Ep 309: 3 Leadership Principles of a Serial Entrepreneur

Sean: You shared, some of those core values earlier. I'm wondering now, what are, maybe your top three leadership principles that make your role, make you who you are, and make you successful as far as you're concerned. Can you share that with us?

J Haleem: Well, for me, you know, definitely, authenticity is number one. Authenticity. You gotta be yourself. You know a lot of times, and again, I've been in a space where I wasn't, because I was trying to fit in, in this space because again, in business, when you don't have the upper hand, you kind of got your toe on the line until you do, or at least you get an even, or you want to even the playing field.

But sometimes you get comfortable in that space and then you lose yourself. You know, you've been playing that role so long. You think, you know, you're at home in that space. So being authentic and remaining authentic, you're actually helping out yourself, which is first, but also in the long run, you're helping yourself as a leader.

Because somebody is looking for you, somebody's looking for that in you so that they can have somebody to show them the way. And a lot of times you'd be surprised that somebody had come from where I come from, got a job, and they might not know that I understand their story. And they're trying, and they're struggling to fit in. They're struggling to make it. And if I just showed a little bit of who I was, they'll say, okay, well, if he can do it, I can do it. So number one for me is always about authenticity. You know, you definitely have to be authentic.

The integrity piece - your word is everything. You know, a lot of times even you in entrepreneurship, a lot of people think you got money, but you don't. Just because you started a business, all you have is your word. You know, all you have is the fact that you are able to do everything you say you're going to do, and the more that you, you know, keep your word. It's definitely, you're going to be great. You'll be fine.

So just trying to be impeccable with your word, you know, something's going to happen if you can do nothing about it, but if you can control it, be impeccable about your word, you know.

And then building relationships. Of course, you gotta be a great relationship builder to be a leader. Like you can't be a leader if you don't know how to, you know, bring people together. And so, you know, when the people, talk about me where I'm from, you know, I wanted it to be like I'm not a stranger to anybody. Oh, someone's heard about J Haleem, especially if you're talking about in the business spec spectrum, no matter what kind of business it is in my city, somebody knows who I am.

That means that I've made a nice dent in the area of building relationships so I can help individuals, because leadership, people are looking for you to be able to point them in the right direction, so if you don't have a relationship, how can you do that?

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