The host examines the outward-facing clique and discusses research on healthy accountability, showing how communities can intentionally include newcomers by demonstrating how their roles connect to shared purpose and values.
The longer that you're a part of a community, the less it is about you. If you want people to be part of the thing, you need to show them how. You need to include more people. Healthy accountability says make sure everybody in the system understands.
Give me a T. Give me an E. Give me an A. Give me an M. What do you got? Team? There is no team like the best team, which is our team right here. We will show you we're the best team in the very little league this year. And in no time we'll be big time with the big league baseball stars. For all we have to do is win just one more game and the championship is ours. Dear pen pal, hey, dear Cadre, how are we doing today? That was a little your good man, Charlie Brown from the 1999 Broadway revival musical.
In that scene, Charlie Brown and his Peanuts gang are playing baseball and they need to win one more game to make it to the championship. And of course, Charlie Brown strikes out and is left alone for all of the things Emily, Good morning. A team to you as well. T. North, newbie lover, Amar, Marisa, everybody else I saw sneak on in. It's always fun to watch the watch the team come in into the room. It is Tuesday, July 8, 2025. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you.
You know, on Tuesdays so often we talk about how we bring people together, how we share ideas, how we create movements, how we work in organizations or in passion or in family or in the bring us together. And I love talking about the idea of the outward facing click. The outward facing click is something I came up with back in the days of working with younger people when click culture is perceived to be a little bit louder than it is every other chapter of life. But I think clicks exist even more so within adulthood than they do in in our younger years.
But that's for another day. So recently I've been working on with the team at Good Leadership a bunch of research on healthy accountability. You may be heard have heard Matthew Tappe on Monday speak about it as well. He was the research assistant and literally moved all the numbers around to say, hey, what are they really saying here? But this research on healthy accountability brought one big truth to mind and that is if you want people to be a part of the thing, what do you need to do? You need to show them how they're actually a part of the thing.
Click culture often makes the people who have been around the longest or hold the most power or agency or control. They are the ones who are often seen as the most important and they're the ones who often carry themselves as the most important. Andy Mac, nice to see you my friend. The people at the top Often, because they have a lot of outward facing responsibility, are often seen as the ones who are really, really important. And the people who are newer to the system are in a hierarchical type of structure, lower in the system.
Often we do not spend time a actually creating importance within their work and connecting it to the purpose and the values of what we're doing together or, and this is the sad thing, we actually do that work. They actually are really important, but we don't actually communicate that. The outward facing click says this. The longer that you're a part of a community, the less it is about you and the more that it is about the people who have yet to be a part of it. Why? Because if you care about the thing that you're bringing people together around and you want it to grow, you need to include more people.
You need to allow it to grow out of your hands. Like the butterfly growing out of the cocoon. It needs to exist beyond you. So today, if you have power, if you have agency and access to conversation and to saying, hey, we're going to do X today, within the systems in which you work, within the communities that you're part of, within your friend groups in your, your neighborhood, here's an invitation. Consider the people who are newest and the people who, if it's a hierarchical type of system, who are the lowest and ask yourself a, Are they integral to the system?
And if they're not, you're not using everything that you have available to you to grow the thing you care about. And number two, if they are integral to the system, do they know that? Because if they don't, they should. Healthy accountability says this. If you want your thing to be healthy and sustainable and strong, make sure everybody in the system understands that they are a part of how we're going to be successful together. So no matter where you are, no matter what's going on, you know you always have Cadre here waiting for you.
You're gonna hear a lot of people speaking about freedom this month or liberation this month, or removing yourself from the bounds that, that maybe do not serve you. But guess what? You can find topic or conversation on anything at any time. Because what we're doing here in the Cadre sphere, this Cadre, Cadre being a special group of people with a special intention we're doing, is we're helping all of y'. All. And we are part of that. All of y' all feel a little bit better. Because in this world, it needs us.
The world needs us to be as good as we can be at any time to help one another. So, y', all, I'm glad I'm on your team. I'm glad you're on my team. I know what I know and I care about you. Have a great Tuesday. T e have a great Tuesday. Team, we will see you tomorrow. There is no team like the best team, which is our team right here. We will show you we're the best team in a very little league this year. And in no time, we'll be big time with the big league baseball star.
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