Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast. A conversation designed to help leaders

go further faster. Today we're celebrating 10 years together by revisiting our most

downloaded episode, Creating High Performance Feens. Andy, first of all, I can't believe

we've been doing podcasts for 10 years. I know. I feel like I should be a better leader.

Yeah, I feel like we should both be better leaders and I feel like I should have run out

of things to say about seven and a half years ago. That's why we started having guests.

The more interviews, the better. But yeah, but this is a subject where it just goes on and

on and on. And as the leaders in our audience know, you know, every five, six, seven years,

we're in a different season of life organizationally. We're in a different season of life. Personally,

we've learned some things. And so, you know, what was relevant 10 years ago is just as relevant

today, but it looks different. It feels different. And there's more to talk about. So yeah,

this hopefully we have another good 10 years ahead of us. I hope so too. As I said in

the open, we look back over those 10 years. And far and away, our most popular topic was

creating high performance teams. Why do you think that resonates so much with our listeners?

Every good leader knows it takes a team. Every good leader knows that, you know, we become

our own lid and the lid to our own growth and advancement organizationally. If we don't

put extraordinary people around us. And I think the phrase high performance is appealing to

leaders. It is to me. I don't want to just have teams. I don't want to just have employees. I

don't even want to just have an organization. I want to have an organization that's going somewhere,

which requires people who take things somewhere. So the whole idea of creating an efficient organization

that does what is designed to do in a way that, you know, provides a future for the people involved

and hopefully makes the world a better place. That's that's appealing to motivated people. And

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