58. What's Essential: Greg on The Engine of High-Leverage Teams

The Greg McKeown Podcast

Greg McKeown

Self-improvement, Business, Education

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Effortless: Chapter Fourteen It all starts with a simple principle: not everything has to be so hard. This special episode is an excerpt from the audiobook, narrated by Greg. It explains the importance of building a foundation of trust in high-performance teams Effortless is available for purchase, as a book or audiobook. (Audio excerpted courtesy of Penguin Random House Audio from Effortless by Greg McKeown, read by the author and available wherever audiobooks are sold). For a limited time purchase Effortless and get the 21-Day Challenge (and download Chapter 1 of Effortless) FREE! Share the What’s Essential podcast with your co-workers & friends and earn rewards: 1 Referral - Access the exclusive "Tim Ferris" episode 3 Referrals - 21-day Challenge PDF 15 Referrals - $10 digital gift card you can use at stores like Real Simple, Container Store, etc. What's Essential Podcast Twitter Facebook Greg McKeown Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Scratch Audiohouse Instagram LinkedIn Credits: Hosted by Greg McKeown Produced by Greg McKeown and Scratch Audiohouse Executive Produced by Greg McKeown, Avi Gandhi, Brent Montgomery, and Ed Simpson Co-Produced by Paul Dizon

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show I'm Greg McEwen and I'm your host for the What's Essential Podcast.
0:09.5	There are lots of shows on how to improve, on how to become successful, but there is only
0:15.4	one on what to do once you are.
0:19.1	This is essential because success can be a catalyst for failure, especially if it leads
0:25.1	to the undisciplined pursuit of more.
0:28.5	This show is about how to become successful at success.
0:32.3	It's for high performers who are on the edge of exhaustion, solving problems completely
0:38.2	before they even arise.
0:39.7	It's about turning tedious tasks into joyful rituals.
0:44.9	It's about simplifying your processes and making your most essential activities the
0:49.8	easiest ones.
0:51.8	So if you're a driven, hardworking, productive person who is running out of space but still
0:56.8	wants to make a higher contribution effortlessly, the What's Essential Podcast is designed
1:03.5	especially for you.
1:07.5	So let's begin.
1:16.3	First of 14, Trust, the engine of high leverage teams.
1:24.4	In 2003, Warren Buffett, one of the most successful investors in the world and the chairman and
1:30.7	CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, was interested in buying McLean distribution, a 23 billion
1:37.9	dollar provider of supply chain solutions that was owned by Walmart.
1:43.0	We'd be safe to assume that making that happen would be a huge and extraordinarily complex
1:48.3	undertaking.
1:50.3	Just the due diligence or the process of confirming that what he had been told about the business
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