275: A Radically Different Way to Think about Leadership
Your Virtual Upline Podcast
Bob Heilig
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
What if the ultimate goal for our business is to become INSIGNIFICANT within it? I was in a network marketing company that celebrated rank advancements and sales by putting you in front of a large room full of people. The spotlight was such a big deal. It was the goal. It was coveted by everybody so much that it became even more valuable than money. And so, the first time I gave an actual presentation, I felt ecstatic about it. I thought 'This is what leadership is.'
However, a powerful conversation completely changed my mindset on leadership.
This guy, who at the time was 10x more successful than any other person in our company, told me that his value as a leader is not tied to his personal results, but by the results of the people on his team.
He said that it's not about how many times you stand in front of a room, but how many stories you help create for other people.
You see, the more successful we become, the less significant we need to become as well.
In this episode, I share the dangers of ego-driven leadership and what it means to build a true leadership legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Bob here and welcome back to your virtual upline podcast where we give network marketers |
| 0:13.0 | the mindset, strategies and skills that you need to build the business and life of your |
| 0:19.4 | dreams. |
| 0:22.4 | Hey Bob here, welcome back to the show Episode 275. |
| 0:25.8 | Today I want to share with you a radically different mindset around leadership. |
| 0:30.1 | I want to actually share a story with you from way way back in my early career in network |
| 0:34.7 | marketing, the first ever network marketing company I was ever a part of. |
| 0:38.3 | It was a conversation that I had with the gentleman that actually wound up becoming |
| 0:41.8 | a mentor of mine that I'll never forget because it fundamentally changed the way that |
| 0:47.2 | I thought about leadership and what it meant to be a leader. |
| 0:51.6 | So I'd like to share that story with you today and I bet for a lot of you it's going to |
| 0:55.0 | have the same impact and here's the question that I just want to pose to you that will |
| 1:00.2 | kind of serve as the context for this story. |
| 1:03.5 | What if the ultimate goal for us in our business was that the bigger that our business |
| 1:10.3 | became the more successful that we became the less important we actually were to its |
| 1:20.6 | overall success. |
| 1:23.6 | Think about that. |
| 1:24.6 | If the goal was to become less important in our own business, if the measure, the true |
| 1:31.8 | measure of our value as a leader would to someday become insignificant in your own business. |
| 1:40.5 | Just think about that for a second. |
| 1:42.2 | It's very different than what most people will teach you leadership is. |
| 1:46.7 | Let me share with you a little bit about this story because I think a lot of you are |
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