Why Your Business Can Only Grow as Far as Your Leadership | Jacquie Drake

Send us Fan MailWhat happens when the business is capable of growing further — but the owner’s leadership is not?In this episode, Peter Boolkah speaks with leadership-development specialist Jacquie Drake, founder of the Praxis Centre for Leadership Development, about what changes when an entrepreneur moves from building the business personally to leading other people.Jacquie argues that leadership starts with the individual.You cannot force people to follow you.They choose to.And that means leaders need to develop authenticity, self-awareness, vulnerability, vision and the ability to create other leaders throughout the organisation.You'll discover:Why leadership starts with the person at the topWhy people choose whether or not to follow youHow vulnerability can strengthen rather than weaken leadershipWhy entrepreneurs often need more structure as the business growsWhat corporate leaders and entrepreneurs can learn from one anotherWhy command-and-control leadership becomes less effectiveHow strong leaders create more leaders instead of more followersWhy future-focused leadership matters in fast-changing marketsThe role of coaching, peer groups and masterminds in leadership developmentWhy leadership is a lifelong learning processHow the owner’s leadership capability can become the ceiling on the businessA business can have enormous potential.But if the leader stays stuck, the organisation often stays stuck with them.Your business cannot continually grow beyond your ability to lead it.CONNECT WITH PETER BOOLKAHWebsite: https://www.boolkah.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boolkahInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pboolkah/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BoolkahX: https://twitter.com/boolkahABOUT PETER BOOLKAHPeter Boolkah is a business coach, author and speaker who has spent more than 20 years helping business owners build stronger, more valuable businesses that do not depend on them for everything.He is the creator of The Hamster Wheel Trap® and author of Your Business Sucks: Build a Business That Works Without Destroying Your Life.Peter works with founders and leadership teams on the issues that ultimately determine whether a business creates freedom or becomes another job: leadership, founder dependency, people, profit, execution, scaling, exit readiness and enterprise value.His approach is direct, practical and built around one simple question:Do you own the business, or does the business own you?Learn more at https://www.boolkah.com