Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast Reverb 23: Andy Answers More of Your Top Leadership Questions
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Jul 14, 2025 Dive into the emotional burdens leaders face, exploring the importance of prioritizing well-being in high-stakes roles. Discover how to maintain your identity by anchoring in core values rather than seeking external validation. Learn about the power of interdependence within teams and the role of gratitude in collaboration. Unconventional insights challenge traditional leadership advice, showcasing intuition's value in decision-making. Finally, strike the right balance between supporting team members and allowing them to grow through their own challenges.
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Let Struggle Build Leadership
- Let your team struggle to learn rather than stepping in to fix everything.
- Step in only rarely to avoid embarrassment and help people grow through evaluation.
Loneliness Is Leadership's Prize
- Leadership inherently feels isolating because it involves unique responsibilities and a lack of peers.
- The loneliness at the top is a consequence and prize of leadership to manage tensions, not a problem to solve.
Identity Should Anchor in Values
- Ground your identity in your values, not your role, job, or reputation.
- Recenter around what truly matters to avoid losing yourself when your career changes.