Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Stage 1 Starts Here: Rank Your Strategy
Release Date: 05/16/2025
Carl Gould - #70secondCEO - Operations - Finely Tuned or Train Wreck?
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO just over a one minute investment each day for a lifetime of results. Here we go, let’s talk about your operations. To what degree are your operations running like a finely tuned machine? Give yourself a score, one being, ‘it’s a train wreck!’ And 10 being, a ‘finely tuned machine.’ I want to hear about that. Now, you are only as good as the worst part of your process so you can only move as fast as the toughest constraint in your business. So, take a moment, write down: What is the constraint in your operations? Where is the link...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Milestones Over Motion How Purpose-Driven Goals Set You Apart Part 2
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. What is it going to mean to you when you succeed? Who are you going to become in the process? How will you grow? How will you evolve as a person and as a company? And who else will benefit from your success when you have reached the level of success you have designed? And why is it important to you that that person be positively impacted by that? So as you've heard, we've done a variety of planning here and as you've created all of these different plans,...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Milestones Over Motion How Purpose-Driven Goals Set You Apart Part 1
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 we want to make sure that we're focusing on milestones, because milestones and favoring achievement over activity will help you eliminate the competition. Let the other quote, unquote busy companies compete against each other, be among the achievement minded businesses, focus on your milestones on your achievements in advance, and you'll be among the top percentage companies. And lastly, and certainly not least, is your purpose statement. The questions...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Designing Your Mission Vision and Future
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. We talked about our outcome, what is our outcome for stage one? Our outcome is to design our future and we're going to do this using our 7 stage power tools, designing our mission, vision and values. Our purpose statement is that we're going to do our business plans, our marketing plans, our sales plans, our milestones, and planning in order to give ourselves the best chance of success. So how do we do, how do we design a mission statement? Well, our mission...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-When Your Business Starts to Walk on Its Own
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. Every job starts to develop its own personality. That's how you know you're in stage four, where things happen without you, the pace of your business will actually slow a little bit, you'll come into the office and it'll seem calm, things are running smoothly, you may not be used to this, this is not the fast pace, go, go, go, go go of stage one and two, it has slowed down a little bit. Things have calmed a bit. It doesn't mean you're moving slower as a...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Structure Before Systems The Entrepreneurs Balancing Act
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. Hear what I'm saying now, because we're saying that there are no systems yet we do not want systems, it's too early. But we want a structure. And we need to be flexible. And we need to place trust in others, even when we watch and they are making mistakes. This is hard for an entrepreneur to do, especially when they're so technically savvy in their business. So self management becomes very, very important in this area. So we go on to stage four. If you make...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Trap of Potential vs. the Power of Performance
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. Potential is a wonderful place to be. I got to tell you in potential, you are a legend. It's amazing–I can't believe how good I am. You know, in potential, I can make no mistakes every idea I have is freaking brilliant, right? And my god, I gotta tell you, not only am I charming and handsome, but boy I’m smart in potential, but performance is very messy. Performance is risky. You can get it wrong, or worse, you can get it right and be expected to repeat...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Emotion First: Why We Really Make Decisions
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. You may process things logically, you might be an analyst, you might be a numbers person and you do that for emotional reasons. You've heard the saying many times we buy on emotion and we rationalize, intellectually or with logic, and that's true. And it all starts out with emotion. Humans have six basic categories of motivators, those categories you will place in a hierarchy in that hierarchy. When you are deciding as to how you are going to buy or do or not buy...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Build the Team Before You Hire Match Roles to Strengths
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. When you create your organizational chart, you will be matching people with their styles. And that's step number one, most people are going to gravitate towards the jobs that they're good at already and we're gonna, when we talk about attributes, we'll talk about the skills and what they mechanically bring to the table already people gravitate towards certain roles, because people like what they're good at. So, when you ask somebody, when you're hiring...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Building a Business Is Rocket Science And How to Launch Yours Part 3
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. In order to get that maximum lift, in order for you to maximize the launch of your business, you want to become what we call an MVP organization. How do you do that? You complete the stage 1 planning that we’ve laid out for you, and you want to complete the stage 1 planning that we referred to in the coming chapters. Become an aligned, resolved organization based on your dreams, your vision, your mission, your values, and your purpose. The more aligned you are,...
info_outlineStage 1 Starts Here: Rank Your Strategy
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 you’re doing it, all that together has to be a 10, a 10 in each one so give yourself a ranking.
Like and follow this podcast and send me a comment, what is your score? Okay so, this is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.