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Good vs. better vs. best performance

Good vs. better vs. best performance

From the course: Leadership Stories: 5-Minute Lessons in Leading People

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Good vs. better vs. best performance

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- If you're like most leaders, you're constantly asked what's the difference between good performance and great performance? After all, most people want to do their best if they just knew what that looked like. And if you're like more leaders, you've got a list of attributes in mind that you think are important in your business. And then you rattle them off to anyone who asks that question. The problem is, as you might have noticed, that most people when they hear your list, are already convinced that they meet most or all of them. Our human egos just make it difficult to think any other way. So if you tell them that communication, leadership, and analytical ability are the three most important skills to have, there's a pretty good chance the person you're talking to thinks that they've already got great communication, leadership, and analytical skills, right? And that's why rattling off a list is rarely helpful as a tool to develop your people. Now, here's a very different technique,…

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