ITL167: Is a Transparent Leader *Really* the Best Leader?
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, I discuss whether transparency helps or hurts your leadership potential.
I'm in a period of learning a ton right now.
- When it comes to my boys, I want them to understand that I'm still struggling to be wise in my choices and thinking everyday.
- We've heard leaders promise to be transparent and we see varying degrees of their choice to pulling that off.
- If you declare your intention to be transparent and you're obviously not, then that hurts your leadership.
- Other than that, I do not see how transparency can hurt your leadership—UNLESS it reveals something about you that makes you not worthy of following. (details on what makes someone unworthy of following available in podcast)
As a leader, we're human and we're going to mess up.
- If you know the difference between a choice and a mistake, and you handle both in a proper way, your leadership will grow by leaps and bounds.
- When a choice has been made, only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.
- Would you rather follow somebody who knows how to get back on track when they mess up, or somebody who either bluffs their way through life or doesn't understand where the track is to begin with?
- A good leader knows when they're off track, they know why they got off track (whether they made a mistake, or whether they chose to), and they know how to handle each situation the right way.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.4 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.4 | Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.1 | Hi, and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm your host, David Loy. |
| 0:17.6 | Andy, welcome. |
| 0:19.4 | Thank you for being here. |
| 0:20.6 | Welcome to yourself, David. I just welcome to everybody. Welcome to the entire world. Welcome to you. You welcome to me. Everybody's welcome. Thank you, buddy. It's a great interview. I am excited to be here. Yes. Fantastic. Let's see. What's going on in the Andrews house, kicking off, off, not wrapping up, uh, but kicking off 2015. Is there anything exciting? Anything you're looking forward to in the next, uh, few months with you, with Polly, with the boys? Yes. They're always, there's, there's so much. I mean, I'm, I'm writing. We've got, We've got another book coming out. I mean, I'm writing. |
| 0:57.0 | We've got another book coming out. |
| 1:01.2 | I mean, I don't know if we're ready to announce that yet, but that's up to you guys. |
| 1:02.2 | That's not up to me. |
| 1:08.2 | Well, and I can say we can't give details yet, but I'll say that by the end of the first quarter of 2015, there will be many, many announcements about this new book. |
| 1:13.4 | Good. Good. Well, and I'm, I am really in a period right now of learning a ton. I am really |
| 1:20.3 | digging in hard. I spend a lot of time talking to, especially to the boys, I guess, you know, |
| 1:30.0 | Polly and I talk to them a lot trying to help them understand certain things. |
| 1:36.5 | And that, you know, the more I explain, the more I understand. |
| 1:41.0 | And so, you know, I pray every day, God, please help me have simple ways to explain |
| 1:50.1 | complicated issues that are confusing people. And I know that's important because I've |
| 1:56.7 | been confused. And I, and so, you know, that clarity solves a lot of challenges. |
| 2:05.7 | Absolutely. |
| 2:06.3 | And I laugh only because how often do you hear people that are in the public eye just come out and say, I've been confused, you know, and I'm seeking clarity on that. |
| 2:16.1 | And I think that's what's wonderful |
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