Sep 24, 2026 · 2 min · 2 segments
Send us Fan Mail Episode 16 is here!!!! Most leadership advice tells you how to manage the people below you. Nobody prepares you for what happens…
Preston PooreHost
It's not only you, but then it's the people that are on the team that have the want to, that have the passion, the desire.

I want to be the right kind of leader for whoever finds themselves under my leadership.

It's worth asking yourself, what would I do and love doing even if they didn't pay me? We were traveling to a supplier innovation workshop in North Carolina.

My boss called and told us to take them down, not because there was a crisis, not because a client needed us that day, because she didn't want people to know that we were out of the office.

That was the kind of detail that mattered to her and the kind of detail that slowly drives you out of your mind.

I tell people that three years on that team turned my hair gray, and then I lost it from pulling it out.

But if you've ever worked with someone whose need for control created more problems than it solved, you know the weight that I'm describing.

If you ever had a boss who was the source of the dysfunction that you were trying to fix, or if you didn't know whether to speak up, absorb it, or walk away, this one's for you.

It's not only you, but then it's the people that are on the team that have the want to, that have the passion, the desire.

I want to be the right kind of leader for whoever finds themselves under my leadership.

It's worth asking yourself, what would I do and love doing even if they didn't pay me? We were traveling to a supplier innovation workshop in North Carolina.

My boss called and told us to take them down, not because there was a crisis, not because a client needed us that day, because she didn't want people to know that we were out of the office.

That was the kind of detail that mattered to her and the kind of detail that slowly drives you out of your mind.

I tell people that three years on that team turned my hair gray, and then I lost it from pulling it out.

But if you've ever worked with someone whose need for control created more problems than it solved, you know the weight that I'm describing.

If you ever had a boss who was the source of the dysfunction that you were trying to fix, or if you didn't know whether to speak up, absorb it, or walk away, this one's for you.
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