Positive Leadership Tip | Ep: 5 Principles and Practices

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Jon Gordon

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🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Positive Leadership Tip Wednesday, I dive into the heart of what truly makes a leader effective: the balance between principles and practices. I explain why simply having values and a vision isn’t enough, leaders need real tools and actionable steps to build, develop, and transform their teams. Join me as I break down how principles guide us, but practices are what actually drive growth and success. Tune in for straightforward, practical leadership tips that can help you and your team get better every week. If you find value here, share this episode and let's help everyone level up together.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is John Gordon with your positive leadership tip.
0:06.0	A leader with principles, but no practices is like a builder with a set of plans, but no tools
0:12.6	to build the structure.
0:14.7	As a leader, you need both principles and practices.
0:18.9	Principles inform.
0:20.4	Practices transform. We need to give leaders the tools and the
0:24.8	practices to transform their team, to develop their team, to improve their team, to build a stronger
0:31.4	team. Principles won't do it, but the practices will. Of course, the principles provide the values and the overarching
0:38.4	understanding of what it takes to be a great leader. And the practices help your team become a great
0:44.0	team. And so this podcast is all about sharing principles and practices with you. That's a difference
0:51.3	in positive leadership. It's all about principles and practices.
0:55.6	How can we make your team better? And what can the leader do to help the team get better?
1:01.1	Hope you join me on this journey as I share different tools and practices every week.
1:06.9	If you know others that can benefit, please share this with them. Let's help others get better together.
1:12.8	Have a great day.

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