Beyond High Performance: What Great Coaches Know About How the Best Get Better

It’s about looking at work as a means of creative output, of adding value.

The question is: How do you turn up the volume on your integrity in order to get more done in less time, with increased satisfaction?

The meta-performing question of, “What am I capable of?” on the other hand, has nearly infinite answers.

What if working wasn’t a life-draining but a life-sustaining, life-giving force?

The pages ahead of you reflect two obsessions me and my colleagues at the firm and the institute have: an obsession with unleashing the potential in others and an obsession with community.

you will go both faster and farther when working with teams.

“When we try to force change without the enrollment of other stakeholders, we more often than not create more damage than good.”

In sum, the prisoner works because they’re forced to.

the caveat to the ten-thousand-hour rule, mainly arguing that all practice isn’t equal by explaining Dr. Ericcson’s concept of “deliberate practice.” Miller writes, “The best way to get better at something is through something known as deliberate practice, which means practicing in order to get better: doing activities recommended by experts to dev

In other words, for the missionary, work is life.