538: Five Pillars of Leadership with Brian Gottlieb
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The Five Pillars of Leadership to help you lead a high-performing small business, with Brian Gottlieb.
Show Notes Page: https://www.thehowofbusiness.com/538-brian-gottlieb-5-leadership-pillars/
Brian shares his entrepreneurial journey and introduces the five foundational pillars of leadership.
Executing on these five leadership pillars allows you to develop a high-performing organization. And help your managers get out of crisis mode so they can effectively lead their teams.
Brian Gottlieb is an inspirational business leader who in 2009, founded Tundraland Home Improvements on a plastic folding table with $3,000.
Twelve years later, when he sold the family of businesses he created, they had diversified products, expanded across multiple states, grown to 600 employees, and neared $1 billion in lifetime sales. The company was recognized by INC 5000 as one of the fastest-growing companies in America.
Brian's leadership principles are simple: Have a well-defined strategy, empower your teams, provide world-class training, and execute with consistency.
He believes that if you want to build a business, you must commit to building people. This clarity of focus created a meaningful culture, making his company the best place to work in his home state.
Brian's book "Beyond the Hammer: A Fresh Approach to Leadership, Culture, and Building High Performance Teams" is being published by Forbes and will be available September 10, 2024.
This episode is hosted by Henry Lopez. The How of Business podcast focuses on helping you start, run and grow your small business. The How of Business is a top-rated podcast for small business and entrepreneurs. Find the best podcast, small business coaching, resources and trusted service partners for small business owners and entrepreneurs at our website https://TheHowOfBusiness.com
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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. And now here is your host. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to this episode of The How With Business. This is Henry Lopez. My guest today is Brian Gottlieb. |
| 0:22.1 | Brian, welcome to the show. Henry, thanks so much for having me. Very much appreciate it. Thank you. |
| 0:27.0 | Thanks for being here, Brian. Brian's with me today to share his entrepreneurial journey. We'll talk |
| 0:31.6 | about that briefly, very inspiring. And to introduce the five foundational pillars of leadership as he has identified them in his |
| 0:40.2 | latest book. And how if you execute on these five leadership pillars, it allows you to develop |
| 0:46.4 | a high performing organization, which is what we're all looking to develop so that we can |
| 0:50.6 | scale our business and also to help your managers, your team leaders, |
| 0:55.5 | to get out of that crisis mode that it seems like we're always in in small business |
| 1:00.4 | so they can effectively lead their teams. |
| 1:03.2 | So that's what we're going to chat about with Brian today. |
| 1:05.6 | To get more information about the Hawa Business, including the show notes page for this episode, |
| 1:10.8 | and to learn more about my coaching programs, please visit thehowab business.com. |
| 1:15.9 | I also invite you to consider supporting the podcast by joining my group coaching program on Patreon. |
| 1:21.4 | And I encourage you to subscribe wherever you might be listening to this episode so you don't miss any future episodes. |
| 1:28.3 | Let me tell you a little bit more about Brian. Brian Gottlieb is an inspirational business leader |
| 1:32.6 | who in 2009 founded a business called Tundra Land Home Improvements on a plastic folding table, |
| 1:40.7 | literally, and about $3,000. And 12 years later, when he sold the family of |
| 1:46.9 | businesses that he had created, they had diversified products, expanded across multiple states, |
| 1:52.4 | grown to 600 employees, and neared a billion dollars in lifetime sales. The company was |
| 1:59.5 | recognized by Inc. 5,000 as one of the fastest growing |
| 2:03.7 | companies in America. Brian's leadership principles are simple. I have a well-defined strategy, |
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