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Performance Standards

Why do so many companies lack the discipline to build a robust, focused set of measurable objectives for employees?  These companies instead default to subjective assessments or to objectives that are redefined when it comes time for evaluation.  And as a result, performance suffers.

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Reflective Learning

Learning "from direct experience," a Harvard Business School study found, "can be more effective if coupled with reflection - that is, the intentional attempt to synthesize, abstract, and articulate the key lessons taught by experience."  The philosopher and educator John Dewey went a step further: "We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience." 

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#Culture

One of the several goals in creating a high-performance culture is to eliminate fear and failure - to create an environment in which making mistakes doesn't strike terror into your employee's hearts .

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Priority Shift

Priorities can and will rapidly shift and change.  When this happens, communication of that shift to the rest of your team, both up and down the chain of command is crucial.  The team must have the ability to quickly reprioritize efforts and rapidly adapt to a constantly changing competitive landscape. 

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#Opportunity

Sometimes, the greatest opportunity resides in the darkest places. 

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#Leadership Action

You get paid for being right first, and to be first, you can't wait for consensus. 

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Collective Intelligence

As a organization, we are already more intelligent than we are as individuals.  We are part of a collective intelligence. 

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Competition

In a global economy, standards of performance are rising more quickly and more broadly than ever before, leaving subpar performers no place to hide. 

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#Complacency

Stretch goals make complacency impossible.  Develop a healthy disregard for the impossible. 

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#Motivation

Feeling motivated gets you to act.  Feeling successful gets you to repeat. 

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