The Maximum Standard

The Maximum Standard

Definition: The challenging expectation leaders set for both themselves and their teams with the goal of realizing their full potential

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Lead Like You’re Snowboarding

Lead Like You’re Snowboarding

The Medium Is the Message

The Medium Is the Message

The Carousel of Progress

The Carousel of Progress

Unlock Your Subconscious to Achieve Goals

Unlock Your Subconscious to Achieve Goals

Credibility Counts: Cutting the Rope

Credibility Counts: Cutting the Rope

Ten Ways to Help Your Team Love Work

Ten Ways to Help Your Team Love Work

Shoveling the Driveway: Setting Conditions for Success

Shoveling the Driveway: Setting Conditions for Success

The Jeep Wave

The Jeep Wave

The Art of the Hustle: Josh Allen and The Shark Tank

The Art of the Hustle: Josh Allen and The Shark Tank

Lessons from the Operating Room

Lessons from the Operating Room

The Inner Specialist

The Inner Specialist

If Your Dreams Don’t Scare You, They’re Not Big Enough

If Your Dreams Don’t Scare You, They’re Not Big Enough

The Holiday Recharge

The Holiday Recharge

Better to Be a Nerd, or a Jock?

Better to Be a Nerd, or a Jock?

Four Types of Listeners

Four Types of Listeners

Thanking Like You Mean It

Thanking Like You Mean It

Breaking Entitlement Culture

Breaking Entitlement Culture

Veterans Day: Leading in the Community

Veterans Day: Leading in the Community

Leaders Keep Swinging

Leaders Keep Swinging

Organized Team Sports: The Great Leadership Academy

Organized Team Sports: The Great Leadership Academy

The Easy-Hard Principle: The Consequence of Choices

The Easy-Hard Principle: The Consequence of Choices

Don’t Cut Corners: In Soccer… Or in Life

Don’t Cut Corners: In Soccer… Or in Life

When Performance Meets Potential: The Nine Box Matrix

When Performance Meets Potential: The Nine Box Matrix

Dunning-Kruger Effect: But I’m a Great Driver

Dunning-Kruger Effect: But I’m a Great Driver

The Servant as a Leader

The Servant as a Leader

Not Mine… Ours

Not Mine… Ours

57 Cents: Multiplying Leadership

57 Cents: Multiplying Leadership

It’s About Who You Know: Paul Revere

It’s About Who You Know: Paul Revere

Never Walk by Trash

Never Walk by Trash

The Birthday Compliment

The Birthday Compliment

The Myth of the Swinging Pendulum

The Myth of the Swinging Pendulum

Make Every Interaction Positive

Make Every Interaction Positive

Leadership Constitution

Leadership Constitution

Be Great Today!

Be Great Today!

Reflect Before Leading

Reflect Before Leading

Win the Morning, Win the Day

Win the Morning, Win the Day

The Road Not Taken: Following Your Moral Compass

The Road Not Taken: Following Your Moral Compass

Integrating Work and Life

Integrating Work and Life

Seek First to Understand, Then Be Understood

Seek First to Understand, Then Be Understood

Leaving a Leadership Legacy

Leaving a Leadership Legacy

Never Forget the Sacrifice

Never Forget the Sacrifice

Entering Their World

Entering Their World

How to Recognize Your Team

How to Recognize Your Team

The Three Orders of Leadership Greatness

The Three Orders of Leadership Greatness

Overcoming Mental Barriers to Success

Overcoming Mental Barriers to Success

The Croc Brain: Keys to Effective Presentations

The Croc Brain: Keys to Effective Presentations

Message to Garcia

Message to Garcia

The Lost Practice of Delivering Tough Feedback

The Lost Practice of Delivering Tough Feedback

I Like Turtles – Joining the Conversation

I Like Turtles – Joining the Conversation

Hard To Do Does Not Equal Impossible – Ask Ukraine

Hard To Do Does Not Equal Impossible – Ask Ukraine

Lead Like Your Kid’s Soccer Coach

Lead Like Your Kid’s Soccer Coach

The Engaged Leader: Knowing the Pulse of Your Organization

The Engaged Leader: Knowing the Pulse of Your Organization

The Identity Crisis & the Lie We Can’t Believe

The Identity Crisis & the Lie We Can’t Believe

Leadership Case Study: President Volodymyr Zelensky

Leadership Case Study: President Volodymyr Zelensky

Even the Least of These

Even the Least of These

The Pygmalion Effect: Rasing the Bar

The Pygmalion Effect: Rasing the Bar

How Much of Success Is Luck?

How Much of Success Is Luck?

Loving Like a Boss

Loving Like a Boss

Oblitunity

Oblitunity

It Only Takes ONE

It Only Takes ONE

If Your Dreams Don’t Scare You, They’re Not Big Enough

If Your Dreams Don’t Scare You, They’re Not Big Enough

The Battle of Kruger: The Power of Us

The Battle of Kruger: The Power of Us

People Don’t Quit Their Jobs… They Quit Their Bosses

People Don’t Quit Their Jobs… They Quit Their Bosses

Summit Fever

Summit Fever

Start and End with Thanks

Start and End with Thanks

Meet Them at the Door

Meet Them at the Door

The Sweet Spot: A Veteran’s Day Leadership Message

The Sweet Spot: A Veteran’s Day Leadership Message

The Power of Change

The Power of Change

Listening Is Hard

Listening Is Hard

3 B’s of Communication

3 B’s of Communication

Sink the Rig? Making Better Decisions

Sink the Rig? Making Better Decisions

Who Is Your Second?

Who Is Your Second?

It’s Not About Me

It’s Not About Me

Sit on the Bleachers

Sit on the Bleachers

To Be Wrong

To Be Wrong

9/11: Through the Lens of GenZ

9/11: Through the Lens of GenZ

Exceed Your Potential

Exceed Your Potential

Lead Outside the Circle

Lead Outside the Circle

High Performing Teams

High Performing Teams

The Mental Retreat

The Mental Retreat

Success Versus Significance

Success Versus Significance

Independence Day

Independence Day

The Importance–And Challenge–of People First

The Importance–And Challenge–of People First

Student of the Game

Student of the Game

The Joy Is in the Journey

The Joy Is in the Journey

Establish Your Foothold

Establish Your Foothold

Never Forget the Sacrifice

Never Forget the Sacrifice

The Five Cups of Leadership

The Five Cups of Leadership

Responding with Intention

Responding with Intention

The Science of Influence

The Science of Influence

That One Sentence Matters

That One Sentence Matters

Plans Are Worthless; Planning Is Everything

Plans Are Worthless; Planning Is Everything

Vacuum Grief: Leading through Change

Vacuum Grief: Leading through Change

The Special Speech: Impromptu Speaking

The Special Speech: Impromptu Speaking

Flat Tire Leadership: No Fail Missions

Flat Tire Leadership: No Fail Missions

Move the Desk!

Move the Desk!

Increasing Competitive Capacity

Increasing Competitive Capacity

Not A Hint… Whiff… Sniff… (5 of 5)

Not A Hint… Whiff… Sniff… (5 of 5)

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The Maximum Standard is a leadership website designed to help you grow as a leader. It discusses how to lead through techniques, ideas, practices, books, and resources to help you strive to meet your full potential.

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