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Building something entirely new. Creating something fresh from something that existed. Evolving business to a new place. Changing a culture. True innovation. Standout success. Attaining influence or authority. Building a devoted following. Creating lasting relationships.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s one thing that all of these have in common\u2026<\/p>\n
You must invest something of personal value and worth.<\/strong><\/p>\n It might be your ideas, your energy, or your reputation. Maybe it\u2019s something tangible, like money or resources. Perhaps it\u2019s a bit of all of those combined.<\/p>\n But leading \u2013 truly<\/em> leading from within, not just sitting in a position of annointed leadership \u2013 requires an element of vulnerability that few are willing to risk. It means betting on your own hand, and being part of the things that you\u2019re asking others to do with or for you.<\/p>\n If you have little invested, you have little to lose. And it\u2019s hard to trust your intentions if you can\u2019t be bothered to commit \u2013 and risk losing<\/em> \u2013 something you value in the name of the thing that you want.<\/p>\n Let your team, your volunteers, your customers, peers and colleagues know what you\u2019re willing to put on the line to achieve something. Don\u2019t just work on a project. Don\u2019t just build a plan and execute on it or delegate it. Invest in it. Personally and professionally. Put some skin in the game.<\/p>\n And let them see you do it. <\/strong><\/p>\n Then watch how the game \u2013 and your own perspective \u2013 changes dramatically.<\/p>\n Amber Naslund<\/p>\n Building something entirely new. Creating something fresh from something that existed. Evolving business to a new place. Changing a culture. True innovation. Standout success. Attaining influence or authority. Building a devoted following. Creating lasting relationships. There\u2019s one thing that all of these have in common\u2026 You must invest something of personal value and worth. It … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,55],"tags":[548,261,97,1125],"class_list":["post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-ambernaslund","tag-innovation","tag-investment","tag-leadership","tag-personal-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2776,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}image by banspy<\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"