I invest in small businesses and am the CEO of Skylink Group.
As an eight-figure small business owner, I’ve learned many lessons over the years, both good and bad!
This is why I want to help you improve your performance, profit, and potential without sacrificing what’s most important.
Join me, and GET OPTIMIZED!
-Nate Anglin
All in Business
It’s sink or swim they say, and I tell them, they’re full of shit.
It’s the mantra for a lot of small businesses. It was the mantra for mine.
I sank. I nearly drowned. That’s the problem with this view on business and in life.
You don’t just sink. You drown. You die.
The first is executing the vision, mission, values, and strategy of a company playbook.
The second is leading, coaching and managing a team.
I was reading Rand Fishkin’s book, “Lost and Founder” and he made an excellent point.
Not all individual contributors (ICs) are cut out to manage, and that’s okay. They still need a career path!
Management is unique. You have to have people skills!
Managers don’t always need experience in a given role. What they need is a skill to learn, coach, and manage.
If you’ve found yourself in a management seat, this is for you.
I was sitting across the table from an interviewee ready to make an investment.
An investment in them.
So, I asked the question..
I hired an MBA with thirty years of experience thinking that was important. I was wrong.
He was my prince. A savior. Until he asked…
Can I bring my dog to work?
As a pet-friendly fella that’s not tight on “corporate” rules, I said sure, why not.
I’ve done it in the past. And I still tend to bring in my sausage every now and again.
He’s a dachshund named Buster.
It was the first day of training and things we’re going miserably.
Most resumes are a load of crap.
They’re a 30,000 ft view of you, but more often than not, they’re one of two things.
They’re exaggerated or severely neglected.
Maybe someone will surprise me one of these days and have an exaggerated neglected resume.
At the beginning of my career, I was thrown to the wolves.
In school, they teach you NOTHING about management.
During my MBA, no professor ever sat me down have the management pep talk. We never role played. Nothing.
All of this is stupid.
Stupid because young, future leaders are teachable.
Coachable.
The problem? People don’t take the initiative.
If an alien entered your world, mentally whipped you and started demanding foreign prompts, how would you feel?
Exactly!
Out of this world.
As someone leading a team, you’re dealing with humans.
We often forget this. Don’t act like you haven’t!
I was recently at a business conference, and during lunch, I received a few questions regarding hiring and motivation.
I’ve made many of these mistakes which I’ll share with you now.
Are you tired of all the stress life is throwing at you?
Some days it feels like an elephant has taken a home right on your back.
Other days, maybe two elephants.
It happens to all of us, some more extreme than others.
I’ve been running and growing Skylink Group for over 10 years now, and I can say, it’s been quite the ride.
Goals are good. Execution is mandatory!
Far too often, we set goals to never look at them. To review them. And most importantly, to strategically think about them.
I’ve been the CEO of an international firm for many years now, and one thing I’ve learned is that planning plus execution is where the game is played. This is where we win.
It’s where you score.
This is true for your personal and professional life.
In the sections to follow I’m going to share with you how I create the bones, the framework for my goals, which allows me to execute.
In our hyper-connected life, everyone wants more.
More technology. More apps. More houses. More cars. More stuff.
Myself included! I recently found myself going down this rabbit hole in my business.
I’m a technology nut. I love things that can make us faster, better, and stronger as a team, without adding more complexity…people.
Sorry humans.
We had a marketing stack of about 25 pieces of software deep. I’d jump to the next shiny object and “try.”
