Guide Your Team to Go For Gold
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Guide Your Team to Go For Gold

The Paris Olympic games are finally underway. Across a refreshing variety of sports, athletes are enjoying the spotlight. Spectators witness spectacular wins, bittersweet losses, and stories of courage and perseverance.

A lot on the line.

There’s a lot on the line, too. For many athletes, earning the chance simply to participate in high-profile competitions is life changing. Whether engaging in a well-known or niche sport, performing well in big moments or on the world stage matters. It’s the culmination of years of hard work, commitment, and passion. Moreover, performance in these situations can set the tone for what comes next. Win or lose, it’s about how athletes prepare for and handle the challenge.

The same is true for leaders. Both individual and business success are on the line. Whether building on or correcting past performance, how leaders guide their teams can make the difference between exceptional and lackluster results.

High performance over a series of trials.

Going for gold often requires high performance over a series of trials, qualifiers, games, matches, etc. More than a single event, steady progress and consistent excellence determines the victor. The executives I advise take deliberate action to foster the environment that drives sustained success. They know that mastering fundamentals and setting the stage for high performance teams to flourish accelerate progress.

Constant assessment and adjustment.

Executing strategy well requires constant assessment and adjustment to align strategy and operations. This alignment is what makes your strategy work. And like athletic pursuits, it’s not static. It takes practice, as I wrote here.

What is the one action you will take right now to position your team to go for the gold?


For more on making your strategy work, get my book: Charting the Course: CEO Tools to Align Strategy and Operations, available on Amazon.


The executives I advise routinely make their strategies work better. I can help you too.

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