Jaakko as a leader at what point am I allowed to go to others and say I need you because I recognize I’m not capable of pushing toward forward on my own or should that be an instance where I need to take a step back and apply more discipline to my life and find a way to push forward by myself okay you are allowed to say that to your team member immediately that you need them absolutely if you of course you need your team because if you didn’t need your team why would they be there yeah if you if you can do everything yourself then you don’t have a team Yeah right you just do everything yourself so while you of course should be working hard you should be applying discipline as a leader it’s your job to actually lead things and to let other people support and make things happen and there’s nothing wrong with that you and also you don’t want to be stuck in the weeds doing my new thing so if you’re not capable I think what might be holding this individual back there’s two things number one is I feel like I should take extreme ownership of everything yeah I feel like I should do everything myself that is not what extreme ownership is extremely tough isn’t doing everything yourself and also what can come into play is your ego because you don’t wanna ask people for help and that’s not a good sign there’s nothing wrong with asking people for help if you need it in fact that’s the humble thing to do hey echo I don’t know how to quite finish out this you know this thing of this project Morgan how can you give me a hand with this I don’t know how to work a video recorder can you show me how to do that right whatever so there’s no problem with that you’re allowed to ask you can you can say that immediately in fact your team should feel that you are counting on them and relying on them they should know that and then put your ego aside ask for help no problem that doesn’t mean you’re giving away that doesn’t mean you’re not taking ownership that doesn’t mean you’re not applying discipline it means you’re working as a team together to accomplish mission again if a if a mission is so easily that you can accomplish it yourself you don’t need a team why do you have them hmm if you can do it all yourself just by applying discipline cool you don’t need anyone else if you’re you but your mission should be larger than one human being can accomplish so that’s why you have other people on board to help you out yeah no problem you know like I always think wouldn’t one that I thought we made it out of that question go ahead no but you know I like let’s say it’s like something that’s just a pain in the ass and you don’t really need help but you just don’t want to do about yourself ok well then yeah the need then you gotta do that yourself ah yes yeah yeah so that’s kind of where this is coming from ultimately because it’s like I’m not saying that if you’re the if you’re if you have a position in a company where you shouldn’t be doing some sort of task because it’s not financially efficient to have you know a person that’s making a a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year doing a task that someone that’s making $10 an hour should be doing mm-hmm so you shouldn’t do that that’s not what I’m advocating and a company won’t won’t be doing well yeah if you’re paying people a hundred fifty thousand dollars a year that you could get someone to do for $10 an hour I’m not saying that mmm so don’t get me wrong yeah but that’s why we have a team so that you can focus on going forward and whatever it is you need to be focused on and somebody that’s below you in the chain of command that’s a member of your team that’s getting paid $10 an hour can do some of the stuff that you needed me to do yeah yeah and the the question actually is really clear because it’s because quote-unquote because I recognize I’m not capable of pushing you know it’s kind of like it’s obvious to you that you need help it’s not that you’re you know raking leaves and I don’t want to do this all by myself so hey you know you tell your brother come help me it’s not that it’s different yeah and if you need to get the leaves raked and and you need them done by Monday so you can get them in the bags so that the dump truck can come and take the leaves away mm-hm and you can’t physically get it done then you’re you say to your brother hey can you give me Hannah do you get these done tonight before the Sun Goes Down yeah I’m walking able to make it in time can you give me a hand yeah your brother says absolutely yeah doctor back
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