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This is beyond confidence and now here's your host, div Park.
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Good morning listeners.
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It's Tuesday, and of course I love to be here
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with y'all. So I want to share the kind of
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story I had shared with you probably in a few
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episodes back. I had shared and like you know, it's
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a wonderful story. It doesn't matter. I love sharing the
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story all the time. So when I walk in on
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nature trails, there's this beautiful, beautiful person. She has become
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my friend, Jennifer. She usually goes on the bike and
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she has so much enthusiasm and energy just lights up
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my day. So she would say good morning energetically to
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everyone she came across. So one day I stopped her
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and I asked her that this is just amazing and
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I wanted to share with you that you are an
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unsom hero. You are amazing. I'm looking forward to walking
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on this trail and actually look up for you. And
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she said, oh, that is really sweet. And I asked
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her if it was okay for me to share this
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in a blog and she said sure, and I took
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a picture with her. You can check it out on
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Medium or LinkedIn, and I wrote a blog and then
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we met up again. We have been really good friends.
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And then what she shared with me was that one
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of her friends said that, oh, he was walking on
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a trail and he would keep on saying good morning,
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and some people responded and he wasn't sure if he
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wanted to continue doing that, and then she shared her
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story with him that it does make an impact. So
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the reason I'm sharing this story with you is to
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remember that when you're kind, don't look for a return
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and just give kindness with no expectations. I guarantee you
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it will impact someone. And I thank you for your kindness,
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as I want to thank each and every one of
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you who have got books, the Entrepreneur's Got in or
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the expert to influencer, because it will help you not
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only change your life, but it will help us together
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change other people's lives because the partial of the profits
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that we get, we don't needed to keep a dot
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org and it helps entrepreneurs. Well, thank you for being
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part of our family, and let's welcome our guest. Welcome Samantha.
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Thanks for having me. I'm really looking forward to it.
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Well, I'm excited to have you on this show, So
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share with us a moment or a person from your
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childhood that do you even remember today? Who left a
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post and mark on you?
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Well, I'll do one very near and dear to my heart.
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My mother. My mother has been a foundational rock for
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me since I've been really young. She always provided the
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space for me to fail, explore, discover, and those skills
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and those experiences have really given me fuel to tackle
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anything without any wavering And she's just always there and
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a lot of what you just shared, you know, she
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does it from a place of gratitude and heart and kindness,
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and she does it because she really wants me to
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be bigger than I ever thought I possibly could. So, yeah,
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my mother is definitely the rock on a lot of
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different aspects in my life.
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Oh that's wonderful, And I really like what you said
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that she created that safe space for you to fail.
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It doesn't matter whether where we are in life, whether
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it is teams or organizations, entrepreneurs, and even for yourself,
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because yes, all of these entities can create that safe space,
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but are you creating that safe space for yourself for
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you to fail? What a powerful thing to have in life.
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So as you grew up, share with pass When did
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your life take you?
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Yeah, so sports is a really important piece of my life.
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I started playing at four years old, competitive at eight
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years old, traveling the country, you know, winning tournaments. So
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sports is definitely part of my cloth and fabric of
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who I am, and for a long time I couldn't
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see beyond that. And what's interesting about that is sports
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is what I did, not who I am, but it
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gave me a lot of experiences. So as I grew up,
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I didn't have summers off. I had to give up
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a lot of different things to play for teams at
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the highest level, and those were the sacrifices that my
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parents made and allowed me the space to have that
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as well. Ended up getting a full scholarship to the
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University of Pittsburgh and I ended up playing softball in college.
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And you know, I had a really bleak resume because
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sports was year round for me. I didn't have internships.
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So for me, my identity was solely through sport for
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a very long time because I had no peripheral or
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experience outside of sport. But there were so many skills
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that I acquired while in sport that I never knew
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would transition beyond the game. So for me, sports is
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such a huge parallel path for how I've amassed and
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been able to work for a fortune one hundred company Honeywell,
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it's a forty billion dollar company off of zero years
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of work experience, right, And it was really garnered with
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my sports background. And I majored in chemistry, so that
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was the other thing too. For me. It's a scholar athlete,
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so it always encapsulated both the curiosity of learning and
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being a part of an institution that is doing bigger
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things and also play at a high level. So I
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did that and ended up traveling the world and I
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am here.
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Now, well that's fantastic. So you said that, you know,
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you studied chemistry.
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It's on one.
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Side you are a this fantastic sports athlete who sacrificed
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a lot. Because there's a lot of romance around sports,
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we think, oh, you know they and of course sports
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players do get that recognition and they get that notoriety.
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At the same time, people don't see everything that goes behind.
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So sports and chemistry is an odd combination usually, like
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you know, for people to kind of think about it.
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So what drew you to chemistry?
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So I was really creative. I've always had that part
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of my brain that really operated at a high level,
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and I like to be uncomfortable. I like to put
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myself in an uncomfortable situation so I can perform at
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a higher level. So one of the things I wanted
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to garner more of was analytical skill sets. So for me,
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it really gave me versatility to challenge not only my mindset,
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but also give me a degree that's super versatile and
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could provide a parallel path into a multitude of different
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industries that I could leverage on top of my creative capacity.
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So tell us about your corporate experience and honeywell.
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Oh, so this one's great because I never was in
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a role that existed before. That's pretty impactful. I've always
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been in roles that I have worked with leaders and
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created the role, and the day one of any role,
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I would always think who could replace me for me?
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Which is the sports part of me right, and leadership
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and collaboration and not getting comfortable with staying in place.
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But I was always provided the environment to do big things,
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think bigger than the traditional way that most corporations work,
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and I was very fortunate to have other leaders and
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be in proximity to effective leaders that allowed me the
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space allowed for me to fail as long as I
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didn't go off of the tracks because you are in
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a corporate environment and our representation of a big enterprise, right.
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So I was always immersed around really really strong individuals
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that didn't shy away from allowing me to make things
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my own, and I always learned with them how to
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have better executive presence while having higher highs and higher lobs.
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So there's that delicate flow that you can think big,
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you can be action oriented, you can think with a
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big picture strategically, but at the same time, you need
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to be able to walk into doors and notice a room.
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And that was one of the things that I would
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say I really got in my corporate endeavors and very
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unique versus the traditional pathway for most people that go
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into corporate America and get really tired and bogged down.
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I had a lot of coaching, a lot of resources
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put around me to thrive not survive in that environment.
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And that's fantastic, and that tells us what corporations can
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do because there's data after data. Excuse me, there's data
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after data that shows that unhappy employees lead to poor performance,
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and poor performance leads to loss and profits. And yes,
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corporations are for profit organizations, and it's important to focus
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on that point. You mentioned one thing that I started
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working as if my job could be replaced. So many
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people who are in C suite or they may be
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like a manager, like you know, they're a newly found manager,
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and they're like, oh, how can I create this kind
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of a strategy where I'm developing somebody else will replace me?
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What will happen to me next? So how do you
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address that fear?
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Well, it's really not about you. If you really are
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aligned with the values of the corporation and the business
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in which you're serving, it's bigger than any one person.
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And what's really important about innovation and curiosity. Most corporations
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strive for it. They aim for that. They talk about
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intellectual curiosity, intelligent risk taking, they say, like a lot
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of fancy words, but it's not being it, not being
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present to it and providing the environment to not know
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what's next. Right. The unknowingness is what shies people away
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from trying. And if you're truly curious, if you're truly
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trying to drive a culture of innovation and curiosity that
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warrants the space to create and expand to include others
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to take your spot, take the foundation you've built, make
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it their own, and then pass that on. You may
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move horizontally, you may not fully move vertically. But if
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you bypass the ego part of the equation which most
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people go after, right, the success the power of moving
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up the ladder, a lot can happen because there's a
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lot of value in horizontal moves to create space where
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someone can beat you to that C suite, right, Because
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it's not about a title, it's really about well, what
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is your highest aim and what are the values you
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stand in so you can shoot for that purpose and
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know your role within the whole, which is a very
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different way of leading versus managing.
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Absolutely, So what I'm hearing is finding that you're talking
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about a handshake between the corporation that Okay, on one
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side you want to have an ovation and on one
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side you want to grow as well, so kind of
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both coming together and also thinking about gaining those skills.
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Because when you're moving horizontally or literally, you can still lead.
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There's no need for title. You can be a leader
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by example anytime and as you accumulate and as you
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grow in that knowledge and as you understanding the workings
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of that organization, it's going to make you. Practically it
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is replaceable. I mean, of course, there is nothing like irreplaceable.
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But to a great extent, is that what you're alluding?
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Yeah, And it's around effectiveness over efficiency. So most corporations
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operate under being efficient. Right, we want to hit these
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numbers at this certain time. We want to streamline, we
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want to simplify, you know, all of those different things,
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which there's a place for it, but that's a very
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management way of orienting an organization. Right leadership creates the
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space for you to collaborate with others, allow them to
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lean in. Is not defined in time, and it's not
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based in authority. There is no power complex relative to effectiveness. Right,
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efficiency has a power complex related to it. So you're
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absolutely right. And I think it's easier said than done.
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And the concept is you're not always going to get
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it right. How do you just fail faster when you
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don't get it right? Versus tolerating the problem or putting
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a band aid on something? In systems and process and people,
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and I think that's where things go sideways pretty fast
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with cultures.
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You're absolutely right. Actually, recently one of my clients a
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smaller company with one hundred people, and they had a
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very old system and technology and they were like, oh, yeah,
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it's working and we don't want to upgrade it. It's
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a lot of money. And it again goes back to efficiency.
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But what it did was, as we kind of did