High Performers
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Codie Sanchez: Sitting near a high performer boosts productivity by 15%
“There's great Studies that show that your productivity increases by about 15% if you sit in a 25 square foot radius of another, of a high performer, and it decreases by about 30% if you sit next to a underperformer.”
Sanchez: Sitting near a low performer lowers your performance by 30%
“If you sit next to a high performer, You have a 15% higher likelihood of high performance yourself. So their performance rubs off on you. If you're next to a low performer or an underperformer, you have 30% lower performance on average.”
Eyal: High performers experience identical discomfort but channel it into traction
“What I found in my research writing this book is that high performers in every industry, business, the arts, sports, high performers, they feel the same internal triggers. They also feel lonely. They also feel bored. They also feel stressed. They also feel anx…”
Berkowitz: High Performers Will Not Slack Off Under Flexible, High-Trust Policies
“If you have high performers on your team, in no way are they going to do that, because high performers, they want to perform. I mean, they want to take pride in the craft of their work, and they want to do great stuff”
Holiday: Insatiability is the key differentiator in high performers
“Inherently, the insatiability is the key differentiator in a lot of high performers, and I think there's a Stefan Zweig quote where he says, like, never before has a conqueror been surfeited by conquest, meaning, like, no conqueror was ever like, I won, and no…”
Ari Meisel: High performers rarely self-identify as unproductive
“Part of the problem in our business is a lot of, very few people who are high performers self-identify as unproductive.”