Jon and Kory discuss how small, consistent improvements can transform team performance 38x in just 1 year. Using lessons from elite cycling and Team Sky’s famously obsessive approach to marginal gains, they explore why high-performing teams rarely improve through one dramatic intervention. Instead, progress comes from making incremental improvements that compound over time.

Links

• The Earned Life, Marshall Goldsmith - book

Timestamps

00:00 - Start
00:24 - Why Jon always wears black
02:45 - The compounding power of incremental gains
05:16 - Lessons from high performance sport
06:48 - The insane 1% improvements Team Sky made to win the Tour De France
11:21 - Applying cycling lessons to leadership
13:52 - Why you need to ask for feedback
16:27 - Just start
17:10 - How to see if you’ve actually made progress
20:28 - The paradoxical data on incremental progress

Jon and Kory discuss why making good decisions is one of the hardest – and most important – parts of leadership, and share the frameworks they use to make better choices when the answer isn't obvious.

From knowing when to trust the data and when to follow your gut, to de-risking big decisions and playing “angel's advocate”, they explore practical ways to challenge your own thinking. They unpack Solomon's paradox, the 10:10:10 rule, automatic negative thoughts and why sometimes the smartest thing you can do is ask someone else for help.

They also explore what happens when you stop actively thinking about a problem, some surprisingly useful Japanese wisdom, and one particularly simple test: would you make the same decision drunk?

Whether you're facing a huge strategic choice or simply stuck overthinking, these are 9 tools to help you make decisions with greater clarity and confidence.

Links

• G.O.A.T. Wisdom Book
• Greg Hahn on Uncensored CMO
• The Brain at Rest Book (why your brain can make good decisions when you're not thinking)

Timestamps

00:00 - Start
00:26 - Why Jon looks “savagely tanned”
01:19 - Why decision making is hard
04:16 - When you need to trust the data or your gut
06:43 - How to make a decision
07:29 - How to de risk a decision
09:30 - Try playing “angel’s advocate”
10:50 - Solomon’s paradox when making a decision
11:51 - Squash the ants (automatic negative thoughts)
12:23 - The 10:10:10 rule
14:36 - Ask for help
15:22 - Make space for your default mode network
17:06 - Would you make the same decision drunk?
17:47 - Japanese wisdom for decision making
20:29 - The stats on why this is important

Today Kory shares the lessons from taking her leadership team offsite and deliberately putting them into an unfamiliar environment - a horse ranch. Jon and Kory explore why pattern disruption can help teams break old habits, the difference between a group of strong individual contributors and a genuinely connected team, and why getting outside your comfort zone can reveal how you really work together.

They also discuss the language of connection, learning to ask for help, why pressure isn't always the answer, and how to turn an offsite from a memorable experience into lasting behavioural change. Because however busy your team feels, sometimes stepping away from the work is exactly what helps you do the work better.

Links

• G.O.A.T. Wisdom Book
• EQ2 Horse Ranch Leadership Offsite

Timestamps

00:00 - Start

00:37 - Why Kory takes her team offsite

03:01 - Why you need to transform your team

04:14 - The power of pattern disruption

07:13 - Individual contributors vs working as a team

11:20 - Going out of your comfort zone

13:40 - The language of connection

18:21 - Learning how to ask for help

23:44 - The power is not in the pressure, it’s in the release

25:40 - How Kory is implementing the lessons in the team

27:03 - You’re too busy to not do this