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Clarity is not a communication style. It is a leadership choice. The best leaders I have worked with all made it. Most people are just too comfortable being vague to get there.
There is a difference between being direct and being a jerk. The leaders who confuse those two things are almost always using that confusion as cover to stay comfortable. Cruelty is not clarity. Clear is just: say the thing, say it to the right person, say it now.
Most leaders are not bad communicators. They are deliberately vague. There is a difference. Thread on why directness is the rarest and most valuable leadership trait I have seen.
@texasroadhouse your store manager Mark, at the Taylor, MI location threatened to call the cops on me because there was a communication issue between the table card reader and the computer system. Not cool. Considering legal action.
This is not another leadership podcast.
Lead Don’t Ctrl exists because control-based leadership is burning teams out, quietly.
Episode 0 is live.
It sets the context.
Episode 1 is coming, and it gets uncomfortable (in a good way).
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LeadDontCtrl is officially on YouTube.
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The loudest guy in standup isn’t always your MVP.
Your quiet dev just fixed 3 critical bugs and said 5 words about it.
Volume ≠ value. Pay attention.
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If you need a meeting to make every decision, you're not leading, you're hosting game night.
Leadership ≠ consensus on everything.
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