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aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Welcome to the Game Changer Life. I'm Dave Anderson in our Agora Hills, California studio, and the topic

I want to share with you today is buy-in is earned. It's certainly not commanded.

It's not automatic.

And whether you are in an official leadership position where you have a title or you are an unofficial leader, you don't necessarily have a title, you lead without a title, you're the go-to person, takes initiative and so forth.

We need to understand how buy-in works. It is built over time,

and it can be lost overnight. And people don't have to buy into us as leaders. They can comply

with what we are wanting them to do, but they don't have to commit. They don't have to go all in

and give that second mile. They can go through the motions.

And it's harder to do that, though, once you've bought into the boss. Once you want to be part

of what they're doing, you want to please them, you want to meet those expectations. You want

to cover their back, if you will. And so I want to share some basics on titles, on leadership, to where if you're

aspiring to be a leader that you're not yet, maybe you don't have the title, you're waiting

for that promotion to earn it, that you can become that game-changing leader right when you get in

there. You can understand how to earn and leverage buy-in. And if you're already in

leadership and you want to be more of a game-changing leader in the position you're in and you're

looking to up your game, I think this can help you as well. It creates a lot of perspective.

And I want to talk a little bit about the title thing first, because people get hung up on titles.

I'm eventually going to get into the five Cs of buy-in. There are five things followers need to buy into, about a leader,

before they really start to buy into the leader's changes and processes and schedules and,

you know, strategies and vision. People don't buy into you. They're probably not going to buy into

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