what I know about you as a leader is you care about your mission and the people you lead but what if I told you it’s possible to care too much your care can actually become counterproductive the title of today’s episode is the cost of not letting go hey it’s great to have you back for another episode of the Craig Rell leadership podcast our mission is to help you become a leader that people love to follow and we’re going to work really really really hard to bring you content each month that helps you grow in your leadership if you’re new to our

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church or if you’re on YouTube you can ask a question in the comment section and I look forward to uh hearing your questions and answering those in an episode soon now let’s dive into new content today today we’re going to talk about some counterintuitive leadership ideas if you’re relatively new to leading you likely Embrace some common leadership misconceptions I’ll give you three these are three beliefs that I used to have and three common misconceptions I see in newer leaders number one we tend to think that to grow bigger you must do

more number two to lead better you must get closer number three to lead bigger you have to know more to grow bigger you must do more to lead better you must get closer to lead bigger you have to know more remember these are common misconceptions and the reason that these things are easy to believe is because there is some truth in them for example uh early on to grow bigger you do have to work harder you do have to do more than other people to go farther to impact more you need to be handson you need to care about your mission to lead

bigger you do need to know a lot about a lot of different things but what seemingly necessary early will inevitably limit your leadership later let me let me say it again whatever you think you really have to do early on if you don’t change the way you think it will limit your leadership later which seemingly necessary early will inevitably limit your leadership later I’ll try to explain it this way in Jiu-Jitsu if you don’t know what Jiu-Jitsu is if you’re watching MMA whenever the fighters drop to the ground

and start rolling around each other that’s Jiu-Jitsu um in Jiu-Jitsu there’s a saying whoever controls the distance controls the fight whoever controls the distance controls the fight for example an inexperienced Fighter um might be preparing to defend himself or herself and they may stand one or two uh feet away from the opponent the problem is if you’re a couple of feet away from the opponent you are within Striking Distance your attacker can strike you with a fist an elbow a knee a foot a headbutt or whatever so an experienced