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The Four Essential Skills for Success with Lucas Root

Episode Summary

Get to know the four essential skills to succeed in both business and life with consultant Lucas Root. Learn how anyone can use these principles to alter the trajectory of both their careers and their personal lives.

Episode Notes

Lucas Root is a speaker, entrepreneur, business success mentor, and founder of SGIC Consulting. His mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses maximize growth. His areas of expertise include business and risk analysis, strategic planning, and team building.

Quotes to remember:

“Each decision has to have an ultimate owner and a person who is ultimately responsible.”

“Leadership is 0% ability and 100% skill.”

Takeaways:

Communication and leadership are skills, not abilities; anyone can learn them
Leadership is a skill in which we approach but do not achieve mastery
The more you build skills in a certain subject, the more you will be drawn to becoming a leader
Every team wants to succeed and the cost of repeated failure is steep because we take failure personally
Ego is the most common obstacle in merging companies
Making communication and feedback “open-source” can radically help a company
Flatter hierarchies and more empowered and agile teams are a recent trend in company structure

What you’ll learn:

The four essential skills to success in life and business, specifically sales and marketing
About emotional listening and how to learn it
How communication applies to sales
The difference between leadership and management
Methods to build our leadership skills
In high-performing teams, the leader rotates among the group
Why the lone wolf doesn’t succeed
About Lucas’ playbook on business strategy and culture
A unique way to increase engagement and retention in a company

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