Mike Straw is the founder and CEO of Achieve Breakthrough, an award-winning organizational change consultancy that helps businesses improve their culture and leadership as well as achieve seemingly impossible breakthroughs. My dad is a huge fan of him, so of course I had to reach out and get some of his wisdom on creating breakthroughs in business and life!

Max Out Insights:

Successful change efforts require a change in thinking

Your current assumptions may have led you to here but prevent you from reaching the next level

Before creating a new future, let go of your past results, stories, assumptions, and habits

When asked what they really want to accomplish, people tend to look at their past to predict their future

If you were already the leader you want to be, how would you think and act?

What`s missing from you living your ideal life right now?

Developing presence is key to dealing with uncertainty

We learn best in action, not by sucking our thumb

To learn from failure, stop beating yourself up and ask yourself: What would my winning moves be next time?

Max Out Quotes:

“Leadership is the art of taking something that was impossible to possible to real.”

“Most of the reason great things don`t happen is because you and I have inherited some story of why it isn`t possible.”

“How do you start to be the way you want to be NOW?”

“Collaboration, in the purest sense, is many great minds coming together and creating something that they could have never done on their own.”

“If you get to a place where you`re trying to prove yourself and you`re not listening to what`s really going on, you`re going to have a massive failure.”