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Women at Work, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the H-B-R Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green-Carmenfall. All of us want to perform to our utmost level at work, whether we're a new employee or the CEO.

But a lot of the self-help books and articles out there don't start with science says our

guest today Mark Econ.

To me high performance is someone who delivers both results and behaviors at the 75th percentile compared to their peers over time.

So it's not that you had a good month or a good year, but year in, year out, you are delivering

results and behaviors better than most of the other people that you work with.

In his new book, Ephron actually looks at eight different ways

you can become a high performer at work with the studies to back up those claims.

Those include things like setting big goals, relying on yourself to develop new skills instead of expecting your company to help

you and growing your network. But the step I found the most interesting and surprising and that

Ephron says is entirely within our control is taking care of your

physical body. Mark Ephron is president at the Talent Strategy Group and the

author of the book Eight Steps to High Performance. Focus on what you can change, ignore the rest.

Mark, thanks so much for being here.

My pleasure.

Happy to be here, Sarah. You know I must have read hundreds of leadership books while I've been hosting this show

and not a whole lot of them talk about the importance of physical well-being.

Why was that something that you felt was really important to talk about?

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