Oct 15, 2026 · 19 min · 8 segments
Originally recorded for Wednesday, October 14, 2026 - Scott and Mikey discuss the topic found in this morning's Admired Leadership Field Notes entry - What Makes Leadership So Complex? Read the Field…
Oftentimes there is a paradox that is trying to be solved-
... and it is oftentimes solved with an admired leadership behavior-
... that we're, we're trying to figure out one thing or another.
And I was in a room a couple weeks ago where people were asking specifically, "Where do most admired leadership...
When you, when you talk to people who regularly demonstrate these behaviors-
... where is it that they come from?" And I think we've mentioned sometime in the last week and a half or so that many times they say, "Well, the reason that I started practicing this behavior is because-
...
I felt the sting of people doing it badly, and I-
... did never want to do that." And so the...
what we're really looking at there is a paradox between I want to behave excellently, but many-
... people who are leaders in my life sacrifice their relationship with me by forcing an excellent behavior, like how to perform well-
... at the heart of, like, just-
... leaving off the relationship side of it.
And so what I really wanted to figure out is, is there a way for me to maintain relationship while still performing excellence? And even as you-
... read through some of these paradoxes that we've got in the first five, that notion is in the middle of each one of them.
Oftentimes there is a paradox that is trying to be solved-
... and it is oftentimes solved with an admired leadership behavior-
... that we're, we're trying to figure out one thing or another.
And I was in a room a couple weeks ago where people were asking specifically, "Where do most admired leadership...
When you, when you talk to people who regularly demonstrate these behaviors-
... where is it that they come from?" And I think we've mentioned sometime in the last week and a half or so that many times they say, "Well, the reason that I started practicing this behavior is because-
...
I felt the sting of people doing it badly, and I-
... did never want to do that." And so the...
what we're really looking at there is a paradox between I want to behave excellently, but many-
... people who are leaders in my life sacrifice their relationship with me by forcing an excellent behavior, like how to perform well-
... at the heart of, like, just-
... leaving off the relationship side of it.
And so what I really wanted to figure out is, is there a way for me to maintain relationship while still performing excellence? And even as you-
... read through some of these paradoxes that we've got in the first five, that notion is in the middle of each one of them.
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