How leaders cultivate high performance

- [Pete] In your classic book "Getting Results," you talk about five absolutes of high performance. So how do those fit into the equation? - [Man] All right, thanks for the setup. So here's what we found. A number of years ago, we were approached by a Fortune 500 CEO, and he said look, our organization, we've put a lot of money and a lot of things, but we don't seem to be able to get the results we're looking for. So we basically sat down, and we decided to explore the best practices of high-performance business leaders across virtually every component of the economy, if you would. So we looked at frontline managers, middle managers, and top-level managers, but the key to being part of the 2000-person sample was they had to be getting great results for at least three to five years, and so we interviewed 'em. We did the survey work with them, and we broke down what they did, and we subsequently carried the study…