Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast Reverb, where we dig a little deeper into our topic this month.

I'm your host, Susie Gray, and as always, I'm joined by Andy Stanley.

Last week, we explored how systems empower people to drive results, especially within organizations.

Today, we're going to talk about something just as important.

How to audit your current system because systems drive behavior and behaviors create outputs. And we don't just want to put a band-aid on it, do we? We want to actually fix it and be able to move forward. Yeah, and this is a great question because we're beginning a new year. And, you know, we can wait for the red light to come on the dashboard, or we can do periodic maintenance to make

sure we never see the red light on the dashboard. I guess there's still red lights on dashboards.

Newer cars, there's so many gauges that tell us what's wrong with our car. I have a car that

tells me that I need to put air in a tire, and it doesn't tell me which tire. Oh, so helpful. Yeah, I'm like, okay, now I have to put air

in all the tires. Yes, I have such big problems in my life. Anyway, the point is, periodic

evaluation and maintenance, you know, that's required for all of us, whether it's the systems

of our body, our family, our organization, you know, our nation, the world, all those things.

So high level, here are four things to think about.

And again, we're answering the question how to create great systems because systems drive

behaviors.

Behaviors are the culture of the organization.

The culture and the behavior of the organization creates the efficiency and the output

of the organization.

So this is important for all of us.

So four things real quick.

Number one, and I've sort of just said it, is don't wait for a crisis to evaluate your systems.

Right. We're leaders who are supposed to be proactive about looking at what's working, what's not,

what, I said last time, what's working so well, we don't even pay attention to it,

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