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Here's your success mentor Darren Hardy.

Good morning. So today I want to help your teammates out, your family out, your church group out,

your friend and peer group out, and give you the framework to evaluate on whether you are a good leader or not.

So here are five ways to know that you're not an actual leader or let's just say a good one at that. Here's number one. You have all the

answers. You see, leadership isn't about showing how much you know. In fact, I'd argue that's

the fastest way to create a culture where people

are putting each other down in order to make themselves feel taller. It is only when the

leader openly admits to not knowing something, to having made a mistake that gives permission

to everyone else to be candid and to take responsibility for their actions, rather than talk from their rear end,

which happens most of the time,

and then spend most of their time trying to cover their rear ends

or their tracks.

You see, leadership is about taking accountability, not showing your

dominance over others. Here's number two. Saying that you're the leader. If you have to tell people, remind people that you're the

leader, or the decider, or the fure, then you definitely are not. Nobody follows a leader who has to remind others of their high order role.

It is the same thing as parenting. No child respects their parents when they have to reinforce their rules with a phrase,

because I'm the parent, that's why. That's when the child starts

secretly plotting their rebellious revenge. The moment you say, do what I tell you because I'm your

director or I'm the owner or the CEO.

You may win the battle in the moment, but you've just lost the war.

You have just incited a spiritual and emotional mutiny.

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