Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Becoming Your Best: Turning Admiration into Action
Release Date: 06/20/2025
Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Muddy Fish - A War Time Employee
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. You are the faster-paced and more outgoing. You are goal-driven. You like to get the result. You like to win, right? You're very competitive, not very patient, right? You don't want to hear a lot about process. You like things muddy because you know, you don't need a lot of process. You can kind of do your thing. You can move around the fishbowl, say what you want to one, say what you want to the other. You can work all the angles. The more chaos, the better....
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Effectiveness Always Comes Before Efficiency
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. So you have two parts to your business and two parts to your team. You have your effective part and your efficient part. They need to work together. And the way that you get them to work together is effective, always comes first. Always, always, always, always. Sorry, clean fish, you're gonna have to clean up a little bit of a mess, but there is a reason why when you flew here, the pilot does not put it on autopilot on the runway. In the beginning, if you put...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Your Business Needs Both Muddy Fish and Clean Fish
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. Years ago, I did personality assessments on an oil rig. This oil company had us analyze their two shifts. And I said, " What's the issue? And they said, I said, we can't figure it out. We have two incredibly different types of activities, and we can't figure out why it's happening. They said, " Well, tell me about it. And they said, well, the day shift, the day shift is amazing. You can eat off the oil rig. It's spotless. We pass every time, as a matter of fact,...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Clean Fish Would Rather Do the Wrong Thing Right
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 have our clean fish. Clean fish, we love our clean fish. We would have nothing in our lives without clean fish because muddy fish will give us all these sometimes good ideas, sometimes not so good ideas, sometimes terrible ideas, and they will leave them with the clean fish and say, " Make it happen. And you do, right? So clean fish would rather do the wrong thing right than do the right thing and be accused of being wrong. You want me to do that again?...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Your Business Needs Muddy Fish
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 need muddy fish in our business. Interestingly enough, we don't need as many muddy fish as we do clean fish. Like for every muddy fish, you need a lot of clean fish, right? And I think you all know why, right? But muddy fish, what they're really good at is being the effective part of your business. They get stuff across the finish line. Might not be pretty. They might scorch a lot of earth, but they get things across the finish line, right? You want proof...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-There Are Two Types of Fish Muddy or CleanWhich Are You Pt. 2
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, these muddy fish are great because they can think on their feet. They're really good at getting the job done. They're very creative problem solvers, and they're always in the moment. We love them for that. They tend to be the front of the house. They tend to be your business development people. They tend to be your salespeople. They tend to be your managers. They tend to be your owners. All right. You are faster-paced and outgoing. You are goal-driven. You are...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-There Are Two Types of Fish Muddy or CleanWhich Are You
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Two Fish Under One Roof Managing Different Personalities
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Two Fish Under One Roof: Managing Different Personalities Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So you have two businesses under one roof that had varying personalities, and oh, by the way, just for an additional fun, there is a natural and adversarial relationship between those two parts of your business, right? So you've been to those meetings, right? Accounting, put the finance department in the room with the salespeople and have them give the lecture about the CRM. Isn't that a...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Front of the house systems differ from back of the house systems
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 so the fishbowl is your company. What do we have inside this fishbowl? So inside the fishbowl, you have, you have all the fish, obviously, you have the water, that's the culture, but you also have all of your systems, all of your processes. You have the zones of interaction. We call them the zones of excellence, but the zones of interaction with your clients, you have the front of the house, and you have the back of the house. You're in a unique industry in...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-You Can't Outwork a Bad Culture
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. He says your company, your organization, is a fishbowl. And the water is your culture. The water in that fishbowl is what you are as a company. That water could be clean, that water could be dirty, that water could be a lot of things. It could be that there are certain fish that clean it up. There are certain fish that dirty it up. And just like you cannot out-exercise a bad diet, you know that, right? Not for these next two days. The next two days, there will be...
info_outlineHi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #7osecondCEO a one minute investment for a lifetime of results.
In a recent video, I asked you to write down who you admire and what that person or historical figure's admirable traits, rules, and principles are. And you just introduced yourself to what you believe is your best version of yourself. That’s right, you just use another person or figure or package in order to talk about what you believe are your most amazing features and where the next area of growth is for you. Ok, so you wrote down all the attributes of the person that you admire, now what I’d like you to do is:
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Rank yourself on a scale of 1 to 10. One low, ten high for every one of those attributes.
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How well are you playing that game?
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And then create a plan for how to get to a 10 in every one of those areas.
So, comment below, and tell me what was:
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The top trait you are going to work on?
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What was your score?
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And, what is the first action that you are going to take going forward?
This is Carl Gould, and this is your #70secondCEO.