Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast Reverb, a conversation designed to help leaders go even further faster by digging deeper into this month's episode. I'm your host, Susie Gray. Last week, we did something a little different. We shared an episode from Jason Jagger's podcast, Beyond High Performance, a show that helps leaders go beyond high performance

and explore what they're capable of. It was an episode where Andy and Jason had a great

conversation about key leadership principles. And today, we want to go a layer deeper. We're going to

revisit a few of those key ideas with the lens of what do they mean, and more importantly, why do they

matter? So, Andy, let's start with a principle a lot of our long-time listeners will recognize,

only do what only you can do. You said in that conversation, it's an incredibly important

goal because leadership naturally drifts toward management and away from margin. So let's unpack

that a bit. What does

only do what only you can do mean for leaders day to day? And why is it so critical to protect that

space? Well, I want to clarify one thing about a statement. In the past, I've referred to that as a goal.

And that's not really correct. It's not really a goal. It's more like a North Star.

In ancient times, in ancient times, a Navark rarely, or an ancient mariner, rarely ventured out

at night for multiple reasons. They were superstitious to begin with, but primarily because

there was no visibility and there was nothing to navigate by, with one exception, which, of course, was the

North Star, or actually the star is named Polaris. It's also called the Pole Star because it's

located nearly directly above the Earth's North Pole. Consequently, the North Star appears almost

stationary at night, which, of course, serves as a reliable guide for finding North and determining

latitude.

So consequently, they navigated at night when they ventured out, which was very rare, to sail

or to row at night. But when they did, the North Star was a point of navigation.

So, and again, for clarification, although our audience knows this, the North Star was not a destination

point, obviously, but it was a reference point. So in the same way, this statement,

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