Author, VISIONARY Co-Author, ROCKET FUEL (with Gino Wickman) #Visionary + #Integrator = Rocket Fuel. Get everything you want out of your business.
Flower Mound, TX
Joined May 2009
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Thx so much @KrisGutierrez for your time and talent on this story.
Could not be more grateful to all those who prayed for
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"It is not the critic who counts." Theodore Roosevelt, 1910.
It's hung in my office since Gino and I wrote ROCKET FUEL. Every Visionary should read the rest of it.
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When something at work is broken, you've got 3 options.
Tolerate it. Fix it. Leave.
Most people pick a 4th. Complain about it.
It's the only one that both changes nothing and costs everyone.
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I never once sat next to my dad at an OU game.
He took me before I was 10. My seat was always somewhere else.
By the time I had my own tickets, he'd stopped going. We missed the window.
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4/ As a formula:
Time Together = Desire × Freedom ÷ Friction
A zero on either of the first two kills it. Friction just wears it down.
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The company grows at the speed of your bottleneck. Usually that's you as the Visionary Founder.
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@RealTommyMello told me about a founder who’d give back $3 billion to get his business back.
The exit didn’t buy him freedom.
I got into why, and the rich-or-king question my wife asked me on a Colorado hike, on Mello Millionaire. 👇
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I take a month off every year. Week one is the hardest.
That’s when I want to check in “just to be sure.”
I don’t. When I get back, my team shows me what ran better without me.
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102 employees. 99 had their quarterly conversation with their manager.
The 3 who didn't? The leadership team.
Leaders exempt themselves from their own systems first. Then everyone else follows.
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1995. Milwaukee. My cyber cafe had a line out the door.
The obvious fix was more computers.
Instead, I doubled the price.
Nobody left.
When the line is out the door, the market is telling you something about your price.
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About 100 employees. Three quarterly reviews for each. Roughly 300 data points.
Zero problems.
That's not a healthy company. It's an ungraded one.
Leaders grade easy because grading accurately creates work.
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In 1993 I stood at a microphone a few feet from W. Edwards Deming.
The word I took home still shapes how I coach founders.
Tampering.
Communicating: walking around, asking questions, listening, looking at the numbers.
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2/ Tampering: giving direction or making a decision in an area someone else (not you) owns.
Talk to anyone in your company. Then take what you learn to your #2, not to the team.
Same insight. No undone work.
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