DiscoverThe Finance Leader PodcastBreaking Free from the Performance Rut: How Leaders Can Overcome Complacency
Breaking Free from the Performance Rut: How Leaders Can Overcome Complacency

Breaking Free from the Performance Rut: How Leaders Can Overcome Complacency

Update: 2025-06-03
Share

Description

Send us a text

Episode 138: Are you giving your absolute best, or just enough to get by? That comfortable routine might actually be your biggest career threat.

The silent killer of professional excellence is complacency – that subtle shift from passionate engagement to simply going through the motions. As we explore in this episode, complacency doesn't arrive with fanfare, but rather creeps in through routine tasks and diminishing challenges, eventually leading to laziness, sloppiness, and missed opportunities.

For leaders, the stakes are particularly high. Your team mirrors your standards and approach. When you become complacent, they follow suit, creating a downward spiral of diminishing performance. The organization faces increased risks as market signals are missed and important details overlooked. Meanwhile, your own growth stagnates, limiting future opportunities.


Episode outline:

  1. What are the signs of job performance complacency?
  2. Improvement starts with us, as leaders,
  3. Coach your team to better performance.


Please connect with me on:

1. Instagram: stephen.mclain
2. Twitter: smclainiii
3. Facebook: stephenmclainconsultant
4. LinkedIn: stephenjmclainiii

For more resources, please visit Finance Leader Academy:  financeleaderacademy.com.

Support the show

Comments 
In Channel
loading
00:00
00:00
x

0.5x

0.8x

1.0x

1.25x

1.5x

2.0x

3.0x

Sleep Timer

Off

End of Episode

5 Minutes

10 Minutes

15 Minutes

30 Minutes

45 Minutes

60 Minutes

120 Minutes

Breaking Free from the Performance Rut: How Leaders Can Overcome Complacency

Breaking Free from the Performance Rut: How Leaders Can Overcome Complacency

Stephen McLain