Strategy & Command38 Videos

How To Do a “Lap” of Your Business

It is impossible to know the priorities of your business unless you know every task in that business. Each and every business owner needs to have some kind of system in which they keep track of everything that goes on in their business. This is necessary because, when you go to figure out what’s important […]

How to Run a Daily Stand-Up Meeting

The most common meeting in your organization should be the shortest. A daily stand-up should be around 15 minutes, and consist of three areas: Priorities (What are the top three things you’re doing today?) Company KPIs (What are the key metrics for the company? How are we doing as an organization?) Rocks (What are you […]

How to Run a Weekly Team Meeting

One of the meeting rhythms proscribed by the Rockefeller Habits is the weekly team meeting. As explained by the book “Scaling Up,” ideally these should be weekly meetings involving the different departments in your business. One for sales, one for marketing, one for finance, etc. However, if you’re a small business, odds are you also […]

I Want To Be A Movie Star

Part of our latest quarterly plan for Measurable Genius is to build ourselves a funnel. We’ve done this a few times for our clients, and now it’s time to make one ourselves. Easier said than done, though. What would go into our own funnel? I, for one, want a cool movie. Today I talked about […]

Kill the Constraints

What’s stopping you from having what you say you want to have? Here’s the thing about the universe: it doesn’t reward hard work for its own sake. If you’ve been putting massive effort into something and you haven’t achieved it yet, chances are pretty good that something other than work is preventing you from having […]

Konstructing KPIs

You guys have heard me talk before about the importance of having a daily success metric. Metrics in a business are commonly called Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs. When you’re trying to think of a number like that, one important thing to remember is that it should be a number you have direct control over. […]

Mindset

How much time do you invest in getting into the specificities of your own mind? Of your own life and business plans? Or are you just out in the world smashing into shit? If you build a vision in your mind that makes sense, it has a much higher probability of coming true. It’s all […]