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Leila Hormozi discusses the iceberg illusion of leadership and the unseen responsibilities of leaders.

Receive the unfiltered memos I send my team as we scale Acquisition.com to $1B+: https://leilahormozi.com/subscribe Don't judge your boss by what you see, because their most important responsibilities are not necessarily visible. In this episode, Leila breaks down the iceberg illusion of leadership and why an employee might be oblivious to 90% of the work that's done by their leader. And entrepreneurs must train their team members to think, decide, and act like owners. In this episode 00:00 How empathy for a boss can change career trajectory 02:00 The iceberg illusion of leadership 04:29 Leadership lessons from Phil Jackson’s triangle offense 05:56 Delegating decisions vs. delegating tasks 08:26 Scheduling absence and training replacements More Value: Get your personalized $100m scaling roadmap: https://www.acquisition.com/roadmap Read the unfiltered memos I send my team as we scale Acquisition.com to $1B+: https://leilahormozi.com/subscribe Receive a curated set of internal memos from the past year at Acquisition.com: https://leilahormozi.com/acq Watch my latest YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@leilahormozi/featured Learn how to scale your business to millions of dollars…

People in this episode

Host: Leila Hormozi

Topics covered

• leadership
• entrepreneurship
• team training
• decision making
• empathy

Keywords

• leadership
• iceberg illusion
• team training
• decision making
• Phil Jackson

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Acquisition.com

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