You Already Know How to Be Great

You Already Know How to Be Great

You Already Know How to Be Great

To all those amazing people who make it safe for others to explore their own experience especially those who did and still do it for me

FOREWORD


by Stephen R. Covey

Over the years, one of the most important ideas I ve learned about and taught is the power of a paradigm shift of seeing something in a new and different way that creates a huge change in thinking and behavior.

In You Already Know How to Be Great, Alan Fine creates a paradigm shift of major proportion. Most often, he says, dramatic performance improvement does not come from gaining new knowledge; it comes from getting rid of the interference that gets in the way of using the knowledge and capacity we already have. That one idea has phenomenal implications and applications. It literally transforms the way we approach improving our own performance and also the way we approach helping others improve theirs.

Five Reasons Why I Like This Book

There are a number of reasons why Alan s approach resonates with my passion for effectiveness in leadership and in life.

TO BEGIN WITH, it taps into two fundamental human desires that are deep within each of us the desire to be and do our best and the desire to be significant to others, to make a difference. These desires created a catalyst for my own work on The 8th Habit Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs. In You Already Know, Alan shares a paradigm and a process to help readers fulfill these basic desires by improving their own performance in any area of life and also helping others to improve theirs.

SECOND, it s not some fad or flavor of the month. It s based on sound, universal principles. For example, Alan s approach recognizes top performance only comes when the performer, not the coach (or leader or manager or teacher or parent), proactively accepts responsibility for

Alan Fine is a New York Times bestselling author and widely acclaimed keynote speaker and performance coach. He is the founder and president of InsideOut Development, which offers training programs, coaching services, team performance workshops, consulting, and reinforcement solutions. For 35 years, he has helped audiences from athletes to Fortune 500 companies reach their fullest potential. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Rebecca R. Merrill is the founder of Merrill Leadership, established in 1999 to coach top-level executives on their personal and professional leadership skills. Working with the senior leadership of companies both large and small, her industry clientele includes clinical research, manufacturing, banking, education, retail, real estate, and private wealth management. Merrill is the author of Living In Yes: Helping Smart People Make Good Decisions and Starfish Leaders: Five leadership Fables of Personal Regeneration.