Three great questions you can always ask yourself and ask other people that will always interrupt any negative pattern is, what would you suggest?

What would it take for your degree? And can you live with it?

Are we surrounding and

supporting people who are willing to speak the truth? You know, really, it's hard to do. A good

question to ask somebody when you're interviewing them is tell me a time when you

disagreed with your boss and how you handled it.

That's Stephen Gaffney.

He's a leading expert on consistently high-achieving teams with over 30 years of experience working with top leaders and

executive teams. Recently, he and his team published the National Study on Consistently High

Achieving Teams, or Chat. And Stephen's going to share some great insights along those lines.

So you'll learn, one, the critical question that fosters accountability. Two, how to build

the courage to say the unsaid. And three, the simple trick

to reduce team distractions. And if you want a quick summary write-up of these actionable takeaways,

I'm picking you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter, which you can find an awesome

at your job.com. I'm Pete McItis, and this is how to be awesome at your job. And now,

here's Stephen.

Stephen, welcome back. Thanks for having me. Certainly. Well, it's been almost three years since we

last had you on the show. Could you share with us any super fascinating learnings,

discoveries you've made in this meantime? We have a new study that just came out, and it provides a lot of interesting stats,

and I'll just mention one.

69% of people report that being in the office is more productive than remote.

It doesn't mean that we shouldn't ever work remotely, but it's really insightful that that's

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