Latest / Mental Per4mance Daily with Adam Rutz / The Disease of Me
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- Adam Rutz: One of the biggest threats to building and sustaining a great team isn't always losing. Sometimes one of the biggest threats is its success. Legendary NBA coach Pat Riley called it the disease of me. It happens when a team starts winning, and slowly people begin thinking less about we and more about me. Why am I not getting more recognition? Why is that person getting the credit? Why am I not getting more opportunities? Why should I have to do that? And eventually, instead of asking, what does the team need from me? We start asking, what am I getting out of this? That'll destroy your locker room and it'll destroy your business too. Think about a championship level sports team. Everybody on that team has a role, right? The superstar has a role. The role player has a role. The coach has a role. And when everybody executes their responsibility toward the same mission. The team becomes incredibly difficult to beat. Your business is no different. You might have your highest sales producer. You might have somebody handling operations. You might have somebody who just got started. Different roles, different responsibilities, but one team, one standard, one mission. And leaders, this starts with us. If you want to have a team first culture, you have to model it. Give credit. Take responsibility, celebrate somebody else's success, and make decisions based on what makes the team stronger, not what feeds your own ego. So here's what I want you to think about today. Where has me started becoming more important than we? Maybe it's complaining about your role. Maybe it's wanting recognition. Maybe it's blaming somebody else when things go wrong. Catch it. Because great teams. Aren't built by everybody trying to become the most important person in the room. They're built by people committed to becoming the best teammate in the room. So protect the mission, protect the standard, protect the team. Mindset, process, discipline, execution. That's mental performance daily.