Episodes
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Many entrepreneurs donât hire well, and those that do mostly dread the activity. Dan Sullivan aims to change that. He explains a mindset shift about hiring differently as entrepreneurs, exploring how thinking of hiring as casting a play creates a new perspective on team building and collaboration.
Show Notes:
Most entrepreneurs view hiring as a cost rather than an investment.An entrepreneurâs attitude toward hiring shapes the future of their relationship with their team.The notion of casting, as opposed to hiring, highlights the importance of finding the right fit for a role within the team.When entrepreneurs view the hiring process as casting, they shift their focus from simply filling a position to selecting individuals who will fit well within the existing team dynamic.It also helps them identify areas for improvement, reallocate roles, and ensure that the team functions cohesively toward common goals.It pays to view your business as a theater production, where the success of the team depends on how well each member fits into their role and collaborates with others.It doesnât matter what anyone is doing on their own. Itâs all about how youâre producing something as a team.Resources:
The Impact Filterâą
The Front Stage/Back Stage ModelÂź
Unique Abilityâ
10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy
The Gap And The Gain by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy
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Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein delve into the power of the âWhen Are You Great?â tool, discussing how it serves as a crucial planning aid and a potent marketing resource. Using real-world examples, they explore the implications for crafting compelling offers, narrating impactful stories, and leveraging a marketerâs secret weapon.
Highlights:
To figure out what gets talked about, you have to combine everything youâre telling with everything youâre being told.
You share when youâre good because you have competition. Others share when youâre great because they donât think you have any competition.
Saying when youâre good is trying to make a convincing argument. Being told when youâre great is your compelling offer.
How you're making people feel transcends what you do for them.
Your messaging should include both what you do and what happens when someone participates in it.
Measuring impact is hard in the short term, but unavoidable in the long term.
Resources:
The Four Freedoms
The Self-Managing Company by Dan Sullivan
The Strategic Coach Entrepreneurial Time SystemÂź
The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan
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The end of a year and the beginning of another is a great time to reflect and plan. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss effective ways entrepreneurs can look back on whatâs happened and look ahead to what they want to accomplish, sharing insights from their own experiences running successful businesses.
Highlights:
A lot of people feel uncomfortable talking about long-term planning.
You can use the new year to reflect on the progress you've made over the last 12 months and what you need to do over the next 12 months while fitting it into the context of what your long-term mission is.
You can reuse your past any way you want.
Itâs much easier to think about 25 years as 100 quarters: a quarter is enough time to get stuff done, but not so long that youâll lose your way.
No one can predict the future. Itâs all just guesses and bets.
Consistency over time in your past is crucial for building your future.
For the most part, entrepreneurs starting a new business don't have any structure or process that works.
There's a quick deviation from values sometimes when you're trying to just get financial return.
The more you plan backwards from the future, the better you get at it.
Resources:
10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy
Learn more about Steve Krein and StartUp Health
The Strategic CoachÂź Program
Learn more about Unique AbilityÂź
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No matter how long a company has been around, itâs vital that everyone is clear on and maintains their core values. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain why this is so important, discuss why all team members need to be aligned, and share some of their own companiesâ core values.
Highlights:
In the U.S., core values used to be structured into the environment you lived in.
Reminding team members of the companyâs specific purpose can help avoid distraction.
The value reinforcement of a company today is 10 times more important than it was in the 1950s.
You either do or donât have passion for, have conviction for, and are inspired by a mission.
People who arenât aligned with a companyâs mission wreak havoc during times when things shift.
Company leaders need to represent the values they want their team members to have.
Every entrepreneur is in the continual process of hiring or removing wrong-fit people.
In a period of high flux, you go to the organizing structure that actually works.
Resources:
Everyone And Everything Grows by Dan Sullivan
Unique AbilityÂź
The Entrepreneurâs Guide To Time Management
âGeometryâ For Staying Cool & Calm by Dan Sullivan
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Strategic CoachÂź is approaching its 50th anniversary, and Coach co-founder Dan Sullivan is coming up on 50 years of coaching entrepreneurs. In this episode, Steve Krein and Dan share some of the significant changes to entrepreneurism that have happened over the past 50 years and what the future holds.
Highlights:
Steve and Dan discuss what is currently the number one resource on the planet
If you look at cultural heroes in the business world and American life itself, theyâre the great entrepreneurs.
The original definition of an entrepreneur is someone who takes resources from a lower level of productivity to a higher level of productivity.
If you donât have an appreciation for what it means to be an entrepreneur, it can look intimidating and mysterious.
Government, corporate, and large non-profit bureaucracies see unpredictably innovative entrepreneurs as their main enemy.
Big breakthroughs in technology empower entrepreneurs, not large bureaucracies.
When single individuals and small groups create something that goes viral in the marketplace, it upsets everything.
Most of the obstacles to becoming an entrepreneur that existed 50 years ago have been removed.
Resources:
The Strategic CoachÂź Signature Program
The Impact Filterâą tool
Article: The Four Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs
Learn more about Steve Krein and StartUp Health
My Plan For Living To 156 by Dan Sullivan
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Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein continue their discussion about the power of thinking tools and how they can help entrepreneurs achieve their goals. They explore the importance of tension, shortcuts, and tools in simplifying complex problems and generating new opportunities for yourself, your team, and your clients.
Highlights:
Strategic CoachÂź began with The Strategy CircleÂź, the primordial entrepreneurial thinking tool.All Strategic Coach tools share the VOTA structure: Vision, Obstacles, Transformation, Action.By combining opposing thoughts, entrepreneurs can generate new ideas and surprising insights.Tools are shortcuts to help people do things faster and more efficiently.The best tools, Dan feels, are axiomatic, like the self-evident truths that Euclid established for geometry.All sales conversations around Strategic Coach begin with a conversation about the prospectâs D.O.S.Âź (Dangers, Opportunities, Strengths).Dan discusses his latest book, which is about the unique culture within the Strategic Coach team, and uses the process of this bookâs creation as an example of that teamwork.The speed and decisiveness of entrepreneurs require coaching and tools that can keep up with their fast-paced thinking and decision making.Individuals coming to entrepreneurship from a scientific or academic background may be shocked by the speed at which things happen in the business world.Resources:
StartUp Health
Video: How To Transform A Negative Experience
The Entrepreneurâs Guide To Time Management
Your Life As A Strategy Circle by Dan Sullivan
The Impact Filter
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How do you find great people to join your organization? How do you train them, coach them, and guide them? The answer lies in what makes Strategic CoachÂź different from all other companies. In this first episode of a two-part series, Steven Krein and Dan Sullivan share the thinking tool culture of Strategic Coach, how it has transformed Stevenâs StartUp Health, and how you can use it to upgrade any organization you choose.
Highlights:
Strategic Coach team members use the same tools as our members do.
Thinking tools are at the core of StartUp Healthâs value creation and scalability.
Entrepreneurs canât have a more confident future until they have a more confident past.
Your past experience is your property, so you can do anything you want with it.
Your past is there for learning.
Youâre always either on the winning team or the learning team.
Thinking tools are structured forms, either digital or on paper.
You canât change past events, but you can change your interpretation of them.
Never fall in love with your tools until the check writers fall in love with your tools.
Resources:
StartUp Health
Video: How To Transform A Negative Experience
The Entrepreneurâs Guide To Time Management
Your Life As A Strategy Circle by Dan Sullivan
The Impact Filter
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Most entrepreneurs believe they have to be in constant competition. But thereâs a much more enjoyable way to live your entrepreneurial life to achieve bigger and better results: you can enter a zone of collaboration with like-minded people thatâs entirely free of competition. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain how to start. Hint: itâs all about simplifying before multiplying.
Highlights:
Finding collaborators who think the same way as you do is one of the most important activities an entrepreneur can undertake.
Donât fall in love with an idea until customers fall in love with it.
You canât have simplicity in your entrepreneurial life and complexity in other areas because the complications will catch up with you.
You need both simplification and multiplication to constantly grow.
Most people are too close to cash flow urgency to be able to even think about collaborating.
Once youâre in a competition-free zone, you can continually expand it for the rest of your career.
Uber and Airbnb started off as Free Zone Frontiers, but got really complicated because they got a lot of headwind from who they were disrupting.
Apple has been the best company at maintaining the quality of âFree Zone Frontiering.â
There are people who donât see Amazon as a competitor, but as a capability.
If you donât know up front what success in a project looks like, itâs dead on arrival.
Things that are currently underestimated or not even known are going to become entrepreneur capabilities in the next decade or two.
Technology companies are really hard-pressed to keep up with what people actually want to do.
If you create a disruption, you arenât responsible for it causing a loss for someone else.
Resources:
Simplifier-Multiplier Collaboration by Dan Sullivan
Free Zone Frontier by Dan Sullivan
The Impact Filterâą tool
Total Cash Confidence by Dan Sullivan
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Innovations in the realm of age reversal are accelerating. Getting physically younger while getting older in years is a real possibility. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain the advances, discuss whatâs needed for further breakthroughs, and share why age reversal developments are critical for entrepreneurs to be preparing for.
Highlights:
Many entrepreneurs retire out of social or societal expectations.
Setting a goal that might seem crazy serves as a magnet for what you need and as a repellent for what you donât.
You treat your remaining years differently depending on when you think youâre going to die.
Thinking about your legacy means youâre thinking about being gone.
Thereâs the expectation in society that once you turn 65 or 70, you donât take on anything new.
The solution wonât be possible if you donât have the goal.
Medicine is going to become the fastest growing industry in the United States.
There are hundreds if not thousands of parts that need to be worked on to enable true age reversal.
Thereâs a paradigm now that all disease is simply an aspect of aging.
There's been an incredible drop-off in venture capital funding of all areas except health and medicine.
American progress in all areas is driven by adventuresome consumers.
Mission alignment is the single most important predictor of success in long-term health-related entrepreneurial ventures.
Resources:
Learn more about Steven Krein at StartUp Health
My Plan For Living To 156 by Dan Sullivan
The Strategic CoachÂź Signature Program
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A lot of entrepreneurs are scared right now, while others are excited, feeling like this is the best time to be innovating and creating value. Why these opposing mindsets? In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steven Krein explain why some people are experiencing anxiety about the future while others are staying cool and calm.
Highlights:
Some people see âscary timesâ as opportunities.
The people who we expect to be in charge are responding not only to an event, but to other peopleâs responses.
The majority of people are less prepared now for something different to happen.
Strategies, tools, and concepts have prepared Strategic CoachÂź clients to not be shaken by whatever happens.
If your confidence comes from inside yourself, you can find a way to be confident in any situation.
When people feel uncertain, they hold onto their money.
Entrepreneurs should have enough security to go one or two quarters without worrying about cash flow.
In uncertain times, itâs your job to keep your team membersâ confidence up every day.
Make sure you come out of uncertain times with the same team power you went into it with.
When your clients are uncertain about their futures, your job is to enable them to create a new future for themselves.
Everyone is 100% responsible for their own feelings.
If youâre immersed in just getting your job done, itâs easy to ignore whatâs going on in the outside world.
Resources:
StartUp Health
The Dan Sullivan Question by Dan Sullivan
âGeometryâ For Staying Cool & Calm by Dan Sullivan
The Strategic CoachÂź Signature Program
Scary Times Success Manual by Dan Sullivan
The Positive FocusÂź
Thinking About Your Thinking by Dan Sullivan
My Plan For Living To 156 by Dan Sullivan
CapitalismâAnd Everything Else by Dan Sullivan
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Dan Sullivan and Steven Krein discuss Danâs latest quarterly book, CapitalismâAnd Everything Else, and explain what capitalism really means, why many people believe they donât like it, why itâs misunderstood, and its five growth stages.
Highlights:
Some people incorrectly approach capitalism as a rival to ideologies like communism and fascism.
Capitalism isnât in competition with anything.
Capitalism involves capitalizing on your own talent and time, your production, your abilities, your profitability, and on living in a world of greater prosperity.
Communism, feudalism, fascism, and Nazism arenât methodologies, theyâre ideologies.
If you multiply the impact of your uniqueness over a span of years, youâll have done it through the methods of capitalism.
Thereâs a deep emotional element to success from capitalistic activities such as building a business and entrepreneurship.
Systems that are anti-capitalist in their ideologies invariably use capitalist methods to achieve success.
Wherever capitalist methodology is followed, things improve.
Some people are bothered by capitalist methodology because it demands extraordinary individual accountability.
Philanthropic efforts often fall flat because they donât operate within a capitalistic framework.
Resources:
CapitalismâAnd Everything Else by Dan Sullivan
Thinking About Your Thinking by Dan Sullivan
The Strategic Coach Program
Steven Krein and StartUp Health
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Ever wondered what the success formula is for top entrepreneurs? In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss the â25-Year Transformationâ and how it can benefit entrepreneurs by helping them prioritize their biggest goals and measure progress every quarter. They explain how having a quarterly rhythm can be transformational, and provide insights into how to achieve long-term goals, adapt to advancements in technology and crises in the marketplace, and maintain a transformational mindset.
Highlights:
Measuring your past progress and planning out the next quarter, every quarter, helps simplify and multiply your efforts.This kind of self-accountability and measurement allows for compounding results.Growth entrepreneurs must have a quarterly reflection to achieve their goals.Entrepreneurs who treat every quarter in business as a 90-day period of progress, recalibrating and staying committed to their goals, are much more likely to weather market disruptions (such as a global pandemic) and will fare better in the long run.Quarterly review and recalibration are essential for achieving not only professional goals, but personal ones as well, and help you build meaningful relationships.Your social circle can either support or obstruct your goals. Curate it regularly.Avoid making major decisions on Friday afternoons. Everything feels much bigger and scarier when youâre tired from the week, whereas you have a fresh perspective and more energy at the start of the week.To reach your quarterly goals, you must commit to weekly improvements.Resources:
StartUp Health
The Strategic CoachÂź Program
Free Zone Frontier by Dan Sullivan
10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy
Unique AbilityÂź
The Entrepreneurâs Guide To Time Management (Free Daysâą)
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Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss the Free Zone FrontierÂź and the StartUp Health programs. They both believe itâs crucial to have the right people in the room, sharing their experiences and collaborating. Connecting like this with a community of ambitious, calm entrepreneurs makes it possible to experience five yearsâ progress in three months.
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What does it take to make a significant impact in battling a disease? In this third episode of their three-part series, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Dr. Timothy Nelson discuss the innovative model Tim has developed for combatting congenital heart disease, the incredible commitment from others that itâs taken to reach this point, and how many other areas of medicine could be influenced by the work he and his partners are doing.
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An astonishing discovery has taken the concept of stem cell usage and regenerative medicine and put it permanently on the map for future generations. In this second of their three-part series, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Dr. Timothy Nelson discuss the latest breakthroughs and possibilities that exist in stem cell research. Free Zone collaborations are making it all possible!
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Dr. Timothy Nelson is an entrepreneur with a specialty in curing congenital heart disease. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein chat with Tim about the discoveries and motivations that led him to this position. Tim explains how he and his team are on a mission to leverage the philanthropic community to focus on rare diseases that are too often neglected. Join the show to learn about some incredible, and almost inconceivable, breakthroughs that have occurred in just the past few years.
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Why do some startup companies continually grow, while most fail? You need more than a great idea. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss the successes of Steveâs unique, collaborative StartUp Health network, the mindsets entrepreneurs need in order to achieve the greatest success, and the things they do that most entrepreneurs wonât even think about.
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On the cutting edge of the construction, Carson Holmquist creates the most value for his clients by exploring opportunities in off-site and modular construction. In the second episode of a two-part series, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Carson explain how to innovate when an industry feels too established for any wholesale change.
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Carson Holmquist is a true innovator in the field of construction, and a member of the Free Zone Frontier program at Strategic Coach. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein share what has allowed Carson to thrive, in what ways everyone involved is benefiting, and how he sees the future of modular construction.
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Every entrepreneur has something to offer their clients, but most of them attempt to make convincing arguments rather than compelling offers. Dan Sullivan and Steven Krein continue their conversation and highlight the differences between the two approaches, and how you can use this to effectively sell your solutions.
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