Hey listeners, this is Jordan McLeod, executive producer of Masters of Scale.

If you've ever wished you could hear insights from Reed in real time, well then listen up.

We're hosting a live virtual strategy session in alliance with Capital One Business on January 26th,

and you're invited. During this event, you'll hear Reed and other business leaders explore

some of the most timely questions entrepreneurs are facing right now.

When you register, you'll also have a chance to submit your own question to Reed,

and he just might answer it live. So go to Mastersofscale.com slash strategy session to register for free.

Again, that's Mastersofscale.com slash strategy session. Now onto the show.

Hi listeners, it's Reed. You're about to hear a special episode of Master's Scale called

Six Leadership Caps and how to avoid them. When you were a kid, you may have played a game called

The Floor is lava. It involves scattering cushions, books, and possibly your caregivers'

prized possessions across the living room floor, then precariously hopping from one item to the other

without touching the floor. Because the floor is lava. For entrepreneurial leaders,

the situation is similar, except it's not just a molten floor you need to worry about.

Your path to scale is littered with all kinds of deadly traps.

Many of these will be as easy to spot as a pool of bubbling magma,

but others will be far harder to detect like an invisible tripwire that shoots a silent deadly

poison dart. Some of these traps will be slow working. Others will be more like superheated magma.

They will burn you up instantly. What unites them all is how they can spell doom for your business.

Many leaders have only learned about these traps the hard way by falling into them.

In this episode, we'll share some of the learnings of the most successful scale leaders who have

had to spot these traps and propel themselves beyond them. Some spoke to me and some spoke to

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