The Four Essential Skills for Success with Lucas Root - a podcast by Jessica Sun
from 2020-06-10T10:00:09
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Lucas Root is a speaker, entrepreneur, business success mentor, and founder of SGIC Consulting. His mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses maximize growth. His areas of expertise include business and risk analysis, strategic planning, and team building.
Quotes to remember:
“Each decision has to have an ultimate owner and a person who is ultimately responsible.”
“Leadership is 0% ability and 100% skill.”
Takeaways:
- Communication and leadership are skills, not abilities; anyone can learn them
- Leadership is a skill in which we approach but do not achieve mastery
- The more you build skills in a certain subject, the more you will be drawn to becoming a leader
- Every team wants to succeed and the cost of repeated failure is steep because we take failure personally
- Ego is the most common obstacle in merging companies
- Making communication and feedback “open-source” can radically help a company
- Flatter hierarchies and more empowered and agile teams are a recent trend in company structure
What you’ll learn:
- The four essential skills to success in life and business, specifically sales and marketing
- About emotional listening and how to learn it
- How communication applies to sales
- The difference between leadership and management
- Methods to build our leadership skills
- In high-performing teams, the leader rotates among the group
- Why the lone wolf doesn’t succeed
- About Lucas’ playbook on business strategy and culture
- A unique way to increase engagement and retention in a company
Mentioned on the podcast:
Links:
Further episodes of Guru Please
Further podcasts by Jessica Sun
Website of Jessica Sun