#412: Leadership Blind Spots — What Growth Requires

i like that a lot because when we talk about blind spots um it's something that you're unaware of and oftentimes it's in a strength area of yours.

And so I'm thinking about even, I'm thinking about for me, there are times a blind spot for me would be to run meetings and they are way too highly relational for those meetings.

And they're not as productive as they potentially need to be.

I thought it was a great meeting.

And so I just keep doing that.

And I lead that way.

I tell people, the way we would say this in some of our training would be, we all have superpowers.

You do have a superpower, something you just do better than others.

But on the backside of every superpower is a blind spot.

So to his point, Chris, one of his superpowers is highly relational people guy.

And it's one of mine as well.

And we're very dangerous together.

He's right.

His superpower to come in and have a meeting where you feel like we are all connected.

We all love each other.

This is fantastic.

We got nothing done.

How did that happen? Because on the backside of your blind spot, your blind spot on your backside of your superpower is I didn't realize I was not getting down to business to do that.

What do you mean we had to shut the doors? I loved hanging out with those people.

Well, you and I have scheduled a 30-minute meeting, spent 27 minutes kibitzing about what our sons are doing and how we're having it, our kids and our wife.

And then we say, gosh, that was a pretty meeting.

We need to schedule another meeting because we only have three minutes

left.

Yeah.

And so I've had some people in my life that have helped coach through that.