Leadership and management, marketing, human resources, operations and
processes, and then metrics and dashboards.
This is what I find myself using all the time, and this is what I find that I've
used consistently throughout my own growth and my own journey as an entrepreneur.
Okay, so the first skill that we wanna talk about is leadership and management.
And I've just fooled you basically cuz yes, these are two different skills.
Those who are leaders and those who are managers.
And honestly, very rarely do you find a single individual who exemplifies both.
You might be a bit more of a leader and struggle with management.
You might be a better manager and struggle with leadership.
I don't care which one it is,
if you're gonna be an entrepreneur you've got to start operating in both.
The one that comes naturally to you, great.
The other one, you're going to have to put time, effort.
You're going to have to read up on it, learn more, try harder, okay.
It's hard to be an entrepreneur.
It's hard to create a corporation,
a profitable competing business entity out of nothing, and you're going to need to be
on your game both in terms of leadership and in terms of management.
What I want to talk about here is, I want to just introduce you to what
I believe is the fundamental difference between the two.
And the way that we use leadership, and the way that we use management.
So what I've done is I've come up with this little graph.
It's a 3D graph that kind of shows what I believe happens with leadership,
and what I believe happens with management.
And in the graph, what you will see is we have two different kinds of change.
We have directional change and we have resource change.
When I say directional change,
it doesn't necessarily mean doing something completely different,
going in a completely new direction, although it can, okay.
But directional change is when we shift the course, primarily of where we're
going, and that is one of the fundamental skills of a leader.
There's an old saying, right, you think you're a leader,
you wonder if you're a leader.
Look behind you, see if anybody's following.
If nobody's following, you're not leading, therefore the opposite is true.
If you look behind you, and
you see people following, you have people following you, you are leading.
So what a leader does is a leader actually affects directional change.
Now, while that happens, while a leader affects directional change,
there's almost always a change in the utilization of resources, or
the types of resources utilized.
So, leaders do affect resource change, but their primary