DeepSummary
Ed Mylett starts by recommending the personal development app Growthday, which offers courses, accountability, journaling, and live speeches from influencers to help change your life. He then delves into lessons on business and leadership, emphasizing the importance of finding the right balance between working on your business (strategic planning, scaling, marketing) and working in your business (day-to-day operations).
Mylett discusses two influential books: 'The E-Myth' by Michael Gerber, which taught him to view his business as a product on a shelf, and 'Selling the Dream' by Guy Kawasaki, which highlighted the importance of casting a compelling vision that aligns with people's dreams. He stresses the need for leaders to sell a big enough dream that everyone can see their dreams fitting inside it.
Mylett also emphasizes creating an exceptional experience for customers and employees, standing against something or having an 'enemy' to eradicate, focusing on a cause or mission, transferring skills through teaching and equipping people, and recognizing people's contributions through spontaneous and historic awards. He believes these undiscussed keys are crucial for entrepreneurial success and effective leadership.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- Find the right balance between working on your business (strategy, growth, marketing) and working in your business (day-to-day operations).
- Sell a compelling vision that aligns with and encompasses the dreams of your team and stakeholders.
- Create an exceptional experience for customers and employees that fosters loyalty and referrals.
- Have a cause or 'enemy' to stand against and rally around.
- Transfer skills and knowledge through effective teaching and equipping of people.
- Recognize and acknowledge people's contributions through spontaneous and historic awards.
- Lead by example and maintain an unrelenting focus on the vision and mission.
- View your business as a comprehensive product and optimize all aspects of it.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “Remember this, as a leader of a company, of a business, whatever it might be, a real estate office, a gym, whatever it may be, you need to be able to sell a big enough vision and dream that the dreams of everybody who works with you, they can see themselves fitting inside that dream or their dreams coming true inside the dream you're selling.“ by Ed Mylett
- “People who run great companies are exceptional at recognition, recognizing their clients, if there's such a way to do that, and giving them acknowledgement and praise, but especially recognizing the people that work with them every single day, they find reasons to recognize.“ by Ed Mylett
- “If you made me pick the five best leaders that I've ever worked with, I could tell you that I would probably pick them based on their ability to sell the dream, their unrelenting example, their incredible ability to express our cause and what we're standing against. They were really great at teaching me something, but man, probably above everything, they made me feel a certain way about myself, the work I was doing, and that I mattered.“ by Ed Mylett
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THE ED MYLETT SHOW
Ed Mylett
6/13/24