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Focus on the Few Core Values
What are the three or four values that drive your organization? Be super clear to your team about those core values. Make them memorable. Talk about them all the time. Let those be your guiding values to propel your culture to the next level.
Recruit With a Process
There are three things Smith’s company looks for when hiring people:
Ability , Motivation, Culture fit
Three questions that will change how you do everything
Most of us often do not make the decision of what we are going to focus on consciously. And yet, what we choose to focus on is the most important decision we can make!
Using Failure For Good
Don’t grip life too tight. You’ll get whiplash if you live life that way. Hold life with an open hand and seek to enjoy the moment you are in.
Buy Back Your Time: Freedom and 5 Time Assassins
The one real hurdle to scaling your company and growing rich is TIME, and that how you use your free time will make or break your success.
Save – Not Spend – Your Way to 7 Figures
It is important to be thoughtful about how you will position your future self financially.
Bridging Two Books
Resistance is real.
How can we overcome it with goal planning and affirmations?
Be A “Pro”
Acting like a pro can be whittled down to three key things: excellence, removing personal feelings, and sheer relentlessness.
Chase More Than Profit
What rewards am I chasing? Are those rewards going to build something I am proud of?
Pursuing profit AND MORE!
Stay Humble, Eliminate Pride
Most people fall victim to pride by comparing themselves to other people and other organizations. If you feel compelled to compare your life to anyone, compare your life to that of Jesus Christ, who lived a perfect life.
Using Family Culture to Defeat the Tendency to Be on Autopilot
Simply put – don’t live your life on autopilot. Consider the family culture that you want to establish as a leader of your family and understand that culture is driven by the values you prioritize in your life. Make sure you have true clarity about those values.
Studying Daniel to Become a Better Leader
The importance of identity and the values of your heart. How to lead with love.
The Ant & The Grasshopper
The ant spent every day working hard, stocking away food, building shelter, and preparing for the winter so he could survive. The ant never took a day to have fun, relax or enjoy himself. He survived the winter season, but he never relented in his preparation efforts and ultimately worked himself to death.
Leaders Are Great Storytellers
The best stories and the ones most remembered are the ones where a hero comes in contact with some adversity or villain, but then, overcomes that to achieve their desire.
A Not-Too-Specific Vision
If you are too specific with your vision, you leave very little room for error, and may even alienate – rather than motivate –people.
Health Drives How Well You Embody Your Leadership Values
How can you improve your health to become a better leader?
The Value of Listening
Do not be the leader who walks around and talks AT everybody, barking orders and acting like a know-it-all. Be the leader who listens.