Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and GOLAJV. This
Speaker 1: is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul
Speaker 1: fella Aledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode six twenty five. Recently, I saw this thumbnail
Speaker 2: image on Instagram. It was the ten most iconic paintings
Speaker 2: in the world. Truly fascinating. I recognize some of them,
Speaker 2: I did not know most of them. So I started
Speaker 2: doing a little bit of research into the ten most
Speaker 2: iconic paintings in the world that I saw in this image.
Speaker 2: Museums protect them, millions of people travel to see them,
Speaker 2: books are written about them. And here's the leadership question
Speaker 2: I had. Why these paintings Because talent alone does not
Speaker 2: make something iconic. Consistency, courage, timing, risk, patience, and discipline do.
Speaker 2: That's leadership. So let's walk through this gallery like leaders,
Speaker 2: not art critics. The Mona Lisa is first for a reason,
Speaker 2: not because it's loud, flashy, or oversized. It's controlled, subtle, intentional.
Speaker 2: Leonardo da Vinci worked on it for years. He adjusted
Speaker 2: details most people will never consciously notice. The leadership lesson
Speaker 2: the quiet. Details matter, your tone in meetings, the way
Speaker 2: you respond when nobody's watching, the micro decisions. Leaders lose
Speaker 2: credibility when they chase attention instead of precision. Next The
Speaker 2: Starry Night, Vincent van Goh painted emotion chaos in motion.
Speaker 2: He didn't sanitize how he saw the world. The leadership
Speaker 2: lesson authenticity scales teams consense. When a leader is pretending,
Speaker 2: when you try to paint calm while you're feeling panic,
Speaker 2: people feel the disconnect. Honest leadership creates trust even when
Speaker 2: conditions are rough. Now the Last Supper Da Vinci Again,
Speaker 2: this is a timing and placement. Every person has a role.
Speaker 2: Every reaction matters. Leadership lesson positioning matters where you sit
Speaker 2: in meetings, who you put next to, whom, who hears
Speaker 2: information first. Leaders who ignore placement create unnecessary friction.
Speaker 1: Girl with a pearl.
Speaker 2: Earring feels simple, but it isn't. The lighting, the pause,
Speaker 2: the restraint. The leadership lesson restraint is power. Not every
Speaker 2: thought needs a microphone, not every email needs a reply.
Speaker 2: Leaders who master pause control the room. The Persistence of
Speaker 2: Memory by Salvador dolly Ben's Reality Melting Clocks Distorted Time
Speaker 2: the leadership lesson. Perception of time is leadership currency. Miss
Speaker 2: deadlines repeatedly, incredibility melts, waste time in meetings, and morale erodes.
Speaker 2: Leaders must protect time like oxygen. Next, the scream raw
Speaker 2: emotion uncomfortable, impossible to ignore the leadership lesson. Ignoring emotional
Speaker 2: signals is dangerous, burnout, frustration, fear, silence. Those screams show
Speaker 2: up in teams long before resignations do leaders who listen
Speaker 2: early avoid crisis later. Gernika by Picasso is chaos, pain,
Speaker 2: and consequence. It tells a story without soft edges. The
Speaker 2: leadership lesson Leaders must be willing to confront hard truths,
Speaker 2: culture damage, bad decisions, fallout from inaction. Pretending everything is
Speaker 2: fine never fixes anything. In the Birth of Venus shows emergence, transition, vulnerability,
Speaker 2: in motion. Leadership lesson growth phases are fragile, new hires, promotions,
Speaker 2: organizational change. Leaders must protect people during transitions or risk
Speaker 2: losing them. An American gothic looks rigid, serious, almost uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: The leadership lesson culture shows on faces. Teams reflect leadership posture.
Speaker 2: If people look guarded, exhausted, or disconnected, leadership behavior is
Speaker 2: on display, whether you like it or not. And finally,
Speaker 2: The Night Watch by Rembrandt movement depth leadership and action
Speaker 2: not a static portrait. Leadership lesson here. Leadership is lived,
Speaker 2: not posed. It shows up in decisions, reactions, priorities, and
Speaker 2: follow through. You don't hang leadership on a wall. You
Speaker 2: demonstrate it daily. So here's the big takeaway. None of
Speaker 2: these artists rushed, none chased trends, none played it safe.
Speaker 2: They showed up consistently, refined, relentlessly, and accepted criticism as
Speaker 2: part of the process. Leadership works the same way. You
Speaker 2: don't become iconic by being perfect. You become iconic by
Speaker 2: being disciplined, intentional, and honest. Over time, seven minutes a
Speaker 2: day focused on how you lead, how you speak, how
Speaker 2: you decide, and how you show up. That's how reputations
Speaker 2: are built. Look at your leadership like a gallery. Every
Speaker 2: interaction is another brushstroke. Over time, people will decide whether
Speaker 2: it's worth stopping to look. So what's unique about this
Speaker 2: episode is how it mirrors something I tell every new
Speaker 2: employee on day one when I do their onboarding. I
Speaker 2: don't tell them how to be EMTs or paramedics. They've
Speaker 2: already proven that to the state. What I do tell
Speaker 2: them is that I'm going to give you a blank
Speaker 2: canvas and your job is to either paint me a
Speaker 2: mon a, something we will hang on the walls and
Speaker 2: remember you forever for or leave it blank and make
Speaker 2: no impact. So your job is not to paint something loud.
Speaker 2: Your job is to paint something real, something consistent, something
Speaker 2: that holds up over time. That's leadership that lasts. This
Speaker 2: is the seven minute Leadership Podcast, and I thank you
Speaker 2: for listening.
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