Cadre Today and Bold Followership

I won't let you down no, I won't let you down I won't let you down My love I won't let you down no, I won't let you down I won't let you down My life. Oh, a little OK Go to get you started this morning. Have you ever heard of the band OK Go? The band OK Go is lovely. If you need some, some art, some creativity, some uniqueness today, go ahead and type OK go into YouTube and watch any video that they've ever made. OK go has a TED Talk. And the lead singer of OK Go says @ the beginning it's like we're a lot more known for our music videos than we are for our music because they, they take little ideas and they turn them into these really beautiful music videos.

That was a song called I Won't Let yout Go. And the whole music video is on these little scooters and it's choreograph craft and it's really, it's really cool. Listen to some okay goat today. But as the song says, I won't let you go. Guess what? Cadre. Cadre's not gonna let you go. If you're doing great today, we're gonna cheer for you. If you are not doing great today, guess what? We're still clapping for you. We're still here reminding you that that is okay too. You are your best kept secret. Everybody just to speak wonder shared.

I plopped that into a post last night. You are very much definitely your best kept secret. So tap into it in this OKAY Go music video. By the way, one last thought on it. The whole, the whole TED Talk is about having unique creative thoughts. Because as they say, they get asked all the time, where do you come up with these, with these unique ideas? And the lead singer says, actually the least unique ideas are the unique ideas. The most unique ideas are the ones that are just a little bit unique.

In other words, they're close to other ideas. So rather than thinking of like, hey, I have this little heart here, rather than looking at the heart this way, what if we looked at the heart from a different direction? What if we looked at it this way? Then what? What would come to mind? Or rather than looking at a paper clip as something that can hold a bunch of papers together, what else could we use this paperclip for? And that's the point of the OK Go. TED Talk, that most of our unique ideas don't force us to go through the jungle to go ahead and find something that's never been thought of.

Before, but to think a thought that's already been thought and to think of it in a different way. All right, enough of ok, go. Actually, no, I'll play more of them at the end, as you know. But on Mondays we often talk about professional development. We talk about how you can do what you do better or more efficiently or more effectively or with new life or with new potency. And I talk about it not from a leadership perspective, but from a followership perspective. So I have a story coming to you from yesterday.

If you've ever tuned into one of my live streams on a Sunday, you know that every single Sunday I do my live stream from my car because I am always in commute to to a music gig on Sunday mornings. I sit on a piano bench and I lead a band of musicians. I have like eight different musicians that I work with on Sunday morning. A couple guitarists, a bassist, two different drummers, four different vocalists. Yeah, that's what my Sunday morning looks like. Well, guess what? Yesterday my guitarist and my other guitarists were both out of commission.

So I had a different guitarist and this different guitarist, T. North and Robert and Speak wonder guess what? This different guitarist, who I'd never played with before, taught me a really good followership lesson. So what is followership? Followership is rather than being the person who says, here's where we're going. The follower is the one who actually turns, as Derek Sievers would say, a lone crazy nut into a leader because the follower says to that person, hey, I'm going to listen to what you're asking me to do and I'm going to offer you perspective and passion and guidance and clarity.

And I'm going to do the thing you're asking me to do so then your vision can come to life. Hey, T. North, that reminds me, I have a TED Talk for you. T. North. If you type into and actually everybody but T. North, I think this will will resonate with you powerfully. And it's in that followership model. T. North, 66, type in Dr. Jane Bentley, the the Art of Following. It's a TED Talk, but give it a listen. Let me know what you think. Okay, back to yesterday morning. So I have a guitarist who's never worked with me before.

And I'm sitting at the piano, I'm leading rehearsal and this guitarist, the first time we would do a song wouldn't play any music. And he's sitting over my shoulder so I couldn't like see his face, but I'm like, okay, we're going through this song. I'M talking through the music. We're doing the thing the other musicians are, are used to how I rehearse music. And then the second time we would do the music, that's when this guitarist would start to play. You may go, well, yeah, because he never played with you before.

So of course he's going to like, listen and give it a feel before he jumps on in. But think about that act. How often will a leader wait and listen and stop and consider versus how often will a follower do those things? But even more so, my guitarist wasn't passively sitting on the sideline. My guitarist was using different skills to get ready to be impactful. How often do you intensely, with passion, do something you haven't done before? Because what, what the guitarist was doing was, was taking everything in was going, so what's the nuance?

Where's the rest? Where's the, where's the play? Where's the pull and the push? All the things that make music more, make music deeper. And this guitarist did a really, really great job of showing me this yesterday. So, T North, Dr. Jane Bentley, the Art of Following. Dr. Jane Bentley, the Art of Following. Yeah, and if you can't find it, shoot me an email. com okay, thanks, Tinarth. I think you'll really love it. So that's what I got for you today. Speak Wonder says, guess what? I saw Les Mis on the weekend of high school production.

So vivid and vibrant, amazing talent. Speak Wonder, did you hear the people sing singing the song of angry men? I hope you did. And I love high school theater. I love theater when people aren't being paid because you have to ask, what are they doing it for? And a lot of the times they're doing it because they think it's going to change their lives. It's really fun to watch people doing things that they think is going to change their lives, but. All right, everybody, it is time to get started with this Monday.

So no matter what you have going on, no matter where you are, I hope you're doing great. This afternoon I'm going to be back with the chief human resources officer of TPI Hospitality, one of our most favorite partners in this Cadre sphere. Pete Brommelkamp is going to talk about something that he excels at and that is building a healthy workplace culture. And Pete does a lot of following amidst his leading. So join us 3:30 Central Standard Time today meet and Pete, otherwise, I'll be back by my lonesome tomorrow morning.

So I hope you'll break up that lonesomeness and join me for another Cadre today, y'all Double claps. Coming up. We get another one. Everybody at home, that's when they happen. Let's go. I won't let you down no, I won't let you down I won't let you down, my love I won't let you down no, I won't let you down I won't let you down, my love have a good one.