Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today. In 1997 he was awarded an Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Despite humble beginnings, Allan set out on a conscious, focused, and ultimately inspirational journey to become a leader. Allan shed his earlier shortcomings and went on to help lead a wildly successful venture capital fund while still in college and later created Runway, one of San Francisco’s greatest tech accelerators. Allan Young’s Awakening.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Heightening is a way to allow concepts to evolve in ways that allow them to grow from a seemingly normal, practical idea into a wild, unconventional end product. But by listening and encouraging the team to offer ideas in the initial stages, team members will feel included and be more inclined to have buy-in on a final decision.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Like Mark Zuckerberg, who built a site only for college students, we are looking for a small, protected market that you as an entrepreneur, can dominate. Like Markus Persson, who created Minecraft, who was just trying to build an idea that he could sell for $6.99 The real key is to have an entrepreneur that is obsessed with a small market.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

I MAGINE that this is your situation: Your young company is a raging success. Its product, a simple one that can be produced easily because of a manufacturing process that you invented, is wildly popular. Then imagine that this is your problem: You have to replace your workers three or four times a year.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2012

. • Every institution rests on moral footings, and there is no force that can erode those foundations more rapidly than a cataract of self-interest. • Innovation Matters Now. Post these simple questions on your company’s idea wiki: First, what are the thoughtless little ways we irritate customers and what can we do to change that?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In step 3 you will try to create as many new models, concepts, hypotheses, and ways of thinking.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Is it wild to give away free peanuts and rolls and keep prices low, even as costs rise, or to keep the menu basically the same since it opened? Because isn’t it a little unusual for a company to do almost no advertising?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2018

We think we’ve created something convenient, cost-effective, and efficient. Instead, we’ve created something that this stultifying, expensive in terms of emotions and decision-making, and wildly inefficient. Because of this, we need to consciously create tools that replace the unconscious connection tools we have in the real world.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Notice that I used the word “approaching.” I never intended to get there. Most business plans are a complete waste of time. They become obsolete the minute the business starts and you realize how wildly off the mark you were with your expectations. So the trick is to take your idea and set it on a collision course with reality as soon as possible.

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Leading Blog

MAY 30, 2023

I N MY thirty-plus years as a business coach, I have seen thousands of brilliant, charismatic, and driven thinkers make it to their dream positions in high leadership and thrive there. While they all had wildly different career paths, they all agreed on one thing: The road to success leads out of your comfort zone.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

Nearly every example you admire was developed using a blueprint. By working backward and crafting a blueprint, you will find patterns that demystify complex works. #4 4 Don’t Mimic, Evolve. Copying someone else’s wildly successful formula wholesale is the fastest route to being perceived as unoriginal while contributing to a genre’s demise.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2020

You turn wild thinking into real-world ideas. Tomorrow’s possibilities energize you, not today’s challenges. You are motivated by future plans. Imaginative. As an Imaginative, your vivid mind constantly creates new things. You are motivated by ringing novelty. Inquisitive. As an Inquisitive, curiosity defines you.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

An effective Statement of Cause isn’t restricted to large organizations. Here are a couple of examples from smaller companies: Dependably providing comfort to our community that improves peoples’ lives. 200-employee HVAC company. Wildly succeeding in building our skylines, enveloping beauty and protection, transparently providing a clear vision.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

It’s as Oscar Wilde wrote: "A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.''. The problem, says Leadership IQ CEO Mark Murphy, is that we are trying to execute goals we don’t really care about.

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