Teach – Don't Preach
Grasshopper Notes Podcast

Teach – Don't Preach

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 13, 20263 min
  • Relationships & psychology

Send us Fan Mail You can preach leadership, but if you don't own the skills yet, you'll have few, if any, followers. Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. Find the written versions of these podcasts on John's podcasting site: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1628038 "The Grasshopper" is the part of you that whispers pearls of wisdom that seem to pop into your mind from out of the blue. John's essays and...

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The title of this mini-podcast is Teach, Don't Preach. We hear the word leader tossed around in sports, business, politics, and just about every other walk of life. And every now and then we hear someone described as a born leader. I've never bought into that idea.

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I suspect leaders aren't born. They're taught, usually by other leaders. We learn leadership by watching someone who knows how to lead. And here's something worth remembering.

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Good leaders don't preach leadership. They teach it by example. You can usually spot the wannabe leaders by the lack of people following them. They try and look and act like someone they're not, hoping people will buy into the image.

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