Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Buyers Pay More for Certainty in Volatile Times
Release Date: 04/22/2025
Carl Gould-#70secondCEO-Stage 1-Rate Your Strategy: Boring or Compelling?
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Stage 1 - Ranking Your Business Hello Everyone, this is Carl Gould, author of The 7 Stage Growth Method and your #70secondCEO just a little over a one minute investment per day for a lifetime of results. Today, we are going to start ranking your business according to the 7 Stage method. Stage 1- give yourself a ranking, one low, BORING! 10 high, inspiring and compelling. To what degree are your strategic planning documents, all those great ideas you got out of your head and onto paper, not only are they documented they are inspiring and compelling. What you do, how you do it, why...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Power of Being Believed In
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We've coached about 150,000 people now. And we ask everybody, how did you ever get started in your business, if they're a business owner? Or how did you choose this career path if you work for an organization? The number one answer that we get as the reason why somebody chose a career path is that someone else believed in me. Someone else said, hey, you know, you're really good at this, or you have a, I went into accounting and finance. This is how the...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Leaders Must Sound Certain
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Your language means this is where knowledge, credentials comes into play. You need to be the smartest person in whatever room you walk in. Or if you're on a project and you're doing a build-out or you're doing a budget, you want to be among, if not the smartest person in that room because you can then direct the room because people follow certainty. They follow leaders, okay? So you want to be the lead dog. So most people say, oh great, I don't have to worry about...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-If They Don’t Respect You, They Won’t Bring You Problems
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Not as important, but it is very important, especially in a commercial setting, to respect. Can you handle the task at hand, right? So whatever your title is, can you handle the job that you say you can do? Here's why that's important. Because if I don't respect you, I won't bother telling you the truth. I won't bother bringing things to you because you can't handle it. Why would I bring a problem to you if you can't handle it, okay? Like and follow this podcast so...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Master the Word Yes
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And you can't find something in common, it's painful. You meet somebody. Hey, how are you? Nice to meet you. Oh, yeah, I'm Carl. How are you doing? Oh, good to meet you. Oh, yeah, it's your first time at this? Yeah, great, cool. So you into sports? Nah, not much of a sports person. Oh, oh, OK. So what are some of your hobbies? You know, I don't have a lot of hobbies, so I'm just more of a stay-at-home kind of person. Now, that's just two sentences. How hard was...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-They’re Not Wrong—They’re Just Wired Differently
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Now that we have rapport, we can now influence somebody to our point of view, right? Remember, there's three styles, right? So think about it. When you walk around every day in your work and you say, you know, that department, I don't know how they hired those people. They don't deserve to have jobs. How do they make it through the day? Ever have one of those moments, right? Because those people aren't wired like whom? Like you. They're fine. They weren't put on...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Adapt Your Style to Build Rapport
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Why do we care that we have rapport? Why do we care that we have influence? Well, first off, we need rapport because we need to build a relationship. I'm going to ask you a couple of questions in a moment, but we need to build a relationship with other people. And there are only three styles out there. You're one of them. There are two others. And for our purposes, you are basically wired like one-third of the population when it comes to your communication style....
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Questions That Build a Business Plan
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. Next, the business plan. Who are we? What is our product? Or service or idea? Who are our customers? What is our market? Who is our competition? Where will we operate? How will we advertise? How will we market ourselves? What is our unique selling proposition? What is our business identity? What size will our company be? And what size will our company eventually become? How long do we plan to stay in business? How much money do we intend to make? Will we operate...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Vision and Values Must Be Intentional
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. The vision statement, where will we be in five years? 10 years, 20 years from now? Where will we be in one year? Where will we be in three years? What does the future look like for the business in our mind's eye? When we close our eyes and think about our business? What do we see? I know what do you see. Next, our values statement, what do we hope our business will be remembered? As what are we here to contribute? Who are we here to educate? What experience will...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Solving Symptoms Never Works
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. So, identifying the issue, we are looking for the cause, not the symptom. It's good to know the symptoms, but we need the cause, okay? So I'll give you an example, all right? Let's identify what the issue is in this particular situation, okay? A client of ours just built a brand new state-of-the-art building in New York City, okay? Multiple floors that requires elevators. They had the latest and greatest elevator system go in. It is optimized based on how many...
info_outlineHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.
During volatile times, people defer to experts.They listen to experts. Think about this. If you were in a rush to get to the airport, like, oh my God, I've got to get there. It's an hour away, and I have 50 minutes to get there. So you don't want to take a chance, and you order Uber, and you order Lyft at the same time. Whoever gets here first, I'm, oh man.
And they both say they can get here at the same time. Oh my God, I just got to get there. And you run outside and they're both there and you say, oh my God, I've got to get to the airport.
I've got to get to the airport, and I don't have a minute to spare. And the Lyft driver says, "Hey, listen, set aside the Lyft thing for a second." I know it's going to cost you 80 bucks to get there. I'm going to charge you a hundred, but I guarantee you get there on time. And if you miss your flight, I'll reimburse you the hundred and the flight. And then you're like, wow.
Then you look at the Uber drive,r and you say the Uber driver, Uber driver, do you know where the airport is? Yep. Would you guarantee I'd get there as well? I can't guarantee that.I don't know the traffic. I mean, what, you know, I mean, yeah, I mean, I think I'll get you there. I've been taking you there many times, but I can't guarantee it. Who are you going with? The Lyft or the Uber? First one or the second one? Go ahead. Who are you going with? Number one.Right. Why? He added a 30% premium, but what did he do? He guaranteed the outcome.
Now, I'm not suggesting you guarantee the outcome, but did you have more confidence in the Lyft driver? Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould, and this has been your #70secondCEO.