The Daily Dose #305 | What Do You Do That Only You Can Do? With Dan from A Thousand Feet Deep

Most leaders stay flat out doing work that someone else on the team could do, while the work only they can do never gets touched. That gap sits at the centre of this conversation.Az sits down with Dan from A Thousand Feet Deep, the culture and leadership business he leans on most, to work through a question that sounds simple and turns out to be the hardest one a leader can answer. What do you do that only you can do?They get into the difference between chasing symptoms and finding the root cause, why leadership is influence before it is anything else, and why a core purpose keeps shifting as a business moves through seasons. Dan makes the case that culture is how you do what you do, not smiling faces and a beer on a Friday, and that the strongest cultures are forged rather than left to evolve. The Penrith Panthers and the Melbourne Storm are his proof, clubs that kept winning while losing their best players every year because the standard lived in the system instead of one or two people.It is also an unusually honest episode. Az is candid about feeling stuck, unmotivated and unsure of his next move, including the three weeks he spent building things that were never his job to build. If you're busy but going backwards, this one names the problem and points to a way through.Sponsor:This episode of the Good Builder Podcast is proudly supported by MyConstruct, the job and client management platform built by Australian builders for Australian builders. Visit https://myconstruct.com/ for your 30-day trial.