How An Early 20th Century Explorer Can Inspire Your Work Performance
In 2011, I launched one of the most comprehensive research projects ever undertaken on individual performance at work. I recruited a team of researchers with expertise in statistical analysis and began generating a framework—a set of hypotheses about which specific behaviors lead to high performance.
I considered the scattered findings I had found in more than 200 published academic studies, and I incorporated insights from my previous discussions with hundreds of managers and executives. I also drew on in-depth interviews with 120 professionals and undertook a 300-person survey pilot. In the final step, we tested the emerging frame-work in a survey study of 5,000 managers and employees.
There are many memorable success stories from my study. Stories about people in all walks of life who do great work and turned their job, team, and organization into something great. These stories include a high school principal who turned around a failing school, a concierge at a hotel in Canada, the best sushi chef in the world, a factory floor supervisor who increased his performance and two explorers racing to become the first to stand on the South Pole.
The latter is an amazing story where one explorer applied the key principle in the study to win. Watch this video below to get an inside look into their story:
Why do some people perform better at work than others?
Morten Hansen reveals the answer in his “Seven Work Smarter Practices” that can be applied by anyone looking to maximize their time and performance.