I’m sure someone has sorted out how many people John Wick kills across his cinematic run, but I fear I can’t count that high.

I know the violence in these movies is severe and ever present, but I think about John Wick every single day when I dive into my work around leadership and building teams that produce outsized results.

After all, John Wick might be the poster child for producing outsized results.

During the opening sequence of the second movie, one crime boss is talking to another crime boss, describing exactly why John Wick is such an interminable force.

“John Wick is a man of focus, commitment, and sheer [censored] will.”

And that’s the crux of it all, right there.

Did John Wick have what Liam Neeson would call “a very particular set of skills”? Absolutely.

But the thing that made him terrifying was his focus, commitment, and will.

He proved himself to be a wholly unstoppable force along the way and every day I want to capture just a fraction of that relentlessness.

When you think of John Wick, you might think of a guy who dispatched scores of enemies.

But I think of a model of unyielding focus and persistence. 

TRY THIS: How would adopting John Wick’s focus, commitment, and sheer will change the outcomes you experience? What would be different if you adopted just a trace of his relentlessness? When you get knocked down those merciless Montmartre steps, get back up and keep climbing.”
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