1. Who are The Growth Whisperers, The Stockdale Paradox, Coronavirus back to work, Conserving cash, Government CoVid19 modelling, Productivity
Release Date: 04/14/2020
#166 Necessary endings
The Growth Whisperers podcast
"Necessary Endings" is a self-help book written by Dr. Henry Cloud. It explores the concept of embracing and initiating endings in various aspects of life, such as relationships, careers, and personal growth, in order to create a positive and fulfilling future. The book emphasises that endings are a natural part of life and are necessary for personal and professional growth. While endings are a natural part of business and life, we often experience them with a sense of hesitation, sadness, resignation, or regret. But Dr. Henry Cloud sees endings differently. He argues that our personal...
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#165 The top five reasons people regret selling their business
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There is an entire industry and philosophy surrounding why you should sell your business, but it doesn’t need to be that way. There are many reasons why people choose to sell their businesses and really the reasons can be broken down into two different things. 1. Long Term Goal To Exit: A strategic decision because their plan all along was to sell their business and they have something else more desirable to do with their time (besides golf). 2. Looking for an Exit strategy after losing faith. They hit a point of frustration or desperation and are no longer either enjoying...
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#164 Using the sandbox to stop dumb decisions in the leadership team
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Without effective discipline around decision making we can end up making decisions we later might call dumb. To avoid this one of the tools we use is the sandbox. Where we play. Our sandbox is where we have proven that we can win and earn the right to be a viable option for our customers. And the principle helps us to keep sand in the box. What we sell, Who we sell it to and where we sell it. Like any principle creates focus and guardrails for our thinking and decisions. When going outside of these guardrails, we need to do it with extreme caution and this takes a lot of humility at times -...
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#163 Executive burnout: Building your resilience (2/2)
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Executives are often more driven than the average person. We run hard all the time, and it usually works. And then, it doesn't work. We persist and push harder than the average person, and that's why we win. But it's also why we can crash harder and sometimes even put everything at risk. This week we talk about executive burnout in the second of two episodes. What it means, what to look out for in both yourself and your team, and when it might be time to go get some help. ----- * Do you love The Growth Whisperers and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our ....
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#162 Executive Burnout: How do you know when you need to get some help? (1/2)
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Executives are often more driven than the average person. We run hard all the time, and it usually works. And then, it doesn't work. We persist and push harder than the average person, and that's why we win. But it's also why we can crash harder and sometimes even put everything at risk. This week we talk about executive burnout. What it means, what to look out for in both yourself and your team, and when it might be time to go get some help. ----- * Do you love The Growth Whisperers and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our . * Do you enjoy our content? Rate our...
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#161 Rating your firm on Jim Collins 7 Good to Great principles (2/2)
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Jim Collins book Good to Great is one of the all-time business classics due to the size and quality of the research that underpins the principles that he identified in the research about companies that endured and achieved great performance, relative to their peer companies who only achieved good performance. In Good to Great, Jim Collins identified seven core principles that great companies excelled at. In this part two of two episodes, we dig into the seven principles from Good to Great and ask you to rate your firm's performance on each of these. ----- * Do you love The...
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#160 Rating your firm on Jim Collins 7 Good to Great principles (1/2)
The Growth Whisperers podcast
Jim Collins book Good to Great is one of the all-time business classics due to the size and quality of the research that underpins the principles that he identified in the research about companies that endured and achieved great performance, relative to their peer companies who only achieved good performance. In Good to Great, Jim Collins identified seven core principles that great companies excelled at. In this part one of two episodes, we dig into the seven principles from Good to Great and ask you to rate your firm's performance on each of these. ----- * Do you love The...
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#159 The most important number that CEOs rarely measure
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What if the most important number and predictor of long-term success was also a number that you didn't measure or even manage decisions based on it? Unfortunately, it's a situation that is quite common today. The accumulation of many seemingly small (and large) investment decisions that leaders make leads to the primary measure of a CEO - return on invested capital. How much capital has been invested in your business, and what's the return on that? Some of the most successful CEOs of all time have been primarily guided by this measure. Ensuring that these decisions are well-considered...
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#158 Living and working in your Sustainable Sweet Spot as a leader
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Some parts of your role give you energy, and some parts drain your energy. Often, the parts that drain your energy can be unsustainable. When you were younger, you probably had jobs that drained your energy, and you quit those jobs, getting better jobs over time. But that's often not possible if you're a business owner, CEO or executive. Over time we want to give more time to things that give us energy and less time to those parts that drain energy. This way we're able to work hard and sustain our energy for the role. We would be tired at the end of the day, but our energy for the role...
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#157 Jim Collins: 6 characteristics of right people in the right seats
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How do you know if you have the right people in the right seats? We’ve all heard of the phrase ‘get the right people in the right seats on the bus’. It talks about ensuring that team members are aligned and committed to success. However, Jim Collins has a very specific definition of the ‘right people’, and when you’re considering if you have the right people in the right seats, this includes six key characteristics that might help to understand what 'right' actually means. This week we're going through Jim Collins' definition of the right people in the right seats. ...
info_outlineWho are The Growth Whisperers
Kevin and Brad discuss their background in helping CEOs and leadership teams of high growth entrepreneurial companies as well as why they decided to start The Growth Whisperers podcast.
The Stockdale Paradox
During the Coronavirus outbreak and pandemic it's important to not be too optimistic or too pessimistic. Brad and Kevin discuss the Stockdale Paradox from Jim Collins and why it is so relevant during this crisis.
Coronavirus back to work
When will the lockdown be lifted and when will we be heading back to work? It's the question many leaders are asking right now. The Growth Whisperers provide some interesting thoughts about when, why and what you should start doing to prepare.
Conserving cash
Kevin and Brad talk about a few ideas they've seen to conserve and optimise cash now.
Government CoVid19 modelling
Last week the Australian Government released the modelling that they have been basing their Coronavirus response on. Within this data there are some interesting insights into how the Government views the future, and what you need to consider in your business right now.
Productivity
In the COVID-19 lockdown, how can you maintain productivity for yourself and employees? The Whisperers' discuss interesting ideas to help remote working productivity.
Links:
Kevin Lawrence - Lawrence and Company Growth Advisors
Brad Giles - Evolution Partners
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