7 Mantras for Scaling Up Excellence
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7 Mantras for Scaling Up Excellence (Or how to spread best practices throughout your organization)
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Scaling Up Excellence shows what it takes to build and uncover pockets of exemplary performance, spread those splendid deeds, and as an organization grows bigger and older-- rather than slipping toward mediocrity or worse-- recharge it with better ways of doing the work at hand. Bestselling author Robert Sutton and his Stanford colleague Huggy Rao devoted seven years to studying how the best leaders and teams spread constructive beliefs, behaviors, and practices from those who have them to those who need them. http://scalingupexcellence.com/
Transcript of 7 Mantras for Scaling Up Excellence
7 Mantras for Scaling Up Excellence
(Or how to spread best practices throughout your
organization)
Spread a mindset, not just a FOOTPRINT
Running up the numbers and putting your logo on
as many places as possible
isn’t enough
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Engage all the senses2Bolster the mindset you want to
spread with supportive SIGHTS, SOUNDS, SMELLS,
and other subtle cues that people barely notice if at all
Link short- term realitiesto long-term dreams3
Hound yourself and others with questions about what it
takes to link the never-ending now
to the sweet dreams you hope to realize later.
Accelerate accountability 4Build in the feeling that
“I own the place and the place owns me.”
Fear the CLUSTERFUG5The terrible trio of
illusion, impatience, and incompetence
are ever-present risks. Healthy doses of worry and self-doubt are antidotes to these three hallmarks
of scaling clusterfugs.
Scaling requires both ADDITION and SUBTRACTION 6
The problem of MORE
is also a problem of LESS
SLOW DOWN to scale faster—and better—
down the road.7Learn when and how to shift gears from automatic, mindless, and fast modes of thinking to slow, logical,
deliberative, and conscious modes; sometimes the best advice is
“Don’t just do something, stand there.”
SCALING UP EXCELLENCE: GETTING TO MORE WITHOUT SETTLING FOR LESS
BY ROBERT I. SUTTON AND HUGGY RAO
Learn more at
http://scalingupexcellence.com/
