Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. There's no way, especially as you get bigger, and there's no way anyone on the team is gonna like everything that's going on, you just have to advocate for the process. So in everything in your professional life that you don't like, are you guys familiar with the law of opposite values? You guys familiar with what that is? So have you ever heard the expression that you can't understand...
info_outlineCarl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. For non-confrontation and harmony all the time. That's what we're going for, right? If you have an idea or you see something that's wrong, you speak up. As long as we're doing it in an environment of trust and respect and mutual respect for the other person, and hearing them out, right? You can disagree without being disagreeable, right? But we're, just to be clear, we're not going for harmony, right, in the business. Because that's not a business that will grow. A business has to have a little bit of edge...
info_outlineCarl Gould #70secondCEO
Descriptive v. Instructive Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So you've heard the term over-communicate. We have to over-communicate. That doesn't mean just talking more. That means being very, very specific in how we give instructions. Okay, and when we do the situational leadership, we'll talk about that some more because we need to stop being descriptive and we need to start being instructive. So as a manager, as a leader, that's what this group needs to do, right? So in other words,...
info_outlineCarl Gould #70secondCEO
Manage for Hand Offs Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Anytime there's a handoff, so if you're in sales and someone's engineering, someone's on the service desk, right, those handoffs have to be managed tight and you always cover your teammate's back, right? So that's where, so we have to define how that box runs, okay, and that'll be one of our challenges because we speak American English, that's our challenge, our English is so bad. You try handing it off to somebody who actually knows...
info_outlineCarl Gould #70secondCEO
Managing the Lines Pt 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We're going to put Sean on the line right there. You hit it. Anywhere else, we got it. The problem is it creates two more lines. Mike's going to figure that out pretty quickly. He's going to put the ball right there. The ball goes through. So we say, oh, I got an idea. Rebecca, go here on that line right there. Richard, you got that one when you're done spelling your name. You can get on that one. But then it creates two more...
info_outlineCarl Gould #70secondCEO
Managing the Lines Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. He said, listen, think of your company like a tennis match. All right, I'm on one side, I'm hitting the ball over to Mike, Mike's hitting it back, all right. Mike's start getting really good, he's hitting it from one side of the court to the other side and I'm running back and forth like a crazy man trying to cover the court. And I said, wow, Mike is hitting the ball. So this is Mike over here, all right. He's hitting the ball, he's...
info_outlineCarl Gould #70secondCEO
100% Responsibility for the Outcome Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So if you're working on something as a team, whether you're the leader, you're the manager, whatever, doesn't matter. Take 100% responsibility for the outcome, which means if Nicole and I are working on something and Nicole has her tasks and I have mine, I'm going to take 100% responsibility for hers, she'll do the same for me, and what that is, that will give enough overlap that makes sure we're going to get this job...
info_outlineCarl Gould #70secondCEO
Shed 20% of Your Job Description Each Year Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You should be thinking in your job to shed 20% of your job description every year. So by the time this group is here, you're already at the next step, whatever that is in the business, propelling the business forward. There's always this thinking that, oh, you're not gonna need me, where am I gonna go? I'm gonna work my way out of a job. That like never happens, you know? It does happen if you try to...
info_outlineCarl Gould #70secondCEO
Training a New Manager Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. It's the hardest thing for you all that you're going to have to do is actually watch somebody do something in the beginning, at least, worse than you think you do. So when you start to manage somebody, you're doing the work right now. You're the producer. You're doing the work. Things are rising. Things are going good. Now, we train somebody. What happens? That, for a small period of time. But then, ideally, it goes up from there. So...
info_outlineCarl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. That's a system when you have an activity or a group of activities that you can remove yourself from. Now, you remember way back when we're talking about the discovery process, and we said, Every job has a personality. Every industry has a personality. Well, in your business, each job is going to start to assume its own personality. Systems, by their very nature, are predictable, they're consistent, they're reliable, they're scheduled, and they're very...
info_outlineWhat are the 7 Stages?.
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So what are these 7 stages? We've been talking about them a lot already. Let me give you an overview of each of the 7 stages before we get more into it. Stage one is the strategic planning stage. This is where your dream is born, you're going to focus on the direction, the planning of your company, you're going to sell your business first, then you're going to create it. Well, what the heck does that mean? Have you ever heard of a franchise? Ray Kroc, way back when he had the idea of selling businesses to people when they didn't exist, and then creating them later on. He actually had to convince the government that it was not fraudulent. Have you ever bought a home or an apartment just by looking at the building plans when there was nothing but a hole in the ground, and a building was going to be built later on? That build or that developer sold the business first, created second. A very common practice in this day and age when they build new sports arenas is they sell what's called Personal seat licenses before the venue is ever built. They sell you the right to buy that seat once it's made. In other words, they sold the whole stadium. They sold out the stadium before the stadium was ever built. Have you ever bought a ticket to a performance that has not debuted yet? Have you ever pre purchased a book or a record album or musical album or DVD or CD? Anyone who pre sells anything, is selling the business first and creating second.
Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.