Hey, welcome to the $100 M. B, the business podcast that gives you in-depth business

lessons from the real world. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher,

Omar Zenholm. I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA and webinar

Ninja and in today's in-depth lesson you will learn are you a good enough

leader this is a really important question to answer a question I have to answer every

single day as a leader of my company. If you're listening to this podcast you're

probably the leader of your company which means it's your job to lead

are you actively leading every day this is what we're going to get into in today's

lesson for me I've been in leadership roles before in the past, even before I was an entrepreneur.

I've led large teams as a head of department when I was working for higher education, but we all know there's a lot less at stake personally when you're hired

to do a job versus you're creating jobs as a business owner.

And I've been learning this firsthand in the last three years as our business

webinar Ninja has been growing. Growing from a team of two, me and my co-founder

Nicole, to a team of 17 people today.

And we're going to be about a team of 20 in about a month

as we're going to be making some new hires.

And the more we grow as a business, as a company,

the more important it is for me to be an effective leader of our team.

And this is what I want to share with you today, how to be a more effective leader.

Now I have a different perspective about this.

A leader is not a boss. I see it as an attitude. Leadership is really a set of

personal characteristics. Now this is good news because you could develop

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