Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge

by Henry Cloud

If you truly build a high-performance culture, for example, it will not allow weak performance or nonperformance to take hold. Instead the culture responds by either fixing it or removing the source. All of that flows out of the boundaries established by the leader.

Think of the brain as a bit like a car engine, where the chemicals and hormones in the brain are the gasoline that fuels the engine. Do you want to put premium gas in your car or will toxic sewer water do?