Harnessing Humility for Leadership Success | Ep 142

Build with Leila Hormozi

Leila Hormozi

Education, Entrepreneurship, Management, How To, Business

5 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

“Humility is a better indicator of potential than confidence is.” Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) explores the critical role of humility in leadership, providing valuable insights for building successful businesses. She highlights the dangers of ego, the importance of team over individual success, and the transformative power of humility for effective leadership.

Welcome to Build where we talk about the lessons I have learned in scaling big businesses, gaining millions in sales, and helping our portfolio companies do the same. Buckle up, because we’re creating an unshakeable business.

Timestamps:

(0:41) - Learning from the past

(2:25) - The dangers of success

(4:40) - Hiring, promoting, and fostering humility

(8:43) - Identifying and overcoming ego in the workplace

(14:37) - Growth through humility: Skills over traits

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0:00.0	Prideful people hate to be wrong, and they're going to argue their point of view every step of the way.
0:03.7	Being very defensive, like, this is my area. This is my point. This is my thing. This is our team.
0:08.9	This is, we're all going towards the same goal. And we should absolutely share our perspectives and points of views.
0:13.8	And we should be open to those things and be open to being wrong.
0:24.6	How do you create an unshakable business? I cross $100 million in net worth by the age of 28.
0:28.2	Now I'm growing acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio.
0:31.3	In this podcast, I share the lessons I've learned in scaling big businesses and helping our
0:35.1	portfolio companies do the same.
0:37.0	Buckle up and let's build.
0:40.8	So there's a story of this guy who basically, it was the Roman Empire back in whatever BC,
0:47.1	who knows, long time ago, right?
0:48.7	And there's a general who he won like the greatest battle that they had in all of the,
0:54.0	I don't know, lands.
0:55.3	And so this guy goes, he wins this battle.
0:57.4	And everyone's praising him when he comes back.
0:59.4	And they're all saying like, you're our savior.
1:00.8	You saved us.
1:01.5	You're our leader.
1:02.7	And so while this is all happening, he like comes back into the village.
1:07.1	And everyone's like, oh, my God, you're amazing.
1:09.3	They're all like praising him. And as he's coming back
1:11.7	through, he actually asks one of his men to get down and repeat something to him the entire time
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