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707. Invisible Leadership: The Responsibility of Influence in a Noisy World (Rerun) · Daily Influence

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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to Daily Influence, your daily dose of positive influence.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm Brian Smith founder of IA Business Advisors and co-author of the Iain team series.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, everybody, Brian Smith here with the I'm team series and your daily influence today.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I am going to tackle invisible leadership and how we as a society have now accepted this idea that there is this title or this job.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's called influencer.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes it's just that other times
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  [SPEAKER_01]: influence motive is and it's become for me a talking point a lot because I find it somewhat disheartening and also disturbing how certain individuals and not just a few a lot of individuals can hold so much power, so much so-called authority over other humans when they're not really qualified
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  [SPEAKER_01]: have the influence they have.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm talking in generalized terms, but we have to in this instance.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When we have sports figures, actors, actresses, politicians who are swaying decisions on things that they have no education and no foundational knowledge and just opinions.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And when they are influencing people to make decisions and to do things,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's highly irresponsible and it goes against everything that we believe in here at the iM team series, which is quite frankly positive and responsible influence.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The core of what we do is our belief that a human's biggest responsibility is the influence they have within any specific area of influence that they find themselves.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And when we look around, we can find great examples of people who are positive and responsible, but we can find far more where people aren't because remember true influence comes from credibility, consistency, and an ability to connect with others.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But when we go too far as when we think of somebody like LeBron James or Mr.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Beast who influences millions of people because of the way they play a sport or because of the altruistic or entertainment value they bring to us and all of the sudden their opinion on politics health safety carries more weight than professionals who have spent their lives building an influencing
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's interesting to see humans lean into these things.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's interesting to see how shallow we can be as humans as we're influenced by these influencers and how we allow ourselves to be swayed to believe something.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Something that we are wholly ignorant of, we will take the word of somebody who themselves are likely just as ignorant as we are.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: but we believe them because they have a following and they are credible and consistent within a certain aspect of their lives, basketball, media, entertainment.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But we forget that there's this huge gap and we also assume that just because they have that influence that they would be responsible with it, that they would get educated properly, that they wouldn't uncontextually tell us things yet they do.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And when they do, they are amazingly irresponsible.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's why we lean in to and challenge everybody to apply smart to what we hear.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Look, we're all influenced every day by things that go on around us all around and all the time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And the only way for us to get centered in this bombardment of information data that we drink from a fire hose, quite frankly,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: How we get our data is so fast and so much and so monumental and the what it does to us is humans from our behavior are emotions what we believe what we disbelieve how we interact with people including friends family yet if you would slow down and apply the framework of smart to what you hear.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: get the specifics, get the measurements, understand if what you're hearing is relevant, or even real, is where they're going, what they're talking about, even attainable.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Question the timeliness of when we get delivered things.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And by applying smart to the things that influence us,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: we may wade through the ambiguity, we may get to the root of what's actually happening, which I would hope might end up being the truth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And look, there is no my truth, your truth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't buy into that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's truth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now there's beliefs and there's opinions.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Opinions can be based in intelligence, but oftentimes opinions are the least form of intelligence.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They are exactly what they sound like.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: opinions are of a single person's viewpoint perspective of whatever they have an opinion on and it doesn't necessarily mean that it's grounded in fact and it is the least valuable intelligence there is.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So leadership's about inspiring action in a positive way, not commanding compliance.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not stirring up the masses to do something that they want them to do.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Through positive communication, positive action, that's what's needed to help individuals make up their own mind without the gaps, without the ambiguity, in a smart framework.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And leaders without authority need to learn how to master the art of persuasion in a way that makes them positive and responsible.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you're going to tell a story, tell the whole story.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: provide the entire example so that people can see contextually what got you through those moments.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And the most impactful figures, I don't care if they're actors, activists, content creators, they don't dictate.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They inspire and they inspire by providing that context, providing that understanding.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I loved what Matthew Mahomes did this year during the political race.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He is
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  [SPEAKER_01]: an amazing influencer and he's probably one of the best football players that will ever know in our time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And he was challenged to share who he was going to vote for and he refused.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I love this statement.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want people to be influenced by what my beliefs are because my beliefs should influence others.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And he didn't do anything to add to anybody else's belief, except in that there is a potential for somebody with massive influence to be amazingly responsible and positive in a situation that splits us, divides us, frustrates us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And this is a man who's surrounded by that frustration.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: whose own spouse can add to that frustration, whose friends add to it, yet he stayed true to his core values.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And in my opinion, took the highest road you can take when you have that level of influence.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So think about where you're at, what you hear, what you believe, how you regurgitated, the emotions you have, and how you allow those emotions to influence others.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: is what I know all there is to know, do I have full context?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Am I overstating something?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But challenge yourself within your core values to hold yourself accountable to not being an influencer in things that you don't fully understand.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and if anybody can challenge you with a smart approach and you can't measure up to a smart challenge, then you failed in that goal.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So hold yourself accountable to that smart framework.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now what will happen is it will uplift everybody.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll begin to have
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  [SPEAKER_01]: positive responsible conversations that not always will end in agreement, but they will at least end in understanding and an understanding is fully contextual and that we can move forward with to come up with solutions and plans and objectives, strategies and tactics to keep us moving forward in a positive and responsible way, not fighting each other, going backwards, threatening
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  [SPEAKER_01]: businesses, individuals, countries.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So I challenge you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Don't be an influencer.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Unless you're going to take that positive and responsible step and be smart about your approach towards your influence.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I hope you had a good listen today and I look forward to talking to you again soon on the daily internet.