The Best Players Play

As a leader, your job is to set your team up with the best chance to win.

Period.

This is just as true in business as it is in sports.

If you're competing to win...

You need to put the best players in the game.

Not the players that have been on the team the longest.

Not the players you like the most.

Not the players that are the "nicest.”

The best players.

I see a lot of companies get their ass beat because they fail to understand this concept.

Instead of promoting and giving opportunities to the highest performing players on their team...

They give it to someone based on reasons that have 0 relevance to the success of the team and mission.

All this does is communicate to the rest of the team that the results they produce don't matter which breeds a culture of complacency and resentment.

Even if you don't lead a team or run a business...

This concept still applies to you.

If you want to progress your career and play in the game...

You have to be undeniably great at what you do.

UNQUESTIONABLY.

UNDENIABLY.

That includes being better than everyone you're in competition with.

So what's it going to be?

Only you can decide whether you're playing in the game...

...or sitting on the bench.

Either way ... the best players will play.

Always.