Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, a conversation designed to help leaders

go further faster. On today's podcast, we'll conclude a two-part conversation on creating

a culture of continual improvement. Andy, as we wrap up this conversation, I thought

it'd be a good idea to remind our listeners about why continual improvement is an important

topic. So years ago, I sat down and asked the question,

what is momentum and how do you create it? Because it really is the leader's best friend.

So in organizations, I came up with this formula that we have used and taught for years and

years and years that momentum is basically the results of new improved and improving,

new improved and improving. Anything that's new creates momentum, it may be negative momentum,

but everything that's new creates its own momentum. If it's improved, it creates positive

momentum, but then the key is improving, so new improved and improving. So when we talk

about continual improvement, we are talking about one of the critical elements of creating

organizational momentum. So this is a really, really big deal and I'm glad we're talking about it.

Well, let's get to it then. So last month, you gave us six steps for creating organizational

culture. And in our time today, we're going to take those six steps and we're going to apply

them to this idea of continual improvement. So as we're a fresher, the six steps are name it,

brand it, wear it, teach it, institutionalize it, and lastly recognize it.

Yeah, and this is a template that organizational leaders can drop many things into. So for

the next few minutes, what we're going to do is take those six ideas that we talked about last

month and ask the question, how do we apply those to this idea of continual improvement in

order to make that part of an organizational culture? Because those six things that you just

listed, these are how you implement any kind of culture in an organization. So let's talk

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