The Edge

Tracy Hutton is CEO at CENTURY 21 Scheetz and this episode's guest. She didn't get there by chance, but by sticking with a career choice at a young age and working her way to the top. A shared love of sports brings Tim and Tracy into a conversation about teamwork and how leadership isn't a one-person game. Also, Tracy gives insight into how having that edge and being successful has its fair share of sacrifices.

Connect with Tracy on LinkedIn. Learn more about CENTURY 21 Scheetz.

Key Takeaways:

• Opportunity comes with time (2:16)
• You are not creating unless you are a little uncomfortable (6:29)
• Sometimes a leader needs to learn to pass the ball to their team (8:10)
• Different personalities are going to shape your team. Allow those differences to define it as well. (10:19)
• A growing career is going to demind that we make sacrifices. Leading on the edge is a labor of love. (13:29)
• Tracy's edge (15:04)

Ryan Hasbrook and his team built a company from scratch out of a basement in Broad Ripple Village. This district of Indianapolis is infused with culture and family. These are two values the team at Eight Eleven Group wanted to insure would define them through the years. Ryan talks with Tim about creating luck and how to keep a culture.

Connect with Ryan on LinkedIn. Learn more about Eight Eleven Group.

Key Takeaways:

• You put yourself in a position to get lucky (2:18)
• Gaining momentum from micro-cultures (3:59)
• Promoting from within (12:04)
• A company's core values should be reflected in their employeees (13:48)
• I got it from my mother (18:56)

Being part of a winning team is a privilege. We all understand the frustrations of working with a team that doesn't feel the same passion for a project that we do. But, once you get a team sharing a singular vision and rowing in the same direction, the clarity is remarkable. Todd Smart believes that by using the simplification and prioritization techniques, that EOS provides, creating that winning team is easily within reach.

Connect with Todd on LinkedIn.

Key Takeaways

• Get it done through simplification and prioritization (00:51)
• Success is going to come with a fair share of failures (4:39)
• Being part of a winning team can be a privilege and if you get to be party of one you need to defend it (7:56)
• There are a lot of ways for a team to fall apart (11:02)
• Decisive people moves are critical to accomplishing your goals (16:19)
• Getting processes radically simple and followed by all is surprisingly difficult (23:37)

Success can be seen through several different lenses. The Edge wants you to see it as an epic. Sit down with different industry leaders to hear the story of leading on the brink of something life-changing. In each episode, CEO Tim Leman and his guests share stories of entrepreneurship and the risks of leading on The Edge.