The Internal Scorecard

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“I don’t care much about what other people say about me or my ideas. Sometimes that gets me into trouble, but I think it’s been a big reason I am where I am today.” -the CEO of a publicly traded company

This is a client who has not gotten great marks for being particularly agreeable, but he *has* been wildly successful by almost any measure you might throw his way: a long-term marriage, kids that love him, and a publicly traded company he’s built from the ground up. Not a bad checklist.

What he cares about is what he cares about, and how he measures it is a distinct pattern I see among all of my highest performers—the very elite embody the “internal scorecard” that Warren Buffett often talks about.

They aren’t measuring what they do or their success by any measure but their own.

It doesn’t mean you have to be disagreeable. But in business and in life, it does mean that you can’t be vulnerable to the things that others are…and operating this way makes you move faster and more deliberately than other people. It is a distinct advantage in all you do.

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It provides unique challenges, but it is also one of the best elements to level up in the year ahead. This article will show you what having a real internal scorecard looks like, the challenges no one talks about if you have one, and how to use it like the big players do.