Hi, I'm Michael Hyatt.

And I'm Megan Hyatt Miller.

And this is Lead to Win, our weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life.

This week, we want to talk about entitlement.

Now, it'd be easy to be talking about how difficult it is to recruit from people of a certain

generation because they're entitled or the entitlement we see in the workforce,

but we were to approach it from the angle of looking in the mirror as leaders and asking if any of this exists in our own hearts and in our own leadership,

because that's where entitlement has to be routed out first.

I mean, I kind of want to just let my head smack on my desk at this point because it's way more fun and easier to talk about the entitlement that

other people have or complain as leaders about, you know, people who have worked for us or do

work for us or whatever that have entitlement issues. And it's kind of like, you know,

talking about character defects in your kids, usually.

If you look in the mirror, you can see the origin of those things, of those character defects.

And I think with entitlement, it's no different.

Very often when there's an entitlement problem that we see culturally, that is a top-down

problem that needs to be addressed.

Well, I hate that because it's much easier to complain.

You know, just to back up for a second, I think it's really easy to maybe dismiss what we're

saying as being the province of narcissistic leaders.

And what we know from the psychological community is that narcissism affects a very

small percentage of people truly. Like we throw that word around and it's something that we,

you know, like to attribute to people on a regular basis. But in reality, it's a pretty rare

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