Hello!

Want to know the real reason my business has been successful for 18 years?

It’s not because I’m some natural-born leadership genius.

It’s because I’ve screwed up with staff as spectacularly as any of my clients.

The only difference? I got obsessed with fixing my own leadership train wrecks.

watts not working: Leadership consultants who’ve never actually:

• Hired the wrong person three times for the same role
• Had a top performer quit because of something YOU did
• Watched a team meeting turn into a therapy session gone wrong
• Realised your “open door policy” was actually creating chaos
• Said “we’re like a family here” and then had to fire someone

watts really happening: I’ve been that founder who thought being nice meant being a good leader.

I’ve oversold people’s potential and what was possible for them until I realised you can’t make someone else want to reach their potential.

I’ve avoided difficult conversations for so long that small problems became nuclear disasters.

I’ve assumed people knew what success looked like without actually giving them clear KPIs, then wondered why they weren’t hitting targets I’d never defined.

I’ve completely misunderstood my own leadership style and my employees’ communication styles, so I was speaking a foreign language to my own team.

I’ve been the CEO who everyone was afraid to give bad news to (without realising that’s exactly why I wasn’t getting any useful information).

watts working: Every system, strategy, and framework I teach my clients exists because I first had to build it to save my own business from my own leadership disasters.

The accountability structures? Built them after watching my team interpret “flexibility” as “optional deadlines.”

The communication protocols? Created them after realising my “informal culture” was actually just confusion with good intentions.

The performance management systems? Designed them after discovering that hoping people would magically improve wasn’t actually a strategy.

watts the real game changer: Stop looking for leadership advice from people who’ve never led badly.

Start learning from people who’ve failed forward.

Because the best solutions don’t come from theory.

They come from leaders who’ve been humbled by their own mistakes and had to build their way out of the mess.

Have a week of learning from your disasters!

Sel

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