“You will never outperform your inner circle,” Coach John Wooden once said. Highly-successful people and leaders have an inner circle of friends, family members, colleagues, and/or mentors that creates a core group of support. Over time, we develop our inner circle to meet our needs and help support us with our goals. The inner circle …
James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, writes, “The key to building lasting habits is focusing on creating a new identity first. Your current behaviors are simply a reflection of your current identity.” After reading Atomic Habits, the concept of beliefs, habits, and systems took shape in the context of leadership. In any organization, beliefs, habits, …
In a recent leadership podcast, Jennifer Garvey Berger discussed the impact of highly-effective leaders. Jennifer’s work with leadership brings her to the conclusion that great leaders have a significant indirect impact on others when they’re present. That impact, while challenging to pinpoint in the moment, can be narrowed down to tangible ideas. Here are five …
“Excellence is never an accident,” once wrote Aristotle. In the book CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest, Dewar, Keller, and Malhotra outline six key areas that separate some of the top leaders in the world. Through their work coaching leaders, they narrowed down how these highly-effective leaders achieve …
“There are many leaders, not just one. Leadership is distributed. It resides not solely in the individual at the top, but in every person at every level who, in one way or another, acts as a leader to a group of followers — wherever in the organization that person is, whether shop steward, team head, …
“You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that,” Michael Jordan said. In society, there is a subset of people who are highly competitive individuals. Not only do they work hard, live with elite discipline, and develop a …
Developing and sustaining a championship culture and program takes relentless effort from everyone involved. Excellent leaders consistently reflect on the culture surrounding their programs and organizations. They know that achieving success is always a work in progress, and they continuously search for ways to improve it. Here are five reflective questions to sustain a championship …
“Dominating the controllables is an essential part of reaching high performance, thinking like the world’s best, and growing your grit,” writes Dr. Cindra Kamphoff, author of Beyond Grit. The process of high-performance seems complicated, but many people tend to make it more challenging than necessary. Consistently showing up each day and working a detailed process …
“We’re chasing winning. When you’re chasing winning, you’re just focused on that. Anything that’s a distraction outside of it you just don’t care about,” says Coach Kara Lawson. The barrier to entry for a championship team culture is incredibly high. Great coaches, players, and teams must develop and sustain an incredibly high attention to detail …
One critical aspect of leadership is solving significant problems that happen in the organization. Leaders who can strategically organize and solve issues continually move their people and organizations forward. Although problems happen daily in organizations, some are larger than others and need a strategic system for solving them. Here is a seven step process for …