Leadership： Above and Beyond, All the Time, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO159
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Summary
In this episode of The MfCeo Project, we talk about how to become a leader in your organization and the skills you need to master in order to become one. If you don't start developing these skills before you need them, you are going to be stuck in a position for life where you continue to perform at a minimal level.
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what's up guys you're listening to the mf ceo project i'm andy i'm your host and i am the
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motherfucking ceo guys real quick before i start um reminder that we have a review contest going on
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gonna do something a little different today we did a podcast a few weeks ago on management and
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leadership and since that podcast i've gotten a lot of questions from you guys and so what i want
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to do is just take a short uh it's not going to be an hour-long podcast like we usually do on tuesday
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it's gonna be a short podcast basically um addressing some of the major issues that i'm getting questions
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about um guys when it comes to management and leadership like i said in the earlier podcast
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it is the skill you're going to have to master to become more valuable in whatever organization that
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you run and especially if you run your own business the hardest and most valuable skill
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you're going to be able to learn is not to sell it is to manage a team and get them to perform and
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this goes for everybody it goes from everybody from the guy sweeping the warehouse floor all the way to
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the ceo if you don't start developing those skills before you need those skills you are going to be
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stuck in a position for life basically wherever you're at you sure you might do a little better
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you might upgrade a little bit but you're never going to become a high income earner all right so
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management is extremely important leadership is extremely extremely important and they're very
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very similar tasks now i got a lot of questions about how to how do i do this how do i if i'm the
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guy at the warehouse how do i become a leader all right we'll start with that guys it doesn't matter
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if you're the guy sweeping the floor in the warehouse okay if you're the only guy sweeping
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the floor in the warehouse and you've got other people who are watching you who are above you who
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are around you and they're looking at you how do you lead them right that's because people think oh
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i've got to have people below me before i start to lead them no you don't all right the biggest thing
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you have to learn is to take initiative to solve problems all right when you see a piece of trash
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on the floor you pick it up when you see and a great way to do this guys is to always act like
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somebody's watching you all right you you pretend as if the ceo is watching you or if you're the ceo
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you pretend as if all your customers and all your employees are watching you all right if you pretend
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like somebody's always watching you and you can always you know execute with that in mind that
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whatever it is you do you're going to be very effective at showing and taking initiative which
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is one of the key skills of being a leader so let's say you're that guy and you see the piece
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of trash you don't go to the other guy whose piece of trash it is you say hey bro you left your piece
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of trash over here on the floor no you pick it up you put it in a trash can and you keep doing that
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and you do that and you do everything else that needs to be done everything else doesn't matter
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if it's somebody above you's responsibility doesn't matter if it's somebody who uh you know
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is a task with that other job if you see something that needs to be done you do it and you do it well
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okay that's how you start to become a leader because here's the thing guys and this doesn't matter if
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you're if you're the bottom guy everything i say here it doesn't matter if you're the bottom guy or if
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you're the top guy the way you become the top guy is by mastering these skills and one of the things
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you need to understand and this goes especially true let's say you have a team right now who you
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need to manage and who you're trying to lead you need to understand that they are going to perform
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at the minimal level that they see you perform so you could come in a hundred days out of a hundred
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days 99 days you could come into work or come into whatever it is you're doing and you can execute
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with one hundred percent perfection which i promise you none of you guys listening are doing right now
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but let's say that you do and let's say that one day you come in because you got hung over or you got
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a fight with your girlfriend or you got a you know in a car wreck that morning and you come in and you
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perform at 90 which is still pretty fucking good those guys that you're leading will always always
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always remember that one time that you did your 90 execution as opposed to your 100 execution and they
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will only perform to that 90 they will see that 90 as the 100 for them that's how people are that's how
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followers work that's how people do things and if you're going to lead people if you're going to
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become a manager if you're going to become effective you're going to become a high income earner and
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you're you're able to inspire and and drive and develop other people over the course of time which is
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what basically creates high income earners you've got to understand how people operate you've got to be
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the best that you can all the time because they are not going to do what you tell them to do
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they're going to do what you do and that is the hardest thing to get through to people when I
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coach them on being a leader and being a manager they think that they can execute 80 90 97 of the
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time and still get the best out of their guys and it's impossible you guys have to understand that
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they were going to do whatever your worst day is that's going to be their best day and that's not
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because they suck that's because you show them that that's what's acceptable so you guys you have
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to come in every single day with every single detail in mind that's another thing we talk about
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taking initiative earlier now we're talking about attention to details okay you're walking through
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your business and you know you see uh there's dust on top of one of the desks that is not a detail
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that you should let slide whether you're the fucking warehouse guy or whether you're the ceo
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your job right then isn't to go and tell the person whose job it is to clean that desk
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to go wipe the desk down your job as an effective leader and an effective manager is go get a fucking
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rag spray some fucking cleaner on it and clean the desk and a lot of you guys missed this point
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you think leadership and management is about telling people what to do and it is but it's only about
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telling people what to do once they know the expectations that you hold to yourself
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all right if you go in like 98 of you do and try to tell people what to do people are not going to
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respect you they're not going to listen to you you're not going to be able to develop an amazing
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culture amongst your team they're just going to do the bare minimum they can do that will not create
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real value for you what will create real value for you is being able to inspire lead get people to go
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above and beyond and the only way you're going to get people to go above and beyond is by doing the
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above and beyond every single opportunity you get whether they're watching or not watching
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they know that you are the guy who goes way above way beyond with perfection every single time and
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eventually somebody is going to notice that and you're going to get an opportunity and when those
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opportunities come you're going to execute the same way you're going to do more you're going to do it
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with perfection you're going to do it consistently and guess what you're going to get another opportunity
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guys this skill that i'm talking about is really really easy it is really really simple to become a great
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leader and a great manager but it all starts with yourself it all starts with holding yourself to the
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accountable to the most minute insignificant detail that other people would walk right past and ignore and
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think that it's no big deal and the easiest way to develop this skill guys like i said is to always
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hold yourself accountable by imagining that the whole entire world is watching what you do at all
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times whether it's at the grocery store and there's a rogue cart out in the grocery lot okay it's not
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just because it's not your cart doesn't mean you shouldn't go put it away all right you hold yourself
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accountable to the most finite details as if the whole world is watching and if you can hold yourself
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to accountable to the most finite details whether you're at work whether you're at home whether you're at
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uh you know the grocery store wherever it is you might be it's going to be easy for you to develop
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those skills with your team and they're going to do what you do they're going to do all the little
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things that need to be done they're going to execute above and beyond they're not going to let the
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little details go they're going to listen to every little thing and guys when you get a team that does
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that now you're leading them now managing them becomes easy now you're building a team that has
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culture that has drive that has ambition that takes pride in their job and guess what guys