
← The Leader's Mindset8 Oct · 48 min
The Inner Game Behind Team Leadership Skills — Rajesh Nagjee
<p>The leadership skills that scale a company are not the ones that keep a founder sane.</p><p><br></p><p>Rajesh Nagjee calls himself a business physicist. In this episode of The Leader's Mindset, Jason LeDuc sits down with the CEO mentor who has spent three decades — 80,000 hours, by his own count, across 14 disciplines — working out why ambitious founders stall, and what he calls the gilded cage: an impressive business that has quietly become a place its owner cannot be honest in.</p><p><br></p><p>What you'll learn:</p><p><br></p><p>- The inner-game equation Rajesh builds everything on — performance = potential minus interference, from Tim Gallwey's The Inner Game of Tennis — and why he only ever works on the interference</p><p>- The "velocity crisis": what happens when outer-game ambition outruns inner-game capacity</p><p>- Why every growth target you set is really a promotion into incompetence, and the team leadership habit that closes the gap</p><p>- Delegation techniques that actually produce ownership — hand over outcomes and let people design the process</p><p>- Why giving advice usually fails, and the advice-free conversation that gets there faster</p><p>- The leadership skills it takes to stop pretending in front of your own team, and what Rajesh says happens when leaders do</p><p><br></p><p>One of the more honest founder interviews we have recorded.</p><p><br></p><p>How to reach Rajesh Nagjee:</p><p><br></p><p>https://rajeshnagjee.com/</p><p>https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeshnagjee/</p><p><br></p><p>Book a discovery call with Jason LeDuc:</p><p>https://link.marketingmoneymachine.co/widget/bookings/training-discovery</p><p><br></p><p>🗞️ Stay informed without the noise: I use informed.now every day — the day's news texted straight to you, free of bias, clickbait, and ads. Try it: https://infmd.co/jld</p><p>Disclosure: This description contains an affiliate link. If you upgrade to informed.now premium I may earn a small referral, at no extra cost to you. I partnered with them because I use and believe in the product.</p>