Episode 333： The Price Of Leadership
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Summary
In this episode, Patrick Goodby talks about the 50% rule of leadership and why it is the most important thing you can have in your life. He talks about Michael Jordan and how he was able to lead the Chicago Bulls to a championship in the early 90s.
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, touch the stars up above, cause it's one time for the underdog, one time for the
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I'm Patrick Goodby, your host of Value Team, and today I'm going to speak to you about
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My father challenged me to subscribe to leadership, because my father wanted to be a leader in
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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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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
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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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If you're Chris Matthews, if you're Tip O'Neill, or you're Ronald Reagan, most people don't like you.
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If you're Michael Jordan, it doesn't matter who you are.
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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.
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And that was Phil Jackson, because Phil understood the only leader on his team is a guy named
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So eventually, Scottie figured it out, because he wanted to win a championship, so did Scottie.
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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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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
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to be a people pleaser, or you want to be a jerk.
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The choice is yours, but leadership, 50% rule, is what you'll be dealing with for the rest
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And by the way, if you haven't already subscribed to Valuetainment on iTunes, please do so.
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And if you have any questions for me that you may have, you can always find me on Snapchat,
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