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Redesigned.Business, Nick Berry

4x Inc. 5k // Founder w 4th exit in '24 // Now I help business owners scale smarter, lead better, & win // Build best-in-class businesses & shorten the learning curve for owners *serious* about scaling // Entrepreneur 🟢 Redesigned.Business // Business Design & Strategic Advisor for B2B Services // 20+ Yr CEO/Founder // Subscribe to weekly newsletter with tips and drops from the podcast: 'The Business Owner's Journey'.

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I had to reconsider this about scaling | The Golden Thread

The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ: Season 3 Episode 2 is LIVE! New episode with Dr. Benjamin Hardy, Jason Barnard, Jason Feifer, and more! You Can Do Everything “Right” In Business and Still Build Yourself a Very Efficient Cage You plan. You forecast. You annual-plan the hell out of it. You try to be “realistic.” And without realizing it, you shrink the goal down to fit what you already know how to build. Practicality is great… right up until it becomes a...

Entrepreneur Nick Berry guiding a small group through leadership and business strategy at a whiteboard.

The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ: Season 3 is LIVE! New episode with Anthony Trucks, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, Jason Barnard, Jason Feifer, and more! How to Become the Person Your Business Needs You to Be Sometimes my podcast interviews just hit me with the right message at the exact right time. Yep, it happens to the host, too. Here’s a current example: We spent most of last season of The Business Owner’s Journey talking about how you work ON the business...

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The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ: Season 3 drops Jan 14th! with Anthony Trucks, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, Jason Barnard, Jason Feifer, and more! How You Accidentally Built a Job Instead of a Company What if the behaviors that got your business off the ground... are the same ones keeping it from working without you? I was talking to this founder recently. Very smart guy, running a solid business, well above average for someone just a few years in. He's been making...

Business coaching session on designing leverage and stepping out of day-to-day operations

The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ: Season 3 drops in Jan! with Anthony Trucks, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, Jason Barnard, Jason Feifer, and more! How to Plan a Year That Doesn't Depend on You Far too many business owners plan their year by setting their goals without evaluating their workload. I've done it. And every goal involved me to execute it. Every priority involved my attention. But there's a better way to plan. Experienced leaders create leverage for...

The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path Merry Christmas 🎄 From our family to yours. As the year winds down, we just wanted to pause and say thank you. For reading, listening, replying, sharing thoughts, or simply being part of this little corner of the internet. We’re incredibly grateful. We hope the next few days give you space to slow down, be present, and enjoy the people who matter most. Wishing you a peaceful Christmas and a strong start to the New Year....

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The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ: Season 3 drops in Jan! with Anthony Trucks, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, Jason Barnard, Jason Feifer, and more! Why Some Business Owners Keep Moving Forward, While Others Don't “The algorithm did it again.” “The timing is terrible.” “There’s nothing we can really do right now.” I hear versions of this constantly. And I get it, some things are out of your control. Markets shift. Clients pause. Platforms change. That’s part of running...

The Tree Model for Delegation

The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ: Season 3 drops in Jan! with Anthony Trucks, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, Jason Barnard, Jason Feifer, and more! A Simple Model so You Don't Have to Make Every Decision As a business owner, you reach a point where you can no longer do all the work yourself, so you delegate. Yet for some reason everything still seems to land on your desk. When that happens, it means you have a decision ownership problem. One of the simplest ways I’ve...

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The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ: Season 3 drops in Jan! with Anthony Trucks, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, Jason Barnard, Jason Feifer, and more! The 5(and a Half) Step Guide to Resisting Shiny Objects How do the good ones know which opportunities to jump on and which to park for later?Here’s a quick, on-the-go guide I’ve been using (and teaching) for 20+ years. So you can decide in minutes, not days or weeks.1️⃣ Start with the Strategic PlanUse your quarterly...

Nick Berry, John Maxwell, and Mark Cole pictured together at a meeting for business leaders planning for 2026.

The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ: Season 3 drops in Jan! with Anthony Trucks, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, Jason Barnard, Jason Feifer, and more! Is Your Identity Making You the Bottleneck? You don’t build a $3M business Being a 300k leader. Because the difference in doing $300K and $2M isn’t a marketing problem. It’s an identity shift. Most founders got traction by being great at the work. They made the sales, they delivered the results. They produced. Then one day...

The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ: Season 3 drops in Jan! with Anthony Trucks, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, Jason Barnard, and more! Clarity Isn't Looking For YOU. You Have to Go Find It. Sometimes you’ve got to do what it takes. For me it was disappearing into the middle of nowhere for two days. Away from the office. Away from the routine. Away from the noise. Me, a hotel, flipcharts, and all of the coffee.Why? Not because I enjoy being somewhere so remote the only...