One of the best pieces of leadership I've learned is about extreme ownership, constantly looking within and consistently asking yourself: "what can I do differently to warrant a better result?"
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Why can't you find good employees? Well, this is a common mistake. It's not the employees who aren't good. It's you that aren't good. Well, as a business owner, you are the leader of everybody. So what could you do better in your business? To one, attract the right talent and then grow and develop that talent that you've hired. You hired them in the first place. When you hired them, you thought they were a good fit. Well, if they begin to not be a good fit, that's on you. So you've got to take ownership. Whereas a lot of people want to pass the buck to the people, I wrote this down on a notepad the other day where it was, is it them or is it us? Most likely it's us. And so to me, the biggest piece of leadership is to take extreme ownership. And extreme ownership is looking internally and understanding what could I do better? What could I have done differently that would have resulted in a different outcome?
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