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b'Kevin Hancock is CEO of Hancock Lumber Company, one of the oldest companies in America and six-time recipient of the \\u201cBest Places to Work in Maine\\u201d award. In 2010, at the peak of the national housing and mortgage market collapse, Kevin acquired a rare neurological voice disorder called Spasmodic Dysphonia (SD). When his own voice became weakened, he developed a new leadership style focused on strengthening the voices of others. He is now a champion of a work culture where everyone leads and every voice is trusted, respected, and heard. His new book, The Seventh Power: One CEO\\u2019s Journey into the Business of Shared Leadership, shares the philosophy, values, and strategies Hancock Lumber Company has embraced on its journey toward becoming an employee-centric company.\\n\\nLEADERSHIP INSIGHTS\\n\\n- Throughout history, leaders and power have been centralized. Today, the opposite is needed: Leadership models that disperse power, give strength to others, and share leadership broadly.\\n- If every individual is living a full, authentic life; speaking with their own, true voice the entire tribe will be made strong.\\n- People often already know what to do. Empower them (and make it safe for them) to take action.\\n- Across time, leaders of organizations have probably done more to limit, restrict, intimidate, and direct the voices of others rather than free them.\\n- The business of business is more than just business\\u2014it is a human exercise of which profit is one outcome of a higher calling.\\n- The world is best changed when you focus on what is right beside you.\\n- If everyone on earth felt trusted, respected, valued, heard, and safe everything might change.\\n- Shared leadership doesn\\u2019t lead to anarchy but increases discipline, alignment, productivity, and unity.\\n- People are more apt to support what they helped to create.\\n- If employees have a world-class experience, they will make sure that the customers do as well.\\n- In this model, managers and supervisors should disperse \\u2013 rather than collect \\u2013 leadership. For employees, leadership should be accepted and shared rather than spectated or rejected.\\n- The truth of a company is plural, not singular. The truth is what everyone is seeing and experiencing. So the biggest gift a leadership team could have is to know what everyone is thinking.\\n\\nQUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION\\n\\n\\u2013 What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? \\u201cWe must be the change we wish to see in the world\\u201d \\u2013 Gandhi \\n- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: \\u201cA leader is\\u2026\\u201d Self-aware, humble, and appreciative.\\n- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? In what way do I need to change?\\n- What book would you recommend to leaders? Three by Jim Collins: Build to Last, Good to Great, and How the Mighty Fall.\\n- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Focus a bit less on others and a bit more on ourselves.\\n- As a general life principle, is it better to ask \\u201cwhy?\\u201d or \\u201cwhy not?\\u201d \\u201cWhy not?\\u201d because it challenges the existing paradigms and expands the zone of thinking in terms of what might be possible.\\n\\nWebsite:\\nhttps://kevindhancock.com/\\n\\nFind Kevin on social media:\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/hancocklumber (@hancocklumber)\\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevindhancock/ (@kevindhancock)\\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/kevindhancock/ (@kevindhancock)'