Strategy & Command38 Videos

Do the Right Thing

There’s no greater foe to growth than being out of balance with certainty. If you have too little, you’ll constantly be second-guessing and doubting any plans you ever make. You’ll get flustered by failure, and constantly shuffle things around to try and appease your emotional side. But if you have too much, you’ll become stubborn […]

The Mapstermind

Today’s episode is all about strategy. Whether that strategy is about building sales funnels, using the Rockefeller habits to do quarterly planning, or more effectively exposing your employees to your company culture *COUGH* Jarvis *COUGH*, you’ll pick up a thing or two. Special thanks to Kathy Yuen of Phase One Design for the cool ice […]

Workspace and Mindspace

While I was on vacation a couple weeks back, I had an opportunity to do some reading and some reflecting. And I came to a conclusion about priorities. When you’re a business owner, you have a million things to do in a day. You’ve heard me talk about that before, so I’ll leave that at […]

Profit Per Puppy

The economic engine of your business can be measured as Profit per X. What “X” is in your business is something you have to figure out for yourself. This metric represents the “flywheel” of your company because when you change the critical number, it has an astronomical impact on all other areas of the business.

Guilty Consciences

You guys all know how much I respect the teachings of my mentor Dr John Demartini​. Well, I got a great opportunity today to chat with Warren​ who asked me about the nature of guilt. Spoiler alert: Do the work to find out the benefits of whatever it is you’re feeling guilty about. It’s there. […]

Quarterly Planning Deep Cuts

In late November of 2017, Measurable Genius ran a 90-day Business Planning Workshop at SAIT. It was a tremendous success, a lot of fun, and I got to create a lot of value for my friends, clients, and everyone who attended. You may remember my Facebook livestream about the difference between accountability and responsibility. In […]

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 […]

Certainty

When you’re not absolutely certain, you’re … not. Being in command of your business depends on your certainty. You’ll never have 100% of the data, so you need to start getting comfortable working with probabilities.