The most conventional businesses rarely achieve the most extraordinary results. Yet too many leaders get bogged down in traditional industry thinking, and doing things the way they’ve always been done.

Sound familiar?

• Your teams aren’t delivering, despite your best efforts?
• Your best people keep leaving — and you’re starting to wonder if there really are any good ones left?
• You’re spending far too much time managing poor performance instead of growing the business?
• You can’t find talented people, no matter how hard you try?
• ‘That’s not how we do it here’ has become your organisation’s unofficial motto?
• Your people can’t see a clear path forward — and neither, some days, can you?

Here’s the good news: there’s another way.

As a start-up founder and director of Flight Centre’s UK operation, opening a shop every month I was forced to learn new strategies to reach high performance at break-neck speed. I ended up throwing all the business textbooks out the window, and spent the next 20 years experimenting with concepts and helping hundreds of leaders transform their organisations.

I now speak, teach and advise on the strategies that create remarkable workplaces and transform organizational results. So you can spend less time hiring, performance-managing and firing poor fits — and more time doing what you love: growing your business, developing your people and skills, boosting profits… or, occasionally, going out for a long lunch.

Sometimes the smartest way forward is to stop doing what everyone else does.