Flip the Script on Mediocrity
DarrenDaily On-Demand
Darren Hardy LLC
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🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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What if your team's skills are being wasted? Darren Hardy challenges leaders to evaluate their team's potential from a new perspective: leveraging abilities. Will assigning members to the right seat on the bus truly unlock hidden strengths and maximize their strengths for long-term success? Tune in to find out!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day. |
| 0:07.3 | Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy. |
| 0:13.1 | A mother camel and her baby were lying down, soaking up a son. |
| 0:16.9 | The baby camel asked his mom, why do we have these big bumps on our back? |
| 0:20.1 | The mom stopped to think and then said, well, in the desert, there is not much water available. |
| 0:25.3 | So our humps store water to help us survive on long journeys. |
| 0:29.1 | The baby camel then thought about that for a second and asked, well, why do we have these long legs with rounded feet? |
| 0:35.7 | His mother replied, they are meant to help us walk through sand. |
| 0:39.3 | The baby asked a third question, why are my eyelashes so long? |
| 0:44.2 | The mother replied, your long eyelashes offer you protection from the sand when it flows in the |
| 0:49.0 | wind. |
| 0:50.0 | And then finally the baby said, if we have all of these natural abilities given to us to walk long distances through the hot desert, what's the use for us camels in the zoo? |
| 1:00.0 | Now there are different ways to view this story, but today I want you to look at it from the perspective of a leader. |
| 1:07.0 | If members of your team aren't flourishing, it's possible that they are a magnificently designed |
| 1:11.8 | camel, but placed in a zoo. Maybe their current role isn't utilizing their unique and natural |
| 1:18.6 | innate talents. This is a vitally important assessment to make as a leader and to make it quickly. |
| 1:24.8 | In 2019, workers were already quitting jobs at record rates. |
| 1:29.5 | Then the pandemic shed two and a half million jobs. When it was lifted, many workers |
| 1:34.6 | decided not to go back. Instead, they just quit. The ratio of people quitting their jobs |
| 1:40.1 | to the total employment is the highest it's been since the Bureau of Labor has been tracking the data. And those who are coming back to the total employment is the highest it's been since the Bureau of Labor has been tracking the data. |
| 1:46.2 | And those who are coming back to work are leaving previous employers for new opportunities at a higher rates than in two decades. |
| 1:55.8 | One in every four workers are actively considering new opportunities. 80% want greater career advancement. |
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