Bred To Lead

Ep. 009: The Leadership Leap: Transforming Management into Purposeful Leadership

Bred To Lead

Show Notes

MANAGERS RUN WHAT WAS BUILT. LEADERS BUILD WHAT COMES NEXT.

Too many organizations promote people for hitting short-term targets and keeping the trains running, then wonder why nothing changes. Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs uses John Kotter's line, management deals with complexity and leadership deals with change, to lay out the three shifts every manager has to make to actually lead.

IN THIS EPISODE • From problem solving to problem finding, and how "How might we" questions surface what your team is missing • From directing to empowering: David Marquet's turnaround of the USS Santa Fe through intent-based leadership • From transactional to transformational, through James MacGregor Burns and Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision • Why leadership is a capability you build with intention, not a trait you are born with

YOUR CHALLENGE Ask yourself where you sit today between management and leadership, and name one small step you can take today to close that gap.

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