Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Be Careful What you Wish For! Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. In the success cycle, you have chosen to make a great leap, a great leap of faith, a great leap of risk. You are now the business owner. And I heard someone say recently, well, it was my dream to be a business owner and I asked them, are you living the dream? Or is it a nightmare? And they said, Well, I really thought I was going to make more money, I was going to get more time. And I asked him the question, you have kids, right? He...
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Maximization and Alignment - Part 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. With working with a strategic partner, a coach, a mentor, a consultant, an advisor. Having the awareness of your strengths, who's right for the business and putting those people in place, you can raise the productivity of your employees and therefore the company by up to 800%. On average, this type of work has shown to return $8 of productivity for every dollar spent in nurturing, growing, developing the talent of your...
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Maximization and Alignment - Part 1 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We've identified the challenges, the problems that you face when you're not aligned, and where you might be on that success cycle and how you want to bring yourself forward in that success cycle. So what happens if you do, what happens when you take this methodology and put it into place and you align the people and maximize their performance? Here's what can happen and the Cornell studies show that if you do align the people...
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Does your Business Align with Your Values? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. The values are the why disc, and the how part, when we talked about behaviors is the observable behavior. The values are the emotional reasons why you will take action, and will those actions add to your energy or rob you of energy. So the values are, who you are as a person, and why you place an importance or a priority in certain areas of your life and why there are certain areas of your life you don't place a...
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Attributes of a Business Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. The third part of the business discovery process are the attributes defined as the what that we do. Behaviors are the how, as we mentioned, those D, i, S and C that disc part of discovery values are the why of discovery disc over why. And the attributes are the what, what are the qualities that make up your personality? What do you think you're good at? What do you want to do? And will you do the job, your attributes will determine...
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Opportunities & Challenges Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. There are problems and challenges and opportunities that will come up for your business and depending on the stage you were in, you will know if that is a functional problem or a dysfunctional problem. A functional problem is any problem that is alignment with your planning and eventually will help you get to where you wanna go. A dysfunctional problem is any problem that you have that will take you further away from your...
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Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. I hired a business coach, a business mentor for my business shortly after that. And that's when we had the hasthag #hangupthehammer. I said we gotta hang up the hammer. This is exhausting, it's killing me. And so that was the process we went through. I mean, I owned that business for 8 more years. But what I did was I started to run the parts of the business I liked and I leveraged out parts of the business I didn't like. And so yeah I mean, I kept on going until I can...
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The Reason I Changed Careers-Part 2 Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. So there I was, he's laughing. He comes back under, he’s like, “Yeah they got you!” Yeah I'm here to tell you I know how hard it is to get line paint out of your hair. So it was on that day and I just, I remember thinking I drive out of that and I'm like, “What am I doing?” I'm driving a dump truck... I say there’s gotta be a better way, this can't be my life. I was 30 years old- in 1996, yeah born in '66- 30 years old. And I...
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Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. I got my construction company. I'm driving one of my dump trucks, like 60 miles with a load of junk on it ‘coz I've gotta get to an appointment to deliver a proposal to try to get the next job, right? Drive shaft on the, a U-joint on the drive shaft of my truck breaks. I kinda know what it is, I've dealt with it before and I'm like, “Holy crap! I'm gonna miss the appointment!” So I jumped out of the truck while it's still rolling and I pushed it just enough to...
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Goal Setting -Part 2 717 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Ah 9 ½ , great! What are we gonna do to make it a 10? Here’s what we got to do bam..bam..bam..bam those are goals and then when you double that you would say “we’re better podcasters”, you know what I mean, you know so that’s how you would do it. So look it you gotta–so what most people don’t understand or they–they don’t go to the process all the way through is differentiate between the category of improvement versus...
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Hi everybody, my name is Carl Gould here and I am your #70secondCEO, just a little bit more than a one minute investment each day for a lifetime of results. Today’s topic is - Strategic Planning.
Rank yourself on a scale of one low, 10 high, to what degree are your strategic planning documents, your mission, vision, values, purpose, your MVP planning, guiding principles, sales plan, milestones planning:
- Completed?
- Up-to-date?
- Updated monthly?
- Inspiring and compelling?
When you show them to another person they say, “wow, this, you’re trying to build this, I want in on that,” because I’ll tell you something, yes, I said monthly, that means you have to update and monitor your goals each month the more you measure the more you can course correct. So, I want to hear about that monthly, second thing is, if you’re not compelling as a company you’re boring, guess what kind of business you have? BORING! Guess what kind of employees you have? BORING! Guess what kind of clients you have? Yes, you said it because I don’t want to call your clients...BORING! You called them BORING! But that’s what you have, a boring ass business because you don’t want to take the time to rank your business and make sure you have a compelling and inspiring strategic plan.
So, like, follow, and I want to hear your comment at the bottom of this. I want to hear about where in your plan do you need to take it to the next level? I'm Carl Gould and this is your #70secondCEO.