My Guest Over the past handful of years, there has been substantial growth in the number of companies who have decided to implement formal “operating systems” to govern certain strategic and operational decisions within their businesses. I implemented EOS (or “the Entrepreneurial Operating System”) in my own company beginning in 2015, and we continued toContinue reading “Installing an Operating System in Your Business: Lessons from Real EOS Implementations”
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Stress, Panic Attacks, Debilitating Anxiety, and a $170M Exit: iContact Founder Aaron Houghton
My Guest Aaron Houghton started his first business at age 17, and since then he has built and launched more than ten technology startups, scaling one to 350 employees and $50M in annual subscription revenue. He has sold two companies to private buyers and one to a publicly traded company for $169M before his 30thContinue reading “Stress, Panic Attacks, Debilitating Anxiety, and a $170M Exit: iContact Founder Aaron Houghton”
A Playbook for Growing People-Intensive Service Companies
My Guest John Ratliff started Appletree Answers, a telephone answering service, from his apartment in 1995. After growing the company to 24 US-based locations and more than 600 employees, he sold the company to a strategic buyer in 2012. Since selling his company, John has served as CEO of Scaling Up Coaches (2018-25), worked asContinue reading “A Playbook for Growing People-Intensive Service Companies”
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together: With Dr. Sherry Walling
My Guest This week, I was thrilled to welcome Dr. Sherry Walling to the podcast. Sherry is a clinical psychologist, speaker, podcaster, and best-selling author. She is also a founder and entrepreneur herself, starting a company called ZenFounder, which aims to help entrepreneurs and CEOs navigate issues of transition, rapid growth, loss, and any mannerContinue reading “The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together: With Dr. Sherry Walling”
Leverage: Doing More With Less
Listen to this Blog Post “Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”– Archimedes “Leverage” is one of those concepts that tends to be interpreted as being more complex than it actually is. The simplest way to define leverage might be “the ability to do moreContinue reading “Leverage: Doing More With Less”
Five Ideas That Every CEO Should Know
Listen to this Blog Post What follows are five unrelated thoughts on how to lead and grow a healthy and vibrant company. None of them are long enough to justify a stand-alone blog post, but all of them are important enough to highlight for current and aspiring CEOs. (1) Crafting an Effective Company-Wide Bonus PlanContinue reading “Five Ideas That Every CEO Should Know”
Dr. Bill Hudenko: Professor of Psychology at the Dartmouth School of Medicine and a 4x Founder & CEO
My Guest Today I was thrilled to be joined by Dr. Bill Hudenko, an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Dartmouth School of Medicine. In addition to his experience as a professor and clinician, Dr. Hudenko is also a 4x CEO & Entrepreneur, having founded and sold several companies that have utilized technology toContinue reading “Dr. Bill Hudenko: Professor of Psychology at the Dartmouth School of Medicine and a 4x Founder & CEO”
Can Ambition and Inner Peace Coexist? With Rob Dube
My Guest In 1991, Rob co-founded imageOne, a managed print services business based in Oak Park, Michigan. Since then, imageOne has been recognized as a Top 25 Small Businesses in America on the list of Forbes Small Giants, an Inc. Magazine Best Places to Work, a National Best and Brightest Company to Work For, oneContinue reading “Can Ambition and Inner Peace Coexist? With Rob Dube”
Answers to Recurring FAQs from Current and Prospective Searchers
Listen to this Blog Post Over the course of many years speaking with current and prospective searchers on a near-daily basis, I’ve come to appreciate that many searchers understandably tend to have very similar questions and areas of uncertainty. Indeed, in most instances, I had these very same questions and areas of uncertainty myself priorContinue reading “Answers to Recurring FAQs from Current and Prospective Searchers”
Conscious Leadership with Executive Coach and Best-Selling Author Kaley Klemp
My Guest Kaley Klemp is a highly sought after CEO coach, YPO forum facilitator, and best-selling author. In 2015, Kaley co-authored The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, a book that was met with instant critical and commercial success, and followed that up in 2021 with The 80/80 Marriage, a book about how to strengthen andContinue reading “Conscious Leadership with Executive Coach and Best-Selling Author Kaley Klemp”