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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

436: John Bacon - Changing The Culture, Building Trust, & Letting Them Lead

Duration
50m
Broadcast on
12 Sep 2021
Audio Format
other

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John Bacon has written twelve books on sports, business, health, and history, the last seven all National Bestsellers. His latest book is "LET THEM LEAD: Unexpected Lessons in Leadership from America's Worst High School Hockey Team."

Notes:

  • Be Patient with Results, Not Behavior - Accept where you are to get where you want to go. Be present so you can own your attention and energy. Be patient and you'll get there faster. Embrace vulnerability to develop genuine strength and confidence. Build deep community over efficiency and optimization. Move your body to ground your mind
  • Reduce Your Rules, but Make Them Stick - Make your rules few, clear, and connected to your larger mission. They have to be within everyone's control to follow every day. When your people start enforcing the rules themselves, the culture has changed.
  • To make it special to be on your team, make it hard to be on your team. The people who apply to the Navy SEALS and the Peace Corps are attracted to the difficulty. They know not everyone can make it, and that's what makes it special
  • You can't motivate people you don't know - Leadership doesn't require rousing speeches; it requires that you get to know your people.
  • The more power you give, the more you get -Select leaders for their ability to lead, not their ability to do the job they used to have. Leaders must know their jobs, know how to do their jobs, know everyone else's jobs, and help them all do their jobs better! This is how you create "layers of leadership," which benefits everyone, and keeps you from burning out.
  • All credit goes to your people - If you give away the credit and accept the blame, you'll be rewarded with loyalty. If your team succeeds, you will always get more credit than you need. "The reward of a job well done is to have done it."
  • John's two initial goals when he took over the worst team in the state:
    • Be the hardest working team in the state
    • Win a state title
  • On day 1, he set high standards -- Previously, they were 0-22-3
    • "Make no small plans, they lack the power to stir people's souls."
  • John Bacon's two rules:
    • Work hard
    • Support your teammates
  • "Behaviors you can always control, performance and outcomes you can't."
  • Life advice:
    • Focus on yourself first
    • Work hard and support your teammates
- What do you control every day? You don't control the stock price. You don't control what General Motors is gonna do today. You don't control the weather, what the Chinese are gonna do, all this stuff. You do control working hard and supporting your teammates. And tell me that would not have an impact in your organization right now. If you knew every single day in your organization that your people are gonna work hard, and support your teammates, man that solves a whole lot of problems. - Imagine how your leadership would transform if you didn't have to worry about reading every email, scheduling every call and responding to every request. If you had more time, energy and focus to work on things that move your leadership forward. You know you need to start delegating, but you don't know where to begin. Blay, the incredible organization, revolutionizing productivity with their virtual assistant services for growing organizations can help. Delegation is the cost of your sanity and the linchpin to the survival of organizations and leaders everywhere. So get back to doing what only you can do growing your organization and leave the rest to your belay virtual assistant. Just text leader to 55123 for your free copy of the CEO of belay's book, rise up and lead well today. That's Tricia Shortino's book, rise up and lead well today. Text leader to 55123. (upbeat music) - Welcome to the learning leaders show presented by Insight Global. I am your host, Ryan Hawk. Thank you so much for being here. Text learners to 44222 to become part of Mindful Monday. You along with tens of thousands of other learning leaders from all over the world will receive a carefully curated email from me each Monday morning to help you start your week off right. You'll also receive details about how my book, welcome to management will help you become a more effective leader. Text learners to 44222. Now on to tonight's feature leader,

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