Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and golajving. This
Speaker 1: is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul Fellovledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode seven o three. There is a moment in
Speaker 2: every organization, every team, and every leader's career that almost
Speaker 2: no one sees coming. It does not arrive with an announcement.
Speaker 2: It does not show up on your calendar. There is
Speaker 2: no meeting invite, no memo, no warning. It builds quietly,
Speaker 2: It stacks in the background, and then one day everything shifts.
Speaker 2: That moment is the tipping point. Most leaders think tipping
Speaker 2: points are big of events, a major resignation, a public failure,
Speaker 2: a financial crisis, or a major win. That is not
Speaker 2: the tipping point. That is the result of the tipping point.
Speaker 2: The tipping point happens long before that. It happens in
Speaker 2: the small moments that no one is tracking. It is
Speaker 2: the extra minute you spend listening to someone when you're tired.
Speaker 2: It is the decision to address a problem instead of
Speaker 2: letting it slide. It is the tone you use when
Speaker 2: no one is paying attention It is the standard you
Speaker 2: enforce when it would be easier to ignore it. Leadership
Speaker 2: tipping points are built in silence. Here is where this
Speaker 2: gets dangerous. Most leaders are building a tipping point right now.
Speaker 2: They just have no idea which direction it's going. Let
Speaker 2: me explain. Every action you take is either stacking toward
Speaker 2: trust or stacking toward doubt. Every conversation is either building
Speaker 2: belief or eroding it. Every decision is either tightening your
Speaker 2: culture or weakening it. There is no neutral You're always
Speaker 2: moving toward a tipping point. So I want you to
Speaker 2: think about this. Have you ever walked into a workplace
Speaker 2: and within five minutes you knew exactly what kind of
Speaker 2: place it was. No one had to tell you, you
Speaker 2: felt it. That was a tipping point you walked into.
Speaker 2: That culture did not happen overnight. It was built through hundreds,
Speaker 2: maybe thousands, of small leadership decisions. And here's the part
Speaker 2: that most leaders miss. The tipping point is not controlled
Speaker 2: by one big decision. It's controlled by consistency. Consistency is
Speaker 2: the quiet force that pushes everything over the edge. And
Speaker 2: I'll give you an example. You have an employee who
Speaker 2: shows up late the first time you ignore it, the
Speaker 2: second time you joke about it. The third time you
Speaker 2: say something but you don't follow through. And what you're
Speaker 2: doing is stacking. You're not managing time. You are building
Speaker 2: a tipping point. And eventually one of two things will happen.
Speaker 2: Either that employee fully checks out and your standard collapses,
Speaker 2: or another employee steps in and says, why am I
Speaker 2: doing the right thing if no one else has to,
Speaker 2: and now your culture starts to crack. That is a
Speaker 2: tipping point. Now flip it, same situation. First time you
Speaker 2: address it clearly, Second time you reinforce expectations. Third time
Speaker 2: you hold the standard. No drama, no yelling, no emotion,
Speaker 2: just consistency. Now you are building a different tipping point,
Speaker 2: one where people understand exactly what matters, one where standards
Speaker 2: are not negotiable, one where trust starts to build. The
Speaker 2: difference between those two outcomes is not talent, it's not intelligence,
Speaker 2: it's not experience. It is the accumulation of small, consistent
Speaker 2: leadership behaviors. This is where most leaders get it wrong.
Speaker 2: They're waiting for the big moment to show up. They
Speaker 2: think leadership is about how they perform when everything is
Speaker 2: on the line, But the truth is, by the time
Speaker 2: everything is on the line, the outcome has already been decided.
Speaker 2: The tipping point already happened. You just didn't recognize it.
Speaker 2: This is why some leaders seem to turn things around overnight.
Speaker 2: They did not. They were stacking the right behaviors long
Speaker 2: before anyone noticed, and then one day everything crossed the line.
Speaker 2: Momentum took over and it looked like magic. It's not magic.
Speaker 2: It's math. Small inputs repeated consistently over time. That is
Speaker 2: how tipping points are built. So here's the real question.
Speaker 2: You need to ask yourself, what are you stacking right now?
Speaker 2: Because whether you realize it or not, you are getting
Speaker 2: closer to a tipping point. It might be a breakthrough
Speaker 2: or it might be a breakdown. You decide that not
Speaker 2: with one big decision, but with the next small one
Speaker 2: you make. This is where your seven minute leadership discipline
Speaker 2: comes into play. You do not need to overhaul your
Speaker 2: entire organization today. You do not need a massive strategy session.
Speaker 2: You need seven focused minutes. Seven minutes to think about
Speaker 2: your standard, seven minutes to reflect on your conversations, seven
Speaker 2: minutes to correct something that is slightly off, seven minutes
Speaker 2: to reinforce something that is working. That is how you
Speaker 2: control the direction of your tipping point, not by reacting
Speaker 2: by intentionally stacking. And let me leave you with this,
Speaker 2: there is a moment coming in your leadership journey where
Speaker 2: everything will shift. Your team will either lock in with
Speaker 2: you or they will quietly move away from you. Your
Speaker 2: culture will either tighten or it will unravel. Your reputation
Speaker 2: will either solidify or it will crack. That moment is
Speaker 2: already being built right now in the ways that feel small,
Speaker 2: in the ways that feel insignificant, in the ways that
Speaker 2: are easy to overlook. But they are not small. They
Speaker 2: are everything. So the next time you think this does
Speaker 2: not matter, or I will deal with this later, or
Speaker 2: it's not a big deal, stop because that moment might
Speaker 2: be the tipping point for everything. Leadership is not about
Speaker 2: the loud moments everyone sees. It is about out the
Speaker 2: quiet ones no one notices. Stack the right actions, protect
Speaker 2: your standards, pay attention to the small things because one
Speaker 2: day all of it adds up, and when it does,
Speaker 2: you will not get to choose the outcome. You will
Speaker 2: live with what you've built. This has been the seven
Speaker 2: minute Leadership Podcast, and I thank you for listening.
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