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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

I need to run this by my team. Let me see how everybody else feels about this. I want to make sure everybody is comfortable.

Does that sound familiar?

Keep listening. This might save your company, your team, your family. Because what you're about to learn isn't just a leadership lesson. It is a survival skill in today's world. I was advising a board

chair for a tech CEO in Silicon Valley, a $500 million revenue company growing 40% year over year,

deemed the poster title of modern servant leadership.

Then in just 18 months, everything collapsed.

Why?

Here's what the board chairman told me.

The CEO was the perfect servant leader, and that's exactly what killed us.

What do you mean, I asked?

He smiled sadly and said, while he was busy serving, our competition was busy leading. While he was seeking consensus,

they were making decisions. While he was protecting feelings, they were growing market share.

Their market share dropped from 68% to 12% while their meaner competitor doubled in size.

The CEO, well, he lost everything. He lost his job, his reputation, his confidence, all because

he was trying to be, quote unquote, good. But wait, it gets even more disturbing. A recent

Harvard study revealed a shocking finding. Companies with extreme

servant leadership models are 67% more likely to fall behind in rapidly changing markets.

Yeah, you heard that right. The very leadership style that has been preached as the Holy Grail

is actually making companies weaker. Think about that. While you are asking everybody's opinion,

avoiding tough decisions, protecting team comfort. Your competition is moving at lightning speed,

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