5Five Circles of Influence

The way to liberation is to allow the invasiveness of the journey or process. To become a leader worth following you must focus on every area of your life and that is usually the most difficult thing to do. Becoming a person worthy of following means that you must look inward into the mirror and make significant changes in areas that you didn’t think you would need to. It is a hard journey, which is why so many leaders stay at the lower levels.

—Pattye Moore, Chairman of the Board, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and former President, Sonic

To become a 100X leader—a person worth following—you must change the patterns that come from your default tendencies as you acclimate to higher levels of leading and change your patterns of abdication, domination, or protection to move to liberation. This must occur in every circle of life, not just at work.

Geologically, the depth of the valley defines the height of the mountain. If you want to go high, you must first go deep.

If you want to go high, you must first go deep.

Five Circles of Influence

When most people think about getting better at leading people they normally think about leading people at work. And yet, we have found that if you don’t include self-leadership or family leadership then you will never truly fulfill your true potential or function at the higher levels of influence.

In the Industrial Age, before the digital revolution, the mindset of the leader was far more compartmentalized than it ...

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