John Lovell Show
You're Not As Ready As You Think! | Conversation On Leadership - Josh Howerton
12-Feb-2026
Most leaders don’t fail because they’re lazy — they fail because they hit a constraint they never trained for.
In this episode, John sits down with Josh Howerton to talk about Constraint Theory and why, under pressure, you don’t rise to the occasion… you fall to your lowest level of training. We apply that framework to leadership in real life: organizations, teams, families, and missions — and how to identify the bottleneck that’s quietly limiting growth, health, and impact.
You’ll also hear hard truths about what happens when a mission drifts and the “engine” that once powered it is gone — even if the outside still looks successful.
What you’ll learn
• How to find the real constraint (the bottleneck) limiting your leadership
• Why training beats intention under pressure
• What “growth constraints” look like in the real world (systems, capacity, culture)
• How leaders get crushed when they try to be everything (and how to structure roles)
• Why “looking successful” can hide a dead mission
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