I am privileged to host a 3-part Q & A series<\/a> with my friend Brad Lomenick on his new book\u00a0H3 Leadership: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Brad is\u00a0a leadership consultant, speaker, founder of BLINC, and author of\u00a0<\/span>The Catalyst Leader<\/a>\u00a0\u2014<\/i>\u00a0and a really terrific guy who practices what he preaches.<\/p>\n As the former president and key visionary of Catalyst, he learned a lot about leadership and reveals a lot in this book about how God prepared him for this next phase of growth he\u2019s presently experiencing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n My first book, The Catalyst Leader,<\/em> was a big picture, destination book providing essentials for leadership for the next 30 years. A foundation book you might say. If you think of it in terms of an organization, The Catalyst Leader<\/em> was the corporate and staff handbook.<\/p>\n H3 Leadership<\/em> is more of a playbook of discipline that will help get you to the finish line. A practical application, daily practice, process, routine and \u201con the journey\u201d book that can and should immediately transform the way you lead. What leadership looks like on a day-to-day basis. The organization playbook, daily map and gameplan focused on daily practice and discipline that will make your leadership come alive.<\/p>\n The Catalyst Leader<\/em> provided the key essentials and H3 Leadership provides the key habits. Essentials are what you become, and habits are how you become the leader you desire to be.<\/p>\n H3 describes the \u201cready\u201d leadership position. I played basketball growing up, and I remember many coaches talking about the ready position in basketball. The posture from which you can dribble, pass, or shoot. I believe that H3 Leadership describes the ready leadership position \u2014 the triple threat posture of a properly prepared leader:<\/p>\n The phrase \u201chumble, hungry, hustle\u201d is my life and leadership mantra. If he had to describe his leadership style in 3 words, these would be it. So much of what I have worked for and want to see in the next generation is a combination of these three transformational habits. Humble, hungry and hustle describes the leader who realizes it\u2019s not about them, is willing to work hard, and ultimately get it done. H3 Leaders know that influence is about developing the right habits for success.<\/p>\n H3 is practical. In the trenches, a bit chaotic, organic and dirty handed leadership. The dirt under your fingernails kind of leadership learned from digging the ditch, focused on the discipline, process, practice and journey of becoming a better leader.<\/p>\n The everyday habits, not necessarily the sexy sizzle. The broccoli and vegetables, not necessarily the steak. Not always pretty but hopefully constantly practical. I\u2019ve tried to be practical at every level. Combining experience and wisdom and practical from the trenches. From my story and the story of others.\u00a0Put your hardhat on and let\u2019s get to work!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Brad:<\/strong> Because it\u2019s very easy for us to flame out. We start strong as leaders, but many times don\u2019t finish strong. And lose momentum and then not finish well. This is why leadership habits are so important.<\/p>\n Habits will allow you to sustain and finish well. Habits put discipline in place- daily discipline and a system that hopefully is second nature like brushing your teeth.<\/p>\n You will never change your life and truly become a change maker until you change your habits. Until you change your normal, daily routine. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. The habits you\u2019ve formed and continue to form. What becomes second hand and internal. Leadership comes down to the practical, the everyday, the blocking and tackling.<\/p>\n The components that are not sexy to talk about or don\u2019t wow a crowd at the latest leadership conference or inspirational gathering. But more the stuff that no one really wants to pay attention to. That is where the essence of your leadership journey begins. In the mundane everyday systematic pace and process and routine of life.<\/p>\n In the same way that you lose weight by creating new habits, and you quit smoking by creating new habits, and you improve your attitude by creating new habits, so it goes with your leadership. You will influence better and truly be a transformative leader once you establish leadership habits in your life that create a sustainable and formidable system that will put your leadership into action.<\/p>\n Change what you do daily and you will change what you do weekly, and monthly, and yearly, and for a lifetime. Transformation happens because of habits, key elements and essentials becoming second hand, part of your normal routine and actions.<\/p>\n Goals lead to behavior, which leads to practice, which leads to habits, which lead to change, which leads to health.\u00a0How you approach your day is how you will ultimately live your life. Daily habits lead to yearly transformation, which leads to lifetime influence and impact.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Brad:<\/strong> It was important to me to shoot really straight in this book. The very nature of this book required a bit more transparency. But I would also say that I believe the leaders who will have the most influence and impact are the ones who are willing to be vulnerable and talk openly about their struggles and failures.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s a hard thing for a lot of leaders to do. Many times, when we get to a point where other people are listening to us, and we\u2019ve got something to manage\u2013\u2013something to lose\u2013\u2013we sort of go into the default mode of \u201cOkay, make sure everything looks perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n Today, people crave authenticity. This need has even influenced the way we shop and purchase our products from organizations. Today, customers buy from those we feel are trustworthy. Equally, we want to invest in people and companies that we can trust, not necessarily because they\u2019re well known or largest or leaders in their industry.<\/p>\n Really, the first couple of chapters of the book are about defining and setting this foundation of \u201cMan, you\u2019ve got to be willing to be real with people around you if you want them to follow you.\u201d<\/p>\n So often, leadership, especially self-help leadership and personal growth literature, can feel very pie in the sky\u2013\u2013very esoteric. You\u2019re philosophizing constantly.<\/p>\n Readers need a practical example that they can wrap their arms around\u2013\u2013actually feel and see and experience the very specific thing that somebody has gone through. It\u2019s one thing to tell others to be willing to share struggles and to talk about failures. It\u2019s another thing to say, \u201cHere\u2019s what I\u2019ve failed at.\u201d<\/p>\n But the leaders I respect the most are the ones who continue to run the race well until the gun goes off, whether that\u2019s because their life is over or they retire. That\u2019s the posture of hungry: the idea that you constantly are learning and getting better. That\u2019s the kind of leader I want to be. 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<\/a><\/h3>\nHow is H3 Leadership\u00a0different than your first book, The Catalyst Leader?<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\u00a0Why a book about leadership habits?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
You\u2019re very open and honest about how you\u2019ve led, especially at Catalyst. Why did you decide to be so candid about what you feel like you did wrong?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Continue to Part 3<\/a><\/h3>\n