Manage To Engage | Businesses Grow When People Do

In the coming weeks, we’re going to start talking about what marketing really is and why most people have it wrong. But before we get to that, it’s important to understand why we sometimes find it difficult to get our most important work done. We all have a very limited amount of time to do anything to our best ability, and it usually occurs at the same time each day. When we fill those hours with meaningless tasks, it’s no wonder we find it difficult to get our focused, more trying work done during the non-optimal hours. It’s important to find a balance between what you are moved to do, and what is most important to do: that is the art of living. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

The role of the org chart is to make the responsibilities of each person within the organization as clear as possible. It’s crucial that responsibility is not shared, because shared responsibility avoids accountability. Without accountability, you can’t have consequences. And without consequences, we negate our whole reason for being. The only way we can learn our lessons is by acting out our truths and experiencing their natural consequences – with some help from teachers along the way. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

to you) brings up all of our deepest existential issues with power and free will. When you try to put someone in a role, it can make their unconscious need for control feel threatened. But, through that friction, and recognizing the consequences of their actions, is where a sense of freedom truly emerges. Our beliefs have to crash with the boundaries of reality in order to discover genuine truth for us. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

There’s value in a job well done. Think of the difference between a reward earned after some hard work and one you’ve treated yourself to. We value the things we’ve worked towards, but we can often “cheat” our way to the same goal – but doing so isn’t truly satisfying. It’s a lesson everyone, at any level of an organization, needs to learn on their own. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

As humans, we have an innate desire to be free. But we also don’t recognize the realities of freedom. Free will exists: you can do whatever you want. But you can’t escape the consequences of doing it. And the role of life is to hold us accountable to reality and show us what happens when we take our truth to its natural conclusion. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

Having a vision as a leader is one thing, but successful leaders need to inspire others to invest in that vision as well. To do that, you need to prove to them – through words as well as actions – that your vision serves their own best interest. Feeling as if you know what’s best for others can be uncomfortable at first, but it must be embraced. As long as you believe in what you are doing (and allow space for others to tell you if you’re wrong), you can become someone worth following. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

Life has a way of putting us right up against the change we require, but it doesn’t make us any less resistant to adopting it. You have a choice: resist or learn. In order to become who you want to be, you have to look hard and realize who you are not. When we see the stories of great leaders, it feels as if they knew what they were doing all along – why else would they take such crazy risks in the face of seemingly impossible odds? But ask anyone in the midst of their soul’s journey if they felt that way and it’ll likely be a different story. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

What’s holding you back from making the change necessary to step into your truest expression of self? Being our true selves sounds great, but most of us don’t live that way. Making change requires parts of our current self to cease, and those parts will fear and resist the change. Facing your destiny can be a scary prospect, but we often see the biggest growth on the other side of fear. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

Leaders tend to want their outsides to change without having to change themselves. But the truth is you cannot become a leader without change. Being a leader – the kind that truly inspires people to follow – requires becoming a better version of you. And part of that change is creating a different relationship with authority and instruction. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

The first step of personal growth is the willingness to look at anything (and everything) within yourself. Anything you refuse to look at is only going to create internal division. Facing your weaknesses is a very difficult thing to do, but it’s something you become better at with time. Look for opportunities in your everyday life to reveal parts of yourself, and you’ll only grow stronger for it. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

Some types get a bad reputation due to the worst parts of them, especially in certain cultures. We have to look at the shadow side of ourselves and realize how those actually become our strengths. But that takes finding the courage to closely examine those shadows, deeply understand them, and find out where you stand. Most of the problems we face in life – regardless of what our enneagram type is – stem from not having the courage to bear emotional discomfort. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

We’re going to delve back into the enneagram this week. We started this journey by looking at and identifying the best parts of ourselves. Then we took an uncomfortable look at the dark, shadowy parts. The truth may set you free, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be difficult to look at. That’s why we’ll be exploring courage – the courage it takes to embrace emotional discomfort, and how we’re conditioned against doing that. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

Hiring the right people means beginning with the end in mind. You have to work backwards from the qualities you want in an employee and create questions that will reveal those qualities in your candidates. This is where curiosity comes in. If you are not genuinely curious about who your candidates really are, you will never find the person you are looking for. This is a skill that takes practice to master, but it will pay dividends in your business. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

The governing power of hiring is curiosity. It’s essential for finding out what drives people, and knowing that is critical in making the right hire. Part of being curious means being prepared to ask difficult questions. Interviews should be uncomfortable. When you’re hiring for someone who’s coachable, honesty is key. They need to be open about their weaknesses and their flaws, and driven to improve them. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

When hiring, we’re looking for qualities that you can’t get just by training. We subconsciously hire people who are less capable than us because we feel threatened, or we hire people who have the skills that we could train for, but that we just don’t want to. Ideally, we should hire those who could become equal to (or better than) us, but just haven’t been managed well enough to get there yet. Candidates can sense the difference, and it’s often what they really want when looking for a role – even more than money. It’s what you want as well, even if you don’t realize it. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

I recently shared the difference between management and supervision. But how does that play out in the hiring process? Supervision is based on content; not context. You look at their surface level skills and rapport with you instead of the context of who they are going to become when they work with you. If you want to hire effectively you have to be present, and, in order to be present, you can’t be busy. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

What does it mean to live a spiritual life? Recognizing the fact that you do not always know what’s good for you. The spiritual path can often be confusing, but it’s pointing you in the right direction. We need to find the edge of where exact clarity and total abandon meet, taking your dreams, ambitions, and purpose and, at the same time, letting it go. The mind can’t grasp this – it’s a paradox. But the soul can. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

When things get difficult, the ego will steer us away from our next step or halt us completely. Religion often promises spiritual experiences without the difficulties, but that ends up being a false promise. The path to spirituality is one that can only be experienced firsthand. It’s a journey into the unknown. It requires us to get out of our own way and to trust the outcome. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

Humans have the unique ability to live out of harmony with their own nature. We have free will, which allows us to deny our own needs – even though we can’t escape the consequences that come along with it. The downsides of repressing our own needs can come out in the form of resentment, anger, passive-aggression, or even cancer. This becomes even more difficult to manage when we realize that we don’t often know what’s good for us. So how do we find it? Through trial and error, and deep introspection. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)

In this episode, we talk about spirituality – what it is and isn’t. One of the topics we are most conflicted about in life, spirituality sits right alongside money, sex, love, power, and death. And like those, it is widely misunderstood. Part of that comes from a misunderstanding of self-interest and the role it plays in our lives. We’re taught from an early age that self-interest is bad, and interest in others is good. The truth is that self-interest can come in both healthy and unhealthy forms. We are all a part of the same whole, and the only way to serve the whole is to serve ourselves, rather than sacrificing our own needs in service of others. We have to break free from a lifetime of programming that says we have to spiritually disconnect from the self in order to serve the other. I’d love your feedback. http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1234688298 (Click here to leave a rating & review for the show on Apple Podcasts.)