Leadership lesson: define and model behavior down to the smallest detail

0:00I just need you to be a better leader. Like, that doesn't help anyone cuz they're like, obviously if I knew what to do, I would do it, right? John Wooden started with how to put your socks on is cuz it has to be at the most granular level. Vince Lombardi would begin every every season with this is a football. Then when you take it to that place, you get six points. Like, they would define reality from the ground up. You have to define what good looks like, and that's how you have to define it in observable terms. Once you define it, then you have to model that behavior. So, Gandhi has a famous story where a mother comes to him and says, "Hey, can you get my kid to stop eating candy?" And he says, "Sure, come back to me in 30 days." And so, she comes back to him in 30 days, and he looks at the kid and he says, "Stop eating candy." And she's like, "Why did that take you 30 days?" He's like, "Well, I was eating candy before, now I'm not." So, there it is. Like, you have to model behavior in order for people to follow.