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Understanding the origins and structure of the modern corporation for leaders of large engineering organizations
"Sloan's 'My Years with General Motors' and 'Adventures of a White Collar Man' — if you run a large engineering organization you should read that. This thing that we talk about as a modern corporation didn't just emerge; Sloan and Kettering created it."
Technique
Reducing costs by renegotiating major contracts annually
"So, create a negotiation schedule every year. Look at the five to 10 highest contracts and expenses that you have and negotiate a new deal. This actually saved a lot of the businesses I invested in during COVID."
Technique
Measuring customer love and word-of-mouth potential as a signal of product-market fit
"Customer love, which is like NPS score — NPS stands for Net Promoter Score. Basically you ask customers out of 10, how much would you promote it to your friends — and we got like crazy crazy customer love. It started word of mouth, people started talking ab..."
Media
Learning the importance of networking and getting out to meet people as a path to business success
"There's a book called Never Eat Alone, which was very good for me. If you're sitting in your office not going out and hustling, it's not going to happen. If you're not out networking, it's not going to happen."
Product
Primary studio energy drink / cognitive fuel
"We are fueled by frosty beverages and have an equal opportunity energy drink consumer. Obviously, the lion's share is Neutonic."
"I've been using the neutonic sachets and the capsules as opposed to the RTD. So I took a break from caffeine."
Media
Learning problem-solving approaches for advertising and marketing
"Obvious Adams, published in 1916. You can read it basically on a single toilet visit, it's about 50-60 pages. It was one of David Ogilvy's favorite books and it's actually about an advertising man and his approach to problem solving. Every now and then I me..."
Media
Learning principles of brand identity consistency and long-term brand building
"I was obsessed with this guy named David Ogilvy and I've read every single one of his books. He built one of the greatest advertising agencies of all time. If you read his autobiography, if you read Ogilvy on Advertising, his whole thing was just like peopl..."
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Running a business using AI-native organizational models; understanding how to redesign workflows for AI
"We have released the book as an AI — it's available for free. You can download a Claude skill and run your business in this new model. It'll tell you what to do. It's free. Go register at Open ExO and download it. The report back are crazy."
Software
Identifying your owner archetype and diagnosing what is keeping your business stuck
"People can go to ownerscore.com and they can take the assessment to see which kind of owner that you are. It's only a few minutes. You get your owner score, your archetype, and you find out exactly what's keeping you stuck."
Software
"check those advertisers in PipeDrive, tell us when the last time we contacted them and put it into the sales room"
"One of the skills is being able to go into our sales database which is in Pipedrive."
Technique
"I mean, I pay my makeup lady $300 per visit."
Media
"You should read the book Profit First. It just basically talks about like screw the mindset that you'll take home money after the business - no, pay yourself first."
Software
Generating business ideas based on personal background and interests
"Go check out Pulsia. I think it's pulsia.ai, which is AI slot backwards. If you sign up for that, it will scan all of your background and it will generate ideas for you."
Media
"I want everybody to pick up your book. It's called Raising Brows. It's just come out. It's fantastic. It's my story of building a billion-dollar beauty empire. Spectacular."
Media
"For people that are just like, I want to start a business and they're like, I don't know what to do, how to do it. They're like totally green. Then Ready, Fire, Aim is usually the book that I recommend."
Media
"Rework was a fantastic book. Your website right now is basically kind of like Rework. It's just 30 chapters of stuff we believe."
Media
Framework for understanding that visionaries need an integrator partner to operationalize and run the business day-to-day
"I came across the book Rocket Fuel by Gino Wickman. In addition to the whole EOS system, Gino had written this second book that I find still isn't as well known. The thesis behind Rocket Fuel is businesses don't get just created by visionaries who see a fut..."
Technique
Building content creation skill through deliberate, iterative improvement
"Make a hundred videos and every video pick one thing to do better. The rule of 100 — 100 videos, every time choose one thing to get better. It could be the thumbnail, the hook, the storytelling, the color editing. It doesn't matter what it is. Pick one thin..."
Learning how Sam Walton worked and thought about building his business
"Highly recommend reading the book. If you haven't read Sam's autobiography, I would start with that first. But if you had read Sam's autobiography, I would definitely buy this book. I will leave a link down below. If you buy the book using that link, you'll..."
Software
Enterprise SAP migrations
"Whether I'm doing you know SAP migrations the least sexy thing you could talk about but hey if I can cut your SAP migration"
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