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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Some of my favorite people are the ones I can go months without seeing and it never feels weird when we talk again.

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@TigerWoods The five runner-ups might be the craziest number. Even when he didn’t win, he was basically right there all year.

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@BoredElonMusk They finally remembered who actually pays for the birthday party😂

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@JDaley I’ve learned not to confuse “don’t give up” with “keep doing the exact same thing.”

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You don’t need to have the whole week figured out tonight. Just know what you want to start with tomorrow.

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@ariannahuff If AI saves me an hour and I use that hour to stare at another screen, I probably missed the point.

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@Cobratate I don’t know about glorious. I’d rather get to the end knowing I was good to the people who counted on me.

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@ElaineAryn Well said 👏

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@alexisohanian I like this...if the answer should be the same every time, why keep paying AI to think about it?

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@Markmanson I’ve had criticism I needed to ignore, and criticism I really needed to hear. The hard part is knowing which is which.

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@TheTweetOfGod Moses had to be saying this at least once a day for 40 years😂

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@LeilaHormozi I’ve done every one of these. Most of the time I already knew what I needed to do...I was just waiting to feel better about doing it.

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@Codie_Sanchez I’d add #13: you keep changing priorities before the team has time to make the last one work.

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@APompliano The giveaway for me is when nothing in the answer could have come from actually doing the work.

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@elonmusk @cremieuxrecueil I’ve worked with people who could answer almost any question in the room and still make the wrong call because they were solving the wrong problem.

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@RobertGreene I’ve been angry and still been right. The mistake was thinking that meant I should respond while I was angry.

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@angeladuckw @ScribnerBooks @SimonBooks Really interesting idea. I’ve seen this at work too. We ask people to change, then send them right back into the same setup. Looking forward to reading SITUATED.

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@IAmSteveHarvey That not getting it right away didn’t mean I couldn’t get it.

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Good employees notice when they keep doing more because somebody else is allowed to do less.

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The inability to forgive can be worse on you than forgiving someone who doesn’t deserve it.