Blue Collar Leadership

This is an introduction to my newest book #13, Blue-Collar Leadership & Culture: The 5 Components for Building High Performance Teams . It’s easier to compete when you’re attracting great people instead of searching for good people. Culture matters because those who work there will determine who wants to work there. You shouldn’t have to spend time and resources constantly searching for good a...

Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team's Potential (Part 12 of 30) In this episode, Mack will help you understand the importance of listening to your team with the intent to truly understand and the consequences of not listening. He'll also share a story about a leader who didn't value listening to his team, who didn't value building trust with his team, and who didn't have a...

Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team's Potential (Part 11 of 30) Managers of people (low impact leaders) communicate. However, high impact leaders of people move beyond communication and make a connection with their team members. When you're able to build trust with your team, you move beyond communication and begin to connect. Throughout my career, I remember hearing people...

Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team's Potential (Part 10 of 30) Trust is the foundation of leadership (influence). Intention is the foundation of trust. If your intention is to manipulate (only you benefit), you will never develop a foundation upon which trust can be built. If your intention is to motivate (mutual benefit), then you will develop a foundation upon which trus...

Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team's Potential (Part 9 of 30) In this episode, Mack reveals that there's fine line between confidence and arrogance. He'll also help you understand that who your are as a leader matters. Mack will also help you understand how and why developing your character intentionally will allow you to leverage your competency. Character leverages compe...

Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team's Potential (Part 8 of 30) First impressions count.  Is your intention to serve (help while motivating) or be served (expect to be helped while manipulating)? In this episode, Mack will reveal three questions that teams are always asking themselves about their leader.  

Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team's Potential (Part 7 of 30) In this episode, Mack discusses 7 problems that insecure leaders cause. To understand what it means to be a secure leader, he will point out what it means to be an insecure leader.

Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team's Potential (Part 6 of 30) In this episode, Mack will help you understand that high impact leadership starts with you, but it's not about you. He'll also explain why you should focus on developing your weaknesses relative to your character and focus on developing your strengths relative to your competency.

I'm excited to introduce you to my friend and mentor, Jimmy Collins. Jimmy retired on May 31, 2001 as the President and COO of Chick-fil-A. He was Chick-fil-A Founder Truett Cathy's third corporate employee. Jimmy invested nearly 33 years helping Truett Cathy grow Chick-fil-A from startup to $1 Billion in annual sales. I had the privilege of meeting Jimmy on June 18, 2015. We've been friends ever...

Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team's Potential (Part 5 of 30) In this episode, Mack will help you understand that you're given a position, and you're told what and who to manage. But, how you lead, your leadership style, is up to you. Will you manage people who have to follow? Or, will you lead people who want to follow? Your values will determine if people choose to follo...

I'm excited to introduce you to my friend and mentor, Jimmy Collins. Jimmy retired on May 31, 2001 as the President and COO of Chick-fil-A. He was Chick-fil-A Founder Truett Cathy's third corporate employee. Jimmy invested nearly 33 years helping Truett Cathy grow Chick-fil-A from startup to $1 Billion in annual sales. I had the privilege of meeting Jimmy on June 18, 2015. We've been friends ever...

Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team's Potential (Part 4 of 30) There's a difference between someone respecting your position and someone respecting you. In this episode, Mack discusses the difference between artificial influence and authentic influence. He invites you to "Listen to the voices" as he shares many of the things that low impact leaders (managers of people) say...

I'm excited to introduce you to my friend and mentor, Jimmy Collins. Jimmy retired on May 31, 2001 as the President and COO of Chick-fil-A. He was Chick-fil-A Founder Truett Cathy's third corporate employee. Jimmy invested nearly 33 years helping Truett Cathy grow Chick-fil-A from startup to $1 Billion in annual sales. I had the privilege of meeting Jimmy on June 18, 2015. We've been friends ever...

Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team's Potential (Part 3 of 30) In this episode, Mack asks, "You've been given a leadership position, but will you lead? Will you become bigger than your position." He also touches on a few of the differences between a manager's mindset and leader's mindset. 

Part 4 with Daniel Ross a nearly 50 year old blue-collar guy with only a 4th grade formal education, a heart of gold, and a passion for personal growth and development. What can you learn from him? A LOT!!    In this bonus episode with Daniel Ross, he and Mack discuss the importance of leaders understanding "profiling" and the impact it can have on business results and business relations...

Part 3 with Daniel Ross a nearly 50 year old blue-collar guy with only a 4th grade formal education, a heart of gold, and a passion for personal growth and development. What can you learn from him? A LOT!!    In this episode, Mack and Daniel continue their discussion about the various types of "profiles" we each have and how we often end up in conflict with those who have the opposite pr...

Part 2 with Daniel Ross a nearly 50 year old blue-collar guy with only a 4th grade formal education, a heart of gold, and a passion for personal growth and development. What can you learn from him? A LOT!!   In this episode, Mack and his special guest (Daniel Ross) dive deeper into their discussion on Daniel's story and his passion for personality "profiling."

Meet Daniel Ross a nearly 50 year old blue-collar guy with only a 4th grade formal education, a heart of gold, and a passion for personal growth and development. What can you learn from him? A LOT!!  In this raw, unscripted episode, Mack introduces his friend and blue-collar brother, Daniel Ross. Daniel has come a long way since his hard and humble beginnings. He shares a bit of his backgroun...

Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team's Potential (Part 2 of 30) In this episode, Mack sets the stage for the episodes to come by sharing a quote from Simon Sinek, "Leadership is about taking responsibility for lives not numbers. Managers look after our numbers and our results, and leaders look after us." Mack will challenge you to look in the mirror and ask yourself some que...

Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team's Potential (Part 1 of 30) In this episode, Mack discusses the challenge as a leader of not knowing what you don't know and introduces principles of growth and development related to the circle of knowledge, the perimeter of awareness, and the area of ignorance. He calls it getting "Dumber by the Book."

Before Mack kicks off the upcoming 30 part series on his book, Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team's Potential , he wants to share some thoughts from his #2 all-time favorite book, The 5 Levels of Leadership , by John C. Maxwell. In this episode, Mack will briefly review The 5 Levels of Leadership and introduce the upcoming series on Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision...

In this episode, Mack will discuss the importance of leadership development, The Transformation Equation, the event versus the process, and he will share a few leadership development/training strategies. Visit www. GetTheTransformationEquation.com for a pdf version of much of what is presented in this episode. Leadership development is personal and professional development geared toward helping so...

Many organizations face three major dilemmas: engagement, retention, and turnover. These three dilemmas make it hard to be competitive. The only reason a company experiencing these three dilemmas can compete with others is because their competition is also facing the same dilemmas. Once a competitor addresses and effectively eliminates these dilemmas, their competition will be forced to step up or...

In this episode, Mack will share 7 signs that indicate it's time for you to promote your boss. It doesn't mean give them a raise or a new title or position. You can't promote your boss in that way. However, you can promote them in another valuable way. You can give them positive "word of mouth" advertisement by expressing appreciation and gratitude for them to others. You can tell their boss how g...

In this episode, Mack shares 7 signs that indicate it's time to consider firing your boss. Yes! You can fire your boss. Mack has done it. How do you do it? You quit and hire a new boss. Just as you can be hired and fired by the boss, you can also hire and fire the boss. The turnover rate is often an indicator of how many people are firing their boss. If people are leaving on a regular basis, they'...