Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and golajieving. This
Speaker 1: is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul
Speaker 1: Fello Aledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode five twenty seven. Today we're cracking open what
Speaker 2: I call the leadership black file. This isn't illegal, and
Speaker 2: it's not from some dark corner of the Internet. It's
Speaker 2: the kind of knowledge that the top zero point one
Speaker 2: percent of leaders know, use and guard closely. These aren't
Speaker 2: the tips you get in a basic management seminar. This
Speaker 2: is rare air and I'm about to let you in,
Speaker 2: so grab a pen. You'll want to write these down.
Speaker 2: Secret number one the OODLE loop weaponized speed. Originally created
Speaker 2: by Air Force Colonel John Boyd. The ODE loop stands
Speaker 2: for Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. Most people think it's for
Speaker 2: fighter pilots. The truth the world's best CEOs live in it.
Speaker 2: They train their teams to act faster than the competition
Speaker 2: can respond, and that speed becomes a weapon. So how
Speaker 2: do you use it? Weekly leadership reviews where you process data,
Speaker 2: adjust your view, make small decisions, and take microaction. Repeat constantly.
Speaker 2: The goal is to become so nimble your competitors feel
Speaker 2: like they're standing still. In Secret number two, the Barbell
Speaker 2: strategy safe plus wild, and this comes from the black
Speaker 2: Swan author that seem to lead elite performers protect their
Speaker 2: downside with safe, low risk bets and reserve a small
Speaker 2: piece of their resources for extremely high upside wild ideas.
Speaker 2: How you use it keep your core systems, staff and
Speaker 2: budget stable, but take five percent and invest it in
Speaker 2: weird ideas, experimental tech, or moonshot thinking, because that's where
Speaker 2: breakthroughs happen. Secret three the pre mortem failure in reverse.
Speaker 2: Before any major initiative, the best leaders ask, it's six
Speaker 2: months from now in this completely failed Why that's a
Speaker 2: pre mortem and it's one of the fastest ways to
Speaker 2: surface blind spots you never saw coming. So how do
Speaker 2: you use it before a product, launch, a reorg, or
Speaker 2: a new strategy. Gather your leadership team, run this scenario,
Speaker 2: enlist every reason it failed, then start fixing it before
Speaker 2: it be comes real. Secret number four is red teaming
Speaker 2: punch holes in your own plans. Military and cybersecurity experts
Speaker 2: use red teams to simulate an attack on their own systems.
Speaker 2: Elite leaders do it with their strategies, So how do
Speaker 2: you use it? Assign a small, trusted group to challenge
Speaker 2: your plan like it's their job to destroy it. Make
Speaker 2: them find cracks. You'd rather them expose it than the media,
Speaker 2: the board, or your customers. Secret number five shadow boards
Speaker 2: gen Z's secret weapon. Companies like Gucci, Prada, in some
Speaker 2: of the world's most elite firms, use shadow boards made
Speaker 2: up of younger talent. These teams don't replace the c suite,
Speaker 2: but they give raw, unfiltered feedback to keep executives from
Speaker 2: going blind to trends. How you use it. Create a
Speaker 2: group of sharp young minds in your organization. Let them
Speaker 2: audit ideas, strategies, and even culture. Then they'll tell you
Speaker 2: what your leadership team is too far removed to see.
Speaker 2: Secret number six Meta leadership beyond your org chart. Real
Speaker 2: power doesn't live inside your org chart. It lives in networks.
Speaker 2: Meta leaders are the ones who can lead across departments, organizations,
Speaker 2: and even industries. How you use it. List every external
Speaker 2: person or organization you regularly interact with, then ask how
Speaker 2: am I leading them to influence? Doesn't stop at your title.
Speaker 2: Secret number seven The five percent rule budget for what's next.
Speaker 2: Elite leaders set aside five percent of their time, money,
Speaker 2: or people purely to build future capabilities, even if there's
Speaker 2: no immediate return. How you use it dedicate five percent
Speaker 2: of your monthly budget or schedule to training, AI, exploration,
Speaker 2: culture reinforcement, or blue sky thinking. It's the most consistent
Speaker 2: difference between flatlined companies and legacy builders. In secret number eight,
Speaker 2: the second order mindset, most leaders stop at what happens next?
Speaker 2: The best keep going, asking and then what, and then what? So?
Speaker 2: How do you use it? Build the habit of asking
Speaker 2: second and third order questions after every big decision. You'll
Speaker 2: avoid unintended consequences and lead with foresight. Secret number nine
Speaker 2: is oblique strategies lateral thinking. Under pressure, musician Brian Eno
Speaker 2: made a deck of cards with strange prompts to break
Speaker 2: creative blocks. Some leaders and hedge fund managers use the
Speaker 2: same idea to shake up stuck thinking. So how do
Speaker 2: you use it when you're gridlocked? Ask a totally different question,
Speaker 2: Flip the problem, add a bizarre constraint, challenge your default assumptions.
Speaker 2: It's not silly, it's strategic chaos. In number ten, the
Speaker 2: leader's log. This is your black box recorder. Elite pilots
Speaker 2: have black boxes, Elite leaders keep black logs. It's a private,
Speaker 2: brutally honest diary of decisions, emotions, wins and losses, and
Speaker 2: how do you use it? Start with one sentence a day.
Speaker 2: After ninety days, go back and read it. You'll find
Speaker 2: patterns in how you think, decide, and lead. It's the
Speaker 2: mirror you've been avoiding. So these tactics aren't found in
Speaker 2: the first ten pages of a leadership book, and chances
Speaker 2: are you don't have a boss that will teach them
Speaker 2: to you. They're from the deep end where all the
Speaker 2: elite leaders are currently operating from. They're what the zero
Speaker 2: point one percent are doing while the rest are just
Speaker 2: reading about it and wondering why those people are successful.
Speaker 2: And they're not just doing it once in a while.
Speaker 2: This is their battle plan every day. So start using
Speaker 2: and incorporating these tactics and you'll begin to operate in
Speaker 2: a completely different league. This has been the seven minute
Speaker 2: Leadership Podcast, and I thank you for listening.
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