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So when people see the leader modeling a vision,

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they're living it out, and then they cast a vision,

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guess what, it has authenticity on it.

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It has what we call spiritual authority on it

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because that person's already living it.

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They're living out the vision

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that they're casting a vision for.

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When I graduated from University of Georgia,

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I was 22 years old, and immediately I went with an organization

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where I had to go out and raise up my own salary,

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raise up my own funds to live.

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So I quickly learned how to make phone calls,

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close the call, share my vision of what I was gonna be doing,

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and asking people for money.

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And that sounds crazy, but that's what I did,

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and I loved it.

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I really had fun doing that,

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and then later become a missionary to Japan.

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Spent almost 10 years in Japan while in America,

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and then in Japan, had the privilege of starting

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a lot of different leadership teams,

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both on the university campuses in America,

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but also university campuses in Tokyo, Japan,

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as well as Okinawa, Japan.

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And then coming back to the United States

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and running a Bible Institute.

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So I was challenged to start a Bible Institute

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with the Association of Vineyard Churches.

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Vineyard was a kind of quasi-Jesus movement denomination in the 90s,

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and they're still around today,

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but I worked with the Vineyard Bible Institute

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and became the director of that.

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Had to develop a team, had to build a team.

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And then here in Colorado Springs,

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started a church in 1994,

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and that church grew into the thousands,

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a multimillion-dollar budget.

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And then 10 years ago,

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started the road at Chapel Hills in Colorado Springs,

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crossed town from the other church,

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and this church has grown into the thousands

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and has a multimillion-dollar budget.

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Now, all of that, everything that I've done,

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involved maximizing the impact of the vision

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that God had given through building teams.

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And so that's what I wanna talk about today.

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I wanna talk about the building of teams

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with organic leadership,

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because there's a lot of people with a lot of vision.

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I mean, visions and dreams that people have

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in nonprofits, Christian world, corporate world,

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business world, are a dime a dozen.

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There's so many.

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But very few actually get carried out,

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mainly because the leader of the vision

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doesn't know how to develop a team around him or her.

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And so they're only as good as how much stamina they have

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and how much weight of responsibility

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they can carry on their shoulders as a lone wolf.

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I call them lone wolf leadership.

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I'm not talking about that here, though.

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I'm talking about where you build teams,

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you're not on your own, but you've got a clear vision,

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and you have the ability to invite people into that vision

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and they desire to follow you.

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So that's how we build a team.

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So how do we do that?

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How does an organic leader build a team?

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Number one, model the vision.

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Number one, model a vision that God's given.

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A leader is the first person of the vision.

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Jesus modeled what he was building, Matthew 4.18.

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And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee,

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saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother,

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casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

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Then he said to them,

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follow me and I will make you fishers of men.

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They immediately left their nets and they followed him.

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Going on from there, he saw two other brothers,

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James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother,

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in the boat with Zebedee, their father, mending their nets.

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He called them, and immediately they left the boat

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and their father, and they followed him.

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And Jesus went about all Galilee,

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teaching in their synagogues,

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preaching the gospel of the kingdom,

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and healing all kinds of sickness

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and all kinds of disease among the people.

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Then his fame went throughout all Syria,

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and they brought to him all the sick people

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who were afflicted with various diseases and torments,

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and those who were demon-possessed,

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epileptics and paralytics, and he healed them all.

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So Jesus called these early disciples

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to come and follow him, but he was modeling something.

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He was modeling what the kingdom of God looks like,

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not just teaching, but he was also modeling.

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He was healing the sick.

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He was casting out demons.

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He was moving through village after village,

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preaching the kingdom and proclaiming the kingdom,

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and then demonstrating the kingdom to them.

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So the number one.

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Most important aspect of organic leadership is modeling, doing what you want your vision to do.

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And that's the first and the best example of this is always the leader himself.

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Unless you want to be called a hypocrite or you want to constantly be in turmoil on your team,

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you've got to be the model of it.

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So the character of the leader through modeling the vision is vitally important.

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That's what Jesus did.

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So they had no idea what they were...

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He just said, come and follow me.

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I want you to notice that.

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He said, come and follow me.

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So the very first thing that the disciples were called to was not a vision,

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but to the leader himself.

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They were called to follow Jesus.

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So often in organic leadership, that's the first thing is the actual gifting of the leader.

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Do you realize people don't follow you because of your vision?

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They follow you because of you.

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They follow the leader.

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They follow the gifting of that leader.

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So he has to embody that vision.

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And so if you have someone who says, come and follow me,

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and they're constantly lying, cheating, messing around,

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who cares what their vision is?

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Nobody's going to follow that person.

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And so it's the actual character of that person modeling what they believe that really, really matters.

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So that's number one.

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When I talk about organic leadership, I mean organic character.

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I mean a leader who's modeling the integrity that he believes in.

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He's calling people to himself first.

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And so in every church I've planted, in every ministry I've started,

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people came initially because they wanted to be with me.

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In other words, we became friends.

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I was modeling something that they wanted to be around.

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Well, number two follows.

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And I'd say in most of your books that you read on leadership,

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they would say that my number two is their number one.

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And they would say, cast the vision.

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I'm making that number two.

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Cast the vision.

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So there's a vision to be given to others about where this ship is going,

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where this company is going, where this church is going.

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Cast the vision.

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But listen, the first one I said was model the vision.

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So I happen to believe in organic leadership that modeling is more important than casting.

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So when people see the leader modeling a vision, they're living it out,

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and then they cast the vision, guess what?

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It has authenticity on it.

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It has what we call spiritual authority on it because that person's already living it.

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They're living out the vision that they're casting a vision for.

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If you're excited about this vision, like even take Empower You.

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Empower You, this ministry that we started, we model that by being excited about it.

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And we start showing some of the testimonies that we have and the podcasts that we've done

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and the series that we're promoting.

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And we always pick people here at Empower You, which are people that actually model that well.

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So we are pretty picky and choosy about who we have doing shows on Empower You

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because they have to be living it out.

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They have to be modeling it in their lives.

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So we've got some terrific teachers that could be doing a series on Empower You,

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but for various reasons, we don't necessarily see them modeling what they're talking about.

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So it's really important to model it first, but then second, cast the vision.

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Jesus said, come and follow me.

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So his is unique in that he's calling people into kingdom of God salvation,

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but he's showing them what it looks like.

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It's healing the sick.

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It's casting out demons.

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It's demonstrating the kingdom of God to others.

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Organic leadership, living, growing, vital, dynamic leadership is, first of all, model the vision.

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Be the vision.

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Be the vision.

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But then secondly, cast the vision.

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You got to share what the vision is.

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And when I started all the ministries in Tokyo and then all the ministries in Okinawa

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and then planted the Vineyard Bible Institute in Southern California

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and then planted my first church, Mountain Springs Church, here in Colorado Springs.

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And then 10 years ago, the road at Chapwell's.

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I cast a vision and I modeled that vision.

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That's organic leadership.

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You know why that works?

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Here's why it works.

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It truly comes from the heart of the leader.

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He's not grandstanding.

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He's not posing.

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He's not creating something to please the people.

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So that's why I'm calling it organic leadership.

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It's not contrived.

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It's not programmatic.

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It comes from the leader.

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You're around someone who calls themselves a leader

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and they say they're this, over here,

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this is the vision or this is what we believe in,

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but you observe in their life

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something completely different over here.

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Man, book it out of that organization yesterday

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because you've got a situation

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that's gonna eventually crumble

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because it has to be in the heart of the leader.

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He's modeling it because it's truly in him.

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So that's really key.

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And so in my next episode,

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I want to give you three more aspects

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of this building a team with organic leadership.