Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode 

• Find out the power and advantage of planning everything out rather than planning none
• Understand why it’s better to invest in a professional rather than an amateur 
• Learn how you can effectively align your goals and plans with your team

Resources/Links:

• Want to know how to create a strategy that effectively works for you and your team? Click: https://www.info.growthinstitute.com/opsp/MTI

Summary

Do you want to know how you can 10x your impact without all the stress and drama?

We may have big plans for our team, but not until you have a simple yet effective strategy to execute it, you’ll have a hard time aligning it with your team. This can later on cause drama and tension. To effectively increase your impact (even by 10x) and have less drama, you need to plan everything, even the unexpected things.

Daniel Marcos is the co-founder and CEO of Growth Institute, the leading online education company for C-level executives at fast-growing firms. He is a keynote speaker and a CEO Coach with a mission to help 1 million entrepreneurs scale their impact and reduce drama.

Come and join Daniel as he talks about how you can build a better impact and avoid that unnecessary drama by thorough planning. He also shares his tips on how you can get your team aligned by building a simple yet effective strategy. 

Check out these episode highlights:

• 02:45 - Daniel’s ideal client: We serve mid-market companies and small startups that they really want to scale. If you want to 2x or 3x your company in the next couple of years, we're the guys that help you do that.

• 03:33 - The problem he helps solve: We help them to solve really main two things-- get the right strategy, and get everyone on the same page. And then some disciplines process and everything to help implement it correctly. 

• 05:08 - The symptoms of the problem: Everything that happens that is not planned creates trouble. What we do is we- that's when they call us. When they have a lot of drama. 

• 06:44 - Clients’ common mistakes before consulting Daniel: The first one is they don't have the strategy in a simple and clear format that makes sense for everyone to understand. So we work a lot with strategy.

• 08:39 - Daniel’s Valuable Free Action (VFA): Take the time to write a plan. So, as an example, as I said earlier, people say, “I want my team to be on the same page.” And they said, "Show me the page." They don't have their strategy written on one page. 

• 09:28 - Daniel’s Valuable Free Resource (VFR): Want to know how to create a strategy that effectively works for you and your team? Click: https://www.info.growthinstitute.com/opsp/MTI

• 10:00 - Q: Usually, as leaders, we wake up kind of late with an alarm. And then we have a lot of drama in our personal life, going to the office. And then we get to the office, we bring a lot of drama to our teams, I always wake up two hours before I need to engage in business. 

Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode:

“You're going to have a great idea, but if you cannot implement it, it's not worth it.” -Daniel Marcos