Season 1 · Episode 3
Avoid These Mistakes: Our Hard-Earned Lessons
Tod and Jake revisit hard-earned lessons and the mistakes they would rather help the next leader avoid.
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The conversation
HostsTod Reed and Jake Laban
The mistakes that damage a team rarely begin as dramatic failures. They begin as blurred boundaries, unclear expectations, unrecognized effort, and small leadership habits left uncorrected.
Tod Reed and Jake Laban share seven common leadership mistakes and the hard-earned lessons they have learned from making, witnessing, and correcting them.
They explore how these behaviors affect trust, morale, accountability, and performance, along with what leaders can do differently.
Strong leadership is not about never making mistakes. It is about recognizing them, taking responsibility, and changing how you lead.
Every leader will make mistakes. The difference is whether they defend those mistakes or learn from them.
Leadership isn’t a title. It’s a decision.