior colleague demanded it. He kept the work with the people who did it, took the heat for it, and argued that protecting your team's development matters more than your own comfort.
He had this attitude that everything had to be done his way. Now, at that time, I was working for a bank and we were going through a large series of mergers and acquisitions, and we were traveling all over the country. My team was with me 75% of the time on the road. We had to do periodic report-outs to not only our executive board, but the executive board of the, of the bank that we had purchased. And my philosophy was my people did the report out. Why? Because they did the work. They know the product. And they deserve the exposure. This guy had the audacity to come to me one day and say, you need to be doing the report outs. I said, why? Because if you don't do the report outs, then that makes the rest of us look bad. See, they wanted the glory, not for the people, for themselves. And I said, you know what, tough. My people are going to continue to do the report-outs. Now needless to say, me reporting to him, me having that attitude with him, made the relationship a little bit rocky. But you know, again, that's another one of the things as a leader, you are gonna take Bullets. You're gonna take hits. But what you can do is you can look yourself in the mirror and say, you know what, I took that bullet, I took that hit for the right reason, and my team, my people are better off for it. Leadership will always be about your people. And as I end with you today, my call to action for you is simply this: Be the leader people brag about, not the leader they survive. We had—
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