Why Every Leader Needs Friends

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Management, Intentionality, Selfdevelopment, Education, Teamleadership, Personaldevelopment, Productivity, Self-improvement, Business, Achievement, Influence, Selfleadership, Leadership

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

As leaders, we all want to be competent and successful. The problem is that our quest for success can be demanding. It can feel lonely at the top. But as a leader, you can’t afford to be isolated. You deserve a rich, full life—including a social life. Every leader can thrive by cultivating friendships, protecting time for friendship, and enjoying leisure time together. In this episode, we’ll show you how. For more, visit leadto.win. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by Five Steps to Focus Driven Achievement,
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0:10.0	so you can maximize your achievement this year.
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0:18.7	Do you have real friends that are primarily people you interact with on social media?
0:25.0	Do you know those people that like me aren't my friends?
0:27.0	Hi I'm Michael Hyatt.
0:32.0	And I'm Megan Hyatt Miller.
0:34.0	And this is Lead to Win the Weekly Podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life.
0:39.0	And in this episode, we're talking about the value of friendship for a leader.
0:43.0	This is such an important topic, so don't tune out.
0:46.0	A lack of close relationships can be a real problem for leaders.
0:50.0	Every leader needs friends. And today we're going to talk about why that's true.
0:57.0	You remember a couple weeks ago when Larry Wilson, our senior writer joined us for the New Year's preview.
1:04.0	Well, we got a really great response to that, so we've invited Larry back to co-host this conversation today.
1:10.0	Welcome, Larry.
1:11.0	Hey, hi guys, great to be here.
1:13.0	All right, let me ask you a question as we get started here.
1:16.0	I've been in a couple leadership positions over the years and I found it's sometimes hard for
1:21.3	a leader to have friends and do you really need friends to be
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