hey Welcome to our YouTube leadership Community I would love to know where you’re watching from just drop it in the comment section I’m watching from wherever and as you’re telling us that I want to intro our talk for today and tell you if you’re leading anything this will be one of the most important talks that you ever hear but I promise you you’re not going to want to hear it the title of today’s message is the one mindset you need to succeed now no matter where you are you’re going to feel like I’m stepping on your toes and

just so you know I’m stepping on my toes too what I want to do is preface this by telling you that some of what I’m going to say today may sound critical or judgmental but I promise you I am not criticizing or judging I’m just addressing one of the biggest problems that every leader in every organization faces over time so first I’m going to show you the problem then we’re going to look at the solution the problem one of the biggest problems with the problem is that most leaders don’t know it’s a problem I kind of sound like Dr

Seuss but this is true the big problem is people don’t know this is a problem and if they do recognize the problem they usually don’t care until it’s almost too late or too difficult to solve so what is the problem here is the problem and it’s a big problem the problem is the odds are low that what but you’re leading will last let me say it again the odds they’re very low that whatever you’re leading now will last for years and years to come now how’s that for a downer uh way to start a podcast it’s not fun but it’s absolutely

true whatever you’re doing now this working it is less likely to work in the hands of future generations and this is well documented in business and in families who’ve worked hard to create wealth let’s talk about it today in terms of what I’m going to call Generations gen 1 gen two and gen 3 we’re going to talk about it in terms of generations I’m not referring to gen Z and Millennials and Gen X and Boomers and such I’m not talking about age what I’m talking about is mindset and we’re going to look at three different

Generations when it comes to Leading and organization let’s talk first of all about gen one who is Gen one gen one would be the leaders who build the business from the ground up build the church uh start the nonprofit they are the first generation leaders that build something special that’s gen one then there are some of you you’re gen two you entered the business or you entered the nonprofit relatively early and you got to see some of what it took to build it you contributed to it but you didn’t start it you’re not gen one you’re gen

two then there’s gen three over time most people in most older organizations are gen 3 or Gen 4 they entered late and they didn’t have the blessings of seeing what it took to actually build the organization gen one starts it gen two comes in a little later and appreciates it gen 3 comes in even later and doesn’t necessarily understand what it took to get there but they come in with a lot of Blessings Now why are we talking about this what is the problem well the bad news is that only 12% % of businesses make it to the third generation I want