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<v Speaker 1>Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of

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<v Speaker 1>performance through strong human relations, team building, and goalagiving. This

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<v Speaker 1>is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul Fellavledo.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>It's episode six point thirty four. Today we're talking about

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<v Speaker 2>the five leadership non negotiables. Not preferences, not personality traits,

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<v Speaker 2>not things you get to turn on and off depending

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<v Speaker 2>on your mood. Non negotiables. I've spent nearly three decades

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<v Speaker 2>in the front seat of an ambulance, inside a command

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<v Speaker 2>post during disasters, in boardrooms, on airport ramps, staring at

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<v Speaker 2>a weather report that was not in my favor. And

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<v Speaker 2>here's what I know. When pressure hits, leadership gets exposed. Titles,

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<v Speaker 2>charisma fades, excuses get loud. What remains are your non negotiables?

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<v Speaker 2>So let me give you five that I believe every

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<v Speaker 2>serious leader must hardwire into their DNA number one accountability.

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<v Speaker 2>If you cannot say that's on me, you are not leading.

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<v Speaker 2>I do not care if it was a system failure.

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<v Speaker 2>I do not care if it was an employee mistake.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't care if the economy shifted. If you are

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<v Speaker 2>in the chair. You own the outcome. In aviation. If

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<v Speaker 2>something goes wrong in that cockpit, the pilot in command

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<v Speaker 2>does not get to blame the weather. The weather is

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<v Speaker 2>a factor. It is not an excuse. The same is

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<v Speaker 2>true for you. Accountability is not about punishment. It's about credibility.

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<v Speaker 2>The moment your team sees you deflect, they start protecting

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<v Speaker 2>themselves instead of advancing the mission. Own it fast, fix

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<v Speaker 2>it faster. Number two standards, what you tolerate becomes your culture.

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<v Speaker 2>I've said this for years and I will keep saying it.

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<v Speaker 2>If you allow mediocrity, you will get mediocrity. If you

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<v Speaker 2>wink at shortcuts, shortcuts will define you. Standards are not

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<v Speaker 2>written in a manual. They are enforced in the moment.

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<v Speaker 2>It is the late employee you address. It is the

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<v Speaker 2>sloppy email you send back for correction. It's the corner

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<v Speaker 2>that almost got cut but did not because you were

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<v Speaker 2>watching in ems. We don't get to be ninety percent

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<v Speaker 2>right in the cockpit. You do not get to be

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<v Speaker 2>mostly on course. One degree off over time puts you

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<v Speaker 2>miles from where you intend to land. Standards are daily,

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<v Speaker 2>not annual. Number three is clarity. Confusion is expensive. If

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<v Speaker 2>your team does not know what winning looks like, they

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<v Speaker 2>will invent their own version of it and it will

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<v Speaker 2>not match yours. Clarity means your expectations are simple, measurable, repeatable.

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<v Speaker 2>It means you can explain your mission in plain language

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<v Speaker 2>without hiding behind corporate bs or corporate buzzwords. If I

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<v Speaker 2>walk into your organization and ask your team what matters

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<v Speaker 2>most here, I should hear the same answer five times.

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<v Speaker 2>Clarity reduces anxiety, It reduces politics, It reduces mistakes. In

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<v Speaker 2>emergency management, we use checklists for a reason. Under stress,

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<v Speaker 2>Clarity beats memory. Your organization needs leadership checklists.

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<v Speaker 1>Two.

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<v Speaker 2>What do we do when revenue dips? What do we

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<v Speaker 2>do when conflict rises? What do we do when someone

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<v Speaker 2>violates trust? Clarity is calm in written form. Number four integrity.

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<v Speaker 2>Integrity is what you do when nobody is filming. It's

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<v Speaker 2>returning the shopping cart when no one is watching. It's

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<v Speaker 2>correcting a billing error that favored you. It's having the

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<v Speaker 2>hard conversation that costs you short term comfort. Your team

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<v Speaker 2>does not need you to be perfect. They need you

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<v Speaker 2>to be consistent. If your value shift based on who

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<v Speaker 2>is in the room, your authority evaporates. I've worked disasters

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<v Speaker 2>where the public was scared, angry, and emotional. In those moments,

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<v Speaker 2>your tone, your honesty, your transparency matter more than your rank.

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<v Speaker 2>Integrity builds what I call microsecond trust, that kind that

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<v Speaker 2>forms instantly because people sense you're real. Lose that and

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<v Speaker 2>everything else becomes harder. Number five is courage. Leadership without

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<v Speaker 2>courage is management. Courage is firing the high performer who

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<v Speaker 2>poisons the team. Courage is saying no to the board

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<v Speaker 2>when they want optics over ethics. Courage is stepping into

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<v Speaker 2>the media spotlight when something went wrong. Courage is also

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<v Speaker 2>quieter than people think. It's raising your hand and saying

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<v Speaker 2>I need help. It's admitting you were wrong. It's choosing

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<v Speaker 2>long term stability over short term applause. In my red

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<v Speaker 2>key leadership framework, there are moments that define you, high

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<v Speaker 2>consequence moments, the kind where everyone is watching to see

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<v Speaker 2>who you really are. Those are courage checkpoints. You do

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<v Speaker 2>not rise to the level of your ambition in those moments,

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<v Speaker 2>you fall to the level of your discipline. So let

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<v Speaker 2>me recap accountability, standards, clarity, integrity, courage. If you're missing one,

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<v Speaker 2>your leadership has a leak here is your seven minute

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<v Speaker 2>drill for today. Write those five down next to each

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<v Speaker 2>each one, rate yourself from one to ten. Then ask

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<v Speaker 2>one trusted person to rate you on the same five.

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<v Speaker 2>If there's a gap, that gap is your work. Leadership

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<v Speaker 2>is not built in a seminar. It's built in moments,

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<v Speaker 2>small corrections, daily discipline. And here's the truth. Your team

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<v Speaker 2>already knows your non negotiables. The question is whether they're

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<v Speaker 2>the right ones. So if this episode hit you in

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<v Speaker 2>the gut a little bit, good, that means you're paying attention.

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<v Speaker 2>Leadership is not about being liked. It's about being relied upon.

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<v Speaker 2>Lock in your non negotiables, guard them, live them, and

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<v Speaker 2>when pressure shows up, let those five carry you through.

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<v Speaker 2>If you want more free leadership resources, head over to

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<v Speaker 2>This has been the seven minute Leadership podcast, and I

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<v Speaker 2>thank you for listening.

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