High Performance. Innovation. Strategy.
“Optimize for your North Star metric. Don’t optimize for something that doesn’t make the customer happy.” — Evan Williams, Co-founder of Twitter and Medium. What are you optimizing for? As a high-performance coach at Microsoft for several years, I’ve worked with countless individuals and teams who were striving to achieve their best. One of the …
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die.” — George Bernard Shaw We all have the potential to know more, do more, be more, and achieve more. A lot of us know we were born for something more, but then we struggle to reach that potential. Rather than wondering about what you are …
If you’re familiar with Gartner’s Magic Quadrants, you’ll recognize Ability to Execute. “Ability to Execute” is a powerful concept. Here is a quick mental model to picture Ability to Execute: Ability to Execute is a quick way to help prioritize ideas worth acting on. After all, what good is a bunch of ideas you can’t …
“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.” — Patrick Lencioni To create high-performance teams, you don’t need the best people in the world. But you do need people at their best. To bring out their best, you …
“People don’t leave bad companies, they leave bad managers.” – Marcus Buckingham What do great managers do? To put it simply, they bring out your best. Whether it’s fire you up or get on your path or help you overcome your personal challenges, they help you flourish. Great managers grow great leaders. Aside from all …
