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If you haven’t failed at anything, you haven’t been trying to accomplish enough.  Many of us can’t just stop leading because something has gone wrong.  The big thing is recognizing when you’re failing.  It’s not always noticeable when you’re failing and sometimes it’s painfully obvious.  To really get your leadership chops if you will, you have to know how to lead through colossal failures to know what to do to lead through it.  On this week’s episode on the Leadership Lifestyle Podcast, hear about some big disasters, how they should have seen it coming, on how to lead through it.

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As a Leader, how do you keep going?  Everything is competing for your energy.  How do you keep the energy you need to lead the way you want to?  On this week’s episode of the Leadership Lifestyle Podcast, learn how to keep the energy you need and be aware of what robs your energy.

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Hard Leadership….you know….the drill instructor kind….is actually lazy leadership.  Don’t get me wrong, there is a time and a place for very direct leadership.  Think about a fire department putting out a house fire.  You can’t have a development meeting or a long term sales strategy to put out a fire.  How about an emergency room trauma patient?  Same thing.  What is really hard about leadership is developing soft skills.  That takes time, investment in people, and you as the leader, actually caring to know about your team.

Developing soft skills is not just the way of the future for leadership, it’s needed right now.  The good news is, it really only takes a change of focus to start sharpening those soft skills.  It is harder it first, but the long term investment of positive return is undeniable.  Start small with the closest people around you and work from there.  Remember, at first, leadership is not about you, but later, it will be about you.

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Sounds a bit weird for a leadership podcast so imply you should put up with a bad work culture.  The fact is, just because you find out your work culture is bad, it doesn’t mean you can leave immediately.  Or maybe you were in a good work culture and a new leader took over and bam…..now it’s bad.  Either way, the worst thing that can happen is that you change who you are for someone you don’t like or respect.

When you think of it that way, it doesn’t make sense to be a different person because of a person you would not work for if it was up to you.  So…don’t.  On this week’s episode of the Leadership Lifestyle Podcast, learn some tips to survive a bad culture until you can work in a good culture.