Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Spider-Man: No Way Home

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The third movie in the Sony/Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man third movie. Tom Holland has starred as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Homecoming, Far From Home, and, now, No Way Home. This third outing may be the best Spider-Man movie to date.

No Way Home has everything a Spider-Man fan could want. Improved villains, a fantastic story, and tragedy. This was all packed into a two-and-a-half-hour movie.

Zendaya and Tom Holland (dressed as Spider-Man) in Spider-Man: No Way Home

This is a movie you will want to see in the theaters. It’s that good.

Be warned, as we dive into the leadership lessons in Spider-Man: No Way Home, I will be sharing spoilers from the movie. If you haven’t seen No Way Home and don’t want to know what happens, stop reading now.

If you don’t care about spoilers or have already seen No Way Home, continue reading. You’ll find lots of leadership lessons in No Way Home.

If You’re A Leader, Assume Everything You Say Is In The Public Domain

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Leaders are often great people. However, in today’s cancel culture, they can wreck their entire careers with a single off-hand remark. Saying something that somebody else might find offensive is a high crime in our society, worthy of massive social penalties. 

That’s why leaders should assume that everything they say, even if it is in private, is in the public domain. Somebody, somewhere will eventually overhear a conversation or bypass cell phone security to view text message conversations, landing you in deep trouble. 

As a leader, if you have opinions that other people find unpalatable, keep them to yourself. Where possible, look for clever workarounds, going with the flow and direction of the world, while also taking advantage of subtle opportunities to push back. 

How to Get Employees to Feel a Sense of Ownership

One of the most important things you can cultivate in your business is a sense of ownership among your employees.

You want employees to feel that sense of accountability and also like they have control over how they are meeting objectives. The last thing you want is employees just to come to work to check the boxes. This mentality won’t drive growth, innovation, or loyalty.

It’s up to you as an entrepreneur to help your employees develop that ownership mentality, and the following tips can help.

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Offer Stock Options

When you offer employees stock options, they can actually become owners of the company. Offering stock options has a lot of benefits from the employer and employee perspective.

Empowering Your Employees In A Small Business

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Empowering employees involves allowing them to act and make decisions within your company. To ensure these behaviors align with the company’s aims, trust and understanding are required.

The Value Of Employee Empowerment

Empowering employees involves allowing them to act and make decisions within your company. To ensure these behaviours align with the company’s aims, trust and understanding are required.

Empowering employees is critical to business growth. While many businesses start with the passion of one or two entrepreneurs, true success is the result of many individuals working together. A leader-follower mindset limits your organization’s power and capabilities.

How Do You Empower Staff?

It’s a culture. It takes more trust, communication, and delegation. Consider these ways to empower employees:

Love Your Struggles

No one likes to go through a struggle. Struggles challenge us. They pull at our inner-most being.

Yet, there’s something special about struggles. They shape us into who we are.

I recently came across this quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger is quoted as saying:

Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

This quote has helped me reevaluate how I look at my struggles. I hope it will help you as well.

Our strengths aren’t developed in our best days. Our strengths are developed through our struggles.

Schwarzenegger developed his muscles by making his muscles struggle. He worked them to the point of exhaustion… And then beyond.

We develop our leadership strengths when we have to go through a challenge. Or we have to push ourselves further than we think we can go.