Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, Reverb. A conversation that digs deeper into this month's podcast

topic, all designed to help leaders go even further faster.

I'm your host, Susie Gray, and this month

we're talking about our conversation last week

on the topic of the Foundation of exceptional leadership.

So Susie, last week's conversation was a little bit different.

What did you think about that?

I really enjoy last week's conversation.

I mean, I thought the topic of self-leadership was really great.

And I think, you know, we recognize it is the foundation of exceptional leadership.

And you know, you personally have several leadership practices to ensure you kind of stay

between the rails you mentioned that phrase of staying between the rails as a

leader can you share a few of those details with our audience well to begin with I've I've tried to make sure there are people

around me who actually have access to me and who have permission to speak freely

ideally you know just broadly speaking these are people who don't need anything from me,

who aren't dependent on me, who don't necessarily work for me, but at the same time, again,

have access and know enough about what's going on that they can

ask the hard questions I do have an advantage in this I feel like and you can speak

into this that three of the people that I work closely with are people that have

been a part of this organization from the beginning, but we actually

work together before we started this organization.

So we came together as peers.

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