Oct 20, 2026 · 2 min · 1 segments
You have the best goal in the world, if you don't put systems in place that are going to gradually help you create new habits, Good luck.
there's not a whole lot of research suggesting that leadership development is very effective, at least the traditional approach.
In fact, depending on which researches you read, I've seen estimates as high as 90% of leadership development is a total waste of time and money because it does nothing to change behavior.
And so I think what happens is, People see it as, you know, we're not really expecting this to make a huge difference.
We just want people to know that we care about them and we're investing in them.
So we're going to hire, you know, some speaker to come in and pay him a bunch of money.
It can be very helpful, particularly if there is a plan for following up with little bits of information over time that will help people do little new things, like maybe one or two new things a month with lots of time of practice, high accountability.
So that was the insight for Inspire Greatness was like, man, I'm tired of seeing people take time and resources to invest in developing their leaders and not really getting anything out of it other than a day of inspiration and maybe a little bit of some various minor behavior changes.
As I was finishing the manuscript of Inspire Greatness, I read Atomic Habits by James Clear, which for any of your listeners who have not read that, please go read it.
But my favorite thing from James Clear's book and my favorite line is that he wrote, we do not rise to the level of our goals.
You have the best goal in the world if you don't put systems in place that are gonna gradually help you create new habits.
there's not a whole lot of research suggesting that leadership development is very effective, at least the traditional approach.
In fact, depending on which researches you read, I've seen estimates as high as 90% of leadership development is a total waste of time and money because it does nothing to change behavior.
And so I think what happens is, People see it as, you know, we're not really expecting this to make a huge difference.
We just want people to know that we care about them and we're investing in them.
So we're going to hire, you know, some speaker to come in and pay him a bunch of money.
It can be very helpful, particularly if there is a plan for following up with little bits of information over time that will help people do little new things, like maybe one or two new things a month with lots of time of practice, high accountability.
So that was the insight for Inspire Greatness was like, man, I'm tired of seeing people take time and resources to invest in developing their leaders and not really getting anything out of it other than a day of inspiration and maybe a little bit of some various minor behavior changes.
As I was finishing the manuscript of Inspire Greatness, I read Atomic Habits by James Clear, which for any of your listeners who have not read that, please go read it.
But my favorite thing from James Clear's book and my favorite line is that he wrote, we do not rise to the level of our goals.
You have the best goal in the world if you don't put systems in place that are gonna gradually help you create new habits.
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