Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

If you’re a corporate innovator or a startup entrepreneur, reliant on funding to get going, then you need to do one thing, no it’s not raise funding, it’s educate your prospective investors or ensure that they are already educated. What do I mean by that? Listen to find out.

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By his 35th birthday Mike Michalowicz had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. Confident that he had the formula to success, he became an angel investor... and proceeded to lose his entire fortune.

Then he started all over again, driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies. Among other innovative strategies, Mike created the "Profit First" formula, a simple and extremely effective ways for businesses to ensure profitability from their very next deposit forward.

Mike is now running his third million dollar venture, Profit First Professionals , is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal; is the former MSNBC business make-over expert; is a popular keynote speaker on innovative entrepreneurial topics; and is the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, which BusinessWeek deemed "the entrepreneur's cult classic."

Mike is also a guest lecturer for collegiate entrepreneurial programs such as Babson, Boston College, Columbia, Copenhagen Business School, Emerson, Harvard, Penn State, Pepperdine and Princeton. His books are in the core curriculum for entrepreneur students at Pepperdine, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford University, and universities across the country.

Topics Covered:

- 80s hair bands \m/

- Lessons learned from building two multi-million dollar businesses and losing the lot

- Mike’s new book, Profit First

- The profit first formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses

- 4 simple principles for managing money and putting profit first

- Why this flies in the face of “you’ve got to spend money to make money” and how to strike a balance

- Why raising funding is not indicative of startup success

- Why small profitable business can be worth much more than a large business surviving at its top line

- Putting profit first in enterprise

- 3 Sheets of paper to you need to launch and grow a business

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Show Notes:

1) Mike’s website: www.mikemichalowicz.com/ 

2) Mike’s facebook: www.facebook.com/MikeMichalowiczFanPage

3) Mike’s Twitter: twitter.com/#!/MikeMichalowicz

4) Profit First Book: www.profitfirst.com 

5) Mike’s other books:

• Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine - https://amzn.to/2xu9dHR
• Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself - https://amzn.to/2MA6BNZ
• The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field - https://amzn.to/2pdNT5j
• The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll. - https://amzn.to/2xn72pn
• Surge: Time the Marketplace, Ride the Wave of Consumer Demand, and Become Your Industry's Big Kahuna - https://amzn.to/2xoREJc

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I’d like to take a quick moment to share that I will be taking part in the CEO Sleepout this June to raise awareness of and funds for the homeless. I’m trying to raise $5,000 and if you can spare just $5, I’d love your support. You can donate at bit.ly/sleepoutsteve - every dollar counts.

In other news, Collective Campus has just announced a mixed reality startup accelerator in partnership with Microsoft. We will be on the hunt for startups playing in the space of virtual and augmented reality so if you think your organisation could benefit from being involved, we are on the lookout for a one or two partners to come on board so just head to corporateaccelerator.cc to express your interest.

A couple of days ago I posted an article called Why Design Thinking is Never Enough in HBR’s Linkedin group and it’s already pushing over 400 likes so clearly it resonates with people so I thought I’d repurpose it for the listeners of Future Squared.

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Jacob Morgan is a best-selling author, speaker, and futurist. He explores what the future of work is going to look like and how to create employee experiences so that people want to show up to work. Jacob has presented his ideas to organizations such as IBM, Disney, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Mastercard, Microsoft, and many others. He has written three books. His most recent book is The Employee Experience Advantage. Prior books include The Future of Work and The Collaborative Organization. He is frequently cited by and contributes to major business publications.

He recently penned The Employee Experience Advantage - How to Win the War for Talent by Giving Employees the Workspaces they Want, the Tools they Need, and a Culture They Can Celebrate, which came out on March 27.

Backed by an extensive research project that looked at over 150 studies and articles, featured extensive interviews with over 150 executives, and analyzed over 250 global organizations, this book clearly breaks down the three environments that make up every single employee experience at every organization around the world and how to design for them.

Topics discussed:

- why organisations who rank highly on employee experience outperform those that don't

- how to balance freedom with organisational control

- cultural, technological and physical environments

- why expensive employee engagement programs fail

- why yoga and massages aren't enough

- the negative impact of short-termism

- how to create a place where employees want to show up to work versus need to show up to work

- what to do if you have limited budget for employee experience

- how to measure the employee experience

- dress code

- the future of employee experience

Show notes:

1) The book: https://amzn.to/2QwRGHz

2) Get the first 30 pages of the book free: Email [email protected]3) Website: thefutureorganization.com

4) Twitter: @jacobm

5) Youtube: jacobmorgan8

6) Podcast: thefutureorganization.com/future-work-podcast/

7) Jacob's HBR article: hbr.org/2017/03/why-the-milli…ment-buy-us-so-little

8) Jacob's other books on Amazon:

• The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization - https://amzn.to/2p9XkD5

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  Hire Fast & Build Things: How to recruit and manage a top-notch team of distributed engineers - https://amzn.to/2p9vire

• The Collaborative Organization: A Strategic Guide to Solving Your Internal Business Challenges Using Emerging Social and Collaborative Tools - https://amzn.to/2MAQj7i

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If your organisation is embarking upon an innovation program, you need to get the right people on the bus...at first the prospect or participating in an innovation program will seem exciting to everybody and many people will be putting their hands up, but the reality is very few will be built for it and be in it for the long game. In this episode, we cover 15 attributes of the corporate innovator and intrapreneur.

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We've made it to the end of the 5 day book free promo and what a journey it's been!

The objective of any author who runs a free ebook promo on Amazon is to promote the hell out of it and get their book to #1 in its sub-genres to increase exposure and awareness. I managed to get the book to #1 in all of my target sub-genres within 2 hours of the promo kicking off - including entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, management and startups (it's still #1 in these categories as of writing) ...it got to as high as #3 in the overall business category!

This was all thanks to an elaborate growth hacking exercise that I will share with you in coming days.

But before I wrap up with the book promo, I just wanted to share some words on mindset...or rather, what former Future Squared guest, Peter Diamandis calls a 10X mindset.

We're all trained to think incrementally. To think in terms of 10% growth and to subscribe to platitudes like "Rome wasn't built in a day" and "one step at a time" and in the words of the great Zig Ziglar, anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you can do it well. However, what we define as anything worth doing either puts us on a course to 10% better or a course to 10X better.

So many people I know set instil limitations based on false beliefs.

I often hear people say things like:

"I can't start my own consulting firm until I've worked my way up at a large firm, made partner and built enough relationships and credibility - then I'll be ready"

"I'd love to write a book but I don't know where to start. I'll need to get professional coaching and I'll need to find a reputable publisher...then I'll write one."

"I'd love to start a podcast but I need to invest in a proper recording studio, research, a marketing team and scriptwriters....then I'll be ready."

"I want to get A, B and C right before I do D - then I'll be ready."

In all of these cases what usually happens is...nothing. We stack the bricks up so high that the walls look too imposing so we don't even bother.

In the past year with the help of my team, I've released two books, a podcast that has been in the business chart on iTunes since its release over 14 months ago and doubled the size of my boutique consulting business and recently expanding to Singapore.

Is this because I am smarter or more talented than your average person? Definitely not.

It comes back to mindset and what I like to call the 4 P's.

Proactivity.

Persistence.

Passion.

Purpose.

It's asking questions like "how can I get a book to #1 on Amazon?" and then building a strategy to get there. And with two self published books under my belt, I do plan on taking the publisher route next time and 10Xing my author efforts, but it won't seem like such an imposing thing to do...and finding a decent publisher, with the success of my current book behind me, should prove to be much easier.

So if you're listening to this - what are your self-limiting beliefs? Where are you wired to think about growing by 10% instead of growing by 1,000%? What questions are you not asking - the answers of which could take you from A to Z in the same time that you normally go from A to B?

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Carrie Green is the founder of the Female Entrepreneur Association, an online platform to inspire and empower female entrepreneurs from around the world to turn their ideas into a reality and build successful businesses. FEA publishes a monthly digital magazine, This Girl Means Business, weekly videos and hosts live, online master classes. With over 100,000 women now involved, it’s become one of the fastest growing networks for female entrepreneurs. She has just released her first book, She Means Business: Turn Your Ideas into Reality and Become a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur; and hosts a podcast of the same name for ambitious female entrepreneurs who are on or are contemplating the entrepreneurial path.

Topics discussed:

• Carrie's book
• How Carrie got into business
• How she made the jump from law to entrepreneurship
• Starting a business at 20
• The importance of mindset and belief
• Personal development
• Carrie's bag of tricks to empower herself
• The power of visualisation
• Customer segmentation
• Building your brand
• Focusing on one thing at a time to stay the course
• Building an online audience
• Female entrepreneurs
• The FEA
• Carrie's podcast

Show Notes:

1. Carrie's book: https://amzn.to/2pcw6LU
2. FEA: femaleentrepreneurassociation.com
3. Carrie's podcast: She Means Business on iTunes
4. Carrie on Twitter: @IamCarrieGreen
5. Carrie's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/user/FemaleEntrepreneur

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It’s day 4 of our 5 day book promo for The Innovation Manager's Handbook and the book is still going strong with over 1,500 downloads so far.

Want a free hardcopy? I'll send a signed copy to the first ten people who share the free book offer with their Linkedin network by clicking here and tagging me in the post!

Of course I could not hit #1 in multiple categories on Amazon without the support of clients, partners and friends.

Big thanks goes to...

• Leslie Barry from Sportsbet
• Chris Joannou and Startup Grind Australia
• Sean Hanrahan
• Karen Dillon
• Pascal Finette from Singularity University
• Tim Harford
• Greg Griffiths, AJ and Jeremy from Spigit
• Evangelos Simoudis
• Kat and the team at LaunchVic
• Max Kelly at Techstars London
• Dan Siepen over at CoderFactory
• Niko Psaltopoulos from Brand Collective
• Vincent, Nick and the team at Board of Innovation
• Paul R Williams
• Startup Victoria
• Trinh Pham
• Steve Brophy
• Marie Ng
• SEED Digital
• Gaz and the team at General Assembly
• Derrick Dicker
• Nick Sheehan
• Jamie Lee
• Louis Spence from Randstad
• Everybody who attended the launch night
• My awesome team at CC!

...and anybody I may have missed, I am sorry, you know who you are!

Want me to read out your name on the show, just head to bit.ly/innovationbook which will lead you to a pre-populated Linkedin post, just tag me and share the book with your network. Not only that, but I’ll also send you a signed hardcopy of the book! Until next time, Future Squared is out.

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It's day 3 of our 5 day book promotion and we have just surpassed 1,000 downloads! Thanks to everybody who has supported the book and helped to spread the word thus far! Special Offer: If you SHARE the free book offer with your network on LinkedIn I'll personally send you a signed hardcopy! Just head over to bit.ly/innovationbook for a pre-populated share! www.futuresquared.xyz

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In today's episode of Fast Fix Friday, I discuss how an organisation's environment can be the difference between incremental thinking and breakthrough thinking and draw parallels between this and proliferation of soft, electronic artists in the inner city. 

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