Business Excellence - TOP 5 Series

“Augment human intelligence with artificial intelligence by using it to deal with your weaknesses rather than your strengths.”

Ronsley Vaz Top Five Tips For Ethically Integrating AI To Grow Your Business

1.  Augment human intelligence with AI by using it to deal with your weaknesses           rather than your strengths.

2.  Understand AI as a silicon-based intelligence that requires data and power and leverage it to augment your capab...

“If you don't understand it, don't do it. Because there is no such thing as get rich quick. I've tried, been down all those roads... Just be wise, and know the area that you're stepping into before you start.”

Zach Oehlman Top Five Tips For Mastering Finance and Building Wealth

1. Understanding Financial Statements

2. Effective Budgeting and Cash Flow Management 

3. Strategic Tax Planning 

4. Smart Debt Management 

5...

“The problem as you can probably see, though, what if you're practising fear? What if you're practising anxiety? You're then wiring that into your brain into your nervous system again, that's why tip number one, what is strongest within your mind is what you do over and over again, what you practice, you get better at.”

Craig Meriwether Top Five Tips For Overcoming Fear and Anxiety 

1.   What is strongest in your...

“We’re essentially just replacing the form of which they're getting a lift or a boost, and we're not allowing that lift or boost to be so high that then it crashes.”

Anthony David Hartcher Top Five Tips For Breaking Addictions

1.          Live by your values 

2.          Seek to understand what is driving your addictive behaviour

3.          What are more resourceful ways you can achieve the desired outcome

4.          Un...

“I want to create a business that people want to work at. That's my first way of getting around the people shortage.”

Richard Walsh Top Five Tips For Escaping The Owner Prison 

1.  Understand what the owner prison is and how entrepreneurs get trapped in the repetitive 2-year cycle.

2.  Automate, delegate, and eliminate tasks to free up time and scale the business. 

3.  Overcome the need to do everything by quantifying ti...

“First, you decide that it has to be there somewhere. And then you keep looking for it until you find it. And when I started doing this, when most people start doing this, I tell them, when you get up in the morning, say you're going to find one thing, one person one event, one experience  that you can say, hey, that was pretty good. And then build up to two and three and five. If you do it on a daily basis, or even on a semi ...

“ I think it's about getting clear on what your method of problem solving is. And if somebody doesn't have that, if they're not exactly sure why or how they did something, that's an easy no for you. And those people who understand from their mistakes, who can talk you through their logic, their thought process, what the algorithm they have programmed between their ears that lets people more self-aware enough and...

“ Focus on solving the big problems that difficult problems the easy ones will resolve themselves.” 

David Ednie Top Five Tips For Aligning Strategy and Execution 

1.      Raise your standards

2.      Align your people

3.      Sharpen your focus

4.      Pick up the pace

5.      Transform your strategy 

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01:34 What are you focusing on? 

06:05 Raising the bar

11:04 Sharpening your focus

16:45 Don’t over complicate it

Whe...

“I think we live in a world people are too, quick to throw stones throw sticks and point fingers. None of us are perfect. I certainly am not. I'm a very temperamental reactive sort of person. So, I have perfected the art of saying I'm sorry. So, I think it's really important that if you're doing something in the world, and you think, Oh, that wasn't very kind, or I could have spoken to that person in a bett...

“There's much more to learn and a lot of research happening on what a healthy gut actually is. What it's starting to show us is that if your gut is healthy, then your overall well-being your overall health is pretty good.”

Stephanie Polson Top Five Tips To Improve Your Gut Health 

1.        Increasing fibre consumption and how to do this in a way that makes you feel good

2.        Get your liquids right (stay hydrated and w...

 “We don't want to be learned know it all’s. Instead, we want to be learned balls.” 

 
Amber Perry Top Five Tips For Turning Small Steps Into Big Impact

1.      People remember how you leave more than what you did.

2.      Growth mindset. 

3.      Fail forward. 

4.      Daily discipline. 

5.      Leverage your gifts to serve.

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01:14   Exiting with excellence

05:29  Being a “learned ball” rather than a “know it a...

“...it can be done in inductions, but they're still moving to that portal because a lot of organisations are now either hybrid or remote. And so, it's not as easy as just kind of raising your hand or watching what you know Tom does and how he that he fills out a procedure or whatever it is. People need to be able to be empowered to work independently, as our businesses are evolving and still kind of adapting to what you k...

“Usually when the business stops growing, it's my fault. And sometimes it's not that comfortable to admit that. But the truth is, if you want to get great talent to follow you, you have to be a great leader.” 

Kody Thompson Top Five Tips For Building Offshore Teams

1. Get your own mindset and leadership skills up to scratch, as the entrepreneur/leader is critical for building a successful team.

2. Hire staff in the same lo...

“You can't delegate successfully, if you haven't followed tip number one, documenting, right. If you don’t that, you're going to spend hours on calls, trying to explain things to people, you're going to get frustrated team members, because they don't understand what they should be doing. And then you'll probably think that they're incompetent, and then take back the task yourself. And then you&apo...

“Too many people spend money, they don't have, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.” 

Rand Selig Top Five Tips For Thriving Personally and Professionally

1. Be a Lifelong Learner 

2. Establish Great Habits and Routines 

3. Figure out How Much is Enough 

4. Leadership

5. Power to Make choices 

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01:10 Personal and professional growth through curiosity and habit building

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“Time is always moving forward, tomorrow is going to come whether you want it to or not. And so, you need to be aware of that and you need to plan for it.”

 John Foster Top Five Tips For Making Your Kids Savvy

 1. Failure isn't Fatal (it's essential).

2. People WANT to Meet You (and want to know, like, and trust you) 

3. Don't Make an Enemy on the Way to Making a Deal.  

4. Your Next Best Option is Your Backstop and Launc...

"I believe human beings are built for growth. We're like elastic bands, you know, we're built to be stretched. It takes two things, it takes a mentality, to want to do that to want to put yourself out of a comfort zone. But then action is also required, small steps. And the more and the more small steps you do when you're trying to do something for the first time, the more you become capable and confident about ...

"Drama kills deals, and this isn't a big one. It can mean drama in terms of not taking care of some of the stuff we read for instant number one, you know, a financial misstep or a tax liability or maybe you have a threatened lawsuit from a formerly disgruntled employee that you don't disclose to the buyer you forget about and there's nothing worse than for that to creep up on you.”

Brett Story Top Five Tips For M...

"I think that there is some freedom and some flexibility there. And your staff members need to know, okay, my boss is available at this time. And you also need to know from your staff when they're available. So, if there are contractors, it might look a little different than if there are employees. But there should be some set time when everyone knows, the team is, is together, the team is available."

Donna Dube Top ...