It's one of those things where it's like, just trust me.

But if I would have done this five years ago for every business I was working in,

I would have saved myself such a sum of money that you wouldn't believe it if I said it right now. Happy Thursday morning, everybody.

Welcome back to the Tropical MBA podcast.

Today we've got a nerdy one for you.

We are digging deep into operational best practices so you can better grow your business.

If you feel like your business is project-based

and it's herky-jurkey start, stop, this idea, that idea. You want to get it on rails to more

effectively achieve your goals in 2025. This is the episode for you. I want to tell you how I got here

and where I'm going. As you're listening to this, Ian and I are in a one-on-one in

Barcelona with Vern Harnish, the author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits 2.0, better known as

scaling up. How did I get introduced to this? We'll start it with the frustration, which is

this idea guy, zero to one mindset really starts to break down in team meetings when they get larger.

The revenue numbers start to go up.

And it's just a new idea every week.

And you're managing based on vibe and emotion like I'm unsatisfied here.

Let's try this or why isn't it going fast enough?

And this frustration led me to start calling around people that had surpassed this phase and scale and had successfully broken through plateaus of growth.

And one of the guys I talked to ended up selling his business for $60 million.

And he said, hey, you know, it wasn't some idea.

We were just like you guys debating ideas and arguing about stuff and going back and forth about the team.

And we just decided to build our business brick by brick.

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