Sep 12, 2023
Transcript:
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Welcome back to the Founders Sandbox. This is Brenda McCabe and I'm
joining you actually from Spain, where I'll be for a couple
of weeks. This is my back to school message oh for the
listeners of the Founders Sandbox. The back to school for me was
actually going back to the first
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episode of the Founders Sandbox, which is my intro to the Founders
Sandbox. I was delighted to really see a year into the Founders
Sandbox that I continued to be on point with the three
tenants of the type of work I do with company owners as they build
a scalable, resilient and purpose driven company.
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There's three tenants are fit for purpose, really working
towards your true north. What makes you get up in the
morning, it's really building this purposeful driven company. The
second tenant is poised for growth. It's about scalability.
And only if you have the lights on, the refrigerator
full, can you keep on point and build that scale into your
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your company. And the third is that of resilience that's
working with the resources that you have with an agility and
adaptability in accordance with the stage of growth. Let's talk a
little bit about Fit for Purpose, Purpose Driven. ah The reading
I've done over the summer, and I read a lot and share some of
the books and quotes. A lot of my guests on the Founder
Sandbox share books that they've also
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been inspired with by. My leadership style is one inspired by the
servant leadership uh term, which was coined by Robert Greenleaf
back in the 70s. I was first introduced to him during grad
school. And the servant leader model for me is if one is
successful as a servant leader, he or she will be able to
answer
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Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served,
become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely
themselves to become servants? And in addition to my reading of the
servant leadership book back in, I read it in I guess 2000, it was
a book that was written in 1970, Servant Leadership by Robert
Greenleaf.
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I was delighted to also see that in recent research oh by McKinsey
Company, the search for purpose at work, and that what really
discovered after interviewing the new cohort of employees
coming into McKinsey Company, that purpose is very personal and
companies can play a critical role.
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and how one expresses their purpose. But the search for
purpose at work and purpose being personal, I would wage that
the sum of individual purposes may create great enterprises. And I
would argue that the corporations that use a servant leadership
model, as inspired by Robert Greenleaf, will be
attracting the talent
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of the workforce today. So signing off and I'm thankful
for you to join me in the second season of the Founder's Sandbox.
Thank you.