Coming up, I'll reveal the number one reason that your boss might be a complete jerk and then there's something strange happening with jobless claims. We'll break it down and tell you why it matters.

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Hey folks, I'm here to help you win at work. That means get better so your paycheck gets bigger. Let's dive into this. Okay so I hear this all the time on the show. We see it in the headlines.

There's just a growing gap between workers and leaders in this country and you could chalk it up to I think two primary

reasons number one I just don't think overall we're doing a really good job

we're talking about companies at developing leaders, training leaders,

equipping leaders, encouraging leaders, and so they're kind of on their own.

And this is said today sympathetically towards leaders, not critically. I love

leaders and I think if you've ever been in a situation where you've had poor

leadership you can appreciate the idea of getting good leadership and working under healthy

leaders. And so I want to address these things. I think the second factor is that we just have unhealthy leaders.

I at times am unhealthy and I'm talking about mentally and emotionally here and sometimes you are

unhealthy and are we at our best when we're unhealthy? The answer is no. So if your leader is unhealthy in between

their ears and in here in their chest, can they effectively lead you? The answer is no. So we dug in here and I want to tell you about some research done by human resource expert.

Simon Dolan, he's a PhD out of Britain and his research reveals that leaders are most effective when their self-esteem is high.

No shock, right? In other words, when their confidence is high, their leadership proficiency is high.

When they feel better about themselves, their leadership is better.

So the converse is true when leaders have low self-esteem.

All the stuff that's coming out of that is likely to spread stress around their teams. They don't

feel good about themselves or stressed out and all that stuff just leaks out on everybody else. What does it look like? Well it could look like

jealousy of their own followers success. In other words they may take credit for something that they didn't do because they feel poorly about themselves and so they steal your credit.

I know that hit a nerve out there.

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