Most people believe that competitiveness is necessary for high performing teams.

This is true - but it's not the whole truth.

You must pair competitiveness with another attribute—one almost all leaders and organizations overlook: Non-competitiveness

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Sufficiently defined values strengthen company culture. But it goes the other way, too. Culture is behavior that serves values, or more precisely, it is the way we behave our values. The relationship between values and culture is dynamic and mutually reinforcing.

It’s common for companies to paint their values in big, bright letters on their walls. But in doing so, many lack a crucial ingredient for actually making these values effective.

Here’s how to avoid it and come out on top.

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Modeling your own vulnerability sets the example and creates a new normal for your team. No longer hiding when their unique attributes can help or hinder, your team members are able to rely on one another and optimize performance when it counts the most.

One of the most important characteristics for a leader to have is humility.

Obviously some skills are necessary just for basic entry, right?

But if you want the highest performing teams on the planet, which are teams that not only do well when things are going well, they do well when things are not going well, you have to look at Attributes.

When you compartmentalize effectively, your brain creates a little bit of dopamine after every segment. Since you’ve already broken your task into manageable pieces on which to focus, this provides you the motivational micro boosts you need to keep going through tough events

Last time I wrote about improving your grit. But there’s one another surprising attribute that plays a crucial role.

It’s compartmentalization. Read the full article here:
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Developing your ego (your sense of self) means getting to know these various components of yourself and how they all fit together. It means figuring out who you are.

Very cool to have been able to finally connect with Jocko Willink on the Jocko Podcast - our careers paralleled, but never intersected. We had an awesome chat about the SEAL Teams, Attributes, Metallica, and being Connecticut natives. Thank you brother!