Results On Purpose

In this episode of Growing Leaders Podcast Powered by Results on Purpose , host Jeff Garrison explores a simple but powerful leadership truth: you get what you tolerate.

What leaders allow - whether it’s poor performance, bad attitudes, unclear expectations, or unhealthy relationships - eventually becomes the reality of their business and their life. Jeff shares real client examples showing how tolerating the wrong behaviors slowly erodes culture, performance, profitability, and even personal freedom. He also addresses the “head trash” that keeps leaders stuck and explains how setting proper boundaries leads to stronger teams and better results.

3 Key Takeaways

1. Tolerating poor behavior or performance sets the standard
Whether it’s a long‑tenured employee, a business partner, or a toxic high performer, what leaders allow communicates what’s acceptable. Over time, tolerance becomes culture - and culture drives results.

2. “Head trash” keeps leaders from taking necessary action
Leaders often justify inaction by telling themselves it's a busy time for the business, nobody else can do the job, or they’re worried about someone’s future. These stories delay accountability and ultimately hurt the organization and the people in it.

3. Boundaries protect both the business and the leader’s life goals
When leaders fail to hold the line on expectations, they sacrifice not just performance but personal goals - time, freedom, growth, and fulfillment. Setting boundaries isn’t harsh; it’s how leaders create sustainable success.

Episode Highlights

• 00:00 What “you get what you tolerate” really means
• 02:00 How tolerance sneaks in as businesses grow
• 05:00 When partners and vendors fall below expectations
• 08:00 The cultural cost of tolerating toxic high performers
• 10:00 Common leadership “head trash” explained
• 15:00 How tolerance impacts personal freedom and success
• 18:00 Applying this principle in business and life

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In this episode of Results on Purpose Coaching, host Jeff Garrison breaks down one of the most critical—and commonly missed—responsibilities of leadership: creating clarity in your business.

Clarity sounds simple, but as Jeff explains, it’s not easy. When leaders fail to consistently create clarity, organizations drift, people disengage, and leaders end up stuck in the weeds. This episode walks through the five pillars of clarity that help leaders align teams, drive accountability, and free up their time by preventing problems before they become major issues.

A great business must be full of trustworthy people. In fact, you can't have a great business without everyone being trustworthy.

Of course, we hate to suggest that someone is not trustworthy because that feels like a direct, personal indictment of someone's character. However, there is a lot more than merely "good character" required for a person to be a trustworthy employee.

Even is someone is genuinely a person of good character, if they are not competent in their role, they can't be trusted to deliver results.

If a person does not fit your culture, they can't be trusted to deliver results.

If they don't speak up for the good of the company with their ideas and opinions despite the apparent "danger," then they can't be trusted to deliver results.

Watch the video to learn more or tune into the Results On Purpose podcast for a longer discussion.

To learn more about Results On Purpose Business Coaching, connect with Jeff Garrison on LinkedIn or visit www.ResultsOnPurpose.com.

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How many leadership teams successfully set AND execute their goals on time, on budget, with the expected Results? Not many. Too many things get in the way, right? Perhaps in fact, it is a skill and accountability thing. If so, what are some of the things that help leaderships teams to set and execute goals well? Watch the video to learn about a few.

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Long-term goals seem to be just that, long-term goals. But it is funny how we view time. Over ten years, you only have forty quarters. You better make the most of each one.

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What does a conversation with my daughters about performance on the soccer field have to do with great business leadership? Well, it's about Mindset! Great business leaders have actually defined and documented how they want their teams to think and behave and they constantly talk about it, coach it, and recognize it in order to get world-class performance.

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With my first business, I was asked by my coach nearly 20 years ago to answer the question, “How are we unique from our competitors?” And when I first started business coaching and sales coaching over a decade ago, I would ask leaders to come up with the answer to this question as well. But, after enough experience, I started to wonder if the answer mattered or if this was even the right question.

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Leadership Teams building a great company need to commit to a future state in which no one is a drag.

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Have you ever been part of a mind-blowing, belief filled goals session? If you’re not sure, then I would say the answer is no. Watch the video to learn more about what it looks like.

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