A functional team is a competitive advantage. Fight hard against unnecessary internal politics and red tape, so people can focus on what really drives growth. #health #worklife #howleaderslead #leadership #dailyinsight #jaredbelsky #davidnovak #tax

In the last three years, I can't name a time where I've come to work with anything in my way of doing the right thing for our employees and our clients. We have a yearly budget, but we can make it or miss it a little bit. We don't have to play games with quarterly numbers. We have a strategic plan, but we don't need to sacrifice people's health or sanity to hit them. It's just very simple. We can do the right thing at all times. We can be proud of what we're doing at all times, and we have to make zero ethical sacrifices ever, and we don't have to be short-term minded. And that is a huge strategic advantage, a huge strategic advantage. There's a gentleman named Adam Bryan who wrote this thing, Corner Office, for New York Times. He's written other books, and he talks a lot about how sometimes larger entities have this thing called a dysfunction tax, and that you build up all these strange meetings and politics where people are spending half their day making PowerPoints for some boss they don't even know. We're just taking all that waste of dysfunction and investing it in obsessing about our clients and our employees.