Known simply as “The Growth Guy,” Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO) and has been called one of the “Top 10 Minds in Small Business” by Fortune. On this episode, Verne talks about how to scale your business, the common barriers to growth, and why we need less management and more coaching.
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Show Notes
- What inspired him to dedicate his career to growing businesses (2:06)
- His purpose and how it allows him to stay focused (4:30)
- Why to be careful with following your passion (4:41)
- We don’t need more managers, we need more coaches (5:59)
- No one has ever achieved peak performance without a coach (6:54)
- How a leader behaves like a coach, not a manager (7:20)
- Habits of valuable employees (10:14)
- Commonalities of successful companies (11:57)
- The key to Warren Buffett’s success (13:04)
- Leaders are readers; leaders are learners (13:23)
- Common barriers to success and growth (14:10)
- Advice to people ready to take the next step in their business (16:17)
- What to do when you go from being a lean start up to an agile scale up (17:35)
- Daily habits of great leaders (18:19)
- You need a village of support to help you succeed (22:30)
- His biggest fear (27:27)
Resources / People Mentioned
- ScalingUp.com
- Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish
- Scaling Up by Verne Harnish
- The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time by Verne Harnish
- Cal Newport
- Entrepreneurs’ Organizations
- Gazelles
- Bill Gates & Bill Gates’ Think Week
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Mark Cuban
- Warren Buffet
- Charlie Munger
- Steve Jobs
- Tim Cook
- Berkshire Hathaway
- Alan Murray
- Larry Page
- Regis McKenna
- Michael Dell
- Shark Tank
- John D. Rockefeller
- Jonathan Ive
- Boone Pickens
- The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Great by Choice By Jim Collins
- Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal
- Ready, Fire Aim: From Zero to 100 Million by by Michael Masterson and Sean Pratt
- The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
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