Chad Silverstein on why one high performer can shift an entire team's culture and results. Focus your energy on the catalysts, not the laggards.
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One warrior, the few. You know, you'll see certain common threads that run through the build to lead framework. And the few is definitely at the top of the list. And it's hard if you're a leader and you're bringing built lead into your company. I had up to about 100 people working at my company and I think most of my practices averaged around 20 people. And I used to get frustrated with that because I was paying people to come to practice, but it wasn't for everyone. I had to embrace that. I wanted everyone to come, come, but you know, it was always better when there were less people anyways. But it just, for some people, it wasn't their thing and we had to embrace that. And I did. What's incredible is that you don't need everybody. And when you accept that, it makes it so much easier when you're frustrated with certain things in your culture, in your community, your family, whatever the case may be, with your friends. And many times it only takes 1, 1 person to kind of step up. I mean, this is the example that they use with the 4 minute mile. Nobody ever ran one, but then one person ran a 4 minute mile and the next thing, you know, tons of people followed and were able to do it. Because once you see that it's possible, once you see as possible, then all of a sudden, you know, it becomes realistic. Until someone can do it, it seems unrealistic. And this is so true with any team, any high performing team. You know, in my, in my system I wanted to do open schedules and we had, you know, people hitting average numbers and I challenged the highest performer to hit a certain number. That was way real unrealistic. And I said, if you hit that, we'll let you do open, open schedule. And she, she crushed it. And next thing I know, everybody's doing it. It only took one person. And I think for leaders to understand that you need to be the one person to start to be that catalyst, to throw your vision out there and to encourage other people to write their own. And you don't need everybody doing it, you just need, you need a few. So when it comes to numbers, when it comes to any type of producing revenue, when it comes to sales and any type of high performance in any department, just focus on a few and don't always focus on the lowest performers, the ones who drain you. Focus on the ones who can raise the bar for the entire system and be a catalyst for others to kind of follow their way. And I think, you know, when you can do that and you find your few and you pay attention to what they're doing. You can get so much more out of them because they're that good for a reason. So focus on a few. Be the warrior and. Yeah, tell us about it.
