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If you are a Founder or CEO of a $1M+ business, you've probably come to recognize how important your senior leadership team is to your success. You can't do it on your own. You can't make all the decisions or manage all the people. You need strong leaders who can share the load.
You can’t reach $10M or $50M the same way that you reached $1M or $5M. In the early days of organic growth, you can simply sell your way to success and deal with fulfillment problems as they come. To break the $10M barrier and go deep into 8-figure territory, you need to first create the internal capacity for scale, then you can get back to selling and growing your top line.
I want to propose three principles and a simple yet powerful hiring model that will dramatically increase your hiring process’s effectiveness and reduce the time you spend hiring.
For the first time in a long time, the growth seems to be slowing. Executing on decisions feels more like struggling through a muddy swamp than the perpetual march forward you used to have. Things seem complicated and confusing. What was once a well-oiled machine is slowly, painfully grinding to a halt. Here's how you can fix it.
A common but wholly bewildering problem founders face is apathy among their employees. As a successful founder, I'd be willing to bet you are wired to drive forward. You probably don't have an off button (at least while you're awake). Employees can be a whole different story.
Great leaders distinguish themselves from bad or even just good leaders by their ability to make the right decisions at the right time. There is a mystique that surrounds a great leader's ability to make great decisions, and I see it all the time in founders.
Today, I'm going to show you the right way to jump-start the transformation you want as you execute and implement your offsite decisions and rally the company around your cause.
When I start working with a founder and their team, one of the first issues we have to address is a big one: How they approach growth. Typically, up until this point, they have grown by selling as much as they can and then scrambling to keep up. But this strategy is about to expire.
You did it! You started a business with nothing more than a dream and a willingness to roll up your sleeves. You worked hard, really hard, and the business grew. You're a stand-out success by everyone else's standards. So why are you not jumping for joy?
You did it! By everyone else's standards, you've built a thriving, successful business. You've succeeded where 95% who've tried have failed. You've turned your idea into a thriving enterprise. But there's a problem. And whether or not you have words for it, you are feeling it.
When you realize you are in Whitewater, you realize only one question matters: How do we get out? Here are three steps you can take to conquer Whitewater and enjoy Predictable Success.
I wanted to take a moment in this article to talk about a trap that a lot of business owners (and just people in general) fall into all the time. I know about the trap because I spent more than ten years in it. Looking back now, I know it caused me extra stress, gave me less joy, and limited the growth of my business substantially.
