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Max Lucado - "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcasthero.com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to
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  you by the Great News Podcast because good news should be
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  heard. Find it in your favorite podcast
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  app. And just to make it easy, I've
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  left a link in the show notes. Today's quote is a saying that
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  has been around since at least the 1930s.
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  But it was Max Lucado, best selling Christian author and
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  minister with more than 50 books and 28 million copies in print,
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  who brought it to a global audience through his book.
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  And the angels were silent. The saying goes like this.
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  A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on
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  the crowd. Picture the conductor for a
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  moment, back to the audience, eyes on the musicians,
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  completely turned away from the very people the music is being
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  made for. From the crowd's perspective, it
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  might even look like arrogance, like this missile.
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  But here's what's actually happening.
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  The conductor is not ignoring the crowd.
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  He's serving the crowd by refusing to be distracted by
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  them. This is the paradox of real
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  leadership, and it applies far beyond the concert hall.
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  So many people in leadership spend enormous amounts of time
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  wanting to be in the crowd instead of leading it, because
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  being in the middle of the crowd feels good.
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  The approval, the applause, the sense of belonging.
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  But the moment a leader starts conducting with one eye on the
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  audience, adjusting the tempo based on who's clapping,
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  softening the difficult notes to avoid discomfort, changing
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  direction based on the loudest voices, they stop bleeding and
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  start following. True leadership requires turning
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  your back on the noise of popular opinion long enough to
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  pursue the vision that needs to be brought to life.
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  That doesn't mean ignoring the people you serve.
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  It means caring enough about them to hold the direction even
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  when they're not clapping, even when they're not sure they like
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  what they're hearing. Yet the greatest leaders in
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  history were rarely the most popular ones in the moment.
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  They were the ones who kept their eyes on the musicians and
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  their hands on the baton, even when the crowd was restless.
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  Turn your back on the crowd. Trust in the music.
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  So here's the question. In your own life, your work,
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  your relationships, your goals, are you conducting your own
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  orchestra? Or have you turned around to
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  face the crowd, adjusting your direction based on who's
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  applauding? Because the music you're here to
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  make needs a conductor who's willing to turn around, pick up
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  the baton and lead, even when the crowd hasn't caught up yet.
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  Steve Jobs said people didn't know what they needed until they
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  had it. Until he made it for them.
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  He didn't do a focus group, he didn't ask for advice from
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  consumers. He designed something great and
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  they eventually loved it. That's it for today.
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  I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.