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 tagged Entrepreneurship
The Taj Mahal was built in less than 8-hours. Amazon became the worlds most valuable brand in less than 12.
We hear “overnight” success and think it’s bestowed on someone. Like a blessing from the success Gods. As if it appears from thin air, like a success genie in a bottle.
None of these marvels of mastery happened overnight.
I spend $1,000,000 a year with a vendor, and they flush my money down their corporate toilet.
We all get sucked into the money pit vortex. Chasing vanity, lagging metrics like it’s the cure to the business failure plague.
Sure they’re important goals, but they add no direct value to a client.
Businesses are made up of tens, hundreds, thousands of humans, working together to achieve a goal.
A mission.
Yet, most goals are a financial metric, a sale, profit, volume, whatever.
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.
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.
Do you often feel your goals are a dream? A fantasy!
You’re stuck. Progress isn’t being made. You’d have more luck entering a Star Wars movie than achieving your goals.
I’ve had the same problem in my company. I laid out our 3-year vision. A detailed story of who we were and what we did 3 years from now.
It was beautiful. You could taste the vision in your mouth. You could feel the future smiles walking down the halls.
The champagne flowed, and the laughter was plentiful.
The problem? We weren’t transferring this vision into action. We weren’t doing what we were saying.
If I said “no” to all the things I didn’t want to do when I was 21, I’d be picking my nose and playing beer pong all day.
Instead, I said yes to going back to school and getting my masters degree (not recommended for everyone).
I said yes to an Account Manager role. I said yes to any client that would be crazy enough to listen to my half-assed sales pitch. I said yes to any and all deals and targets that crossed me.
I said yes to a Director of Purchasing promotion. I said yes to becoming the President.
And I said yes to becoming CEO.
I’ve been a shitty manager. I’d expect others to have telepathic capabilities to the inner workings of my head.
I’d abdicate until someone screwed up following my half-assed instructions, then, I’d be the far too familiar “helicopter manager.”
There are lies we tell ourselves as managers that make us shitty. And downright wrong.
To be an effective leader, you’ll avoid these five lies managers tell themselves.
