The Strangest Paradox of Leadership
The Robin Sharma Mastery Sessions
Robin Sharma
4.8 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2016
⏱️ 15 minutes
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This episode is part of the training series: The Robin Sharma Mastery Sessions - access all episodes here: http://rshar.ma/masterysessions
Being a leader is about what you give versus what you get. In this episode, I’ll invite you to play with 5 POWERFUL insights on shifting from scarcity to leadership.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Robin Sharma. Welcome to the Mastery Sessions. |
| 0:05.0 | This Mastery Session is called the strangest paradox of leadership. |
| 0:10.0 | Our world says that if you are a leader in many ways it's about what you get |
| 0:16.0 | What I'm going to suggest to you with deep respect being a leader is about what you give and it's a paradox because as you give more, you actually receive more. But |
| 0:27.5 | again, society has sold us this methodology and this philosophy that if we get from the world, if we get more income, if we |
| 0:37.0 | get more from our clients, if we get more from our employees, if we get more from our |
| 0:42.3 | sectors, if we get more from our sectors, if we get more from society, we will feel happy, |
| 0:46.8 | we will be successful, we will be at the top of the mountain, we will live these epic, awesome and fulfilling lives lives and I don't believe that's the case |
| 0:55.6 | and I haven't experienced that to be the case at all. To me if you give and you are a |
| 1:00.4 | humble instrument of service, |
| 1:03.2 | everything just falls into place. |
| 1:05.0 | And so what I wanted to do is really start off |
| 1:07.6 | by talking about the new economy. |
| 1:09.3 | The old economy was an economy of scarcity. |
| 1:12.2 | It was like, there's not enough in the world so how can I get as much as possible before it's all gone? |
| 1:18.0 | The new economy that we do business in and that we live life in is one not of scarcity but it's about |
| 1:25.6 | generosity and I think the person who gives the most wins and that's just the world |
| 1:30.4 | we live in right now whether you believe this or not. |
| 1:33.7 | And I've been at this for a number of decades teaching leadership to many of the most successful |
| 1:39.5 | companies in the world, whether it's a Nike or a Starbucks, a FedEx and IBM, Microsoft, General Electric, |
| 1:45.4 | NASA, and travel to the world, worked with many of the best firms, coached many of the best |
| 1:51.3 | CEOs, billionaires, |
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