Brian Eason

Group Vice President | Author of Foundations of a Giant | Amazon #1 Bestseller | Published in Fortune | Frontline leadership & distribution

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Most leadership training breaks down by 10:30 on a Tuesday.

A branch manager can leave a workshop understanding delegation, coaching, and accountability.

Then Tuesday starts.

One person calls out. A truck is late. A customer is standing at the counter. The warehouse is backed up. Two employees need answers, now.

That's the part most training never simulates: deciding what to handle personally, what to delegate, what can wait, and what will turn into a bigger problem if you ignore it.

I spent years coaching branch managers through exactly these moments. The managers who grew fastest got reps in real situations, talked through the decisions afterward, and learned where their judgment was strong and where it needed work.

We spend a lot of time teaching people what good leadership looks like.

We spend far less time letting them practice it when five things need attention at once.

By 10:30 on a Tuesday, that's usually the test.

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@AlexHormozi I think we’re about to automate a lot of work nobody stopped to ask why we were doing in the first place.

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Anyone else “printed MapQuest directions before a sales call” old?

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@iam_preethi I think adults need this too. I can’t remember the last time I sat in a waiting room and just sat there. My hand goes to my phone before I’m even bored.

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@rajshamani The part that gets me is how productive all that switching can feel. I can answer email all morning and realize at lunch I never touched the thing I actually needed to do.

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@DeepPsycho_HQ I’ve wasted a lot of time thinking about people who probably weren’t thinking about me at all.

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@RobertGreene I’ve gotten a lot better at asking myself, “Does this actually need a response?” A surprising amount of stuff doesn’t.

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@RyanHoliday A lot of the good decisions people give me credit for probably started with my wife asking one more question.

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@APompliano After almost 30 years around pipe and fittings, Merriam-Webster taught me this week that “plumber” comes from the Latin plumbum, meaning lead. Apparently I had to come to X to learn this 😂

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@Dearme2_ 2. Stop trying to look 25. Looking healthy at 45 usually beats looking like you’re trying to be 25.

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@RiddleSphere I had to admit that a few things I kept calling “bad timing” were really just decisions I hoped would get easier if I waited long enough.

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@JonGordon11 I’ve had plenty of negative thoughts that felt completely true in the moment and looked ridiculous the next day. I’ve gotten better at not believing every thought just because I had it.

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@sutevskid I’ve seen customers live with a bad process for years because changing it felt like more work than putting up with it.

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@sciencegirl Finally, some actual GOAT content on here😂

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@readswithravi I’ve seen plenty of determined people lose because they were too stubborn to adjust. Make up your mind about the goal, not every step to get there.

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@nikssocial Well said 👏

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@Nithya_Shrii I don’t need the people I work with to become my social life. But I spend too much of my life at work to want everyone around me to stay strangers.

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People can handle being corrected. What gets old is only hearing from the boss when something went wrong.

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Some days you don’t need to figure everything out. You just need to be done for the day.

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@wisdomXplorer Some of the kindest things people have done for me were telling me something I really didn’t want to hear. A few of those conversations changed the direction of my life.

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@MerriamWebster Nearly 30 years around pipe and fittings and somehow the dictionary is the one that finally taught me this😂