Brutal; Starbucks; Compounding; Sept 5 J ack Daly – All Proceeds Donated to Ruhlin

Our ceiling is your floor.
Dr. Kevin Fleming, parents for children
It blows my mind that we routinely screen for several health issues (mammograms, etc.) yet a proactive diagnostic for the leading cause of death in the US is rarely performed.
Lisa Ridley, Scaling Up Coach
An invitation to invest 2 to 22 minutes in your executive education this week.
All Proceeds to Ruhlin’s Family – Jack Daly’s 4-Hour Sales Course
Sales coach extraordinaire, Jack Daly’s, highly rated 4-hour Virtual Sales Workshop is scheduled for Thursday, September 5, 2024, and all proceeds will be gifted to Giftology guru John Ruhlin’s wife Lindsay and her four daughters after his sudden passing last week. The fee for the workshop is discounted to $300 per participant. If you have salespeople in your organization, get them "Jack'dUp!" Register here - John Ruhlin Memorial Sales Workshop - Jack Daly – thank you Jack.
Jack’s Hyper Sales Growth Self-Paced Course – Also Donating
Jack is also donating all his proceeds from his self-paced course featuring over 8 hours of video content. Jack shares the strategies and methodologies behind his book Hyper Sales Growth, empowering you to achieve consistent, predictable sales success. Get immediate access here: https://hubs.li/Q02LnHr40 -- now is the time to boost revenue.
The Zoom Stretch
This Seth Godin quick post suggests teams take regular “Zoom stretches” – a few seconds every dozen minutes to give people a mental break – and test if worth continuing the meeting.
AI + A-Player – The Future
My latest Chief Executive magazine column suggests the future belongs to firms that match the right A-Players with AI – otherwise you’re just automating a mess. It’s a warning for team members to step up their game and continue to reinvent themselves…and for companies to settle only for A-Players matched with AI. Please take 2-minutes to scan the article for details and resources – and then share with your team.
Leaving the Better Candidate Behind -- Compounding
You are probably hiring good people. However, without using Topgrading (book Foolproof Hiring), you’re likely leaving a better candidate behind – see my column for a real-world example. If each hire is 10% better, 1.1x1.1x1.1, etc. quickly means you have a team twice as effective as the competition. The Olympics remind us that the difference between gold and making the podium is hundredths of a second/mm.
Starbucks’ New A-Player CEO?
I have some egg on my face since highlighting Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan’s “Triple Shot Reinvention” strategy, emphasizing the importance of naming your strategy and having three priorities. Though I didn’t say they were right, clearly Howard Schultz wasn’t happy with revenues down 3%, letting Laxman go immediately (after a year on the job) and hiring Chipotle’s CEO Brian Niccol. Let’s see if a fifth successor to Schultz is the charm.
CEO Niccol’s Greatest Lesson
This Fortune article highlights Starbucks new CEO’s greatest lesson – staying curious. Notes Brian Niccol, emphasizing the importance of asking questions if you don’t really know the answer:

If you know the answer to the question, that’s probably not the question to ask. If you’re asking for clarity, you’re asking to learn, you’re asking because you’re curious, that’s fine. But if the questions aren’t thoughtful, then you’ve gone too far.

He also notes the worst piece of advice he’s ever received – to find someone to fire so you can demonstrate your leadership skills. Notes Niccol:

I think everybody comes to work wanting to succeed, and that’s just the wrong frame of reference.

Brutal Thought Experiment – Turnaround of Robinhood
Tripling the share price, Vlad Tenev turned around investing site Robinhood. This Fortune article details his strategy, noting:

In a move few other leaders would emulate, Tenev engaged in a brutal thought exercise: holding quarterly meetings that envisioned him being replaced by a veteran executive like former Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman, who excels at taking over companies in trouble.

Please take 2 minutes to pick up more hints from Tenev.
Leading Cause of Death – Pls Get Screened
Lisa Ridley (quote above) wants to alert all of us to the AI-driven Cleerly CCTA assessment. Given her family’s history of heart disease, she had her first baseline assessment last year and her cardiologist just ordered the follow-up.
Clarify – Earlobe Crease
Just because you DON’T have a crease, you should still get your heart checked with a Coronary Calcium Score (ten-minute, non-invasive scan) and/or the Cleerly CCTA assessment. Several of you emailed that you didn’t suspect any heart issues yet had a calcium scan done and it came back dangerously high. And there are natural ways to clean out your arteries without taking pharma drugs. Do your research.
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