Grow With Purpose

Delegating tasks is one thing. Delegating decisions is a little harder. How do you delegate something that happens inside your head?

In this episode, Joey and Cameron dive into developing leaders who can think in ways to accomplish what is important to you and them.

Many parents wonder whether turning over the keys to the business will put their retirement in jeopardy. In this episode, Joey and Cameron layout the reasons why just having the second gen work in different areas of the business is probably NOT the best way to determine if they are ready.

“I want people to have a dignified retirement!” That is the heart of John McGuire and in this episode he breaks down how ESOP’s can help small businesses with employee engagement, succession, tax savings and a host of other things that keep business owners up at night.

The episode is packed with useful information that all business owners should have. Here are some links to resources mentioned in the episode, but by far the most important is John’s contact information.

John McGuire LinkedIn profile

The Main Street Employee Ownership Act summary

The ESOP Association

The National Center for Employee Ownership

Contribution of S ESOPs to participants’ retirement security and employee-owner benefits Ernst and Young report

We’ve done several podcasts on theme parks over the last few months. It seems like everyone on the Axiom team has been learning from their family vacations.

The secret is they’re great places to view business activities happening in high volumes, with how many customers or “guests” visit them daily.

This summer, Devin got the opportunity to visit LEGOLAND, Florida, for the first time. So in this week's podcast, the Axiom team joins him to cover 7 lessons he learned from the place built with LEGOs.*

Commit to lifelong learning.

Delight in the success of your team.

Empower your team with systems and processes.

Support partners to incentivize buy-in.

Restructure (or eliminate) staff when automation allows.

Great customer service creates memories.

Capitalize on and profit from 'waste'.

*LEGOLAND isn't literally built with LEGOs, though many features are.

A few weeks ago, we talked about lessons Joey learned on a recent visit to Disney's Magic Kingdom. But all is not unicorns and rainbows at Disney. Recently, the company has come under criticism for pushing an agenda at odds with what many parents want when it comes to their child's entertainment.

In this episode, we revisit the Disney conversation from another perspective, a perspective that acknowledges businesses should have an agenda. You may agree or disagree with a business's particular agenda, but we should all recognize that a business is a platform, and that platform isn't all about sales, profits, shareholder wealth or even stakeholders in general.

Projects are happening all around us. Whether it's a software migration, developing a new product or service, or completing a task for our customers - we're all constantly working on projects.

This week, we sat down with our good friend, Bill Clinebell, PMP, Managing Partner of Relofant, where we discussed shared best practices of project management, his entrepreneurial story, and his two cents on what is happening in the commercial real estate market.