Episode 39 - What is your Leadershio style

🚨 NCAA Tournament: Duke vs Houston… the real winner? Leadership.
Yesterday I watched Duke vs. Houston.
It was a great game, but what decided the outcome?
Leadership.
In my bestselling book Unlimited Business Growth, I break down the 3 types of leadership:
1️⃣ Destructive
2️⃣ Neutral
3️⃣ Effective
Last night, Houston’s coach, Kelvin Sampson, showed Effective Leadership.
Why? Because he worked on himself — and his team mirrored his mindset:
1. Persistence
2. Dogfight mentality
3. Resilience
Duke’s coach, Jon Scheyer?
He played the Neutral Leadership card — not bad, not great.
But here’s the truth: Neutral leaders don’t build winning cultures.
They don’t grow teams. They play it safe.
When Coach K led Duke, he was an Effective Leader.
And it showed — every single player played with urgency and commitment.
In business, most leaders operate from neutral mode.
That’s why most companies flatline or fail.
So, let me ask you:
What kind of leader are YOU?
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hell everybody. Uh, this is the doctor John Odell method.
This we're gonna speak on today is called Motivational Monday. Guys.
This is April the seventh, and I'm Jazz and I'm
pumped and excited. So this weekend I was watching the
NCAA Tournament basketball. I'm a basketball fan as you guys,
Uh Roiza, I actually even know that you know back

(00:24):
in the said the Vendiana. You know that's where I'm from.
Where basketball heaven and I love basketball and it was
g it was great. So today I'm going to talk
about the Duke versus Houston, and I believe that it
came all down from winning that game is leadership. But

(00:45):
here goes before we start, I wanna thank everybody for
joining me. If it's in the morning time, at nighttime,
even time, whenever that you have to have a chance
to to buzz on end, thank you so much. Uh.
Give you a brief history about who I am and
everything else, and pretty Jazz Bought is something else as well.
I've been in the mental health food for thirty eight years.
Business growth for about thirty years. I had a approach

(01:07):
and honor for about ten years working for guys like
Anthony Robbins, Chat Holmes, Jay Abraham and all the Mastery
faculty to you for about a decade. So I worked
with the best the best, and I appreciate every every
bit of it. Right this weekend, on Friday, I got
Amazon International best selling author, and I am just so

(01:32):
pumped up and excited. My latest book is Unlimited Business Growth.
It's about businesses fiction non fiction. The book is amazing,
I believe it is. It's a It's a four quadrant
of business, and I think every business I have to
go through go through the four quadrants. So I'm pretty
jazzed about that, especially getting that honor. So this weekend

(01:54):
I decided just to take a weekend off normally. I
know me work, No, most of you guys can relate
to that. I just I like working all. I love
what I do. And I said, I know, I said,
I'm sorry, I'm just take off. Just watch the game.
So the first game I watched it like uguy, Fox
lead A great game. I watched the first half, second half,
FUS lead. Second game, I woke up and my guy, man,

(02:15):
that game was phenomenal to Duke and Houston. Game A
great game. But what it came down to is leadership
Now the reason why Duke lost his leadership, the reason
why Houston won because of leadership. So I break everything
down for you guys. Right, So, as I said, I

(02:36):
wrote a book called Life is a Garden Present Unlimited
Business Growth, How to transform your business and overcome mental barriers. Right. So,
in a chapter on leadership, a good mentor of mine,
matter of fact, thirty five years ago he trained me
in the mental phil Carl Scott, my mentor, my friend,

(02:59):
treat me's like a son. So all those things, right,
So I asked him to write a chapter in my
book on leadership because you know, he was a CEO,
he's a coo, he was literally every aspect. He was
a program director of mental health. So he did a
lot of stuff in leadership. And I said that you
would be a great person to write something about leadership
because you know this is what you do. So he

(03:20):
came up with the concept of a process called the
three Steps of leadership. And what they are is destructive leaders,
neutral leaders, and effective leaders. Right. So a destructively to
give an example, distructive leader will come in at eleven
o'clock and leave at two o'clock. A destructive leader that
will hire their family members who don't have no experience

(03:42):
at all. A destructive leader don't really care damn about
him or nobody else. You'll only care about themselves. Right.
A destructive leader is a child definite really care about
nothing else except for himself or else to please people
who love him, you know. So, a destructive leader is
he's not saying he's a bad person, but he's but

(04:02):
he shouldn't be in leadership position, right. A neutral leader, right,
he doesn't make it better, he doesn't make it worse.
He just plays it safe. He doesn't really do that much.
He just plays it safe. You know. He don't go
the extra middy, don't do anything else. He don't really
work on it. He just make it safe. Right. Not

(04:22):
an effective leader. We don't have ten percent of these
effective leaders, like you're literally literally a ten percent and
the whole you know, and and all and then in
most companies of it I worked with, women are like
ten percent. Right, I worked with over ten thousand companies.
You know, so in the last thirty years, were weird
about ten percent of these guys. Now, the effective leaders

(04:44):
will work on themselves. Now, now think about this, They
can work on themselves, their personal issues, everything else. So
then when a problem come up, they can help their
people grow expand now most effective leaders right, the culture
is phenomenal, right, the team works impeccable, amazing, right, and

(05:08):
everything the symptoms that I put inside the book is
pretty much taken care of. They have a great leadership,
They got a great culture, right, their team but work
well and they manage or they manage or they help
out with men's health issues. Right, So everything's pretty much normal. Right.
So well, it was the difference in that game that

(05:29):
I saw was leadership. So when I looked at the
Houston one, right, this guy his leadership something. Leadership was
a little bit different, right, because what happens was when
you're an effective leader, your team modeled your behavior. So

(05:51):
what you put in there, that's what they come out. So, man,
these guys had man consistency, tenacity. They didn't they're they're
not gonna quit, and they showed it. They might have
been down, but they didn't think they're downe because they
said this One guy saidy man, listen to me. We're
the same way in Kansas game, same same type of game.

(06:12):
And we just and we dug in there and we
knew that we could win, and it was completely different
because all the team was the exact same way. There
are dogs, man, I mean, you're liking a dogfight when
you were when you was with these guys, you were
living in a dog fight with them. But again, though
that the man, that's a but that's their leadership style.
That was an effective leader. Now let's flip backwards. Coach K.

(06:36):
When Coach K was playing, when he was coach Coach
K had dogs. The leadership matched his style, his urgency,
his persistency all the time. Why because that's just who
he is, right So you but now you take the
new coach. You'd just been around for three years now,

(06:56):
and he had a stellar career. I remember, and it
was mister basketball back in those because you know I said,
I'm from Indiana, right, I know, he played for Duke
you know, you know he he played in the league.
He but he was a he was a great basketball player.
There's a big difference. Being a great basketball player and
being a great coach is two different things. His coaching

(07:18):
style that I looked at was more playing it safe.
Now here's a here's a difference about playing it safe
when you play in the safe you might win some games,
which they won some games. Man, Cooper Flag is a truth. Man.
That guy is ooham. I never watched the guy play
until Saturday. The guy can pass, he can shoot, he
can the guy's mental tough. The the guys are for

(07:39):
a package for eighteen year old kid. Impressive, but that
was it. Nobody else stepped up to the plate. But
everyone else just played. Okay, they didn't have that dog
in them. No. Now, I'm to tell you once a
all thing. Cooper had that dog fight in a man,
but can't do it alone. And a lot of times

(08:02):
it's on that game when I look at the highlights,
he is carrying that team. Well, man, you're planning against
a number one team. You guys can literally even Stephen
and as Chet Holmes always mentioned the one with the
most passion will win. Well we see why Houston won.
And as I mentioned this, it's all about leadership. Nothing

(08:24):
else from nothing wrong, But it was about leadership. Selmpson
had a leadership since I've thirty years. His record isn't impeccable,
seventy percent almost. I mean, so the guy have a style,
he have a system already. Coach King you know, his
leadership style was amazing as well. So what I'm trying

(08:47):
to say, and here's what my thinking is, right, So
let's go backwards now talk about the game. How is
your business? So what's going on in your business? What
type of leadership do you do you have in your business?
I believe and you know, I know this. This is
good guy. It's gonna be a bold statement for me

(09:08):
to say that. I'm gonna say this, but here's what
my course. Right. Most companies don't fill because of money,
they fill it because of leadership. Now let's go backwards.
If you're are a destructive leader or even a neutral leader,

(09:28):
and that's maybe about eighty percent of the companies, right
and ten years eighty percent of the companies though, and
it could be money as well. Don't get me wrong, right,
money do have a huge plan that, don't get me
wrong at all. I'm not gonna say it doesn't. But
it's a leadership. An effective leader will find a way
to make things work. An effective leader will find resources or,

(09:53):
as Tony Robbins says, be resourceful to make it happen.
So there's a million dollar questions what type of leadership
are you? Or no? And some people say, well, Doc,

(10:13):
I'm all three and you could be all three. So
let's say you're all three. What is your percentage of effective?
What is your percentage of neutral? And what's your percent
of destructive? So here it goes. If if you're destructive leadership,
it's gonna be a challenge. If you're neutral, we can
always put you to effective, just giving you skill sets
for that. And if you're effective, how effective are you

(10:39):
right from one till it's ten? Then these are the
things you need to ask yourself. And if you run
a company, union ask your management. You may what type
of leaders are is are we? If you guys want
to learn more about it, I'm giving away a free
chapter of my book and you can really get this.
It's really a cool process to go through because what
I always tell people, we have to focus on the

(11:00):
symptoms and then the first time that I always find
out in the company when I'm working with this part
of the book as well. Right, okay, what stage of
the business of that you're in? You know you are
you a startup business? Right in the startup business you
do a little bit different? Or else? Are you? Are you?
Are you in your terrible toos? Can you imagine you're

(11:22):
in the terrible toos, You don't have no identity, you
say no to everything, you think you can do everything,
you're worrying about ten thousand hats, or if you're a teenager,
you're cocky. You're again, I don't need this shit, right,
I can do it on my own. Interesting, you know,
it's like having a sixteen year old kid with two
million dollars. Do you think you can tell them anything?

(11:42):
You probably can? Or are you a young adult or
are your maturity see young adult of maturity? People guess
you're figuring. I don't want to figure out this stuff.
I went through all this doom and gloom. Let me
have something else do it for you? So where are
you at? First we focus on that, right, then focus
on on where you're at. But then we folks said, okay,
what is the symptoms of your business? How's your leadership?

(12:07):
How's your culture? We go on the o'hannoway. It was trained,
that was done by salesforce. We have a master o'hannoway
named Scott Conway Man. Scott's a bad guy, man guy,
He's a bad boy. He's sixty five books so far,
all on different conceptions and strategies. Genius guy. He's a

(12:28):
j D. He's a pH d, and he's a grand master.
He's a grand master in martial arts. He's a jd
in business and real estate, and his PhD is for
online ministry. So he'll assume you, he pray for you,
and he'll beat you up. Right. But but he writes

(12:49):
said on more of the o'hanaway to leave you with this.
Are you the villain, the victim or the hero? Let's
even take it a step further. What's your business? Does
your business have the victim mentality meaning your staff members,

(13:10):
or do you have some villains as managers that wants
to retel you retaliate, or do you have the hero mentality?
The hero always make it better. The hero is really
an effective leader, working on themselves and wanting to make
it better. So even that chapter is phenomenal. Right, So

(13:31):
what I'm trying to say is listen to me, my
numb one, go with so, have you guys go further faster?
Have you guys have strategies? And everything else I've And
I was the book enough for almost maybe two months
or so. We got about thirteen fourteen testimonies and got
all five stars and they love the book because the
book is really fiction non fiction. The book is tight.

(13:53):
So anyway, listen to me, guys. That's my assessment of
the game. I watched the game tonight when Florida play Houston.
I've never s I. I've watched the distant pieces of
Florida half the game. It's gonna be interesting cause now
in Houston have a momentum and these guys, I it
is gonna be a dog fight. It's gonna be literally

(14:14):
a dog fight. So it's gonna be a a great
uh nca uh games tomorrow, and guys, I want you
to have a phenomenal day. UH will leave the link
on the bottom and we'll go through there, guys, until
next time. Guys, again, thank you so much for actually
uh listening to me. I was I started coming back
during my during my motivation on Monday. I think it's uh.

(14:37):
It's uh I liked on my podcast. My podcast is
a phenomenal fan and I've been uh doing other things.
But since the books are already out and done and
doing extremely well, my next step now and is a
New York best seller, different marketing strategy, but hopefully by
the grace of guy will get that done by yuah
by the end of the year sooner. Alright, guys, intil

(14:58):
next time, take care and God bless everybody. Oh yeah,
and my website is uh doctor Johnoda dot com, so
it's d R J O h N O d A
dot com. Guys, until next time, take care and blessings.
Bye for now.