Capacity: Create Laser Focus, Boundless Energy, and an Unstoppable Drive In Any Organization

235 Pages·2017·2.97 MB·English

by  Chris Johnson

CAPACITY
Create Laser Focus, Boundless Energy, and an
Unstoppable Drive in Any Organization
Chris Johnson
Matt Johnson
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Names: Johnson, Chris, 1957-author. | Johnson, Matt, 1986-author.
Title: Capacity : create laser focus, boundless energy, and an unstoppable drive in any organization / by
Chris Johnson, Matt Johnson.
Description: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2018] | Includes index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017044991 (print) | LCCN 2017051278 (ebook) | ISBN
9781119387381 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119387282 (epub) | ISBN 9781119386971
(cloth)
Subjects: LCSH: Organizational effectiveness. | Performance. | Organizational change. | Organizational
behavior.
Classification: LCC HD58.9 (ebook) | LCC HD58.9 .J637 2018 (print) | DDC
658.3/14–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017044991
To the future.
And to Eze, who inspires us to build capacity!
Contents
Introduction: Into the Future
Searching for Success
Note
1 The Secret That Is Overlooked
What Is Capacity?
2 People with a Purpose
Not a Priority
MINDSET SHIFT
What Do All Organizations Want?
Improve the People, Improve the Organization
3 Drinking from a Firehose Wastes a Lot of Water
1. Demands Are Increasing, Capacity Is Shrinking
2. Stress Is Melting Us Down
3. We Over-Rely on Skills and Talent
4. Engagemnet is Lousy
5. Our Health Is Embarrassing
4 Human Capital Is the Future!
Growing Your Greatest Resource
Foundational Pillars
Performance Outcomes
Capacity Foundation
Positive Influence
5 Laser Focus Directs Performance
The $50 Million Opportunity
Mind over Matter
Attention Spectrum
How to Focus
Focus on What Actually Matters
Focus Directs Performance
6 Boundless Energy Fuels Performance
Manufactured Energy
Three Tips for Protecting Energy inside Your Organization
Five Keys to Building Your Energy
Bonus: Recharge, Recover, and Reward
Keep the Juice Flowing
7 Unstoppable Drive Propels Performance
Finding the Pot of Gold?
Motivation: Intrinsic versus Extrinsic
Enjoy the Process
Resiliency
Move Your Body
8 REST
Stress
Hormonal Balance
REST Methodology
Note
9 EAT
Chris’s Story
Nutrition 101
EAT Methodology
10 MOVE
Exercise Is Good for You
What Is Holding You Back?
Movement and Weight Loss
New Movement Mindset
Rolling Back the Hands of Time
MOVE Methodology
11 You Have the Power
Matt’s Power Shift
Just Because It Hasn’t Happened Doesn’t Mean It Won’t Happen
Change Is Hard
Take Action
12 Why Not?
Oxygen Mask
Note
Summary: Key Points
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Acknowledgments
From Chris
From Matt
Index
EULA
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chris with his family: wife Paula, twins Matt and Kristen.
1
FIGURE 1.1 Expanding your container. We must all expand our
containers.
FIGURE 1.2 Captain Sully’s experience
2
FIGURE 2.1 If you want a different outcome, you must change the
process.
3
FIGURE 3.1 Our cups are overflowing
FIGURE 3.2 Human capacity is lagging behind technology.
FIGURE 3.3 Aging well.
4
FIGURE 4.1 Military ship.
FIGURE 4.2 Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
FIGURE 4.3 Performance outcomes.
FIGURE 4.4 Pillars for optimal performance.
5
FIGURE 5.1 The three levels of the mind.
FIGURE 5.2 Focus spectrum.
6
FIGURE 6.1 Energy potential
7
FIGURE 7.1 Intrinsic motivation model
FIGURE 7.2 The three performance outcomes of building capacity
8
FIGURE 8.1 Is the bear real or not?
FIGURE 8.2 Stress response.
FIGURE 8.3 Cortisol Steal.
FIGURE 8.4 REST methodology.
FIGURE 8.5 Stages of sleep.
FIGURE 8.6 REM sleep graph.
9
FIGURE 9.1 Human cell.
FIGURE 9.2 pH balance.
FIGURE 9.3 The source.
FIGURE 9.4 EAT methodology.
FIGURE 9.5 The Food Target
FIGURE 9.6 Sample Days.
10
FIGURE 10.1A Chris Before (January 2002, age 45)
FIGURE 10.1b Chris After (April 2002, age 45)
FIGURE 10.2 MOVE Methodology
FIGURE 10.3 Ideal Posture
FIGURE 10.4 Dynamic Warm-Up Exercises
FIGURE 10.5 Foundation Exercises
FIGURE 10.6 Sample exercise routine
12
FIGURE 12.1 The Capacity Process.
Introduction: Into the Future
Pause for a moment and reflect on your station in life. How did you end up
where you are now? Each of us follows a different path to the present, and we
are never quite sure what the future holds. Our journeys through life are paved
with hard work, luck, and a handful of critical moments. But if you really think
about it, what influenced your work ethic and opportunities the most? As much
as we like to think that we alone determine our outcomes in life, it’s simply not
the case.
Despite everything we do to forge our own identities, we are all destined to
become a little, or a lot, like our parents. Author Neil Postman once wrote that
children are “the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”1 That
realization may still be unsettling for a lot of us, but instead of fighting the
inevitable, let’s embrace it.
Just look at your family tree. Go back three generations. It’s safe to say that your
great-grandfather toiled away in a factory or field for a tiny fraction of your
current salary. Some may not consider his life much of a success. But like every
parent before and after him, his definition of a fulfilled life wasn’t measured by
material wealth, social status, or even his own welfare. He was driven by an
innate desire we all share—to help create a better world for his children and the
next generation.
Survival does not fuel ambition. Game-changing ideas don’t revolutionize the
world without a fundamental belief that we can build a better future. That
unwavering faith in the promise of tomorrow is the ultimate cure for the human
condition.
We all want the same thing—whether you are a millennial or baby boomer. We
want to leave a lasting legacy to honor those we love most and to inspire those to
come. We are all daughters and sons trying to live up to our parents’ examples.
So, let me tell you a story about my father and why he inspires me.
My father, Chris Johnson (coauthor of this book), took an unorthodox route to
success. While attending Western Michigan University from 1976 to 1980, he
spent each summer working either at the assembly line at Oldsmobile or in
construction. After graduating with a degree in business and economics, and
filling out hundreds of applications for job openings, he still had not landed the