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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 golajiving. This

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

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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 seven seventeen. I want to talk about something

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<v Speaker 2>today that sounds simple, almost too simple, but it will

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<v Speaker 2>mess with your head if you sit with it long enough.

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<v Speaker 2>There are only ten digits in the world, zero through nine.

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<v Speaker 2>That's it. Every number you've ever seen, every dollar, every metric, KPI,

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<v Speaker 2>budget ranking score, every data point, every system, every algorithm,

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<v Speaker 2>every piece of measurable success or failure, all of it

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<v Speaker 2>is built from those ten digits. Now here's where this

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<v Speaker 2>gets interesting. For leadership. Digits are limited, numbers are not,

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<v Speaker 2>and the same is true for you and your team.

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<v Speaker 2>You have a limited set of raw materials, your personality,

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<v Speaker 2>your habits, your experiences, your team members, your resources, your time.

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<v Speaker 2>That is your zero through nine. That's your starting point.

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<v Speaker 2>And a lot of leaders get stuck right there. They

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<v Speaker 2>look at what they have and they say, this is it.

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<v Speaker 2>This is all I've got, this is my ceiling. They

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<v Speaker 2>treat their digits like they are the final answer, they

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<v Speaker 2>never learn how to build numbers. Strong leaders understand something different.

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<v Speaker 2>They understand that leadership is not about having more digits.

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<v Speaker 2>It's about how you combine what you already have. Think

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<v Speaker 2>about this. The difference between one and one one thousand

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<v Speaker 2>is not new digits, it's how those digits are arranged.

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<v Speaker 2>Same pieces, different outcomes. You can take a team of

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<v Speaker 2>average performers and build something incredible, or you can take

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<v Speaker 2>a team full of talent and create a mess. Same digits,

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<v Speaker 2>different leadership. That's where leadership lives. It lives and how

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<v Speaker 2>you structure a line and multiply what you already have. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>let's take this one step deeper. Zero is one of

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<v Speaker 2>those digits. On its own, it looks like nothing, But

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<v Speaker 2>put it in the right place and it changes everything.

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<v Speaker 2>One becomes ten, ten becomes one hundred, one hundred becomes

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<v Speaker 2>one thousand, same one different placement of zero. Leaders do

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<v Speaker 2>the exact same thing with people. You have someone on

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<v Speaker 2>your team who feels like a zero, low confidence, low engagement,

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<v Speaker 2>low output. You can ignore them, or you can place

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<v Speaker 2>them in the right role, the right environment, with the

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<v Speaker 2>right expectations, and suddenly they multiply everything around them, not

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<v Speaker 2>because they changed overnight, because you changed where you place them.

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<v Speaker 2>That's leadership. Now let's talk about the opposite misplacement. Take

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<v Speaker 2>the number one hundred and move one digit the wrong way.

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<v Speaker 2>Now you have ten. You didn't lose talent, you didn't

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<v Speaker 2>lose resources. You misalign them. That's what happens in organizations

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<v Speaker 2>every day. Wrong person in the wrong seat, wrong priorities,

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<v Speaker 2>wrong communication, wrong timing, and leaders sit there wondering why

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<v Speaker 2>performance dropped. Nothing disappeared. You just rearranged your digits poorly.

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<v Speaker 2>Leadership is not always about adding more. A lot of

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<v Speaker 2>times it's about fixing the arrangement. Now, let's bring this home.

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<v Speaker 2>You are not lacking potential. Your team is not lacking potential.

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<v Speaker 2>You are sitting on your own set of zero through

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<v Speaker 2>nine right now, skills, people, experience, time, opportunity. The question

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<v Speaker 2>is not what you have. The question is what are

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<v Speaker 2>you building with it? Are you stacking it in a

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<v Speaker 2>way that creates value, or are you letting it sit there, unorganized, underused,

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<v Speaker 2>and misunderstood. Because here's the truth. Every high performing leader

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<v Speaker 2>is working with the same basic digits as everyone else.

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<v Speaker 2>They don't have access to some secret set of numbers.

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<v Speaker 2>They don't have hidden resources the rest of the world

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<v Speaker 2>can't see. They see combinations where others see limits. They

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<v Speaker 2>build where others stall, They rearrange where others complain. And

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<v Speaker 2>that's the difference between average leadership and elite leadership. You

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<v Speaker 2>don't need more digits, you need better construction. So tomorrow,

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<v Speaker 2>when you walk into your role, I want you to

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<v Speaker 2>look at your team, your environment, your challenges and ask

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<v Speaker 2>one question, am I trying to collect more digits? Or

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<v Speaker 2>am I building something powerful with what I already have?

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<v Speaker 2>Because leadership is not about what you're given, it's about

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<v Speaker 2>what you create. And as you think about that, remember this,

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<v Speaker 2>You already have everything you need to start building something better.

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<v Speaker 2>Your job is to see the combinations, make the adjustments,

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<v Speaker 2>and lead with intention. Don't wait for more resources, don't

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<v Speaker 2>wait for better conditions. Just take your zero through nine

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<v Speaker 2>and build something that actually matters. And this has been

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<v Speaker 2>the seven minute Leadership podcast, and I thank you for listening.

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<v Speaker 1>For more Paul Fell of Alito Podcasts, visit paulfellowalito dot com.