A quick daily hit with Carl Gould to achieve a lifetime of results. #70secondCEO your micro-podcast...GO! Carl is the creator of the 7 Stage Growth Method, which has propelled over 75,000 companies worldwide. In this micro-podcast Gould shares actionable, practical tips to grow your business. You're too busy to be reading this, start listening!
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Wouldn't it be amazing if you had access to subject matter experts anytime you wanted? You do! The Carl Gould Collective Podcast offers you top subject matter experts who share their expertise on relevant subjects to help you reach your business goals. Hosted by Carl Gould, the author of 7 books on business strategy, leadership and sustainable growth. A sought-after international keynote speaker, Gould created the farthest-reaching business mentoring organization in the world, his methodolog ...
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Identify The Issue Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So, identifying the issue, we are looking for the cause, not the symptom. It's good to know the symptoms, but we need the cause, okay? So I'll give you an example, all right? Let's identify what the…
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The Path To Doing Nothing Pt. 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So our objective is we want them to solve problems independently with minimal input from you other than approval, minimal editing, and then an authorization to go forward with the propo…
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The Path To Doing Nothing Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We want them to come to us with a variety of solutions, but in a structured way. Because you as the manager, you wanna know how they arrived at that solution. So you can give the tweaks. So i…
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Problem Solving Model Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Now this is gonna take discipline from you as a team member because, as their manager, because you can't allow them anymore to come to you with just the problem. They have to come to you with not…
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Responsibility vs. Authority Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. There's a difference between responsibility and authority. You will delegate authority, but never responsibility, right? At the end of the day, you're still in charge of your team. Your te…
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Your Team Needs to Know What Right Looks Like Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Some confidence, they go to moderate to high confidence, and they go to high confidence. That's your job. Your job's on the top row. As their leader, their trainer, their …
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2 Compliments to 1 Piece of Coaching Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We are specific is the degree you can let go and be a coach. If you haven't prepared them, they don't know the system, and you become high supportive, you are asking for a train wr…
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Reward Them For Doing Right Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You do take in their feedback, but you're making the decision. You're the leader, and it's important that in the beginning, you take full responsibility. You say, here's our scope of work, …
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. Want vs. Don't Want Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. When you had to explain what you wanted to another person, what you don't want or what you want. But what we want to do going forward is we want to do both. So I would like when we start our meet…
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From High Directive to High Supportive Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Now we get started, right? We go up to where it says coaching. We're still high directed, but now we're high supported as well. So they get started, you're still directing their …
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Low Supportive Behavior Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. In the beginning, they're gonna say, all right, I'm in, I get it, just like today's meeting. All right, I get the idea, we wanna be a team, but we've never been a team like this before, so tell…
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The Leader Decides Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Now the leader decides, that doesn't mean you're not gonna take in some feedback and put from the team, you may wanna do that. If there's a project you're about to do with your team, you may say, he…
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Managers Need to Be Instructive First Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Direction going in there. Carl, say this, don't say that. These are all of your non-negotiables and these are all your stuff that are off-limits. I would lean more towards this, b…
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Directive and Supportive Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. It's a little counterintuitive because you say, all right, we want to be better managers and we want to get more done through other people. And the first thing we're going to do according to t…
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Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. There's no way, especially as you get bigger, and there's no way anyone on the team is gonna like everything that's going on, you just have to advocate for the process. So in everything in your professional life that …
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Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. For non-confrontation and harmony all the time. That's what we're going for, right? If you have an idea or you see something that's wrong, you speak up. As long as we're doing it in an environment of trust and respect and mutual respect for the other person, and hearing them out, right? You can d…
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Descriptive v. Instructive Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So you've heard the term over-communicate. We have to over-communicate. That doesn't mean just talking more. That means being very, very specific in how we give instructions. Okay, and when …
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Manage for Hand Offs Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Anytime there's a handoff, so if you're in sales and someone's engineering, someone's on the service desk, right, those handoffs have to be managed tight and you always cover your teammate's back,…
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Managing the Lines Pt 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We're going to put Sean on the line right there. You hit it. Anywhere else, we got it. The problem is it creates two more lines. Mike's going to figure that out pretty quickly. He's going to pu…
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Managing the Lines Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. He said, listen, think of your company like a tennis match. All right, I'm on one side, I'm hitting the ball over to Mike, Mike's hitting it back, all right. Mike's start getting really good, he's h…
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100% Responsibility for the Outcome Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So if you're working on something as a team, whether you're the leader, you're the manager, whatever, doesn't matter. Take 100% responsibility for the outcome, which means if Nicole…
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Shed 20% of Your Job Description Each Year Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You should be thinking in your job to shed 20% of your job description every year. So by the time this group is here, you're already at the next step, whatever that is in the…
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Training a New Manager Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. It's the hardest thing for you all that you're going to have to do is actually watch somebody do something in the beginning, at least, worse than you think you do. So when you start to manage so…
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Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. That's a system when you have an activity or a group of activities that you can remove yourself from. Now, you remember way back when we're talking about the discovery process, and we said, Every job has a personality…
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Is Business Ownership Lonely and Stressful? Do you wish it were more enjoyable? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And that's what we're after. It has been said that being a business owner is the toughest and loneliest position in business. Wouldn't yo…
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Understand the “how, what and why” of your business Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. In the Business Discovery Process, there are three areas of discovery. There are your behaviors, which we call the DISC, how you do what you do. There are the values…
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Doing The Rights Task, Starts With Knowing Yourself. Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. To summarize where we’ve been in the business discovery process, you must know yourself, you're the owner, you're leading this, you need to know yourself, then you …
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Before you can have alignment, you need assessment. Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And you'll notice as we delve deeper in stage one about what is required, and what are the power tools at each stage where your focus should be, you'll notice that a…
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What Motivator Drives You? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You share your vision with all of the mirrors you're going to hire in your business. By sharing your vision, they will pick the areas that they are very good at to start with. And that's why…
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Operation Challenge Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Same operation challenge in stage 4,5,6 and 7 that’s a dysfunctional problem, that’s a–you should have solved already, so if I were to say cash flow, good problem, bad problem, the answer is it dep…
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Up Strategy - Premium Price- Part 3 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. What kind of buyer would pay for the guarantee? Somebody who needs you to start on a certain date,somebody who needs you to finish by a certain date, they’re undertime distress, and y…
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Up Strategy - Premium Price - Part 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Cause you know what I did, I took the top five complaints. You keep on never show up on time, you don’t start on time,you don’t finish on time, you change orders us to death you tell…
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Up Strategy - Premium Price Part 1 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So in our pricing strategy we need to have our Up strategy. A premium strategy that’s turn key that comes with a premium price. Now you may not end up doubled and double again you migh…
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Why is Calling You Urgent? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Take a moment right down what is that--what is the top five complaints about your industry, maybe not about you as a company, maybe you as a company but maybe not, but about your industry so h…
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Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO - just a little over a minute investment everyday for a lifetime of results. Our topic today is - Are you a Muddy Fish or are you a Clean Fish? I wonder. So, a muddy fish. Are you the kind of person that is fast-paced and outgoing? You're not very detail-oriented. You’re results-driven. You like things new, tr…
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The Client Picked You Because You Are the Best Option Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO - just a little over a minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. They're not going to pay a whole bunch of money on the off chance you're good. They're going to think you're really good already. They're going to think and by the way, if you fir…
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Consumers Categorize Themselves by The Pricing They Pick Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Wouldn't it be nice to know and be able to categorize your clients based on their pricing? So I offer a success fee option and I offer a retainer option. Rememb…
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Invisible Pricing - Need a Better Offer Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. A year, that means you're one in 600 people. That is 10 million or more, and we need to walk into a building that has 12,000 people in it to meet a peer. What we do is not easy,…
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Consumers Value an Expert Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And so here's what I learned. What I learned was if people value what you do, if they really value what they do, and if they have a need, they want to go with an expert. I had built the reput…
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What Kind of Buyer Buys Your guarantee Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. What kind of buyer buys the guarantee? What about that buyer buys the guarantee? They really need it. They're under some sort of distress. What else? They got the money. How woul…
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What are the 7 Stages?. Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So what are these 7 stages? We've been talking about them a lot already. Let me give you an overview of each of the 7 stages before we get more into it. Stage one is the strategic planning stag…
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Business in The Early Stage Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. In the early stages you’re focusing a lot on marketing, developing your product, you're taking–you're reinvesting in your business. You should not have mountains of cash flow in the early s…
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Goal Setting -Part 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Ah 9 ½ , great! What are we gonna do to make it a 10? Here’s what we got to do bam..bam..bam..bam those are goals and then when you double that you would say “we’re better podcasters”, you know wh…
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Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. 90-day goals that have–that are actual destinations and then separate that from what we call categories of improvement or just the roles you play in your life. So, for example, it will be hard to imagine that you coul…
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Finding Peers is Extremely Important Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. Some statistics for you, 1 in 15 people are business owners, if you, if you do a million dollars or more, you are, you are 1 in 600 people. So, for you to walk in a room, there’s only 4% of busines…
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BONUS Offerings Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. What are your benefits and bonuses worth? They are worth something to your clientele. Think of the Mastercard commercial, great commercial, if I want to buy this 20 bucks, if I want to get that 30 bucks, peace of mind?…
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Overpaying Why do We do it? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Years ago, I took my daughter to a concert. She was so excited and she was just happy to get in the door and I remember calling up and getting the tickets and they said, Where do you want t…
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Get Out of Your Comfort Zone Hey Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a one minute investment per day for a lifetime of results. So, I am at 4000 feet elevation above the elevation I am used to. That was my bed, a little more rough than I am used to, a little bit of rain last night as well. I rappelled down that mountain, a little…
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Playing Above the Line Hi Everybody, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO - just 70 seconds a day for a lifetime of results. Today's topic is - Playing Above the Line - living, working, and playing above the line. What is the line? The line is your standard. You create your metrics, your dashboard, your goals your ranking, your score or rating th…
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