Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and golajiving. 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 seventeen. I want to talk about something
Speaker 2: today that sounds simple, almost too simple, but it will
Speaker 2: mess with your head if you sit with it long enough.
Speaker 2: There are only ten digits in the world, zero through nine.
Speaker 2: That's it. Every number you've ever seen, every dollar, every metric, KPI,
Speaker 2: budget ranking score, every data point, every system, every algorithm,
Speaker 2: every piece of measurable success or failure, all of it
Speaker 2: is built from those ten digits. Now here's where this
Speaker 2: gets interesting. For leadership. Digits are limited, numbers are not,
Speaker 2: and the same is true for you and your team.
Speaker 2: You have a limited set of raw materials, your personality,
Speaker 2: your habits, your experiences, your team members, your resources, your time.
Speaker 2: That is your zero through nine. That's your starting point.
Speaker 2: And a lot of leaders get stuck right there. They
Speaker 2: look at what they have and they say, this is it.
Speaker 2: This is all I've got, this is my ceiling. They
Speaker 2: treat their digits like they are the final answer, they
Speaker 2: never learn how to build numbers. Strong leaders understand something different.
Speaker 2: They understand that leadership is not about having more digits.
Speaker 2: It's about how you combine what you already have. Think
Speaker 2: about this. The difference between one and one one thousand
Speaker 2: is not new digits, it's how those digits are arranged.
Speaker 2: Same pieces, different outcomes. You can take a team of
Speaker 2: average performers and build something incredible, or you can take
Speaker 2: a team full of talent and create a mess. Same digits,
Speaker 2: different leadership. That's where leadership lives. It lives and how
Speaker 2: you structure a line and multiply what you already have. Now,
Speaker 2: let's take this one step deeper. Zero is one of
Speaker 2: those digits. On its own, it looks like nothing, But
Speaker 2: put it in the right place and it changes everything.
Speaker 2: One becomes ten, ten becomes one hundred, one hundred becomes
Speaker 2: one thousand, same one different placement of zero. Leaders do
Speaker 2: the exact same thing with people. You have someone on
Speaker 2: your team who feels like a zero, low confidence, low engagement,
Speaker 2: low output. You can ignore them, or you can place
Speaker 2: them in the right role, the right environment, with the
Speaker 2: right expectations, and suddenly they multiply everything around them, not
Speaker 2: because they changed overnight, because you changed where you place them.
Speaker 2: That's leadership. Now let's talk about the opposite misplacement. Take
Speaker 2: the number one hundred and move one digit the wrong way.
Speaker 2: Now you have ten. You didn't lose talent, you didn't
Speaker 2: lose resources. You misalign them. That's what happens in organizations
Speaker 2: every day. Wrong person in the wrong seat, wrong priorities,
Speaker 2: wrong communication, wrong timing, and leaders sit there wondering why
Speaker 2: performance dropped. Nothing disappeared. You just rearranged your digits poorly.
Speaker 2: Leadership is not always about adding more. A lot of
Speaker 2: times it's about fixing the arrangement. Now, let's bring this home.
Speaker 2: You are not lacking potential. Your team is not lacking potential.
Speaker 2: You are sitting on your own set of zero through
Speaker 2: nine right now, skills, people, experience, time, opportunity. The question
Speaker 2: is not what you have. The question is what are
Speaker 2: you building with it? Are you stacking it in a
Speaker 2: way that creates value, or are you letting it sit there, unorganized, underused,
Speaker 2: and misunderstood. Because here's the truth. Every high performing leader
Speaker 2: is working with the same basic digits as everyone else.
Speaker 2: They don't have access to some secret set of numbers.
Speaker 2: They don't have hidden resources the rest of the world
Speaker 2: can't see. They see combinations where others see limits. They
Speaker 2: build where others stall, They rearrange where others complain. And
Speaker 2: that's the difference between average leadership and elite leadership. You
Speaker 2: don't need more digits, you need better construction. So tomorrow,
Speaker 2: when you walk into your role, I want you to
Speaker 2: look at your team, your environment, your challenges and ask
Speaker 2: one question, am I trying to collect more digits? Or
Speaker 2: am I building something powerful with what I already have?
Speaker 2: Because leadership is not about what you're given, it's about
Speaker 2: what you create. And as you think about that, remember this,
Speaker 2: You already have everything you need to start building something better.
Speaker 2: Your job is to see the combinations, make the adjustments,
Speaker 2: and lead with intention. Don't wait for more resources, don't
Speaker 2: wait for better conditions. Just take your zero through nine
Speaker 2: and build something that actually matters. And this has been
Speaker 2: the seven minute Leadership podcast, and I thank you for listening.
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