Episode 250： How to Master the 50 Percent Rule of Leadership
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Summary
The 50% rule of leadership is the rule that says that if 50% of the world likes you, you re a leader. 50% will like you, 50% won t like you. And if you re not a leader, then you re simply a jerk.
Transcript
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30 seconds, one time for the underdog, ignition sequence start, let me see you put em up, reach
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the sky, turn the stars up above, cause it's one time for the underdog, one time for the
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I'm Patrick Bedevi, your host of Value Team, and today I'm going to talk to you about the
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What is the rule, what is the 50% rule of leadership?
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A long time ago, in my life, my father challenged me to subscribe to leadership, because my
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father wanted to be a leader in everything that he ever touched.
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Everybody who knows my father, he's a leader, and I wanted to be a leader, is what I wanted
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I wanted to lead, because in my life, I haven't seen something more rewarding than being considered
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Somebody said, well, how about being a parent, having a kid is more rewarding.
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No, being a parent that leads your kid is rewarding, because you're a leader.
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Anybody can go make a baby, almost anybody can, but leading that family is what's rewarding.
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Almost every one of us wants to be pleasing everybody and have everybody like us, but that's
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If 100% of the world likes you, you're not a leader.
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You're probably a newborn baby, because it's impossible to have 100% of people like you.
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But there are a lot of adults that have most people like them, because they're afraid to
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If 100% of people don't like you, you're a jerk.
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So you're either a person that's wanting to please everybody, or you're simply a jerk.
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A leader, whether you're Ayn Rand, who writes a book, Atlas Shrack, 50% Cannot Stand It, 50%
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Loves It, if you're Chris Matthews, if you're Tip O'Neill, or you're Ronald Reagan, most people
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If you're Michael Jordan, it doesn't matter who you are, the leader is generally around
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50% will like you, 50% will not like you, you're a leader.
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So a Michael Jordan who came to the Bulls, and all of a sudden, one year, they draft Horace
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Grant and Scottie Pippen, who are coming up as rookies, and this guy wants to win a championship.
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They're partying together, Horace and Scottie, always talking behind his back.
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But there was one person who completely understood what this guy was doing, and that was Phil
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Jackson, because Phil understood the only leader on his team is a guy named Michael Jordan.
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So eventually, Scottie figured it out, because he wanted to win a championship, so did Scottie.
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Scottie subscribed, Phil subscribed, the ownership subscribed, then Horace subscribed.
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But still, half of the team, the new players that were coming, Tony Kukoc, you know, Winnington,
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all these other guys that were coming, they didn't like Jordan, because Jordan drove everybody.
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By the way, fast forward 20 years later, Steve Kerr, who played with this guy and got into
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fist fight with him, got a black eye from Michael Jordan.
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He just won a championship and was coach of the year.
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If you look at John Paxson, he's a general manager on our team.
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If you look at Scottie Pippen, Horace Grant, four-time champion.
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They were able to respond to leadership being given by Michael Jordan, even though this dude
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Half the people didn't want to be around him, because he was too tough on everybody, and
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he had opinions about people that half the group didn't like.
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So you'll generally know who the leaders are in any organization, because if in an organization,
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somebody, make a list of people in any organization, say, this person everybody likes in a company.
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That person's somebody that wants everybody to be pleased for other reasons.
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And you say, this person, half the group loves them, half the group doesn't like them.
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That's the leader of the group, because they challenge everybody to improve.
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And you need to make a decision yourself whether you want to be a leader, or you want to be
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The choice is yours, but leadership, 50% rule, is what you'll be dealing with for the
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