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The Epic Operating Tempo That Will Soar Mediocre Teams Into Greater Results
“The lack of consequences in any system will hurt the whole, and this is where a lot of managers fall short.”
Managing sucks, as Jody and Cali explain it, because managers don’t manage the right things. They get sucked into the vortex of unimportant, which drains their energy and pisses their teams off.
But, it’s not complicated — easy for me to say now.
I’ve been building an eight-figure international aerospace firm for fifteen years, with a goal of $100,000,000 once we acquire and integrate our group of companies. But in the early days, it was rough (it still is some days).
That goal seemed impossible when I was disorganized, unfocused, and hired the wrong people to try to produce the right results.
I let the demands of the day or my emotions suck me away in a tide of distraction, which also distracted my teams.
What’s essential for any great team is to focus on the few things that matter the most and to ensure alignment and progress on those few things companywide.
Everyone loves to set ambitious goals, but goals without the correct actions are just dreams. You have to set clear goals and reverse engineer them to success. You do this by establishing a cadence to…