Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, a conversation designed to help leaders go further faster.

On today's podcast, we'll talk about creating habits that can change your organization.

Andy, one of the things we've talked about many times on the podcast is how our leadership team is often reading through a book together, you know, having a discussion.

And actually today's podcast comes from one of those discussions, but it was a little different in that you didn't bring a whole

book in you brought a book in and had us read one chapter.

Yeah usually we read entire books together sometimes we spend months working through books together

which we all enjoy at least you all act like you enjoy I enjoy it we do yeah you do

and this particular case I brought I ask everybody to just simply to just read

chapter four of Charles Zewig's book, The Power of Habit.

I'm sure most of our podcast listeners have either seen the book, heard of the book, or perhaps

read the book.

And specifically, I wanted us to talk about this issue of a keystone habit.

And he defines a keystone habit is essentially a habit that triggers a series of related,

or in some cases unrelated behavior, sometimes even habits.

So it's one thing that an individual does or in this case, one thing an organization can

do that changes the behavior or reaffirms and underscores other behavior.

So as a keystone habit, you focus on one thing,

but it has the potential to impact a series of things.

Can you give us some examples?

The easiest way to understand a keystone habit

is not to think of it within the context of an organization.

We'll get to that in a minute, but to think about it personally.

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