Episode 230: Stop Being So Shit (A Leadership Manifesto)
Recording at actual breakfast time for once, Sacha's successfully navigating life without peanut slabs through strategic fruit substitution and emergency dried fruit protocols. This leads into a conversation about whether we need more leaders or just more people willing to improve their performance and help each other out.
Maybe we don't need more leaders - we need more people operating with a leadership mindset, regardless of title. Help when asked, help when not asked, ask for help to create opportunities for others, and stop waiting for perfect conditions to begin.
Main Topics
- The Promotion Problem - Why taking your best talent out of doing work to manage people often backfires, plus how medium-sized companies get stuck without proper support systems (big companies have AI, small companies don't need complexity, medium ones suffer in between)
- The Spider Web Effect - When 10 regional managers create 10 different systems for the same problem, each convinced their's is best, leading to inevitable "alignment" battles where everyone agrees on standardisation as long as it's their standard
- Helicopter Parenting Consequences - From forgotten lunch delivery to workplace entitlement: when you clear every obstacle for children, you create adults who won't begin tasks unless they have everything they need immediately
- Sacha's Helper of Mankind Origin Story - Her unfinished childhood embroidery (just "S" and partial "A" for years) versus sister Kyla's completed "gift from God" version (thanks to mom's strategic outsourcing), explaining her deep-wired need to help others
- The Lucy Hone Question Applied to Work -- "Is the way you are behaving right now helping or is it harming?" Applied to eye-rolling, stair-stomping, email-ignoring, and "not my mistake, so not my problem" attitudes
Sacha's Speaking Philosophy Distilled "What do you speak about?" "Stop being so shit." "No, what do you really talk about?" "Stop being so shit, but framed positively: You can do it. Everything you need is within you, and you are responsible."
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