CarlGould-#70secondCEO-Put it ON Your Calendar-Part 2
Release Date: 02/18/2020
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
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Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results.
Sometimes when you’re in the jar, you can’t read the label, alright, so, I know it sounds silly, but we’re out here reading the label for you. Ok, so do yourselves the favor of holding each other to getting it on your calendar. So, if we wrote November 1st, the 1023 at 12 o'clock put it in your calendar as an appointment and invite the person you’re doing it with to that appointment, that’s our weekly meeting to talk about PTO approvals, so this is our weekly meeting, if I have to send a marketing budget draft to somebody, make an appointment with that person, on that moment I’m going to send it. That’s when we’re going to have that meeting. So, you know you have the right action item if you can put it into your phone as an appointment.
When we talk about leveraging technology later, whoever is in that session, we’re going to talk about how to use your calendar as your ops manual. The calendar, the old thinking that that’s my appointment calendar. That is like so last week, we’re not doing that anymore, it’s your ops manual.
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