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The EntreLeadership Podcast

#243: Todd Henry—Be the Leaders Creatives Need

The EntreLeadership Podcast

Lampo Licensing, LLC.

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.74.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We all know the creative process is unpredictable at best, but if you ask best-selling author Todd Henry, the one thing you can control every single time is the way you are guiding that work as the leader. Not only is your role more influential than you may realize, says the international speaker on leadership and creativity, but the stakes are about as high as they get. Without clear expectations from you—yet enough margin to allow them to take risks—your makers simply cannot do their best work, which threatens the very lifeblood of your organization. Tune in to find out the two things every creative needs to thrive, as well as what you need to do to lead creatives well. entreleadership.com/podcast Todd Henry's book: Herding Tigers How to Achieve Work/Life Balance from Infusionsoft Read Chapter 1 of Herding Tigers Want expert help with your business question? Call 844-944-1070 and leave a message for Ken with the details. You could be featured on a future podcast episode!

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0:00.0

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Helping business leaders grow themselves, their team, and their profits.

0:12.0

This is Entrain Leadership.

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Now, here's your host, Ken Coleman.

0:18.0

Coming to you from the Music City, this is the broadcast of leaders, by-leaders, four leaders.

0:23.0

Thank you so much for joining the Conversation, our feature guest this episode is with Todd Henry.

0:29.0

Multi-best-selling author, and he's got a new book entitled, Herding Tigers.

0:34.0

Be the leader that creative people need, and we wanted to have a follow-up to that conversation.

0:40.0

So we asked Luke LaFever, who is our executive creative director here at Ramsey Solutions to stop by,

0:46.0

and give his perspective on leading creatives.

0:50.0

And we also have some great free resources from Infusionsoft and the Entrain Leadership team.

0:56.0

But I want to start off with a post that I saw on LinkedIn, a guy with name of Josh.

1:04.0

I don't know how to say his last name, so I'm not going to butcher it.

1:08.0

He's a CEO of an agency, calls himself an influence coach for executives.

1:13.0

He wrote this, and this is powerful stuff that I wanted to share with you, pretty sobering stuff.

1:18.0

He wrote, I might be arrested for what I'm about to say, but I think it's important to come clean publicly.

1:26.0

Of all the employees I haven't treated as well as I should have, there's one I have seriously abused.

1:32.0

I made him work 100 hours per week for years with no overtime pay.

1:36.0

I frequently made him pull all nighters.

1:39.0

Saturday's off? Yeah, right.

1:41.0

Vacation days? I gave him a week off after a few years.

1:44.0

I've made him miss weddings and family reunions.

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