Creating a Highly
Effective Team
By Trisha Taylor and Jim Herrington with John Sparks
POTENTIAL
:
MAXIMIZE YOURS
In leadership expert Mark Sanborn’s
latest book, The Potential Principle,
he talks about boosting performance.
Here are a collection of his tips for
leaders:
If you’ve already achieved a certain
level of success in life, why strive to
be better?
Mark: Obviously, nobody “has to”
get better, and many choose not
to. But getting better shouldn’t be
viewed as an obligation, but as an
opportunity. So what is the case for
getting better, regardless of how
good you’ve become?
22 Solutions
First, change requires us to get better
just to keep up. Yesterday’s skills can
limit us in tomorrow’s world.
Second, competitors keep getting
better, so if we don’t we fall behind
(and if you don’t have an outside
competitor per se, I assure you, your
employers needs you to get better.
If you don’t, how can they pay you
more?).
Third, customers want more from us.
The more we do for them, the more
they expect.
But the best reason to get better