First of all, sorry I haven’t blogged in the last few days. I first got invited to porsche driving school (AMAZING) and then I had to run down to a trade show for a few days.

For today’s post, I wanna talk about “the power of the team.” Here’s the thing though, today’s post probably does not directly apply to a $100 Million CEO. At that point a team is a given, but you can’t get to $100 Million without going the stages…

The Power of The Team…

This past weekend our company launched our biggest product in the last 3 years the day before the biggest trade show in our industry (where we hosted our own live event as well). The response has actually been OVERWHELMING. For the first time, I almost felt like a pseudo celebrity with people chasing our team members down just to say “THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!”

(( They’re thanking us for the free live event we put on, not the product yet ;))

A lot of people gave ME a lot of credit for the success of the live event and the success of the new product we’ve launched. Here’s the thing though - I had almost nothing to do with either one.

The live event was planned, set-up, hosted and managed entirely by my team. I simply flew in a few hours before it, grabbed a microphone and MC’d it.

The product we launched…the team has been working on it for months - not just 1 person, but multiple people each taking responsibility. All I’ve ever seen are the updates they give me and the few times they ask for my opinion or suggestions (which is rare).

As our business grows, this is the absolute first time our company has ever launched a product and I did not have a lick of stress by it (and it went smooth as can be). The even more amazing part is that the entire time I’m quietly working away on another project that we can launch soon, so you can see that things are getting better not only in terms of quality but even quantity now.

With team comes the ability to scale, grow and get your sanity back. If you’re doing everything yourself, you’re crazy and you’ll never be a $100 Million CEO.

Do this exercise:

Step 1: Make a list of everything you do during your day.
Step 2: Categorize everything (ex/ administrative, marketing, financials, support, etc…)
Step 3: Which list is the biggest?
Step 4: Time to add someone to the team to take over that category

Simple, eh?

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