Discover Your Business Personality: Muddy Fish or a Clean Fish?
Release Date: 08/31/2026
Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Stage 1: Design Your Business Future and Win Your First Customer
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Stage 1: Turn Your Business Idea into Demand Before You Build
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Build the Right Team Match People to Their Strengths Roles Your Business Vision
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Build a Better Organizational Chart Track Your Tasks Improve Cash Flow Scale Your Business - Pt. 3
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Build a Better Organizational Chart: Track Your Tasks, Improve Cash Flow & Scale Your Business - Pt. 3 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Once you have gone through this exercise, you will have done a number of things. First, you will have created all the job descriptions within the business because you've listed the tasks you went through and put your name next to each one. Soon you will change the name because your goal and your job thereafter, when working with your mirror and your...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Build a Better Organizational Chart Track Your Tasks Improve Cash Flow Scale Your Business - Pt. 2
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Build a Better Organizational Chart: Track Your Tasks, Improve Cash Flow & Scale Your Business - 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. This is a surefire way to build your business structure because you will learn which tasks you can delegate and which you cannot, and soon you will start handing them off to other people. We'll organize those tasks later; for now, put them in your journal or notebook over the next two weeks. List those tasks and the time it takes to do them, and let me give...
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Build a Better Organizational Chart: Track Your Tasks, Improve Cash Flow & Scale Your Business Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You'll notice as you look at the organizational chart, there's you on top, the CEO; you're the CEO of Me Incorporated. And on the left-hand side, as you look at your page, that's all the activities of the business that bring in customers and cash. That's the D and the I side of the organizational chart- anything that brings it in and on the right side is the S...
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Carl Gould #70secondCEO
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Set Smarter 90-Day Goals: Turn Continuous Improvement Into Measurable Business Growth - Pt. 1
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Set Smarter 90-Day Goals: Turn Continuous Improvement Into Measurable Business Growth - Pt. 1 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. 90-day goals that have–that are actual destinations, and then separate that from what we call categories of improvement or just the roles you play in your life. So, for example, it will be hard to imagine that you could do this, but imagine you set the goal to be a better podcaster- hard to imagine, like this guy is crazy, right? There’s no such thing like...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Build Better Business Systems Create Predictable Processes Empower Your Team Scale Successfully
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Build Better Business Systems: Create Predictable Processes, Empower Your Team & Scale Successfully 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: an activity or group of activities you can remove yourself from. Now, remember way back when we were talking about the discovery process, and we said, "Every job has a personality." Every industry has a personality. Well, in your business, each job will start to assume its own personality. Systems, by their very nature, are...
info_outlineCarl Gould here with your #70secondCEO - just a little over a minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Our topic today is - Are you a Muddy Fish or are you a Clean Fish? I wonder.
So, a muddy fish. Are you the kind of person that is fast-paced and outgoing? You're not very detail-oriented. You’re results-driven. You like things new, trendy, flashy. You tend to be on the business development and visionary side of the business.
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Or are you a clean fish? You like the water clean. You like systems, processes, predictability, consistency, and high quality. You're not necessarily the front-of-the-house person like those muddy fish. You're more a back-of-the-house person, a clean fish. You like things well planned out, very systematic, so you can be very predictable and deliver consistent high-quality results.
Which one are you doing? Because you will find that there are pros and cons to both. Muddy fish, you are usually great at the front of the house; clean fish, you are at the back of the house. Which one are you? I want to hear it.
Like, follow, and subscribe to the podcast and comment: are you a clean fish or are you a muddy fish? This is Carl Gould, and this is your #70secondCEO.