81: Accelerating Performance with Chuck Gumbert
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Improving & accelerating small business performance. Chuck Gumbert is an entrepreneur, business mentor & coach, and he is known as The Turnaround Specialist. He helps his clients improve their businesses by accelerating performance. He shares his life journey from serving as a navy fighter pilot to becoming his own boss.
Henry Lopez is the host of this episode of The How of Business show – dedicated to helping you start, run and grow your small business. (TheHowOfBusiness.com)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with David Begin and Henry Lopez, the podcast that offers practical advice and tips on how to run and grow your small business. |
| 0:10.3 | The How of Business helps aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve their definition of success and overcome challenges that get in their way. |
| 0:18.6 | This podcast series focuses on the everyday common business issues, |
| 0:22.6 | challenges, and opportunities that face the small business owner. So here now are your hosts of the |
| 0:27.8 | How of Business, David and Henry. Welcome to this episode of The How of Business. This is Henry |
| 0:36.0 | Lopez, and I have with me today, Chuck Gumberd. Chuck, welcome to the show. |
| 0:40.0 | Thanks, Henry. Glad to be here. Oh, I'm excited to have you here with us today. Let me give our audience a bit of background on you. Chuck is the turnaround specialist. He's an entrepreneur, a business mentor and coach, and he's skilled in assisting business owners and leaders with |
| 0:55.7 | improving, rather, top and bottom line growth. He also helps them enhance operations, and he has |
| 1:03.4 | expertise in accelerating business performance, and we're going to get into all of that here in |
| 1:08.1 | this episode today. Chuck is the CEO and founder of the Tomcat group, |
| 1:13.0 | and they provide CEO mentoring, the Accelerate Business Performance Program, |
| 1:18.4 | business turnaround services, interim management services, and he does speaking and training |
| 1:23.8 | engagements as well. He's also the author of his latest book, which is called Pinnacle |
| 1:30.6 | Leadership, How to Navigate, Change, Move Forward and Reach Your Peak. I have not had a chance |
| 1:36.6 | to read it yet, but we are going to chat about it, and Chuck will introduce the concepts of that |
| 1:41.1 | book today. Chuck lives in Wichita, Kansas. And again, in today's |
| 1:45.5 | episode, he's going to share his entrepreneurial journey, how he went from his varied background, |
| 1:51.1 | working for various corporations at all levels. And he'll share that journey with us today |
| 1:56.0 | as to how he got to becoming his own boss. And then his tips tips and advice tremendous tips and advice for how to |
| 2:01.7 | accelerate performance in our small businesses so once again chuck gumbert welcome to the show |
| 2:08.3 | thanks henry great to have you so we were chatting before we started recording that you attended |
| 2:13.1 | university of texas at arlington here in the dort Worth area, which is where my wife graduated from. |
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