Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast. A conversation designed to help leaders

go further faster. On today's podcast, we'll conclude a two-part conversation on only

doing what only you can do. Andy, as we begin today, I'll just say that if anyone missed

last month's conversation, you should go back and hear the whole thing. It really sets

up today, but why don't you give us a short recap of what it means to only do what only

you can do? Yeah, this whole idea is based on what I call the two best kept secrets of

leadership. The first one being the less you do, the more you accomplish, the less you

do, the more you accomplish. The fewer things a leader does, generally speaking, the more

they accomplish. And the second one is the less you do, the more you enable others to

accomplish, the less you do, the more you enable others to accomplish. So again, it's

the idea of backing into our core competencies, spending more time on the things that make

the biggest difference, discovering and asking the question, okay, of all the time I have

to give to this organization or this job, where does my time make the biggest impact?

Where is the greatest value at? Discovering those things and then scheduling and calendaring

to the point where you're spending the majority of your time and your best time on those

few things. So in a leader embraces the idea of only doing what only they can do, essentially,

they're learning to lean into their strengths and delegate their weaknesses. And as we said

last month, this isn't something we can begin doing today. This is something we shoot

for. This is something we move toward. I can't go back to the office today and announce,

I'm only going to do what only I can do. And honestly, it's a bit of an ideal. I don't

know that any person can actually only do what only they can do. But I think it's a goal

that we're setting out there and keeping our eye on. Otherwise, we get pulled into all

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