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The ONE Thing

201. Accountability Series (Part 1) – 3 Critical Mistakes of Business Growth

The ONE Thing

NOVA Media

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Are you accountable – to yourself and other people? We all want accountability in our lives, in one way or another, but developing habits around accountability and then building a culture of accountability within an organization are both a lot harder to do than they sound. So we invited a couple of our favorite accountability experts to join us for a three-part series that will help you bring more accountability to yourself, your team, and your organization. Today’s guest has personally led over 9,000 independent coaching calls over the past four years, leading conversations with business owners across all industries, and he has developed a very unique perspective on the mistakes you may be making that, if unchanged, will inevitably lead to burnout. So, in this episode, Abe Shreve teaches us about the three critical mistakes of business growth. If you are interested in what it looks like to have more accountability in your life, go to the1thing.com/training. In this episode, you will learn... [6:00] What most business leaders do – and what they should be doing to build a sustainably profitable business [12:30] The two questions that everyone should be asking their team members and bosses [15:10] What you can do if you struggle to say no [19:00] The ONE Thing that will make avoiding these three mistakes easier or unnecessary [38:40] What happens when you don’t create a culture where accountability is the lifeblood of how you work and interact in your organization [47:00] An exercise that will help you and your organization embrace accountability [1:00:00] Why accountability isn’t punitive Links & Tools From This Episode Learn more about The ONE Thing training or coaching at the1thing.com/training Learn how to Get Results With Your 411 Get the FREE Kick Ass Guide® to Your Couples Goal Setting Retreat and Kick Ass Guide® To Accountability The ONE Thing Goal Setting Retreat: the1thing.com/event Mentioned in this episode: Factor 75 Head to FactorMeals.com/one50 and use code one50 to get 50% off. That’s code one50 at FactorMeals.com/one50 to get 50% off! Factor 75

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0:00.0

This is the one thing podcast where we teach you the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results.

0:09.0

I'm your host Jeff Woods. This is part one of an accountability series that we are going to be

0:15.2

releasing. After interacting with so many of you in our Living Your One Thing

0:19.1

community, for those of you that we work with on a corporate level, we know that we want to have more accountability in our lives,

0:25.7

but developing habits around accountability

0:28.4

and a corporate culture where people are clear on their one thing

0:32.1

and that they're accountable to

0:33.1

getting it done on a regular basis, it's something we strive for and many of us

0:37.1

have room for growth. For the next three episodes we are going to focus very

0:41.5

specifically on things you can do so that you can bring more accountability to yourself as an individual, to your team, and to your organization.

0:50.0

In this episode, we're diving into the three critical mistakes of business growth.

0:56.0

So many people want to start businesses or if you've already started a business, you want to scale it yet.

1:00.0

If you look at the statistics, majority fail why is that that's going to be the purpose

1:06.3

of today's conversation everybody always has the best of intentions in their career

1:11.8

yet they don't realize the subtle simple mistakes that they are making.

1:17.0

That if they had the right person on the front line of their business with them, coaching them and guiding them that ultimately lead to

1:26.6

burnout.

1:28.1

The person you're going to meet today is someone we're very excited to introduce you to.

1:32.1

For over a year you have heard us talk about the

1:35.4

possibility of bringing out the one thing coaching, having a one-on-one coach

1:41.2

based on the principles of the one thing and over that period of time

1:46.1

hundreds of you had emailed saying yes I would love to get a one-thing coach when the time is

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