When you’re in the Right Seat you “get it, want it and have the capacity to do it”. You know it and just as importantly, everyone on your team knows it. There’s confidence in your ability to deliver the goods, to get results. And, when everyone on the leadership team is in the Right Seat, there’s a foundation in place to build a great business.
Jim Collins says that “mediocrity stems from chronic inconsistency.” What a powerful and accurate phrase.
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At the end of 2011, I felt my body was underperforming. That mattered because I wanted to do specific things well – at a high level – and just didn’t seem to have the stamina to pull it all off. A couple of my clients had found a solution in P90X and encouraged me to follow in their footsteps. I’m 6 months in and I love it. I feel great and am performing at a much higher level than I was previously.
Spreading true rumors is a phrase I picked up in reading Patrick Lencioni’s latest book, The Advantage – Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business.
A helpful discipline when giving feedback to someone, or having a tough conversation to help correct someone’s unproductive actions, is sharing three data points. Data points are examples of what the person is doing that demonstrates the bad behavior.
