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37 posts tagged leadership.
- Video October 29, 2025
leaders who skip this lose their team
the real goal of leadership is not to be feared or liked. it is to be respected. here is how to earn it.
- Video October 15, 2025
building a team, life updates, better humanness reporting (ep 252)
1099 vs W2 for digital businesses, plus a new podcast format I am testing: better humanness reporting.
- Video October 9, 2025
spot corrections: the skill that separates good leaders from great
the #1 mistake young leaders make is avoiding confrontation. spot corrections are the skill that fixes it.
- Video September 11, 2025
the most important leadership skill you're missing
a study of nearly 20,000 people shows mindfulness directly improves how you lead. and the good news: it's trainable, no meditation required.
- Video July 31, 2025
6 steps to better leadership
leadership is leverage. the six moves I learned across 15 years of building teams and 10 years as a military officer.
- Video July 24, 2025
how to be a better delegator
delegation isn't dumping tasks. it's transferring ownership. the framework I use with every hire to make sure work actually leaves my plate.
- Video June 5, 2025
work less, earn more...then what?
I coached an owner to the point he didn't have to work much. a year later he called asking what to do with his time. the goal isn't less work, it's choosing what you work on.
- Video May 29, 2025
build yourself into an unstoppable human (killing comfort book summary)
a full walkthrough of my book Killing Comfort. comfort is the enemy of extraordinary, the Aviate Navigate Communicate framework, and the question would you follow you.
- Video May 15, 2025
10 harsh truths I wish I knew when I started
ten unsexy rules a decade of entrepreneurship taught me. fail fast, think bigger, get out of your own way, and stop trying to be everything to everyone.
- Video May 1, 2025
the 3 phase success framework, proven strategy for business growth
fast execution, high standards, mastery. the three phase framework I've used at every level of every company I've built. ideas don't make money, mastery does.
- Video March 20, 2025
the leverage loop, how to hire without getting stuck
every entrepreneur hits the leverage loop. profit and time both dip when you hire. here's how to come out the other side.
- Video March 6, 2025
how a 15-minute meeting 10x's growth across 5 companies
the weekly meeting structure I run across five businesses doing eight figures. 15 minutes, every time. no exceptions.
- Video February 25, 2025
how to build a business that sucks (do the opposite and win)
the playbook for a terrible business. invert every step and you have the playbook for a great one.
- Podcast December 10, 2024
a leadership framework, person, problem, performance
stop trying to change how your team feels about a problem. connect the person to the problem to the performance and let the company come first.
- Podcast October 10, 2024
employees, A player, B player, etc
you do not need a team of A players. the real cost of one, and why a mixed team of A, B, and C players actually wins.
- Podcast August 20, 2024
leaders make tough decisions
the CrossFit Games voted instead of deciding. leadership is not a democracy when the stakes get heavy.
- Podcast August 1, 2024
learning how to succeed through people
the three-part framework for an autonomous team. align, communicate, support without holding hands.
- Podcast June 18, 2024
the perpetuation of good ideas is a bad idea
groupthink killed media. it's killing podcasting. it can kill your company. here's how to wire your team against it.
- Podcast May 21, 2024
two tips for leadership and delegation
stolen from aviation. the positive handoff and the written read-back. they kill ambiguity, and ambiguity is what makes delegation fail.
- Podcast May 7, 2024
my top 5 business mistakes
a decade of building, condensed. waited too long, missed the wave, took on too much, failed to lead, let the team define the brand.
- Podcast April 23, 2024
how to juggle multiple companies
you probably shouldn't. but if you're going to, here's the plan: quarterly planning, a real team, and zero CEO seats stacked on each other.
- Podcast April 18, 2024
how entrepreneurship has made me a better father
the lessons I learned building businesses turned out to be the same lessons my kids needed. mindset, effort over outcome, financial literacy, leadership.
- Podcast March 5, 2024
denied a free vacuum at a carwash, the lesson on delegation
the carwash wouldn't take my money because the employee wasn't allowed to think. delegate decisions, not just tasks.
- Podcast January 30, 2024
my 2024 goals, data, speed, creativity, less of the same
the five big-picture goals I'm chasing this year. lead through data, move faster, track the better human business score, write more, refuse to repeat myself.
- Podcast December 6, 2023
winning culture, standards not just values
core values aren't enough. you need actionable standards under them. and you have to be respected, not feared and not liked.
- Podcast November 15, 2023
what to do when an employee asks for a raise
the worst situation is a great employee who never asks and quietly quits. the second worst is a mediocre one demanding more. quarterly reviews fix both.
- Podcast September 19, 2023
closing remarks from the PT Biz live event
the closing keynote from our Denver event. the right mindset at the wrong time, putting your mask on first, minding your glass balls, and why the 1330 plan is everything.
- Podcast September 12, 2023
how to own a mistake as a boss
trying to hide a mistake costs you credibility every time. own it, then propose the fix. that's how you keep, or even gain, the team's trust.
- Podcast August 24, 2023
unmet expectation equals frustration, the leadership fix
an entrepreneur called me wanting to fire a new hire. ten minutes in, I told him the failure was his, not the employee's. communication fixes most of this.
- Podcast August 17, 2023
no. 152 on the Inc. 5000, lessons learned
second year on the Inc. 5000. the award doesn't get you customers, but it's still worth applying for. and a fast-growing company still has plenty of problems.
- Podcast August 3, 2023
how to solve problems, the scientific method for entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs are chief problem-solving officers. six steps to actually fix what's broken instead of guessing your way through it.
- Podcast July 27, 2023
the problem you don't know you have yet
entrepreneurial scale math is fictitious but mathematically correct. the real ceiling on your business isn't leads or product, it's leadership. start with leading yourself.
- Podcast May 16, 2023
3 lessons learned from making the Inc. 500
PT Biz hit no. 447 on the Inc. 500 with 1394% growth. three things that made it possible, and none of them is a marketing trick.
- Podcast May 4, 2023
chances are, you're worse at communicating than you think
frustration equals unmet expectation. the plumber, the welcome email, and the meeting framework, three places communication breaks down and how to fix each one.
- Podcast March 16, 2023
my 2023 business growth strategy
the poles in the water strategy. multiple lead sources in parallel, with me leading instead of implementing. how I'm scaling without being the bottleneck this year.
- Podcast March 7, 2023
the rules, part 2
five more rules from the journal. be a marketer, never say maybe, lead don't save, stop going wide and go deep, and expand your threshold for control.
- Podcast February 28, 2023
the rules, part 1
five lessons I journaled the hard way over a decade. fail fast, think bigger, scale through people, first up last down, and get crystal clear on what you actually want.