bobbymcgraw

I help amateur leaders go pro. | @laurarmcgraw’s husband | Teaching/Executive Pastor at Sugar Hill Church | Leadership Performance Coach

[Michael Hyatt @MichaelHyatt]

This was a powerful conversation. Thanks, Brad!

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

Control creates compliance.
Trust creates ownership.
Most leaders want the second thing but keep building systems for the first.

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

A boss has a title. A pro leader has skills ... and keeps building them.

Leadership is a profession. Treat it like one.

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

People don't leave organizations.

They leave the environment their leader created.

Do your people feel valued by you ... or just managed?

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

Micromanagement works.
That's the problem.

It gets results now by borrowing against your team's growth later.

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

You didn't get promoted into leadership.

You got promoted out of your last job, into one nobody trained you for.

That distinction changes everything.

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

@rorynotsorry There will be a lot of re-constituting!

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

When you stop delegating, your team stops thinking.

Not on purpose. They just ... learn to wait.

The question isn't what needs to get done. It's who you can grow by letting them do it.

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

@MichaelHyatt @MichaelHyatt still indexing … 48 hours later

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

The question you ask when someone is difficult changes everything.

"Who's wrong?" → judge mode.
"What's going on?" → leader mode.

Get curious before you get reactive.

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

@AbudBakri @getchroma How long do you run TA1?

[Michael Hyatt @MichaelHyatt]

Claude told me to delete my Cowork sessions. I clicked. Hundreds of hours of work, gone. Support never replied. The lesson I won't forget: don't build your business on a rented lot.

https://t.co/pfVH0JHmR4

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

@MichaelHyatt Same. I didn’t realize Siri required a waitlist until after I installed the beta. It was a let down.

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

Leadership isn't a personality trait. It's a profession.

Delegation, conflict management, emotional intelligence ... all learned.

What skill are you working on right now?

[Michael Hyatt @MichaelHyatt]

Claude told me to delete my Cowork sessions and restart. I trusted it. One click later, hundreds of hours of work were gone.

Here's what that disaster taught me about who really owns your AI.

01/12

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

The fastest problem solver in the room is often the biggest bottleneck on the team.

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

You didn't get promoted to do more work.

You got promoted to develop the people who do it.

That shift changes everything.

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

If your team needs you for every decision…

you’re not leading a team…

you’re managing dependency.

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

@Blazedbarbell @rorynotsorry I hadn’t see. Many people post about v 4s

[bobbymcgraw @bobbymcgraw]

If it keeps repeating…

it’s probably not just the situation.

Patterns don’t follow environments…
they follow leaders.