The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ Season 3 New episode TODAY with Josh Fertel! 👇🏻 Authority Is What Moves a Business Beyond Its Founder You can delegate every task on your list and still be the only person actually moving things forward. A business begins to scale when someone else can make decisions and own the outcome without checking back with you every time something carries weight. I was talking with a founder recently who described himself as the life...
13 days ago • 3 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ Season 3 New episode TODAY with Paul Austin-Menear! 👇🏻 “Companies Are Getting Worse at Listening”. That Makes It Your Advantage You remember the BlackBerry phone? I hadn't thought about them in years until I was planning this newsletter. And there's a reason for that. They stopped being relevant the moment the market shifted and they didn't hear it. BlackBerry had market dominance. Then the iPhone showed up and redefined what...
20 days ago • 4 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ Season 3 New episode TODAY with Natasha Walstra! 👇🏻 Why Your LinkedIn Profile Has a Job Whether You Give It One or Not Ten years ago, if you met someone in business and went to look them up... you'd Google them. If they didn't have a website, you'd think: “They can’t be that serious.” When someone perceives you as un-serious (as in “not earnest”), you just got downgraded. That was 10 years ago. Now? The same thing happens...
27 days ago • 3 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ Season 3 New episode TODAY with Jason Barnard! 👇🏻 Who’s Actually Defining Your Reputation I was on a call recently with a business owner who is planning for major growth this year. I had researched him and felt like his online presence wasn’t strong enough currently to support the growth. Not in the high-trust market he was in. I asked him: “When prospects Google you, what do they find?” He didn’t even pause. “I don’t worry...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ Season 3 New episode TODAY with Jason Feifer! 👇🏻 When the Business Freezes Without Adaptability I sold my last business a few years back. And for a split-second, I thought I knew what came next. I'd built something. I knew how to do it. I was good at it. So naturally, my brain went: just do it again. Muscle memory is efficient that way. It'll carry you right back into what's familiar... whether or not it's still the right...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
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...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
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...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
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...
2 months ago • 3 min read
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...
2 months ago • 2 min read