How To Raise Your Standards TODAY w/ Leila Hormozi | Ep 795

What’s the secret to being a great leader? Whether you’re in a warzone or on the front lines of a corporate battle, Extreme Ownership argues that the best leaders take full responsibility for everything in their world: not only their actions, decisions, and failures, but also those of everyone on their team. By practicing Extreme Ownership, great leaders achieve victory by prioritizing the team above all else and focusing on constant improvement—and in this guide, we’ll show how you can, too.

Authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin are former US Navy SEAL officers who served in one of the most dangerous areas of Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. They honed the principles of Extreme Ownership on the battlefield, then applied the same tenets to the corporate world as business consultants. In this guide, we’ll add broader context from other leadership books such as Built to Last and Team of Teams to better illustrate how to apply Willink and Babin’s leadership principles to your life.

Business leaders tend to overinvest in things like marketing and technology to obtain a competitive advantage. However, Patrick Lencioni claims that the biggest advantage you can gain is free and already within your reach: organizational health. Without organizational health, even the savviest industry leaders will fail to reach their full potential. The Advantage presents Lencioni’s straightforward method to establish organizational health and become a powerhouse company in your industry.

This guide will define organizational health and present Lencioni’s method for achieving it. First, we’ll discuss how to create an effective leadership team. Next, we’ll cover how to form a unifying company culture with clear and consistent goals. Then, we’ll explain how to promote employee alignment and dedication. Finally, we’ll explore how to maintain organizational health with effective meetings. Throughout the guide, we’ll supplement Lencioni’s advice with recommendations from other books that focus on organizational health and development, such as Traction by Gino Wickman and Start With Why by Simon Sinek.

In Fix This Next, entrepreneur and business author Mike Michalowicz introduces the Business Hierarchy of Needs, a system for determining which of your company’s problems you should fix next. Michalowicz created this system because many entrepreneurs struggle with prioritization. They’re often overwhelmed by problems, so they focus on fixing the most immediate problem instead of identifying the most impactful approach that’ll fix the problem’s root cause. Since the root cause isn’t resolved, problems continue to appear.

In this guide, we’ll discuss how Michalowicz’s prioritization system works and how you can use it to make your business more successful. In our commentary, we’ll compare his advice to that of other business experts like Simon Sinek and Seth Godin, as well as explore concrete tips for implementing Michalowicz’s ideas.

Why do some companies thrive while others fail? Better timing? Better ideas? Good luck? According to business leaders Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, the difference is execution—the dynamic practice of linking a company’s people, strategy, and goals to achieve results. In Execution, they explain that great leaders drive execution by constantly seeking accurate information about company operations, assessing progress toward big-picture goals, and supporting free-flowing communication. When leaders execute effectively and are actively involved in the company at ground level, they create a performance-oriented culture and keep everyone’s efforts focused on the goals that matter most.

In this guide, we’ll review Bossidy and Charan’s principles for powerful leadership and consider other authors’ ideas that support (and sometimes challenge) their assertions. We’ll also connect their theoretical principles to actionable tools and techniques you can use to propel your company toward more success.

What’s the secret to being a great leader? Whether you’re in a warzone or on the front lines of a corporate battle, Extreme Ownership argues that the best leaders take full responsibility for everything in their world: not only their actions, decisions, and failures, but also those of everyone on their team. By practicing Extreme Ownership, great leaders achieve victory by prioritizing the team above all else and focusing on constant improvement—and in this guide, we’ll show how you can, too.

Authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin are former US Navy SEAL officers who served in one of the most dangerous areas of Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. They honed the principles of Extreme Ownership on the battlefield, then applied the same tenets to the corporate world as business consultants. In this guide, we’ll add broader context from other leadership books such as Built to Last and Team of Teams to better illustrate how to apply Willink and Babin’s leadership principles to your life.

Only 13% of the world’s workforce is actively engaged at work. As a manager, how can you find strong employees and keep them motivated, focused, and productive without creating frustration through constant micro-managing? Gallup interviewed over 80,000 managers and more than 1,000,000 employees to find out. They found that most great managers recognize one core truth: successful employees have the proper talents to excel in their position.

In First, Break All The Rules, learn to use the Four Keys of management to navigate people’s talents and weaknesses. These lay out a roadmap that will help you hire the right people, create a productive working environment, and guide employees to success.

Business leaders tend to overinvest in things like marketing and technology to obtain a competitive advantage. However, Patrick Lencioni claims that the biggest advantage you can gain is free and already within your reach: organizational health. Without organizational health, even the savviest industry leaders will fail to reach their full potential. The Advantage presents Lencioni’s straightforward method to establish organizational health and become a powerhouse company in your industry.

This guide will define organizational health and present Lencioni’s method for achieving it. First, we’ll discuss how to create an effective leadership team. Next, we’ll cover how to form a unifying company culture with clear and consistent goals. Then, we’ll explain how to promote employee alignment and dedication. Finally, we’ll explore how to maintain organizational health with effective meetings. Throughout the guide, we’ll supplement Lencioni’s advice with recommendations from other books that focus on organizational health and development, such as Traction by Gino Wickman and Start With Why by Simon Sinek.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable explores how teams fail to work cohesively together through a dynamic, five-part model of dysfunction. The five dysfunctions are 1) absence of trust, 2) fear of conflict, 3) lack of commitment, 4) avoidance of accountability, and 5) inattention to results. Through identifying these root causes of poor teamwork, teams can develop specific strategies for overcoming each of them. By doing this, they will become comfortable with one another, be willing to engage in constructive debate, achieve clarity and buy-in around team priorities, hold one another to high standards, and focus on team results instead of individual ambition.

How do business leaders create engaged, motivated, and coordinated teams? In The Way of the Shepherd, Kevin Leman and William Pentak use a fictional story to show how, by adopting a shepherd’s mindset, managers can foster loyalty, trust, and high performance among their "flock" of employees.

Leman is a psychologist, educator, and radio and television personality. Pentak is a business consultant, columnist, former pastor, and speaker. These authors use a narrative format to make leadership concepts accessible and memorable for readers seeking to improve their management skills in various organizational settings. In this guide, readers will discover how to build trust, organize teams effectively, and lead with purpose, all while learning to embody the compassionate yet firm nature of a shepherd-leader. Through our commentary, we'll explore some of the research behind Leman and Pentak's strategies, while comparing their advice to other business leaders' ideas.