Do you park your ego at the door?
6 questions. 7 minutes. Pure insights. Episode 302: Successful business leaders park their ego at the door. Wise words from Charles Read, CEO of GetPayroll.
TRANSCRIPTION OF QUESTIONS 2-4:
Question number two. What is something that makes you smile and or laugh about working in your industry.
The Internal Revenue Service. Now that may sound funny, but I have a, I get a great kick out of dealing with them as my lawyer. Put it another situation is like playing high stakes poker with somebody else's money. What a great, great, great comment. I love that it's one of my favorites.
Question number three. I have a fictitious book with all the answers for business. What chapter would you think most companies should read chapter one.
Park your ego at the door. I like that you want to expand upon it a bit I have seen more businesses fail, because the owner, the boss, the, the starter or the kid, the start, the kids, the startup the kids think they're better, smarter than the people that work for him, and they're not 10 years, sadly, Sadly, I've worked for companies. Yeah, I had one word, but once a year you take us all outside and point out that that was his name on the wall. Actually it was his father's name, but it was his name as well. And we didn't like it, we didn't have to go back inside.
Well that's saying something, wouldn't you say, motivation, absolutely. Great story.
Question number four. Other than that, Jared, work harder, have a great attitude and care for customers. What advice or insight, would you give to other business leaders.
There's two catchphrases that I use that I really believe in. The first one I don't know where I got it from, but it is there is no traffic jam on the extra mile, you go the extra mile for your clients, because your competitors won't. And that sets you apart immensely. The other one I stole from Bill Gates. And he said, people will overestimate what they can accomplish in a year, and underestimate what they can accomplish in a decade. It's a, it's not a sprint guys, it's a marathon. It's playing the long game, is that what I'm hearing. Absolutely, yeah we'll get it done this year, but you can get it done in this lifetime if you work at it.
And really in the the impact that you can make over that decade or decades let's say could be immense. If you just, you know, really believe in yourself, am I right.
Absolutely. I've been in business now for 30 years. I love it, and it's been successful. Your one was tough, let me tell ya.
Yeah I can, I can tell you, I remember be going into business for myself many years ago too and yeah I used that first year you just question everything right and and when something doesn't go right, you think of what am I doing this for is that kind of got to what you have to experience as well.
Absolutely and I think year seven was about as bad, but it got better and it's pretty good now.
Excellent, excellent. Well that's, I'm glad to hear that and that's why you're on the show to be sharing that insight.
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