Why Real Leaders Never Waste Time

The EntreLeadership Podcast

Ramsey Network

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.7 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’ll hear about: • Dave’s method for using commutes and daily routines to develop your leadership skills • A business owner wanting to expand despite a lack of profitability • How real leaders invite healthy conflict and turn pushback into better decisions • A manager wanting to ask for profit-based pay with humility and a focus on adding value Next Steps: · 📞 Have a question for the show? Call 844-944-1070 or send us a message: https://ter.li/ask-us · 📚 Learn about the EntreLeadership System™: https://ter.li/system-p · 💻 Get EntreLeadership Elite™ for your business: https://ter.li/elite-p · ✉️ Sign up to receive tactical tools, advice and resources in your inbox every week: https://ter.li/enl · 🏢 Attend EntreLeadership Summit: https://ter.li/summit · 🎤 Attend EntreLeadership Master Series: https://ter.li/masterseries · 📖 Order Dave’s new book, Build a Business You Love: https://ter.li/b4kru2 · 📘 Get your free EntreLeadership® Reading Guide today: https://ter.li/7qjso2 Connect With Our Sponsors: · 💼 Go to Belay Solutions or text ENTRE to 55123 for their free resource! · 💻 Visit NetSuite today to learn more. · 🧾 Visit Payority for a free consultation! · 📈 Grab Sales Gravy's free resource to help you hire and lead better. Listen to More From Ramsey Network: 🪑 Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman 🎙️ The Ramsey Show 💸 The Ramsey Show Highlights 🧠 The Dr. John Delony Show 🍸 Smart Money Happy Hour 💡 The Rachel Cruze Show💰 George Kamel Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	From the headquarters of Ramsey Solutions, this is Entree Leadership, where I take calls from leaders like you about what it takes to win at any stage of business and leadership. I'm Dave Ramsey,
0:22.5	your host with over 30 years of experience leading in the trenches right alongside you.
0:28.0	If you got a question you want to ask on the show, fill out the form at entreleadership.com
0:32.3	slash ask or call and we'll set you up. 844-9-44-1070.
0:39.9	That's 844-9-44-1070.
0:45.0	Ben is in St. Paul, Minnesota.
0:47.6	Hey, Ben, how are you?
0:49.4	Hey, I'm doing well, Dave.
0:50.9	Thanks so much for taking my call today.
0:52.5	Sure.
0:53.0	What's up?
0:55.9	Yes, so I am a director overseeing staff recruiting, hiring, and training for a faith-based organization. We've got about
1:02.9	150 staff across several different regions and college campuses across the country. We're launching a new leadership initiative to help our regional leaders grow through coaching,
1:14.5	mentoring, and skill development the first time we've done something like this.
1:18.7	And so my question is, how much time should we ask them to invest in their own development?
1:23.5	And then how can we create the space for them to do that in the middle of busy ministry life?
1:29.9	Hmm.
1:33.2	Well, there's a couple things that come to mind.
1:37.7	One was Ziegler used to say that you should graduate from automobile university.
1:48.6	And so most of us spend enough time in our cars to consume audiobooks, leadership podcasts, and that's pretty much what I do in the
1:56.7	truck every day. Occasionally, I'll turn on some worship music. Occasionally I'll turn on some jazz,
2:03.4	but most of the time, I've got somebody's podcast on or somebody's audio book on filling up that
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