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With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks much for joining us here for episode 228 with Gary Morton.

I think you'll dig this conversation because Gary breaks down what it takes to have

excellence in a team into three essential

ingredients that just make a whole lot of sense when you lays them out.

So you're going to learn one, the first steps toward achieving clarity of purpose, two, how to spark an empowered obsession in your team,

and three, guidelines for unleashing your team's creativity.

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we reference here.

You'll find that on over at awesome at your job.com slash epp 228.

And while you're there I hope you check out some of cool stuff.

One thing I'm pointing to today is just the

magnifying glass. We have done about 228 episodes here and each of them is

transcribed. So if you have any particular work issue or skill you're looking to learn you can just search that with the magnifying glass which is right there in the navigation bar at also

at your job.com and if you don't find what you want there, I also recommend you check out our

sponsor LinkedIn learning with Linda.com courses have many many excellent choices to

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Awesome. Now here is Gary's story.

Gary Martin graduated from West Point with honors and had a five-year career as a

tank officer, the highlight of which it was being part of an extraordinary unit

that achieved unprecedented results at the U.S. Army's grueling National Training Center.

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