Do you have a mission for your business? Your “mission” is not to make more money. Your mission is something that fuels you from the inside. Today’s mini-episode is about my vacation, Mondays, and creating your Moonshot. It includes insights from self-made Billionaire, Naveen Jain.

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How to Create A Mission: The Transcript

Do you have a mission for your company? Do you have something that really drives you as the founder, and also the core executive team, and also all of the people involved in the company?

That mission is a great tool as a leader to really get people moving in the same direction together. Getting them aligned.

We’re gonna talk about a moon shot, but before we go there, my name is Gene Hammett. I work with hypergrowth companies, and I help companies understand the hypergrowth disciplines. I’ve studied the Inc. 5000, on average they’re growing over 200% in a year. That information has been remarkable, and one of the things in there that’s common, is a mission.
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Do you have courageous leadership? Be honest with yourself here. Do you have some fear holding you back? Doing what you have never done takes courage. Leading your team to a new big vision takes courageous leadership. Today I share a piece of my story in running my business up to $5 million and not having the courage to keep evolving as a leader and a pushing my company to new levels. There are a few signs of fear that I share that you must wrestle with in our journey as courageous leaders.

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The Keys to Courageous Leadership: The Transcript

How courageous are you as a leader? Think about that for a second.

Do you have the courage to innovate, do you have the courage to invest money where necessary, do you have the courage to create a program where you don’t know the exact results at the end? ‘Cause that’s the key to you getting what you want and having a growth culture.

Hi, my name’s Gene Hammett, I work with hypergrowth companies and those that want to understand hypergrowth so that they can activate their teams around it, and one of the key concepts behind this is this factor of own it, and own it culture.
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One of the most powerful factors to attracting the right people to your business is Culture. Culture is more powerful than strategy and culture is what shapes your business. As a student of leadership, you have likely read about culture and studied it. Culture is simply the collection of beliefs on which people build their behavior. This is a good definition, but I like to say that culture is the PERSONALITY of the organization (the written and unwritten rules). I recently developed a culture scorecard that will help you see where you stand with your culture. There are eight objectives in the Growth Culture Scorecard. What is your score for your culture?

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Improve Your Culture: The Transcript

One of the most important factors to the growth of your company is the culture. Culture is the driving force of your business. It’s more important than strategy, and it is what shapes the work that gets done and how everyone feels about what’s going on inside the company.

Hi, my name’s Gene Hammett. I work with hypergrowth companies or those that want to understand hypergrowth from the Inc. 5000 research I’ve done over the years. I work with these companies to understand their leadership and the sales and marketing that really activates hypergrowth. And a big part of that is culture.
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When you read a business book, do you consistently take something from the book to apply to your business or leadership? Well, you can’t learn to lead from a book. You can get insights. You can get excited about the benefits of the “new thing.” But you can’t learn to lead without application of the insights. I have been doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for 12 years, and I know I would not improve without consistent time on the training mats. Discover how you can be a better leader by doing this one thing…I continue to learn it every day I train on the mat.

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Learn to Lead: The Transcript

You can’t learn Brazilian jiu-jitsu out of a book or even a video. There’s only one way you can learn Brazilian jiu-jitsu. I really believe this and what does this have to do with you and your business?

Well, you also can’t learn to lead from a book or from a video. You can surely get insights around this but you’ve got to put it into play.

First, let me just introduce myself. My name is Gene Hammett. I work with hypergrowth companies and their leadership teams to help them understand the chaos of hypergrowth and how to harness that so that they can continue to grow consistently and really fast in whatever market they’re in. I’ve studied the Inc. 5000 and about how they’re really doing this from their leadership level and what goes on in sales and marketing, and their culture that makes all this possible.
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