This week on Your Best Day Yet, Chief Victory Officer Eric Guy sits down with Dalmo Cirne, technologist, mathematician, leadership advisor, and author of “The Four Streams of Leadership.” Together, Eric and Dalmo explore why most leaders fail not from incompetence, but from lack of preparation, and how intentional leadership frameworks can dramatically improve productivity, alignment, and team longevity. 🏆 👉 Watch the new episode out now: https://youtu.be/-UB-t9P3zyI 👈 Takeaways: 🧭 Prepared, Not Incompetent: Dalmo challenges the Peter Principle by reframing leadership failure as a preparation issue, not a capability issue. Leaders don’t fail because they can’t lead, they fail because they were never taught how. 🔥 Burnout Is a Leadership Problem: When leaders focus only on output instead of systems, teams burn out and disengage. Sustainable productivity creates happier teams who stay longer and perform better. 🧠 Leadership Starts With Self: The first stream of leadership is managing yourself, knowing your values, strengths, and limitations. Everything else flows from self-awareness. ⚙️ Optimize the Pipeline, Not the People: Instead of asking teams to work harder or longer, Dalmo shows how preparing work properly can increase productivity by double digits. Better inputs create better outcomes. 🌊 Downstream Isn’t Everything: While leaders spend most of their time managing teams and execution, ignoring upstream and side stream relationships creates imbalance. Leadership requires attention in all directions. 📈 Upstream Communication Matters: Great leaders don’t tell their bosses what to do, they equip them with the right information to make better decisions. Alignment is built through clarity and trust. Check out Dalmo: https://dalmocirne.com/ Sign up for Vision Day: https://centerforvictory.kartra.com/page/ynq103 #leadershipskills #podcast #leadershipdevelopment #visionday #CommunicationMatters #burnoutprevention #ProfessionalDevelopment #youtubechannel