Category: Vision
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#27: Which decisions can I let go of?
The more decisions that have to go through you as a CEO, the more you become the bottleneck that limits your company’s growth. You can start letting go of some decisions that you think only you can make by using heuristics. In fact, once you start using heuristics you will actually be surprised at how…
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#17: Am I thinking big enough for all of us?
Arguably, your #1 job as CEO is to ensure that you’ve created a big enough vision. Your vision can be just as important to your people as the pay checks you write them. Unless of course, you are happy employing people that are only interested in exchanging their time with you for the money they…
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#13: Is our company’s goal meaningful to the people that really matter?
It’s been said that ‘people without goals always end up working for people with goals’. This is why the better your goals are defined, the easier it is to attract and retain better people. Makes sense. In fact, it’s been my observation that goal alignment between a business and the people it employs is essential…
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#10: Am I doing the $5,000 per hour work?
If you wanted to build a $100,000,000 business in 10 years then the value of every hour you personally put into the business today would need to be worth $5,000. Day after day. If the business paid you $100,000 per year today, then that would be around 100 X more than you are actually earning…
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#06: Are we being way too realistic?
Take a look at the world around you. It has been entirely created by unrealistic people. People that were brave enough to think beyond what was already possible. So today we can fly. We have electricity. Telephones. Cars. Computers. Frozen food (Yep frozen food! You should check out Clarence Birdseye sometime for an example of…