ITL291: How to Lead When You Feel Unqualified
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we answer a listener's question on confidence in leadership
Good leaders are honest about what they know.
- We don't follow people who claim to know everything.
- Good leaders admit they don't know everything and never stop learning.
Good leaders let others be part of the solution.
- Lead people into realizing their own solution.
- If you don't think you have everything figured out, you're in a good place.
A good parent never says "because I said so."
Tune in to hear Andy's strategy for relating to his audience in his speaking.
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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 |
| 0:06.5 | 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. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm your host, David Lloyd. |
| 0:17.2 | Thanks for being with us again. |
| 0:19.1 | And Andy, thank you for being with us. |
| 0:21.2 | Well, thank you, David. Is Matthew there? He is, as always. Good. Well, thank him. |
| 0:26.4 | Thank him as well. Matt, thank you for being here. He says you're welcome. |
| 0:30.5 | All right. Hey, let's go ahead and jump right into a question that we received, because I'm so excited |
| 0:37.2 | to read this and to get your thoughts, |
| 0:39.5 | a great question came in from Joan, and then a little bit later on, I'll ask you who our |
| 0:44.6 | sponsor is from this week. Is that okay? Can we just... Yeah, great. Let's just go ahead and get |
| 0:48.3 | started. This is an email that came in from Joan, and if you have a question for Andy, you can send an |
| 0:55.5 | email just like Joan did to In The Loop at Andy Andrews.com, and we'll try to get to that question |
| 1:00.9 | on a future episode. But let me read this question from Joan, and we'll get Andy's thoughts. |
| 1:06.1 | Hi, Andy. I have had the opportunity to hear you speak. I've participated in your training opportunities |
| 1:11.4 | and I've heard the In the Loop podcasts and read several of your books. I guess it's safe to say |
| 1:17.0 | that through you, I am raising the bar on reaching my better potential. Can you touch base from your |
| 1:23.6 | perspective about going from gaining some knowledge to actually using it. There are times I just |
| 1:29.7 | don't feel confident and I'm afraid of gaps in my understanding and that these gaps will make me |
| 1:35.3 | less of a leader. I absolutely love helping people, yet there are times when I feel a lack of |
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