The Leadership in 180 Seconds Podcast

Designed to sharpen your leadership in 3 minutes every Tuesday morning. In order that we might together, create a movement of self-aware, empowered, empathic and purpose-driven leaders who will redefine history; ensuring that all humanity benefits.

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  • If you delegate tasks, you create followers. If you delegate authority, you create leaders.

    • Craig Groeschel

  • Those who keep learning will keep rising in life.

    • Charlie Munger

  • A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

    • Douglas MacArthur

  • The reality is that the only way change comes is when you lead by example.

    • Anne Wójcicki

  • Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

    • Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Successful people have mental health issues, bad habits, gaps in their knowledge, moments of self-doubt, procrastination issues, imperfect routines, insecurities, and imposter syndrome too. But they also know that all of these things are perfectly normal. That is the difference.

    • Steven Bartlett

  • Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.'

    Louis L’Amour

  • Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

    • Woody Guthrie

  • Clients do not come first, EMPLOYEES come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.

    • Sir Richard Branson

  • Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

    Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • An excessive drive for order interrupts the beautiful chaos needed for creativity to thrive.

    • Simon Sinek

  • A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

    • Eleanor Roosevelt

  • The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

    • Ronald Reagan

  • Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge.

    • Simon Sinek

  • The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

    • Ralph Nader

  • Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life.

    • Steve Jobs

  • I am committed to empowering individuals and organisations through transformative training, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

    • Shane Kuchel

  • The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.

    • John C. Maxwell

  • A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

    Arnold H. Glasow

  • Effective Communication starts with listening

    • Simon Sinek

  • To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

    • Eleanor Roosevelt

  • If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.

    • John Quincy Adams

  • The best boss I worked for didn't work the longest, or the hardest. He didn't know all the answers. But he cared the most. He wanted us to always keep learning and growing. He removed obstacles blocking our paths and made sure we always felt supported.

    • Jack Parsons

  • Our passions are ignited when we set out to advance a cause greater than ourselves.

    • Simon Sinek

  • If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, bring someone with you.

    • Simon Sinek

  • When things go well, praise the team. When things go bad, the leader needs to take the blame.

    Scottie Callaghan

  • It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

    Steve Jobs

  • The team wins - when the individual wins.

    • Shane Kuchel

  • I don't pretend to understand what you do better than you. You understand that better than anyone. What I do understand is people. I can help you maximise the team that is going to bring about your exponential growth.

    • Shane Kuchel

  • If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

    Steve Jobs

  • Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible.

    Simon Sink

  • Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let you people hang on to the past.

    • Richard Marcinko

  • "If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow."

    • Philip Crosby

  • “Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.”

    • Lawrence Bossidy

  • If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

    African Proverb

  • Great coaches consistently get the most out of their people, because they consistently put the most into their people"

    Brian Souza

  • No man has ever listened himself out of a job.

    Calvin Coolidge (30th President of USA)

  • Differentiation is the courage to lead people to a difficult place while still being deeply connected. Connected to yourself and your conviction, connected to the people you are leading, and remaining nonanxious in the face of anxious responses. It is the ability to walk into an anxious situation and lead people into a new reality while maintaining caring connection to them even when they are sabotaging your efforts. Jesus, not surprisingly, is a model of differentiated leadership.

    • Steve Cuss

  • “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”

    Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen

  • " Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible."

    Richard Branson

  • Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right.

    Tony Robbins

  • The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.

    • Robert Kiyosaki

  • If you think you're smarter than the previous generation, consider this: Fifty years ago, the owner's manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today, it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery.

    • Derric Johnson

  • When we live and when we die, we will only be known for the value we added to others, not the value we added for ourselves.

    • John C. Maxwell

  • When employees respect each other and get along in the workplace, it's amazing how productivity increases, morale increases and employees are more courteous to customers.

    - Maureee Wild

  • Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

    • Brian Tracy

  • Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right.

    • Tony Robbins

  • A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other. A culture is weak when people work against each other, for themselves.

    • Simon Sinek

  • The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

    Warren Buffett

  • Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.

    • Albert Einstein

  • No leader can build a great eam without trust.

    Gifford Thomas

  • "Success is knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others."

    - John C. Maxwell

  • "People's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness."

    - John C. Maxwell

  • "When you find your why, you find your way."

    - John C. Maxwell

  • "Courage and initiative come when you understand your purpose in life."

    - John C. Maxwell

  • Micro-Management is the destroyer of momentum

    - Miles Anthony Smith

  • The "result" of micromanagement is perhaps tangible in the short run, but more often causes damage for the long term.

    - Pearl Zhu

  • In general, looking forward is great management; looking backward is micromanagement.

    Verne Harnish

  • Micromanagement is the motivational equivalent of buying on credit. Enjoy a better product now, but pay a hefty price for it later.

    - Ron Friedman

  • “Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.”

    - Paul O’Brien