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

go further faster. On today's podcast, we'll conclude our conversation on creating

high-performance teams. Landy, as we wrap up this conversation around the four essentials

for creating a high-performance team, I just want to encourage all of our audience that

wasn't able to hear last month's podcasts to go back and hear it if you haven't.

Just for context, how about a quick review of the first two essentials?

Yeah, I'd be happy to. In fact, as we mentioned last month, I actually identified these four

essentials for creating a high-performance team after observing our organization, doing something

it does really well. It was a Sunday where I didn't have any responsibility. It was several Sundays

actually. I just visited our campuses, sat in the traffic, got in the crowds, watched children

being checked in. Again, in our context, thousands of children, thousands of middle schoolers,

thousands of high school kids, I mean, a very, very complex, multi-site church organization.

And I walked around just being proud of our volunteers and our staff, and then it dawned on me.

You know, this works so well, but I'm not sure why. If it were to break, I'm not sure I would know how

to fix it. And in all of organizational life, there are always driving forces. This is true of

relationships as well. There are always driving forces. There are things that drive things that make

them work. And if we are not aware of what those are, we can make decisions whereby we undermine

our own success. But in organizational life, we may not know it for months, weeks or months.

You know, you realize, I don't know things aren't going as well as they did. I wonder why. So,

I decided it was, as the leader, it was important for me to understand why what was working so well

was working so well. Because if you don't know why it's working, when it's working, you will not

know how to fix it when it breaks. And so that started me on this journey. So I came up with a list of

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