166: Getting Projects Done with Geoff McDonald
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Getting Projects Done to grow your small business, with Geoff McDonald.
Show Notes page: https://www.thehowofbusiness.com/episode-166-geoff-mcdonald/
Geoff is an entrepreneur and author. He studied architecture in school, but channeled his creative and problem-solving skills to help others design great business ideas. Geoff is the author of seven books, including "Done - Why You Fail to Finish Your Projects and What to Do About It." He shares valuable insights on how to get important projects completed, so that we can grow our small businesses. He also explains the difference between "continuous work" and the projects that we need to spend our time on as entrepreneurs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with your host, Henry Lopez, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. |
| 0:13.5 | And now, here is your host. |
| 0:16.4 | Welcome to this episode of The How of Business. |
| 0:18.7 | This is Henry Lopez, and my guest today is Jeff McDonnell. |
| 0:21.9 | Jeff, welcome to the show. Thanks, Henry. Great to be here. |
| 0:25.7 | Glad to have you. Jeff is a former architect who no longer designs buildings. Instead, he designs ideas in the form of books, presentations, and information products. |
| 0:37.7 | He created the project of passion program out of his own failure to fulfill his projects and goals. |
| 0:44.2 | Like Thomas Edison, he spent a lot of years finding out lots of ways not to complete your projects. |
| 0:50.5 | And now he thinks he's onto something. |
| 0:53.0 | Jeff is the author of seven books, including one that I |
| 0:56.0 | read recently, done why you fail to finish your projects and what to do about it. We're going |
| 1:02.0 | to chat about a lot of the takeaways from that book today. He has also spoken at international |
| 1:08.0 | design conferences, exhibited his paintings and sculptures, and as a master |
| 1:13.6 | coach. He is best known as the creator of book wrapper, where he recreates important business |
| 1:20.6 | books so you can read the big ideas from the best thinkers on the planet in under 30 minutes. |
| 1:26.6 | And I love that concept. |
| 1:28.4 | I've done something similar as I've read business books |
| 1:30.9 | by summarizing them, |
| 1:31.9 | but this is a whole other thing. |
| 1:33.9 | It really is a great way to read a book quickly |
| 1:37.8 | and get the gist of it and learn from it quickly |
| 1:40.2 | as opposed to having to read the entire book, |
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