Mike Goldman is the best-selling author of Performance Breakthrough and Breakthrough Leadership Team. He is also a nationally recognized speaker and leadership team coach. He founded Performance Breakthrough in 2007 to help mid-sized companies achieve dramatic business growth by working with leadership teams to ensure they have the right people, strategies and execution habits for growth. Mike has over 30 years of experience consulting and coaching companies from the local entrepreneur to the Fortune 500. Throughout his career, he helped companies like Verizon, Disney, Polo Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Dillard’s, Liz Claiborne and Levi Strauss.Check out resources for your leadership team https://breakthroughleadershipteam.com (here). Purchase Breakthrough Leadership Team https://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Leadership-Team-Strengthening-Company/dp/1544507380/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8andqid=andsr= (here).LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS- The leadership team has a cascading effect on an organization (teamwork, accountability, etc.).- Most people do not proactively structure their leadership teams. When they make changes, it’s usually a reaction step.- Before you can get the right people on board with you, you need to make sure you embody the values and capacities you seek in others.- Leaders most frequently experience the “lid” of hiring the wrong person or keeping the wrong person on their team too long.- Develop a “functional accountability chart” that shows what function(s) each person is responsible for. This also provides an idea of where to focus when adding people to the team.- Find the right people to add to your team by continuously networking to have a virtual bench of potential teammates who already live your core values.- The Three Vs of Culture: values, vision, and vulnerability.- Executing with discipline means: 1. Aligning around a small number of priorities, 2. Measuring what matters to identify success or failure, and 3. Having a structures, formal planning and communication rhythm.- Prioritize the individual improvement of each member of your team and assess the level of talent for each team member on a regular basis.QUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION- What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? If you’re not learning and growing, you’re dying.- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: “A leader is…” Curious, a clear vision, and accountable.- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? If you had to do it all over again, would you enthusiastically re-hire everyone on your team?- What book would you recommend to leaders? Leadership and Self Deception by Arbinger Institute- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Focus on what you want, not what you don’t want.- As a general life principle, is it better to ask “why?” or “why not?” “Why?” because if your why is big enough, you can do anything.Website:https://www.mike-goldman.comContact:[email protected] Mike on social media:Twitter: https://twitter.com/mgoldman10 (@mgoldman10)LinkdIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgoldman10/ (in/mgoldman10)