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Today we're onna dig into a twenty seven hundred year old story about leadership excuses and a very very advised fishing trip that believe it or not has a lot to teach us
I mean it sounds a little strange right
But if
If a ader's hobby could actually signal their downfall
What if his seemingly trivial choice was the first real sign of a much much deeper problem
And know this is not just some dusty old moel
This story comes from classical chinese history
And you know what it holds some incredibly sharp lessons for pretty much anyone in a leadership position today okay
So let's at the scene for this pretty unusual historical moment
So we're in engent china the year in clual teb ce during the joe dynasty
And you gota understand this was a time
When rules
Rituals and a leaders public duties were well
They were everything
There's the same from the time
That the rules were bigger than the sky
That's the kind of world were stepping into alright
So who are the main players here and leay we've got duke in
You can think of him as the acting ceo of the state of luw
Which was much much deeper than this place
And then there's his adviser zananxshibo
He's basically the head of compliance
The guy
Whose job is to make sure
The duke is following all those superstrict rules of leadership
So the whole thing kicks off
When duke in here's about this amazing fishing spectacle happening in a border town called tangue
And he decides
He absolutely has to go see it
Now here's the problem
A rulers time was considered secret
It was all strictly scheduled for super important state duties
You know things like ritual or military strategy
It was definitely not for personal entertainment
No zsazzebo are head of compliance
He jumps right in he basically tells the dulook watching people fish
It would job b fishermen of lower officials
Your job is the big picture
It's strategy going to watch some fishing isn't just a waste of time
It would literally damage the brand damage of our whole state
And this
This is been crucial moment
The duke he's been called out right
But he doesn't just admit
He wants to have some fun
No instead
He comes up with this really flimsy excuse
He's like
Oh
No no no
I'm not going to see the fish
I'm
I'm gonninspect the border yeah right and spoiler elert
He totally ignores the advice and goes anyway
Absolutely not this ancient tale is a perfect i mean perfect case study for some very very modern leadership failures
It's about so much more than just a fishing trip
So the first big lesson here is all about how a leader can misuse their most valuable resource
Their time
This brings us to this fascinating concept called strategic laziness
So what is that
It's when a leader looks really busy
I mean they're doing
Stuff
They're active
But thethey're really doing is focusing on all these small easy tasks to avoid the much much harder work of big picture strategy and making tough decisions
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And the deep logic here is that a leaders time is the single most expensive asset and organization has so when aceo is busy say personally correcting the font on a powpoint slide or in this case watching fishermen
They are actively avoiding their real job
They're using what looks like ddgeous to cover up for being strategically lazy
But the ducks actions didn't just waste his own time
Oh No
They basically poison in the welfare everyone else
And at least to something really dangerous and excuse culture
You know the duke excuse in specting the border
It's just an ancient version of something we see all the time today right just think of a manager who tries to package their personal vacation as a mandatory team building exercise just so the company will pay for it
Everybody sees right through it
And it just feels well growth
And when a leader starts making these kinds of fake dicengenuous excuses the consequences are always severe trust just evaporacredibility
Completely collapses
Synnism starts to spread like a viruruit's preprety
Soon the acactual rules start a little totmeananless or right finally ally this story has a brilliant lesson
And it's not just for leaders
But for anyone
And i mean anyone who's ever had to give difficult advice to someone in power
It's about he was why
Why zzzzble failed
Even though he was one hundred percent corsson
And used a really ineffective method
He just argued based on the rules
And much much more effective approach is to give the person a face saving way out a better reason to do the right
Thank
See the goal of esuasiation isn't really to prove someone is wrong
This about giving starof frrap p zanang seeboo had said something like my lord
The borders actually unstable
Right now he would have given the duke a perfectly valid reason to cancel the trip
And he still would have looked like a strong decisive leader
So after all this what is the big warning
This two thousand
Seven hundred year old story has for all of us
Today
Well
The ancient tex that actually were quarred this story
The zojwan offers this absolutely chilling conclusion
It's as the moment
A leader starts looking for legitimate excuses to satisfy their own private desires
That's the exact moment
The great decline begins
That's when the rot starts to set in it's the very first step in a total collapse of principles
Trust and order
And that leaves a question for all of us
Right not just for ceos or duces
What small harmless excuse are you using today to maybe avoid your real response starts
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