472: Scaling Growth: How to 10x Your Business using Servant Leadership with Kurt Uhlir
Release Date: 12/05/2023
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info_outlineWhat if your greatest growth strategies are hidden within your team already? In this power-packed episode, we sit down with Kurt Uhlir, a highly respected figure in the business world renowned for elevating companies from their startup phase to generating over $500 million in annual revenue. What sets Kurt apart is his steadfast dedication to servant leadership, a guiding philosophy that forms the bedrock of his revolutionary growth strategies.
As Kurt takes us through his remarkable journey, recounting his experiences in building global teams and contributing to an $880 million IPO, he provides unprecedented insights into the process of scaling businesses while placing people at the forefront.
Explore the core principles of servant leadership with Kurt and gain exclusive insights into the common misconceptions that leaders often harbor about their businesses. Delve into the complexities of hiring the right talent, navigating personnel changes, and understand the pivotal role that marketing plays in achieving extraordinary growth.
Join us for this enlightening conversation with Kurt Uhlir as he shares his distinctive perspectives, dispels myths, and unveils the intricate art of scaling businesses by a factor of ten or more, all while embracing the ethos of servant leadership..
What We Discuss in this Episode
- Share a snapshot of your journey. What pivotal moments led you to where you are today?
- Define servant leadership—how does it guide your approach to business scaling?
- What fuels your passion for servant leadership and business growth?
- Where do leaders commonly go wrong in their business thinking, and what shifts are needed?
- Reflect on a time you were wrong in business. How did it shape your approach?
- Hiring insights: How do you build the right team and handle letting go of the wrong members?
- Diving into big goals—what's the mindset shift from doubling to 10x growth?
- Unpack the role of marketing in your business scaling. Where do many go wrong?
- From Made in America to working with the President—how did you overcome initial misconceptions?
Favorite Quotes
Growth Marketing Strategies: “I also believe that part of my job is to systematize and create SOPs, standard operating procedures for everything that I'm doing, so that if I didn't show up for work for six months, somebody could pick things up and run."
Self-Awareness: “Unless you’re open to the people who are out there serving customers day in and day out, you’re never going to realize all the false assumptions that you have in your head that are holding back you and your company.”
Leadership and Honesty: “One of my jobs as a leader is to point out where I'm wrong."
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