Have you ever found yourself fantasizing about what you will do when you can finally sell this monster of a company you are building and you envision yourself on a beach in Mexico or Tahiti for a good portion of the year?
Often disgruntled leaders come to me and all they have in mind is this: how can I get out with the most dollars in my pocket?
While I should stay seriously and ask them some profound questions, this generally just makes me crack up because I KNOW, most of them would be bored stiff after week 2 (IF that long…) and they’d be all in planning their next venture…
The question is, are you building to get profitable and make a bunch of money ongoingly, changing people’s lives (yours, your clients, customers, team, partners, investors…) or are you building down and dirty with little regard to longevity, your tech stack held together by spit and bubblegum and your “team” are whoever you could talk into working here?
This is so important to know that I did a quick FB Live on just that—and you can check it out here.
I tell you about a case study of a CEO who built to sell, and the S%*#TSHOW that ensued when he changed his mind.
When your focus is on selling, your mind is already 1/2 out and the mission falls by the wayside. I mean, who cares?
If you do care, you need to ask the right questions and of course, we discuss those in the FB Live.
Once your team is disempowered and in the victim loop of not executing and doing the wrong things, that makes for frustrated people who need a lot of hand-holding, constant follow-up and and lots of lots of questions that could have been avoided if that person had just taken a little tiny bit of initiative to find the answers on their own.
But of course, they are NOT self-starters and they DON’T have 100% ownership over their outcomes so being proactive is not in their DNA.
So you have to ask yourself, what kind of company do you want to build?
We talk about the questions that you must ask and what that will get you to:
—Exponentially increase your revenue
—Save YOUR time so you can focus on your zone of brilliance (and maybe even days off and vacation)
—Build an A-team of A-players who have your back
… And become the guardian to your ”company soul” so that you can build your legacy
Of course, all that requires the MOST important thing: that you show up as an A-leader…
…if you are not 100% certain that you know how to BE that, you might want to check out the video here.
What could you do this week to start getting on the right track? Just change ONE thing and do it consistently