Hey everybody, welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast. The conversation designed

to help leaders go further, faster on today's podcast, my friend and long time host of this

podcast, Lane Jones and I are back together for a conversation about harnessing the personal

and organizational power of focus.

Andy, it's great to be back with you on the podcast and great to be talking about this

subject. I really believe the principles we'll talk about today have been foundational

for our organization, but before we get to them, I remember you talking about a couple

of really leadership myths that were actually roadblocks for you to this principle.

Yeah, I think this is a good place to start because it took me a long time to discover

and then figure out how to harness the personal and organizational power of focus. And I'm

not sure exactly why it took me so long. I think part of it was I assumed two things

about leadership that just aren't true or I guess we could call these leadership myths.

And I don't think anybody ever told me this. I think somehow I just assumed these number

one, I just assumed that good leaders are good at everything. The good leaders I'd

read about or watched, they were so good at what they did and everything around them went

so well. I think I just began to assume, oh, you just have to be good at everything. Whatever

they ask you, you've got to have an answer, whatever they ask you to do. You've got to

be able to do it well. They were so together, so well-rounded. And it took me a while to

realize that is not true. That in fact, good leaders are rarely good at many things. They're

generally good at one or two things. And they figured out to the point of our conversation

how to focus on those one or two things. And the second myth is I just assumed that good

leaders focus on their weaknesses in order to make them strengths because why focus

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